The Pirbright Seminar Series takes place on Thursday afternoons. The seminars take place in the Centre for Collaborative Learning at Pirbright.
External visitors can be invited to join the seminar remotely via their PC/laptop.
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 |
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| 03 Jan |
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| 10 Jan |
No Seminar this week |
n/a |
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| 17 Jan |
No Seminar this week |
n/a |
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| 24 Jan |
Dr Benjamin Schusser |
Technical University of Munich, Germany |
“Genetically engineered chickens: New models to analyze host-pathogen interaction in chickens”
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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 |
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| 07 Feb |
TBA |
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| 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
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"Caught between pathogens and autoimmunity: The evolution of our immune system" |
Dr Toby Tuthill |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 07 Mar |
International Womens Day 2019 |
TBA |
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| 14 Mar |
Dr Alexander Malogolovkin |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
To be rescheduled |
Dr Chris Netherton |
| 21 Mar |
Professor Johanna Höög |
University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
'Human and bull spermatozoa with a twist' |
Prof Pippa Hawes |
| 28 Mar |
TBC |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 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 |
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| 18 Apr |
No seminar this week |
Privelege Day |
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| 25 Apr |
Professor Tonya Colpitts |
Boston University School of Medicine, USA
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'Arbovirus host factors: discovery and targeting' |
Dr Karin Darpel |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 04 Jul |
Professor Sarah Cleaveland |
University of Glasgow |
TBC |
Dr Simon Gubbins |
| 11 Jul |
TBC |
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| 18 Jul |
TBC |
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| 25 Jul |
Dr Nicola Lewis |
Royal Veterinary College |
TBC |
Dr Bryan Charleston |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 05 Sep |
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| 12 Sep |
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| 19 Sep |
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| 26 Sep |
Dr Theresa Ward |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
TBC |
Prof Pippa Hawes |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 03 Oct |
Dr Sophie Van Der Zee |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
TBC |
Dr Simon Carpenter |
| 10 Oct |
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| 17 Oct |
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| 24 Oct |
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| 31 Oct |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 07 Nov |
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| 14 Nov |
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| 21 Nov |
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| 28 Nov |
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| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 05 Dec |
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| 12 Dec |
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| 19 Dec |
No Seminar |
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| 26 Dec |
No Seminar |
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