The Pirbright Seminar Series takes place on Thursday afternoons. The seminars take place in the Centre for Collaborative Learning at Pirbright.
Extra seminars are sometimes scheduled at late notice; please contact the programme organisers for any changes to the schedule.
Seminar times
12.40 - Refreshments
13.00 - Seminar
14.00 - Student Q&A
Seminar contacts
For further information about individual seminars please contact the host directly.
For general information about upcoming seminars, please contact the programme organisers, pirbright.seminar@pirbright.ac.uk.
2019 Seminar programme
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 03 Jan |
|
|
|
|
| 10 Jan |
No Seminar this week |
n/a |
|
|
| 17 Jan |
No Seminar this week |
n/a |
|
|
| 24 Jan |
Dr Benjamin Schusser |
Technical University of Munich, Germany |
'Genetically engineered chickens: New models to analyze host-pathogen interaction in chickens'
|
Dr Mark Fife |
| 31 Jan |
Dr Nuno Faria |
University of Oxford |
'Lessons from Brazil: genomic and epidemiological surveillance of Zika and yellow fever virus' |
Dr Isabelle Dietrich |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 07 Feb |
No seminar this week |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| 14 Feb |
Dr Adi Stern |
Tel Aviv University, Israel |
'Exposing the hidden genetic diversity of RNA viruses during acute infection' |
Dr Toby Tuthill |
| 21 Feb |
Professor Simon Davis |
University of Oxford |
'Signaling by immune receptors - the kinetic-segregation model' |
Dr Linda Dixon |
| 28 Feb |
Dr Tzachi Hagai |
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge
|
'Caught between pathogens and autoimmunity: The evolution of our immune system' |
Dr Toby Tuthill |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 07 Mar |
Professor Helen McShane
|
University of Oxford
|
International Womens Day 2019 |
|
| 07 Mar |
Dr Katriina Whitaker |
University of Surrey |
International Womens Day 2019 |
|
| 14 Mar |
No seminar |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| 21 Mar |
Professor Johanna Höög |
University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
'Human and bull spermatozoa with a twist' |
Prof Pippa Hawes |
| 28 Mar |
No seminar this week |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 04 Apr |
Professor Luis Enjuanes |
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain |
'Molecular basis of coronavirus pathogenicity, prevention and treatment' |
Dr Erica Bickerton |
| 11 Apr |
No seminar this week |
SGM |
n/a |
n/a |
| 18 Apr |
No seminar this week |
Privelege Day |
n/a |
n/a |
| 25 Apr |
Professor Tonya Colpitts |
Boston University School of Medicine, USA
|
'Arbovirus host factors: discovery and targeting' |
Dr Karin Darpel |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 02 May |
Dr Megan MacLeod |
University of Glasgow |
'Why are memory T cells ‘better’ than primary responding T cells?' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 09 May |
No seminar this week |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| 16 May |
Dr Joseph Hughes |
University of Glasgow |
'Using High throughput sequencing to study viral populations of avian influenza and bluetongue virus' |
Dr Carrie Batten |
| 23 May |
Dr Paul Fairchild |
University of Oxford |
'Immunotherapy in an age of induced pluripotency' |
Dr Shahriar Behboudi |
| 30 May |
Professor Brian Willett |
University of Glasgow |
'Atypical morbillivirus infections of livestock in Tanzania' |
Dr Dalan Bailey |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 06 Jun |
Dr Hannah Siddle |
University of Southampton |
'A tale of two tumours: The repeated emergence of contagious cancers in the Tasmanian devil' |
Prof John Hammond |
| 13 Jun |
Dr Sonja Härtle |
University of Munich, Germany |
'Regulators of chicken B cell development – basic research and application' |
Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| 20 Jun |
Dr Chun-Hong Chen |
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan |
TBC |
Dr Jaroslaw Krzywinski |
| 27 Jun |
Dr Ed Hutchinson |
University of Glasgow |
'A dose of the flu: variation in influenza virions' |
Dr Holly Shelton |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 05 Sep |
Dr Alexander Malogolovkin |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
TBC |
Dr Chris Netherton |
| 12 Sep |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 19 Sep |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 26 Sep |
Dr Theresa Ward |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
TBC |
Prof Pippa Hawes |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 03 Oct |
Dr Sophie Van Der Zee |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
TBC |
Dr Simon Carpenter |
| 10 Oct |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 17 Oct |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 24 Oct |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 31 Oct |
TBC |
|
|
|
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 07 Nov |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 14 Nov |
No seminar |
|
|
|
| 21 Nov |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 28 Nov |
TBC |
|
|
|
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 05 Dec |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 12 Dec |
TBC |
|
|
|
| 19 Dec |
No Seminar |
|
|
|
| 26 Dec |
No Seminar |
|
|
|
