The Pirbright Seminar Series takes place on Thursday afternoons 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
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.
2022 Seminar programme
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Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 20 Jan 2022 |
Dr Bryce Warner |
National Microbiology Laboratory (Winnipeg), Public Health Agency of Canada |
“Life before COVID-19: High containment pathogen research at the NML” |
Dagmara Bialy |
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| 10 Feb 2022 |
Dr Jonas Albarnaz |
University of Cambridge |
“Learning new tricks from an old dog: Antagonism of host immunity by vaccinia virus” |
Dr Linda Dixon |
| 17 Feb 2022 |
Dr Ke Yuan |
University of Glasgow |
"Modelling intratumour heterogeneity across genomes and images with machine learning" |
Dr Graham Freimanis |
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Title |
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| 10 Mar 2022 |
Dr Malcolm White |
University of St Andrews |
"Murder or Suicide? The Case of the Killer Slinky" |
Dr Chris Netherton |
| 17 Mar 2022 |
Dr Priya Shah |
University of California, Davis |
“Unraveling flavivirus replication and disease through virus-host protein interactions” |
Dr Kevin Maringer |
| 24 Mar 2022 |
Dr Stephanie Talker |
Institute of Virology and Immunology |
**Postponed to December 2022** |
Dr Wilhelm Gerner |
| 31 Mar 2022 |
Dr Craig Thompson |
University of Oxford |
"Cross-reactive immunity to viruses: friend or foe?" |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
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Speaker |
Organisation |
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| 21 Apr 2022 |
Dr Katie Doores |
King's College London |
"Neutralizing antibody responses to HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infections" |
Dr Graham Freimanis |
| 28 Apr 2022 |
Dr Barbara Wieland |
Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Switzerland |
"From global to local - making disease control work" |
Dr Georgina Limon-Vega |
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Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
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| 5 May 2022 |
Dr Bonfante Francesco |
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie |
Postponed |
Prof Munir Iqbal |
| 12 May 2022 |
Dr Thien Phong Vu Manh |
CIML (Centre d'immunologie de Marseille-Luminy) |
“Deciphering the types and activation states of dendritic cells using single-cell approaches” |
Dr Marie Di Placido |
| 19 May 2022 |
Prof Ultan Power |
Queens University Belfast |
“Respiratory virus/host interactions and solutions thereto" |
Dagmara Bialy |
| 26 May 2022 |
Iain-Maclaren-Lee |
Oxford Nanopore |
"Virus sequencing: An update from Oxford Nanopore" |
Dr Graham Freimanis |
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Organisation |
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| 9 Jun 2022 |
Dr Florian Krammer |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York |
"Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination" |
Dr Dalan Bailey |
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| 7 Jul 2022 |
Dr Bethan Purse |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
“Inter-disciplinary ecosystem approaches for understanding and mitigating zoonotic diseases” |
Dr Christopher Sanders |
| 14 Jul 2022 |
Prof Jesse Bloom |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle |
“Interpreting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2” |
Dr Dalan Bailey |
| 25 Jul 2022 |
Dr Andrez Perez |
University of Minnesota |
"Research and capacity building initiatives on FMD and ASF epidemiology in infected countries" |
Dr Don King |
| 28 Jul 2022 |
Dr Barry Atkinson |
UKHSA |
tbc |
Dr Tim Harvey-Samuel |
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No seminars in August due to Summer Break
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| 6 Oct 2022 |
Dr Miles Carroll |
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford |
tbc |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 13 Oct 2022 |
Dr Bonfante Francesco |
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie |
tbc |
Prof Munir Iqbal |
| 20 Oct 2022 |
Prof Sonia Rocha |
University of Liverpool |
tbc |
Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
| 27 Oct 2022 |
TBA |
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| 3 Nov 2022 |
TBA |
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| 10 Nov 2022 |
TBA |
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| 17 Nov 2022 |
TBA |
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| 24 Nov 2022 |
Dr Montserrat Barcena |
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Netherlands |
tbc |
Dr Helena Maier |
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Host |
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| 1 Dec 2022 |
TBA |
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| 8 Dec 2022 |
TBA |
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| 15 Dec 2022 |
Dr Stephanie Talker |
Institute of Virology and Immunology |
tbc |
Dr Wilhelm Gerner |
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