The Pirbright Seminar Series takes place on Thursday afternoons. The seminars take place in the Ash Building conference room 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
3.40 - Refreshments
4.00 - Seminar
5.00 - 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.
2017 Seminar programme
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 05 Jan |
Prof Fiona Tomley |
Royal Veterinary College |
'Are Eimeria parasites genetically diverse? And does it matter?' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 12 Jan |
Dr Christopher Chiu |
Imperial College |
'Challenging approaches to respiratory virus vaccine development' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 19 Jan |
Prof Deborah Dunn-Walters |
University of Surrey |
'Ageing and the B cell repertoire' |
Dr Simon Graham |
| 26 Jan |
Sharon Brookes |
Animal and Plant Health Agency |
'AIV - H5N8 UK & Europe 2014-2017' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 02 Feb |
Dr Mike Skinner |
Imperial College London |
'Avian host and virus transcriptomics' |
Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| 09 Feb |
Dr Mark Howarth |
University of Oxford |
'Protein superglues and dream-teams for control of signalling and accelerating vaccine generation' |
Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
| 16 Feb |
Dr Caswell Barry |
University College London |
'How does your brain know where you are? The role of grid cells in navigation and memory' |
Dr Anthony Wilson |
| 23 Feb |
Dr Michael Jarvis |
University of Plymouth |
'Herpesvirus-based Vaccines for Infectious Disease and Cancer' |
Dr Simon Graham |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 02 Mar |
Prof Ali Mirazimi |
Swedish Veterinary Institute |
'Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus; virus-host cell interaction' |
Dr Lesley Bell-Sakyi |
| 09 Mar |
No seminar |
N/A |
N/A |
|
| 16 Mar |
Prof Richard Randall |
University of St. Andrews |
'Interferons, paramyxoviruses and host cell interactions: molecular mechanisms and biological consequences' |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| 23 Mar |
Prof Louise Cosby |
Queens University Belfast |
'Paramyxovirus-receptor interactions: Importance in understanding cross species infection and disease treatment' |
Dr Linda Dixon |
| 30 Mar |
Prof Matthew Bayliss |
University of Liverpool |
'Role of climate in the emergence of bluetongue and other arborviruses' |
Dr Linda Dixon |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 20 Apr |
Dr Mike McGrew |
Roslin Insitute |
'Genome editing in poultry' |
Dr Shahriar Behboudi |
| 27 Apr |
Dr Joe Grove |
University College London |
'Immune selection shapes the entry pathway of hepatitis C virus' |
Dr Erica Bickerton |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 04 May |
Prof Ian Brown |
Animal and Plant Health Agency |
'Current risk to the UK and Europe from AI; description of recent epizootics and control challenges' |
Dr Muhammad Munir |
| 11 May |
Prof Christl Donnelly |
Imperial College |
'Analysis and modelling of the West African Ebola epidemic' |
Dr Simon Gubbins |
| 16 May |
Dr Edward Emmott |
University of Cambridge |
'Norovirus control of the cellular environment: a role for viral and host proteases'
|
Dr Toby Tuthill |
| 18 May |
Dr Pablo Murcia |
University of Glasgow |
'Influenza cross-species jumps from birds to mammals' |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| 25 May |
Prof Ervin Fodor |
University of Oxford |
'The RNA synthesis machine of influenza viruses' |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 01 Jun |
Prof Nicola Stonehouse |
University of Leeds |
'Poliomyelitis – why do we need new vaccines and how close are we to developing them?' |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| 07 Jun |
Dr Adam Balic |
Roslin Institute |
'Exploiting new technologies to advance understanding of the avian immune system'
|
Dr Andrew Broadbent |
| 15 Jun |
Dr Mark Travis |
University of Manchester |
'Regulation of intestinal T cell responses by integrins and TGF-beta'
|
Dr Bryan Charleston |
| 22 Jun |
Dr Mary Pantin-Jackwood |
United States Department of Agriculture |
'Studying the pathogenicity of avian influenza viruses in different avian species'
|
Dr Munir Iqbal |
| 29 Jun |
Dr Kate Bishop |
The Francis Crick Institute |
'Exploiting new technologies to advance understanding of the avian immune system' |
Dr Erica Bickerton |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 06 Jul |
Dr Abhay Kotecha |
University of Oxford |
'Looking at picornaviruses at near atomic resolution' |
Dr Julian Seago |
| 13 Jul |
Dr Bethan Purse |
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
'How do ecology, environmental change and human priorities interact to drive livestock and zoonotic disease impacts? Integrating understanding into disease mitigation'
|
Dr Anthony Wilson |
| 20 Jul |
Dr Dan Horton |
University of Surrey |
'Understanding drivers of cross-species viral transmission: Why have we not already eliminated rabies?' |
Dr Karin Darpel |
| 27 Jul |
Dr Yohei Yamauchi |
University of Bristol |
'Mechanism of influenza virus entry into host cells' |
Dr Bryan Charleston |
There are no seminars during August.
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 07 Sep |
Prof Massimo Palmarini |
University of Glasgow |
TBC |
Dr Javier Castillo-Olivares |
| 14 Sep |
Dr Peter Jones |
Shire Professional Chartered Psychologists |
TBC |
Dr Pip Beard |
| 21 Sep |
Dr Lonneke Vervelde |
Roslin Institute |
TBC |
Dr Erica Bickerton |
| 28 Sep |
N/A |
No External Seminar |
N/A |
N/A |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 05 Oct |
Dr Mikhail Matrosovich |
Philipps Universität Marburg |
'Role of receptor specificity and membrane fusion activity of influenza viruses in host range and pathogenicity' |
Dr Munir Iqbal |
| 12 Oct |
Dr Alain Kohl |
University of Glasgow |
TBC |
Prof Luke Alphey |
| 19 Oct |
Prof Sunetra Gupta |
University of Oxford |
TBC |
Dr John Hammond |
| 26 Oct |
Dr Ed Lavelle |
University of Dublin |
TBC |
Dr Satya Parida |
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 02 Nov |
Sharon Brookes |
Animal and Plant Health Agency |
'AIV - H5N8 UK and Europe 2014-2017' |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
| 09 Nov |
Prof Bruce Whitelaw |
The Roslin Institute |
TBC |
Dr Pip Beard |
| 16 Nov |
Dr Nigel Temperton |
TBC |
TBC |
Dr Munir Iqbal |
| 23 Nov |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
|
| 30 Nov |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
|
| Date |
Speaker |
Organisation |
Title |
Host |
|---|
| 07 Dec |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
|
| 14 Dec |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
|
