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.
2020 Seminar programme
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Jan | No seminar | |||
| 16 Jan | Prof. Paul Becher |
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover |
'Classical swine fever virus and related viruses: an update' | Dr Don King |
| 23 Jan | Prof. Xiangxi Wang | Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 'Structure of African Swine Fever Virus' | Prof Bryan Charleston |
| 30 Jan |
No seminar |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Feb | Professor Paul Verkade | School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol | "Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM) strategies for Life Science Research" | Dr Helena Maier | |
| 13 Feb | Dr Claire Shannon Lowe | Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham | “How to defeat an age-old foe? Epstein Barr virus, myeloid derived suppressor cells and BH3 mimetics” | Dr Dalan Bailey | |
| 20 Feb | Dr Eleanor Gaunt | University of Edinburgh | "CpG dinucleotides in the influenza A virus genome" | Dr Andrew Broadbent | |
| 27 Feb | Dr David Robertson | Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow | "Data-driven approaches to the study of virus evolution and host specificity" | Dr Toby Tuthill | |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Mar | Dr John Tregoning | Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London | TBC | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 12 Mar |
Dr Stathis Giotis |
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London |
"Inferring the zoonotic transmission potential of bat influenza viruses" | Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| 19 Mar | ||||
| 26 Mar | Dr Stephen Graham |
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge |
TBC | Dr Dalan Bailey |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Apr | No Seminar | SGM The Microbiology Society's 75th anniversary, Edinburgh | ||
| 09 Apr | No Seminar | Privilege Day | ||
| 16 Apr | Iain MacLaren | Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd | “Applications of Nanopore sequencing: What’s new from Oxford Nanopore” | Dr Graham Freimanis |
| 23 Apr | Dr Lauren Oldfield |
J. Craig Venter Institute, Maryland, USA |
TBC | Dr Pip Beard |
| 30 Apr | Professor Emma Thomson | Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow | TBC | Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 May | Dr Rachel Edgar |
Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London |
TBC | Dr Helena Maier, Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| 15 May | Dr Vineet Menachery | University of Texas, USA | TBC | Dr Holly Shelton |
| 21 May | ||||
| 28 May | Dr Thomas Walker | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) | TBC | Dr Simon Carpenter |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jun | Professor Hirotaka Kanuka | The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan | TBC | Dr Jaroslaw Krzywinski |
| 11 Jun | Professor Ultan Power | Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast | TBC | Prof Satya Parida |
| 18 Jun | ||||
| 25 Jun | Dr Mariolina Salio | University of Oxford | TBC | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Jul | Dr Owen Donohoe | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Belgium | TBC | Dr Carrie Batten |
| 09 Jul | ||||
| 16 Jul | Dr Craig Thompson | University of Oxford | TBC | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 23 Jul | ||||
| 30 Jul |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Sep | ||||
| 10 Sep |
Dr Wilhelm Gerner |
Institute of Immunology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna | TBC | Prof John Hammond |
| 17 Sep | ||||
| 24 Sep |
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| 26 Nov |
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| 17 Dec |