Seminars

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

Monday Seminar Series - Plenty of room in the middle: microphysiological models as enabling platforms to study infections in tissues

When:  Monday 17 June 2024

Time:  12 pm

Venue: CH Waddington Building, 1.08, King's Buildings, Edinburgh

Speaker: Vivek Thacker, University of Heidelberg

Host: Nadanai Laohakunakorn, IQB3

Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar - Bacterial extracellular vesicles: Mediators of microbe-host crosstalk in the gut and beyond

When:  Monday 17 June 2024

Time:  3.30 pm

Venue: ASH_1.03 , Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings

Online: Via ZOOM. 

Speaker: Simon Carding , The Quadram Institute

Host: The EIG committee (Tovah, Wouter, Ananda, Isobel, and Sean

Monday Seminar Series 

When:  Monday 24 June 2024

Time:  12 pm

Venue: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1, King's Buildings, Edinburgh

Speaker: Rob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge

Host: Andrew Millar, IQB3

Edinburgh Antimicrobial Resistance Forum Seminar 

When: Tuesday 9 July 2024

Time: 3 pm

Online: Via Teams

Speaker: Dominic Moran

Roslin Institute special seminar:  Influenza and RSV activities down-under at the WHO CC in Melbourne, Australia

When:  Monday 15 July 2024

Time:  1 pm

Venue:  Main Auditorium, Roslin Institute, Easter Bush

Speaker:  Professor Ian Barr, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Host:  Thomas Williams and Paul Digard

Infectious Disease Genomics Symposium

When: Friday 6 September 2024

Time: 9am to 5pm

Venue: The Nucleus Building, Kings' Buildings, Edinburgh

Guest Lecturer: Johannes Krause, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig

Also a fantastic programme of Edinburgh speakers presenting exciting new work in plants, animals, humans, and aquaculture. presenting exciting new work in plants, animals, humans, and aquaculture.

Registration: Registration will open in early summer 2024

Institute of Ecology and Evolution Seminar 

When:  Wednesday 25 September 2024

Time:  2 pm

Venue: Lecture theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings

Online: Via ZOOM. 

Speaker: Colin Olito

Host: Deborah Charlesworth

Murray Lecture 2024 - Professor Sir Steve Jackson FRS, FMedSci

When: Wednesday 20 November 2024

Time: 3.30pm (TBC)

Venue: TBC

Speaker: Professor Sir Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge