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’