Past Seminars
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Time | Location |
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13/06/2024 | Banaz Star-Shirko | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
06/06/2024 | Dr, Ana Lopez Jimenez | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
30/05/2024 | Terry Kipkorir | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | John Snow A |
23/05/2024 | Nicholas Thomson | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | John Snow A |
16/05/2024 | Richard Stabler | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
09/05/2024 | Lore Baert (Swiss TPH)
Host: Vanessa Yardley |
DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
02/05/2024 | Deogratius Ssemwanga | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
25/04/2024 | Dr. William Stone | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
18/04/2024 | Prof. Kat Holt | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | LG8 |
21/03/2024 | Yunn-Hwen Gan | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
28/03/2024 | Dr. Patricia Gorak-Stolinska | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | LG9 |
14/03/2024 | Dr. Nick Furnham | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
29/02/2024 | Dr. Zoe Dyson | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
22/02/2024 | Prof. Christopher Drakeley | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation – MALARIA | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
21/02/2024 | Matthew Beale | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
15/02/2024 | Prof. Nick Dorrell | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
08/02/2024 | Dr. Michael Delves | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation – MALARIA | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
01/02/2024 | Susana Campino | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation – MALARIA | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow B & via Zoom |
25/01/2024 | Jayne Sutherland | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
30/11/2023 | Richard Atherton | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
23/11/2023 | Prof Colin Sutherland | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Old drugs, new drugs: How to respond to the continuing adaptation of African Plasmodium falciparum populations to current antimalarial combination therapy | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
16/11/2023 | Prof. Keertan Dheda | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | The Challenge of Human Challenge Models for TB/BCG | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
09/11/2023 | Dr Oluseyi Soremekun | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Herd effects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention on clinical malaria, asymptomatic infection and serological responses in adolescents and adults in The Gambia | 12:45 – 13:45 | John Snow A and Zoom |
02/11/2023 | Dr Sam Wassmer [Speaker: Stephen Rogerson, Melbourne University] | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Identifying functional antibodies that protect against malaria in pregnancy and severe malaria | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow A & via Zoom |
19/10/2023 | Hazel Dockrell | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Progress towards correlates of protection for TB: what has the Covid-19 pandemic taught us? | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
05/10/2023 | Prof Anil Koul [Speaker: Chirantan Chatterjee University of Sussex] | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
28/09/2023 | Dr Don Van Schalkwyk | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Does one drug fit all? Comparing antimalarial susceptibility among parasite species to inform drug development | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
21/09/2023 | Dr Matthew Yeo | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | A platform for CRISPR-Cas9 mediated gene editing in sandflies (Lutzomyia longipalpis) and Triatomine bugs (Rhodnius prolixus) | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
14/09/2023 | Host:Dr Ozan Gundogdu Speaker: Abdou Hachani (Peter Doherty – Institute for Infection and Inmunity, Melbourne) | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Pheno-genomic identification of underexplored Staphylococcus aureus pathoadaptation. | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow Theatre & via Zoom |
07/09/2023 | Prof Roger Hewson | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Tick-Borne Viruses: Public Health Impact and Research Tools for Control | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Keppel St. LG80 & via Zoom |
13/07/2023 | Dr Amanda Fortes Francisco | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Transcriptomics of the immune response in Chagas heart disease. | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
22/06/2023 | Prof Johannes Dessens | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | The role of the crystalloid organelle in malaria parasite transmission. | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
01/06/2023 | Prof David Conway Lindsey Stewart Elena Lantero-Escolar |
DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Intrinsic multiplication rate variation of Plasmodium falciparum blood stage parasites – testing extent and importance’ | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
25/05/2023 | Prof Taane Clark Ashley Osborne Dr. Matthew Higgins Emilia Manko |
DIB / ITD, LSHTM | A MENU OF LOCAL MALARIA GENOMICS | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
18/05/2023 | Dr Juan Pablo Bifani | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | A Malaria up-date from Pablo Bifani | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
11/05/2023 | Prof Polly Roy | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | A place for everything and everything in its place in a complex RNA virus | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
27/04/2023 | Prof Anil Koul | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Targeting metabolic enzymes or pathways in tuberculosis drug recovery | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
20/04/2023 | Theresa Ward | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Plasma cell differentiation: making an antibody factory | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
13/04/2023 (postponed) |
Prof Cally Roper | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
06/04/2023 | Dr Jody Phelan | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
30/03/2023 | Dr Sam Willcocks | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
23/03/2023 | Dr Christiaan van Ooij [Speakers: Aline Freville, Giulia Pianta, Tansy Vallintine] | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Making a cell a home: host cell remodeling by malaria parasites | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
(16/03/2023 – postponed) | Dr Theresa Ward | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
(09/03/2023 – postponed) | Dr Vanessa Yardley | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
