A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available. The Institute of Cell Biology Seminar - Spatial organisation and dynamics of genome replication: from forks to foci Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Michael Swann Building, Room 7.20, King's BUilding's CampusSpeaker: Prof. Cristina Cardoso, Technische Universität DarmstadtHost: Sara Buonomo, ICB One Health Series of events 2025 - The University’s Race Review – Lessons for a One Health Campus Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025Time: 1 pm - 2 pm Location: G.022 Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, MidlothianOnline: Via TEAMS Password: yE7J2mW6Speaker: Dr Omolabake Fakunle - Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Moray House School of Education and SportHost: Professor Lisa Boden - Head of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Dean of Veterinary Medicine*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only* Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Delineating mechanisms of immune tailoring at the oral barrier Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Joanne Konkel, University of ManchesterHosts: Andrew MacDonald Institute of Ecology & Evolution seminar series - Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Dynamics of X-linked Meiotic Drive in Drosophila simulans Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Cécile Courret, Université Paris-SaclayHost: Laura Ross EdiRNA Society Seminar Series 4 Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025Time: 3 to 5 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Building, Kings Buildings (* Please note that access to the building after 17:00 is card only. )Speakers: Dr Takanobu Tagawa – “Host and viral circular RNAs regulated by infection with human herpesviruses” – Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry & Biotechnology, University of EdinburghDr Rute Pinto – "Udderly viral: how special is cow flu?" - Roslin Institute, University of EdinburghDr Alison Galloway – "CMTR1 directs mitochondrial dynamics during T cell activation through epitranscriptomic regulation of splice isoforms" - Cowling Lab, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute / Beatson InstituteGabriele Bagusinskaite (PGR) - "RNase R-mediated regulations of MRSA survival in hostile host environments" - Granneman Lab, Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh Registration: Please register at eventbrite link One Health Series of events 2025 - Bench, Barn and Bedside: One Health Animal Bioscience for Animals and Humans Date: Thursday 13 November 2025Time: 1 pm - 2 pm Location: G.01 William Dick Building, Easter Bush Campus, MidlothianOnline: Via TEAMS Password: E8co7Zj3Speakers: Jacqueline Smith, Joe Rainger and Nick WadeThis event will be led by the 'Animal biosciences, agriculture and aquaculture' cluster.*This event is for The University of Edinburgh Staff and Students only*Hosts: Megan Davey, Simon Lillico and Smaragda Tsairidou Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Autumn Session Date: Thursday 13 November 2025Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Prof. Gregers Jungersen (Statens Serum Institut, Denmark)Prof. John Tregoning (Imperial)Dr. Joy Edwards-Hicks (Edinburgh, CIR) One Health Series of events keynote 2025 - Towards making One Health impactful Date: Friday 14 November 2025Time: 12.45 pm - 2 pm Location: G.022, Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, MidlothianKeynote Speaker: Professor Tony Holohan12:45pm - Registration opens in the Roslin Institute Atrium.1:10pm-2:00pm - Keynote with Professor Tony Holohan.2:00pm - Further discussion with Professor Holohan will be welcome after the keynote.Registration is required to attend this keynote. This is an in-person event. Monday Seminar Series - The Cryo FIB-SEM facility at UoE - What can it do for you? Date: Monday 17 November 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1Speaker: Fraser Laidlaw, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems,UoEHost: Louise Horsfall, IQB3 Institute of Cell Biology Special Seminar - The nucleoplasmic reticulum, enigmatic player in nuclear structure and function Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Swann Building 7.20, King's Buildings, Edinburgh Speaker: David Vaux, University of Oxford Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - MAPS technology and its use in vaccine development Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025Time: 12 pm to 1pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeaker: Dr Yingjie Lu, Research Associate, Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical SchoolHost: Professor Debby Bogaert Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - Integrating ecological and historical data into population genetic inferences: from Mo'orea fishes to Mascarene birds Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Stefano Mona, Université PSL, ParisHost: Simon Martin Monday Seminar Series Date: Monday 24 November 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1Speaker: Prof. Matt Neale, University of SussexHost: Adele Marston, ICB Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Unlocking CNS-specific mechanisms of antifungal immunity Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025Time: 12 pm to 1pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeaker: Dr Rebecca Drummond, Institute of Immunology & Immunotherapy, University of BirminghamHost: Dr Laura McCulloch Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Sean Stankowski, University of SussexHost: Konrad Lohse Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - The sex lives of malaria parasites Date: Thursday 27 November 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Arthus Talman, Wellcome Sanger InstituteHost: Various Monday Seminar Series - Shuffling the deck: How chromosomes pair and recombine in meiosis Date: Monday 1 December 2025Time: 12 pmLocation: Daniel Rutherford, G.27, LT1Speaker: Dr Simone Köhler - EMBL, BarcelonaHost: Dhanya Cheerambathur, ICB Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Metabolic pathway defects in hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells: their role in liver cancer progression Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 10 am to 11 amLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeaker: Dr Hyon-Seung Yi, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, KoreaHost: Professor Prakash Ramachandran Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - protozoan - crypto genetic screens Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Bishara Marzook, The Francis Crick InstituteHost: Andrew Maclean Easter Bush Seminar Series - Transforming the Debate about livestock systems transformation Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 1.30 pmLocation: the Roslin Auditorium, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RGSpeaker: Dominic Moran GAAFS, TRADE Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Nelly Olova, School of Biological Sciences, The University of EdinburghHost: Internal Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Winter Lecture 2025 - Fragments of a life in HIV research Date: Thursday 4 December 2025Time: 5.30 - 6.30 pm (Closing drinks reception from 6.30 pm)Location: Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Doorway 3 Edinburgh EH8 9AGSpeaker: Prof Graham Hart, University College LondonRegistration: Please register to attend on EventbriteHost: Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Institute of Immunology and Infection Seminar - Protozoan diseases of cattle Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025Time: 1 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IIIRsem24Speaker: Liam Morrison, the Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, MidlothianHosts: Achim Schnaufer/K Matthews Centre for Inflammation Research Seminar - Evolution of the plague bacillus, a pandemic pathogen that shaped human history Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026Time: 12 pm to 1 pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeaker: Dr Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Pasteur Institute, ParisHost: Jose Vazquez-Boland Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 14 January 2026Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Simon Boitard, CBGP MontpellierHost: Matthew Hartfield Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Winter Session Date: Thursday 22 January 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Amanda Gibson (Aberystwyth)Prof. Andrew MacDonald (Edinburgh, IIIR) Institute of Ecology & Evolution Wednesday seminar series - TBA Date: Wednesday 1 April 2026Time: 2.10 pmLocation: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs, Kings Buildings campusOnline: Via ZOOM. Password: IEESem22Speaker: Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, UAB BarcelonaHost: Simon Martin Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Spring Session Date: Thursday 30 April 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Achille Broggi (Centre d'immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France)Prof. Richard Grencis (Manchester)Dr. Karen Mackenzie (Edinburgh, CIR) Edinburgh Immunology Group seminar series: Seasons of Immunology Summer Session Date: Thursday 11 June 2026Time: 1.30 pm to 5pmLocation: Seminar room 1.05 in IRR South, 5 Little France Drive, EH16 4UUSpeakers: Dr. Mike Dolan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Dr. Juan Quintana (Manchester)Dr. Jing Qui (Edinburgh, CDBS) This article was published on 2024-08-28
