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 | 'Two C type Lectins in Zika and Dengue Pathogenesis: from mosquito to human' | Dr Jaroslaw Krzywinski |
| 27 Jun | Dr Ed Hutchinson | University of Glasgow | 'A dose of the flu: variation in influenza virions' | Dr Holly Shelton |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jul | Professor Sarah Cleaveland | University of Glasgow | 'Animal disease research in Tanzania: accelerating gains for health and development' | Dr Simon Gubbins |
| 11 Jul | Professor Brian Ferguson | University of Cambridge |
'Innate immune sensing of DNA by avian macrophages' | Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
| 18 Jul | Dr Maria Harkiolaki | Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus | 'Correlative soft-X ray cryo-tomography and super resolution fluorescence microscopy imaging for the life sciences' | Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
| 25 Jul | Dr Nicola Lewis | Royal Veterinary College | 'Influenza A virus evolution: Characterisation for animal and public health' | Prof Bryan Charleston |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Sep | Dr Alexander Malogolovkin | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 'Genetic signatures of African swine fever virus serotype-specificity' | Dr Chris Netherton |
| 12 Sep | Dr Peter Simmonds |
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford |
'Effects of CpG and UpA dinucleotide frequency modifications on RNA virus replication, fitness and host adaptation' | Dr Toby Tuthill |
| 19 Sep | No seminar | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 26 Sep | Dr Theresa Ward | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 'The role of cholesterol at the blood-brain barrier in neonatal bacterial meningitis' | Prof Pippa Hawes |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Oct | Dr Sophie Van Der Zee | Erasmus University, Rotterdam | 'The truth about lie detection' | Dr Simon Carpenter |
| 10 Oct | No seminar | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 17 Oct | Prof Paul Davis | Mologic Ltd | 'The Hitchhikers’ Guide to Immunoassay: Part 1, Escape from the Laboratory' | Dr Don King |
| 24 Oct | Prof Rik de Stewart | Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre | 'Measles immune suppression: Lessons learned from animal models and outbreak studies' | Dr Mana Mahapatra |
| 31 Oct | Dr Giovanni Lo Iacono | University of Surrey | "The impact of the environment on infectious diseases; Rift valley fever and campylobacteriosis as two case studies” | One Health Day |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Nov | Dr Gyorgy Fejer | School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Plymouth | 'Self-renewing, non-transformed, factor dependent macrophages - a new model to study lung alveolar macrophage functions and infectious pathogens in vitro' | Dr Simon Graham |
| 14 Nov | TBC | |||
| 21 Nov | TBC | |||
| 28 Nov | TBC |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Dec | Dr Hui-Wen Chen | Dept of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University | TBC | Dr Erica Bickerton |
| 12 Dec | Prof Xiangxi Wang | Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 'African swine fever virus structure' | Prof Bryan Charleston |