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.
2023 Seminar programme
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2023 | Michael Hassell | University of Surrey | "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the HE Sector" | Dr Marion England |
| 24 Jan 2023 | Dr Clare Bhunnoo | UKRI-BBSRC | “Culture and careers in bioscience research and innovation” | Dr Louise Barton |
| 26 Jan 2023 | Professor Anca Dorhoi |
Friedrich Loeffler Institute |
"Immunity to infection: keep it real" | Prof Elma Tchilian |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Feb 2023 | Daniel Santos Mansur | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil |
"PKR-Mediated Stress Response Enhances Dengue and Zika Virus Replication" |
Dr Renata Fleith |
| 9 Feb 2023 | Marcus Blagrove | University of Liverpool |
"Host in the machine: Construction of an explainable AI framework which identifies its own weaknesses and directs wet-lab experiments to answer the question – “in which hosts do viruses hide?” |
Dr Graham Freimanis |
| 16 Feb 2023 | No Seminar | |||
| 23 Feb 2023 | No Seminar | |||
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Mar 2023 | Dr Ronan O'Neill | Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine Laboratories, Backweston, Ireland | "Bovine Respiratory Coronavirus detections in Ireland – twelve years of trends and patterns" | Dr Carrie Batten |
| 9 Mar 2023 | Dr Nicola Stonehouse | University of Leeds | "Dissecting the replication complex of foot-and-mouth disease virus" | Dr Helena Maier |
| 16 Mar 2023 | No seminar | |||
| 23 Mar 2023 | Professor Geoff Smith | University of Cambridge | "Host restriction factors versus virus evasion strategies for vaccinia and monkeypox viruses" | Prof Bryan Charleston |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Apr 2023 | No seminar | Privilege Day | |||
| 13 Apr 2023 | Dr Hashem Koohy | University of Oxford | "Modelling dynamics of CD8 T cell response to SARS-CoV-2’s emerging variants of concern" |
Dr Shahriar Behboudi |
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| 20 April 2023 | No seminar | SGM Birmingham, 17-20 April | |||
| 27 April 2023 | Dr Vanessa Herder | MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | "How spatial biology helps to understand the pathogenesis of SARS CoV-2" | Dr Graham Freimanis |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2023 | Professor Dirk Werling | The Royal Veterinary College | “C-type lectin receptors in farmed animals – tools to train immunity” | Prof John Hammond |
| 11 May 2023 | Dr Sarah Hill | The Royal Veterinary College | "Genomic epidemiology of enzootic viral pathogens: identifying transmission routes and outbreak dynamics with virus genome sequences" | Dr Graham Freimanis |
| 18 May 2023 | Professor Kristin Michel | Kansas State University | "Mosquito immune regulation: How to treat your friends and foes” | Dr Kevin Maringer |
| 25 May 2023 | No seminar | Seminar cancelled due to unforseen circumstances |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun 2023 | No seminar | Seminar postponed due to unforseen circumstances | ||
| 15 Jun 2023 | Professor Chris Oura | The University of the West Indies | "One Health In Action in the Caribbean" | Dr Carrie Batten |
| 22 Jun 2023 | NanoString Technologies, Inc. | "New Spatial Transcriptomics Technology Platforms and possible applications for Veterinary Science" | Dr Graham Freimanis | |
| 29 Jun 2023 | Professor Richard Bomphrey | Royal Veterinary College | "An integrated view of insect flight" | Dr Christopher Sanders |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Jul 2023 | Dr Christina Ernst | The Pirbright Institute, Coronavirus Cellular Biology | "RNA-Protein Interactions at the Host-Viral Interface" | |
| 13 Jul 2023 | Dr Morgan Herod | University of Leeds | “Comparing and understanding the replication strategies of norovirus and hepatitis E virus” | James Kelly |
| 20 Jul 2023 | Dr Yuguang Zhao | Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford | "Structural View of Wnt Signalling and Viral Receptors" | Dr Yongxiu Yao |
| 27 Jul 2023 | Dr Nicholas Locker | The Pirbright Institute, Viral Stress Response Group | "Friends or Foes? The Many Routes Viruses Use to Manipulate RNA Granules" |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No seminars in August due to Summer Break |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Sep 2023 | Professore Rushika Perera | Colorado State University, USA | "Reframing Viral Infections as Acute Metabolic Disorders" | Dr Kevin Maringer |
| 14 Sep 2023 | No seminar | |||
| 21 Sep 2023 | Dr James Cussens | University of Bristol | "Learning causal models from data and expert knowledge" | Dr Nicos Angelopoulos |
| 28 Sep 2023 | No seminar |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2023 | No seminar | |||
| 17 Oct 2023 |
Professor Paul Duprex |
Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh |
"Animal viruses below the radar: from discovery to recovery" |
Prof Nicolas Locker |
| 19 Oct 2023 |
Dr Sonja Hartle |
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich | "Chicken B cell development and differentiation" | Dr Marie Di Placido |
| 26 Oct 2023 | No seminar | School Half Term |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2023 | Dr Yannick Nossin | Cell Signaling Technology, The Netherlands | "Specificity is key: a spotlight on CST innovative solutions for your immunofluorescence experiments” | |
| 16 Nov 2023 | ||||
| 23 Nov 2023 | Professor Eleni Nastouli | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital. | TBC | Dr Nicos Angelopoulos |
| 30 Nov 2023 | Dr Nathan Archer | University of Nottingham | TBC | Dr Caroline Wright |
| Date | Speaker | Organisation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec 2023 | TBC | |||
| 14 Dec 2023 | TBC | |||