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.
2018 Seminar programme
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jan | No seminar | |||
| 11 Jan |
Professor Jim Al-Khalili OBE |
University of Surrey |
'Does Life Need Quantum Mechanics? The emerging science of quantum biology.' |
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| 18 Jan |
Professor Charles Bangham |
Imperial College London |
'The human leukaemia virus HTLV-1: regulation of latency, clonality and pathogenesis' | |
| 25 Jan | Dr Helen Roberts | Animal and Plant Health Agency | 'Predicting the unpredictable: horizon scanning and risk assessment of exotic diseases' | Dr Chris Netherton |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Feb | Dr Carolina Stenfeldt | United States Department of Agriculture |
'Investigations of the FMDV carrier state in cattle at Plum Island Animal Disease Center' |
Dr Bryan Charleston |
| 08 Feb | No seminar | |||
| 15 Feb | Professor Déirdre Hollingsworth | University of Oxford |
'Control of neglected tropical diseases: Mathematical modelling to optimise interventions with limited epidemiological data' |
Dr Simon Gubbins |
| 22 Feb | Dr Cecilia Johansson | Imperial College London |
'Type I interferons regulate lung inflammation during viral infections' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Mar | Dr David Carter | Oxford Brookes University | TBC | Professor Venugopal Nair |
| 08 Mar | International Woman’s Day | |||
| 15 Mar | Dr Chris Illingworth | University of Cambridge | TBC | Dr Erica Bickerton |
| 22 Mar | No seminar | |||
| 29 Mar | Privilege Day |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Apr | No seminar | |||
| 12 Apr | No seminar - SGM Microbiology Society Annual Conference Birmingham | 10 - 13 April 2018 | ||
| 19 Apr | Dr Goedele Maertens | Imperial College London |
'Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) influences integration site selection of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type-1 (HTLV-1)' |
Dr Helena Maier |
| 26 Apr | Professor Paul Wigley | University of Liverpool |
“Gut Feeling: host-bacterial interactions in the chicken intestinal tract and their role in health and disease” |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 May | Professor Päivi Ojala | Imperial College London |
“Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) as a valuable model system for cancer biology” |
Dr Linda Dixon |
| 10 May | Dr Susanna Bidgood | University College London | "The Poxvirus Lateral Body Proteome: Characterising Enigmatic Viral Structures" | Dr Helena Maier |
| 17 May | Dr Benjamin Schusser | Technical University of Munich | "Genetically engineered chickens: New models to analyze host-pathogen interaction and vaccine responses in chickens" | Dr Mark Fife |
| 24 May | No seminar | |||
| 31 May | Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson | University of Surrey | TBC | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Jun | Dr David Carter | Oxford Brookes University | “Intercellular communication following stress response: chit-chat or pow-wow?” | Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
| 14 Jun | No Seminar | |||
| 21 Jun | Dr Peter Dearden | University of Otago (New Zealand) |
'The genomic architecture of a plastic trait' |
Dr Mark Fife |
| 28 Jun |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Jul |
Dr Harry White |
University of Exeter | TBC | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 26 Jul | ||||
| 30 Jul 2pm |
Dr Frederico Zuckermann | University of Illinois | 'Interaction of PRRSV with porcine macrophages' | Dr Linda Dixon |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Sep | ||||
| 13 Sep | ||||
| 20 Sep | ||||
| 27 Sep |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Oct | Dr Isabelle Schwartz-Cornil | Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France | TBC | Dr Simon Graham |
| 11 Oct | ||||
| 18 Oct | Professor Robert Cheke | University of Greenwich | TBC | Dr Simon Carpenter |
| 25 Oct | Dr Tony Nolan | Imperial College London | TBC | Prof Luke Alphey |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Nov | ||||
| 08 Nov | ||||
| 15 Nov | Dr Liam Morrison | The Roslin Institute | TBC | Prof John Hammond |
| 22 Nov | ||||
| 29 Nov | Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson | University of Surrey | 'Survival strategies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" | Dr Elma Tchilian |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Dec | ||||
| 13 Dec | ||||
| 20 Dec |