Seminars and events
LeMID host a range of seminars and events with internal and external professionals, presenting a variety of ground-breaking research.
Past events
2019
Tuesday 2 July, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Professor Guillaume Dumenil, Head of Pathogenesis of Vascular Infections, Pasteur Institute, France
- V'ascular colonization by Neisseria meningitidis'
Friday 17 May, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Professor Debby Bogaert, Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant in paediatric infectious diseases, University of Edinburgh
- 'Using respiratory microbiome studies to understand pathophysiology and improve diagnosis’
Friday 5 April, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr Deborah Hinton, Senior Investigator, Gene Expression and Regulation Section, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, NIDDK at the NIH Bethesda, Maryland
- 'A 3-D Puzzle Approach to Building Protein-DNA Structures’
Tuesday 26 March, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Prof. Pietro Mastroeni, Reader in Infection and Immunity, University of Cambridge
- Understanding the arm wrestle between immunity and pathogens to improve vaccines and antimicrobial treatment’
2018
Tuesday 18th December, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Prof. Brendan Wren, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Dean of Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- ‘Glycoengineering and The Development Of Low Cost Recombinant Glycoconjugate Vaccines’
Tuesday 13th November, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr. Jennifer Cavet, Senior Lecturer, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester
Tuesday 16 October, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr. Rute Neves, Director Bacterial Physiology, Discovery, R&D, Chr.Hansen A/S, Denmark
- ‘Industrial starter cultures: from discovery to application’
Tuesday 8 May, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr. Tal Arnon, Kennedy Trust of Rheumatology Research (KTRR) Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- ‘Regulation of B cell responses by tissue resident macrophages in the spleen’
Tuesday 24 March, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr Martin Welch, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
- ‘2C or not 2C? Short Chain Fatty Acid Catabolism and its role in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence and Pathogenicity’
Wednesday 21 March (joint seminar with Genetics)
- Mariagrazia Pizza, Senior Scientific Director Bacteriology, GSK Vaccines, Siena, Italy
- ‘New approaches to vaccine development'
Tuesday 13 March, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Professor Paul Langford, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
- ‘Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae: from understanding virulence towards control’
Tuesday 27 February, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Professor Marco Oggioni, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester
- 'Intracellular replication in macrophages precedes sepsis: how to proceed from here?’
Tuesday 16 January, 12.00pm-1.00pm
- Dr Andrew Lovering, Senior Lecturer, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
- 'Using Structural Biology to Study Predatory Bacteria’