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.
2021 Seminar programme
The in-person seminar programme was suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions. A restricted programme of online seminars has now resumed.
There were no seminars during January due to COVID-19.
There were no seminars during February due to COVID-19.
There were no seminars during March due to COVID-19.
There were no seminars during April due to COVID-19.
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| 06 May 2021 |
Professor Jonathan Rushton
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Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool
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"The Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme" |
Dr Georgina Limon-Vega |
| 20 May 2021 |
Dr Pawel Zajac and Stephen Hague |
Illumina and 10x Genomics
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"Unlock more of biology with spatial transcriptomics" |
Dr Graham Freimanis |
There were no seminars during June.
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| 22 July 2021 |
Professor Wamadeva Balachandran |
Brunel University, London |
"Low-cost Portable Molecular Diagnostic Platform for Detection of Poultry Infectious Pathogens" |
Prof Venugopal Nair OBE |
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| 09 September 2021 |
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| 16 September 2021 |
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| 30 September 2021 |
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| 07 October 2021 |
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| 14 October 2021 |
Dr Thomas Walker |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Novel Wolbachia bacterial strains in Anopheles mosquitoes |
Dr Christopher Sanders |
| 21 October 2021 |
Professsor Stephen Goodbourn |
St. George's, University of London |
Paramyxoviruses, flu (and COVID too); how viruses interact with the interferon system |
Dr Julian Seago |
| 28 October 2021 |
Dr Samantha Lycett |
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh |
TBC |
Dr Pip Beard |
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| 04 November 2021 |
Professor James Stewart |
University of Liverpool |
TBC |
Dr Holly Shelton |
| 11 November 2021 |
Dr David LV Bauer |
The Francis Crick Institute, London |
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Dr Holly Shelton |
| 18 November 2021 |
Dr Stephen Graham |
University of Cambridge |
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Dr Dalan Bailey |
| 25 November 2021 |
Dr Christine Tait-Burkard |
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh |
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Prof Simon Graham |
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| 09 December 2021 |
Dr Mariolina Salio |
MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
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Insights from the MAIT cell branch of the unconventional T cell field |
Dr Elma Tchilian |
2022 Seminar programme
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| 22 March 2022 |
Dr Stephanie Talker |
Institute of Virology and Immunology |
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Dr Wilhelm Gerner |
| 31 March 2022 |
Dr Craig Thompson |
University of Oxford |
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