| 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 |
