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 - Exploring the riboregulation of major mitotic factors

When: Monday 28 April 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Daniel Rutherford, G.27 Lecture Theatre 1 

Speaker: Maiwen Caudron-Herger, German Cancer Research Center

Host: Sander Granneman

Edinburgh Microbiology Forum seminar - Decoding StrepA: human infection models and genomic insights for vaccine development

When: Tuesday 29 April 2025

Time: 3pm

Venue: Roslin Institute Auditorium

Online: Via TEAMS, passcode: rq6iF9N3

Speaker: Claire Turner, University of Sheffield

Institute for Ecology and Evolution Research Seminar - Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection

When: Wednesday 30 April 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Max Reuter, University College London

Host: 

Edinburgh Immunology Group mini symposium

When: Tuesday 1 May 2025

Time: 13:30 - 17:35

Venue: Seminar room 1.05, IRR

Schedule: 

13:30 – 14:30

Dr. Elizabeth Mann- Dual roles of monocyte regulate tissue integrity in the uterus.

Bio: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/elizabeth.mann

14:30 – 15:00

Dr. Tovah Shaw - Spatial and functional heterogeneity of gut macrophages.

Bio: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-tovah-shaw

15:00 – 15:30

Break & Refreshments

15:30 – 15:35

Sponsor presentation: Beckman Coulter

15:35 – 16:35

Prof. Hamida Hammad - How neonatal exposures influence type 2 immunity to inhaled allergens

Bio: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802000248802

16:35 – 17:35

Networking @ Niche Cafe

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - RNAi and mammalian antiviral defence system

When: Wednesday 7 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Pierre Maillard, Queen Mary London

Host: Sara Macias 

Institute for Ecology and Evolution Research seminar - When Evolution Leads to Maladaptation: The Effects of Frequency Dependence on Carrying Capacity

When: Wednesday 7 May 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Yimen Araya Ajoy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Host: 

Institute for Ecology and Evolution Research seminar - Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics at Global Scales

When: Wednesday 14 May 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Thomas Johnson, University of Sheffield

Host: 

Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society seminar - Selective fencing at Denmark’s biological, geopolitical, and genomic borders

When: Thursday 15 May 2025

Time: 13:30

Online: Email Lorna Thompson for joining link

Speaker: Mette Nordahl Svendsen, University of Copenhagen 

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar - Sex Chromosome Regulation in Reptiles Mediated by Long Non-Coding RNAs

When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Diego Cortez Quezada (UNAM, Mexico)

Host: Katja Guschanski

Easter Bush Research seminar series - The Atlantic salmon gut microbiome and its connection to host physiology and genetics

When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

Time: 13:30pm

Venue: Roslin Auditorium, Roslin Institute

Speaker: Professor Simen Sandve, NMBU

Host: Dan Macqueen

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Mucosal Inflammation and Immunity in bladder infection and cancer

When: Thursday 22 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Molly Ingersoll, Institut Pasteur

Host: Jenny Regan

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Molecular cell biology of trypanosomes

When: Thursday 22 May 2025

Time: 4-5pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Mark Carrington, University of Cambridge

Host: 

Edinburgh Microbiology Forum seminar

When: Tuesday 27 May 2025

Time: 3pm

Venue: Roslin Institute Auditorium

Speaker: Georgia Isom, University of Oxford

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - mRNA metabolism in Trypanosomes

When: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Susanne Kramer, University of Würzburg

Host: Achim Schnaufer

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar - Populations as Complex Ecological Systems: Emergent Patterns in Groups of Humans and Hyenas

When: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Alexandre Courtiol, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

Host: 

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Toxoplasma therapies

When: Wednesday 4 June 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Craig Roberts, University of Strathclyde

Host: 

Easter Bush Research seminar series - The Atlantic salmon gut microbiome and its connection to host physiology and genetics

When: Wednesday 4 June 2025

Time: 13:30pm

Venue: Roslin Auditorium, Roslin Institute

Speaker: Professor Steffen Scholpp, University of Exeter

Host: Joe Rainger

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 4 June 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Denis Roze

Host: 

Monday Seminar Series - What determines protein abundance in plants and why does it matter?

When: Monday 9 June 2025

Time: 12pm

Venue: Daniel Rutherford, G.27 Lecture Theatre 1 

Speaker: Freddie Theodoulou, Rothamsted Research 

Host: Steven Spoel

Edinburgh Immunology Group quarterly symposia

When: Thursday 17 June 2025

Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30pm

Venue: IRR South Seminar Room (1.05)

Speaker:

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Toxoplasma therapies

When: Wednesday 25 June 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Online: Via ZOOM, passcode: IIIRsem24

Speaker: Michael Imbeault, University of Cambridge

Host: 

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 11 June 2025

Time: 2:10pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Chloé Nater, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Host: 

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