Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Individual risk and reward in the wild: The ecology of behavioural variation

Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 376 730 472 658 359 Passcode: oE7mc9cB

Speaker: Peter Korsten, Aberystwyth University

Host: Dan Nussey

United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute - Edinburgh and Parkinson’s Centre Joint Seminar - What Lies Ahead for Biomedical Research? An Edinburgh Medic’s Perspective from the Boardroom

Date: Friday 6 November 2026

Time: 12 pm

Location: QMRI Wellcome Auditorium. 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ

Speaker: Dr Amrit Ray, Corporate Board Chair and Director & Former Global President, Head of R&D, Pfizer

Host: Miratul Muqit

The Edinburgh AMR Forum Seminar - From livestock to the wider environment: a One Health perspective on antimicrobial resistance

Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026

Time: 3 pm

Location: 1.05 IRR South, Edinburgh

Online: Via TEAMS.  Meeting ID: 387 579 639 309 765 6. Passcode: rd3zP6K9

Speaker: Lesley Smith, SRUC, Easter Bush, Midlothian

Host: EAMRF

Centre for Inflammation Research External Seminar - Immunometabolism from two perspectives: Genetic Modifiers and Quantitative Ultrastructure

Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026

Time: 11.30 pm

Location: IRR South Seminar Room 1.05, Edinburgh BioQuarter, 4-5 Little France Drive, Edinburgh

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Hess, University of Cambridge and University of Basel

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar Series - Sugars at the host–pathogen interface: glycoproteins, glycoRNA and the glycobiology of infection

Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 371 175 366 445 284 9. Passcode: fg6Ft9jZ

Speaker: Aitor Casas Sanchez, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Host: Andrew Maclean

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Mapping the drivers of pathogen evolution from ancient DNA to modern disease

Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 339 774 477 149 342 4 Passcode: Xu3dH9Yu

Speaker: Lucy van Dorp, University College London

Host: Katerina Guschanski

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - Building a leaf: what makes a palisade cell?

Date: Monday 16 November 2026

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Chris Whitewoods, John Innes Centre, Norwich

Host: IMPS

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar Series - Topic area - Lung infection and drug discovery

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 364 882 263 550 567 3. Passcode: p4eT3oc2

Speaker: Linda Yrlid, Astrazeneca (Gothenberg)

Host: Georgia Perona-Wright

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 319 575 070 472 925 6 Passcode: JB7tm2bX

Speaker: Andy Young, University of Exeter

Host: Dan Nussey

Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2026 - Professor Sir Peter Horby

Date: Wednesday 18 November 2026

Time: 5.30 pm followed by drinks reception from 6.30pm

Location: The Informatics Forum, Crichton Street, Edinburgh

Provisional Lecture Title: Emerging Infections: Research, Collaboration, and Preparedness

Speaker: Professor Sir Peter Horby, Director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute and Moh Family Foundation Professor of Emerging Infections and Global Health at the University of Oxford.

Registration: Please register here on Eventbrite to attend.

Engineering Biology in Farmed Animals webinar series - Webinar 2: Engineering biology in poultry - From Discovery to Application

Date: Thursday 19th November 2026

Time: 2.30 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speakers: Dr James Glover (The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) 'Avian Transgenics: Past, Present and Future'

                 Dr Mark Cigan (Managing Director, Genetic Innovation, Cobb-Vantress) 'Translating and Scaling Innovation: Lessons from Crops Applied to Livestock'

Registration: Please click registration link to attend.

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 23 November 2026

Time: 4.40 pm

Location: Michael Swann, 7.20, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Mark Ashe, The University of Manchester

Host: ICB

Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Signalling and regulation of autophagy-related pathways in T. brucei

Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Time: 1 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 353 393 614 957 061 1 Passcode: jQ3rj2k8

Speaker: Mathieu Cayla, University of York

Host: Joanna Young

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Quantifying the evolutionary advantage of recombination

Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 338 767 700 086 135 4 Passcode: m44xk6bx

Speaker: Denis Roze, Sorbonne Université

Host: Laura Ross

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA

Date: Wednesday 2 December 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 341 248 826 902 261. Passcode: 2Fa3UD2D

Speaker: Maria Moiron, Bielefeld University

Host: Craig Walling

Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - TBA

Date: Thursday 10 December 2026

Time: 2.10 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Speaker: Stephen Montgomery, University of Cambridge

Host: Susan Johnston and Simon Martin

Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Bridging Ecology and Society to Conserve the Snow Leopard and the High Mountains of Asia

Date: *Friday 18* December 2026 - note different day

Time: 11 am

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campus

Online: Via TEAMS. Meeting ID: 329 184 610 766 030 1 Passcode: H87Tt3X4

Speaker: Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi, Director, Snow Leopard Trust - India Program and Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India

Host: Sanjana Ravindran

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 11 January 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Eugene Kim, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt

Host: Kyle Muir, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 25 January 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Chris Barnes, University College of London

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 1 February 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Host: Julie Welburn, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 8 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Clay Wang, USC, USA

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 15 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Matthew Fisher, Imperial College, London

Host: SBS

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 22 March 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker:  Kathryn Lilly, University of Cambridge

Host: IQB3

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 26 April 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Manu De Rycker, University of Dundee

Host: ICB

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 7 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Simone Reber, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin

Host: Matthew Swaffer, DRP-HCB/CCBIO

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 21 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Thibaut Brunet, Institut Pasteur, France

Host: ICB

Cell and Molecular Biology Programme Monday Seminar Series - TBA

Date: Monday 28 June 2027

Time: 12 pm

Location: Daniel Rutherford Building, G.27, LT1, King's Building's, Edinburgh

Speaker: Seth Rubin, University of California, USA

Host: ICB

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