(02/03/2023 – postponed) | Prof Brendan Wren | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
23/02/2023 | Dr Mathew Beale | Wellcome Sanger Institute | Treponema | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
16/02/2023 | Prof Bushra Jamil | Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi | Viral Haemorrhagic Fever in Pakistan: threats and challenges | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
09/02/2023 | Rebecca Roscoe | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Characterising kinetoplastid pantothenate kinase, a multifunctional enzyme of the CoA biosynthesis pathway | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
02/02/2023 | Dr Kevin Tetteh | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Developing serological tools for Plasmodium knowlesi towards the development of an integrated diagnostic platform for malaria | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
19/01/2023 | Penny Sparkes | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
12/01/2023 | Prof David Baker | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
15/12/2022 | Dr Francisco Olmo | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
17/11/2022 | Dr Jon Cuccui | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Antibacterial vaccines, current and future trends | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
10/11/2022 | Dr Lilliana Radosheich | University of Iowa, USA | Exploring the role of ISGylation in pathogen spread | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
03/11/2022 | Prof Michael Blackman, Dr Abhinay Ramaprasad, Dr Theo Sanderson | Francis Crick Institute (Blackman, Ramaprasad, Sanderson) & DIB / ITD, LSHTM (Blackman) | Many genes, deleting them, all at once: Scaling up inducible knockout in the malaria parasite (Ramaprasad) & Genetics at scale in SARS-CoV-2 and malaria (Sanderson) | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
27/10/2022 | Prof Serge Mostowy, Dr Damián Lobato Márquez & Dr Margarida Castro Gomes | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | New roles for septins in cell-autonomous immunity (Márquez) & Training innate immunity in zebrafish using Shigella (Gomes) | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
20/10/2022 | Prof John Kelly | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Trypanosoma cruzi infection – why is treatment failure so common? | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
(13/10/2022 – postponed) | Dr Julius Hafalla | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | DIB research group presentation | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
(06/10/2022 – postponed) | Dr Marco Fritzsche | University of Oxford, UK | Mechanobiology of T cells across scales | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
29/09/2022 | Dr David Allen | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Exploring the host, the virus, and the environment in understanding and monitoring virus emergence events | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
22/09/2022 | Sherif Abouelhadid | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | The epic emergence of bacterial glycoworld | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
15/09/2022 | Prof Martin Hibberd | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Can we predict who is going to get infected with dengue virus? Introducing the concept of prophylactic drugs to prevent dengue disease | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
08/09/2022 | Dr Robert Moon | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Unravelling parasite invasion in P. knowlesi: from basic biology to vaccine development | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Manson Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
01/09/2022 | Dr Francesc Coll I Cerezo | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Improved accuracy of antibiotic susceptibility determination from Enterococcus faecium whole-genome sequences | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Rose Room (LG6/7) & via Zoom |
28/07/2022 | Dr Ozan Gundogdu | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Campylobacter pathogenesis and the chicken microbiome | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: Rose Room (LG6/7) & via Zoom |
14/07/2022 | Prof Simon Croft | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Treatments for leishmaniasis: from discovery to access | 12:45 – 13:45 | Hybrid: John Snow (A/B) Lecture Theatre & via Zoom |
24/03/2022 | Chantal Harris | Weill Cornell Medicine, New York | Metabolic competition between lipid metabolism and histone methylation regulates sexual differentiation in human malaria parasites | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
10/03/2022 | Prof Thomas Scriba | University of Cape Town | Progression from M. tuberculosis infection to TB disease | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
24/02/2022 | Prof Andrea Cooper | University of Leicester | Studying TB in a high incidence low exposure environment | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
10/02/2022 | Dr Patrick Moynihan | University of Birmingham | Cell wall recycling in pathogenic mycobacteria | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
16/12/2021 | Dr Shanon Takala-Harrison | University of Maryland, USA | Genomic epidemiological studies to investigate antimalarial drug resistance and inform malaria elimination | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
09/12/2021 | Prof Stephan Gunther | Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg | Viral haemorrhagic fevers in West Africa: Lassa fever and filovirus disease | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
18/11/2021 | Dr Androniki Psifidi | Royal Veterinary College, London | Host genetics and infectious disease: new insights and tools to control zoonotic disease | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
04/11/2021 | Michael Delves | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | A foot in both camps: How do Plasmodium gametocytes mediate the transition between divergent host environments to transmit malaria? | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
07/10/2021 | Dr Damian Lobato-Marquez | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Mechanistic insight into bacterial entrapment by septin cage reconstitution | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
23/09/2021 | Dr Damien Portevin | Swiss TPH | Deciphering tuberculosis immunopathology to design adjunct treatment options using human 3D in vitro granulomas | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
09/09/2021 | Prof Mike Blackman | The Francis Crick Institute | Progress and puzzles in understanding and targeting malaria parasite egress | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
29/07/2021 | Prof Nick Thomson | Sanger Institute | Cholera in the times of Covid | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
