Published: 13-06-2017 11:00 | Updated: 07-09-2017 15:33

Seminars to the course: ‘Current topics in infection biology’

CIM seminars autumn 2017: On Wednesdays at 13.00, starting from August 23, we will have seminars from an excellent list of speakers representing different areas of research.

Please, see the preliminary programme for details. For students registered to the course ‘Current topics in infection biology’, we will offer meet-the speakers-sessions after each seminar. Interested researchers can also contact Jakob Michaelsson or Susanna Brighenti at CIM if they like to have a separate meeting with any of the speakers.

Current topics in infection biology

SEMINARS
Aug 23	Professor Adrian Martineau	Blizard Institute, London, UK	“Vitamin D as treatment of respiratory tract infections”
Sept 6	Professor Karin Loré	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm	“Studies on vaccine-induced immune responses”
Sept 13	Professor Renato Santana	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	“Zika virus infection and microcephaly”
Sept 27	Professor Lena Claesson-Welch	Uppsala University, Sweden	“Regulation of angiogenesis in cancer development” Cancer researcher of the year, 2017!
Okt 4	Professor Miles Carroll	Public Health England, London, UK	“Ebola outbreaks and development of new treatment options”
Okt 12	Professor Miguel Lopez-Botet	Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona.	“Role of the CD94/NKG2C receptor in the development of the adaptive NK cell response to human CMV”
Okt 18	Associate professor Cecilia Johansson	Imperial College London, UK	“Immunopathogenesis of respiratory tract infections”
Okt 25	Professor Ann-Beth Jonsson	Stockholm University, Sweden	“Interaction and competition between bacterial species at epithelial surfaces”
Nov 8	Associate professor, Chiara Romagnani	Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum, Berlin, Germany	“Regulation of human ILCs”
Nov 15	Professor Antonio Barragan	Stockholm University, Sweden	“Host-cell interactions and immune evasion strategies in Toxoplamsa gondii infection”
Nov 29	Professor Vivi Malmström,	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm	“Importance and contribution of B and T cell subsets in inflammatory rheumatic diseases”
Dec 6	Associate professor Liv Eidsmo	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm	“Tissue-resident CD8 T cells in inflammatory skin disorders”
Dec 14	Assistant professor Samir El‐Andaloussi,	Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and University of Oxford, UK	“Exosome‐based vehicles for drug delivery and interference of gene expression using novel oligonucleotide‐based drugs”