Research and development

Learning events September 2009

Week 1

Thursday 1 October

10:00 Joint Laboratory Meetings, Centre for Childhood Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Ms Lindsay Edwards, ICH
Topic: TBA
Ms Iren Baines, ICH
Topic: TBA
Room C, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Friday 2 October

13:00 Genes, Development & Disease Seminar Series
Dr Miguel Constancia, University of Cambridge: “Novel insights into the role of the imprinted Igf2 gene in development and disease”
Host: Professor Gudrun Moore
Room C, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Week 2

Monday 5 October

13:00 Otto Wolff Lecture Series
Professor Chris O’Callaghan, Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester:
“From Respiratory Tract Infections to Meningitis”
Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Tuesday 6 October

13:00 Infection and Immunity Seminars
Dr Peter Lane, MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, Institute for Biomedical Research, Birmingham Medical School: “Lymphoid tissue inducer cells: key regulators of CD4 driven immune responses”
Host: Dr Siobhan Burns
Room B, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

14:30 Nephro-Urology Academic Programme
Renal Biopsy Meeting: Dr Neil Sebire, GOS
Tales from the tubular clinic: Dr Detlef Bockenhauer and Dr William van’t Hoff
Seminar Room, Renal Unit, Level 8, Southwood Building, GOS

Wednesday 7 October

14:15 Neuroscience Meeting
Speaker and Topic: TBA
Radiology Seminar Room, GOS

Thursday 8 October

No Meetings Planned

Friday 9 October

13:00 Genes, Development & Disease Seminar Series
Professor Roberta Kleta, ICH: “Pitfalls in finding a gene”
Host: Dr Maria Bitner-Glindzicz
Room C, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Week 3

Monday 12 October

No Meetings Planned

Tuesday 13 October

13:00 Infection and Immunity Seminars
Dr Catharien Hilkins, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University: “Developing a dendritic cell-based immunotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis”
Host: Dr Lucy Wedderburn
Room B, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Wednesday 14 October

14:15 Neuroscience Meeting
Speaker and Topic: TBA
Radiology Seminar Room, GOS

16:30
Prof Marjan Jahanshashi, UCL Institute of Neurology: What we have learned about the role of the basal ganglia from surgery for Parkinson's disease
Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room, ICH

Thursday 15 October

10:00 Joint Laboratory Meetings, Centre for Childhood Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Dr Jonnie Cohen, ICH
Topic: TBA
Dr Mark Bishay, ICH
Topic: TBA
Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Friday 16 October       

13:00 Genes, Development & Disease Seminar Series
Dr Khalid Hussain and Dr Chela James, ICH: “ENT3: Function and pathology”
Host: Professor Raoul Hennekam
Room C, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Week 4

Monday 19 October

13:00 Otto Wolff Lecture Series
Dr Hugh Davies, Consultant paediatrician at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, and Research Ethics Advisor at the National Research Ethics Service in London (UK): “How should we conduct child health research? (and how you might double your research output)”
Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Tuesday 20 October

No Meetings Planned

Wednesday 21 October

14:15 Neuroscience Meeting
Speaker and Topic: TBA
Radiology Seminar Room, GOS

16:00 Cancer Theme Seminar
Dr David Sancho-Madrid, Cancer Research UK: “Targeting the dendritic cell receptor DNGR-1 for immunotherapy”
Host: Dr John Anderson
Room A, Wellcome Trust Building, ICH

Thursday 22 October

No Meetings Planned

Friday 23 October

No Meetings Planned

Week 5

Monday 26 October

No Meetings Planned

Tuesday 27 October

No Meetings Planned

Thursday 29 October

No Meetings Planned

Friday 30 October

11:00 Lung in Childhood
Dr Sarath Ranganathan, Brighton Children’s Hospital:“Acute bacterial respiratory infections”
Dr Mark Rosenthal, Royal Brompton Hospital: “Congenital lung lesions, embryology, diagnosis, and management”
Venue: TBA