15/07/2021 | Prof Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh | University of Florida | Epstein-Barr virus, a master manipulator of B cell biology | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
01/07/2021 | DR Effie Bastounis | Tuebingen University | Collective mechanosensing driven by innate immune signaling drives the extrusion end masse of bacterially-infected epithelial cells | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
17/06/2021 | DR Julien Vaubourgeix | Imperial College London | Multiform antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
15/06/2021 | Dr Marcus Lee | The Sanger Institute | Cutting back malaria: CRISPR-based approaches for antimalarial target discovery | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
03/06/2021 | Dr Alvaro Acosta-Serrano | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Targeting insect tyrosine metabolism for vector control | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
20/05/2021 | Dr Brian Ho | Birkbeck, University of London | Contact-dependent bacterial cell-cell interactions in microbial communities | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
06/05/2021 | Dr Iñaki Comas | Biomedicine Institute of Valencia, Spain | Evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: from biology to global tuberculosis control | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
22/04/2021 | Prof Cynthia Whitchurch | Quadram Institute | Bacterial Shapeshifting: Super-power or Achilles’ Heel? | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
25/03/2021 | Prof Martin Hibberd | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Dengue and our new work to understand its transmission and the potential for prophylactic prevention | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
11/03/2021 | Dr Katarzyna Mickiewicz | Newcastle University | L-form switching in antibiotic evasion | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
25/02/2021 | Prof John Kelly | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Why does Trypanosoma cruzi cause Chagas disease? | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
11/02/2021 | Melissa Hart | LSHTM | Combining reverse genetics and live microscopy to investigate Plasmodium knowlesi invasion of red blood cells | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
28/01/2021 | Dr Nihal Altan-Bonnet | NIH | Sneaking out with the trash’: how coronaviruses exit cells | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
14/01/2021 | Prof Roger Hewson | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Bunyavirales: An expanding order of emerging viruses | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
17/12/2020 | Dr Kate Baker | Liverpool University, UK | Emergence of Shigella as a STI | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
03/12/2020 | Dr Rui Pedro Ribeiro Galao | King’s College London, UK | Virus Restriction Factors | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
19/11/2020 | Dr Tanya Monagham | Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, UK | Understanding Aetiology and Transmission of Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases in Central India: Towards a One Health Perspective | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
05/11/2020 | Prof Mark Meissner | Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany | Back on track: The functions of actin in apicomplexan parasites | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
29/10/2020 | Prof Anil Koul | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Discovery and development of Bedaquiline: Story of a novel drug for MDR-tuberculosis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
22/10/2020 | Dr Ethel Bayer Santos | Three pathogens and three secretion systems – stories on host cell manipulation and interbacterial competition | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online | |
08/10/2020 | Dr Joana Duarte Da Rocha Pereira | KU Leuven, Belgium | Cells, mice and zebrafish: tackling human norovirus replication on the road to antiviral drug discovery | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
24/09/2020 | Dr Janine Bosse | Imperial College London, UK | Development of a genetic toolbox for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae informed by genome analysis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Online |
05/03/2020 | Dr Virginia Marugan-Hernandez | Royal Veterinary College, London, UK | Current knowledge in cell biology of Eimeria species and how this informs control strategies against coccidiosis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
13/02/2020 | Dr Maria Cristina Nonato Costa | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase: A potential target against schistosomiasis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
03/10/2019 | Dr. Gerald Larrouy-Maumus | Imperial College London, UK | Elucidation of the role of cAMP in Mycobacterial antibiotics tolerance by cAMP phosphodiesterase, bioenergetics and 13C flux analysis | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
06/02/2020 | Dr Rebecca Limenitakis | Swiss Integrative Centre for Human Health, Fribourg, Switzerland | Malaria liver stage biology | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
10/10/2019 | Stephanie Nofal | LSHTM, UK | The role of an essential cyclic GMP signalling component and a downstream effector in Plasmodium falciparum merozoite egress and invasion | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
12/12/2019 | Dr Alba Llibre-Serradell | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France | Identification of perturbed immune and metabolic responses during Tuberculosis disease | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
14/11/2019 | Dr Pavel Tolar | The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK | Discussing new results of whole genome screens relating to antibody response | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
16/01/2020 | Dr Vincenzo Torraca | DIB / ITD, LSHTM | Use of zebrafish to study emerging Shigella infection | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
17/10/2019 | Prof Peter Stockley | University of Leeds, UK | Simple RNA viruses: avoiding the tyranny of symmetry to stay infectious | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
19/09/2019 | Dr Lucy van Dorp | University College London, UK | Tracing infectious disease through time: case studies in antibiotic resistance and Plasmodium evolution | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
21/11/2019 | Dr Dennis Linton | University of Manchester, UK | Too hot to handle! RNA thermometer mediated regulation of zinc resistance in the bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
26/09/2019 | Prof Keertan Dheda | University of Cape Town, South Africa | Interrogating and challenging the human lung: implications for TB vaccines, diagnostics, and treatment | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |
28/11/2019 | Dr Helen Wagstaffe | University College London, UK | Cytokine and antibody-dependent activation of natural killer cells after Ebola vaccination | 12:45 – 13:45 | Manson Lecture Theatre |