Programme Arrangements for 2009

23rd January (Download Flyer)

Speaker: Dr Huib Ovaa, National Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Host: Professor Cliff Taggart
Topic: Design and application of probes for the labelling of deubiquitination enzymes
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Title: Chemistry of proteolysis and antigen presentation
Time: 1pm

27th Feburary   (Download Flyer)    

Speaker: Dr Annemarie Larkin, DCU, Dublin, Ireland
Host: Dr Lisa Connolly
Topic: Cancer immunology
Venue: MBC/G28, Medical Biology Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Title: Monoclonal antibodies for the identification of novel cancer associated antigens
Time: 1pm

31st March   (Download Flyer) 

Speaker: Professor Freda Stevenson, Southampton, UK
Host: Dr Helen Wheadon
Topic: DNA vaccinations against cancer
Venue: ELTC/SR4, Queen’s University Belfast
Title: DNA vaccinations against cancer
Time: 12pm

17th April           

Speaker: Professor Rick Randall, University of St Andrews, UK
Host: Dr Ultan Power
Topic: Innate immunity to virus infection
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 1pm

May         

Speaker: Dr Patrizia Stoitzner, Innsbruck, Austria
Host: Dr Adrien Kissenpfennig
Topic: Skin DCs and cancer immunotherapy
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 1pm

8th & 9th June (Download Flyer)   

2009 Symposium entitled “Inflammation, from cell to clinic”.

26th June - Student Prize - Sponsored by Randox     

Speaker: Dr Heiko Herwald, Lund University, Sweden.
Host: Dr Karim Dib
Topic: to be confirmed
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 1pm

Thursday, 15th October 2009

Speaker: Dr. Steven Verhaegen, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Norway
Host: Dr Lisa Connolly
Topic: Different Cell Models in Reproductive Physiology and Toxicology From CNS to the Periphery
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 1pm

Friday, 13th November 2009 (Download Flyer)
Isla Halliday Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Frederic Geissmann, King’s College London
Host: Dr Adrien Kissenpfennig
Topic: Development and Functions of the Mononuclear Phagocyte System
Venue: Seminar room, CCRCB, Queen’s University Belfast
Time: 1pm

Friday, 27th November 2009 (Download Flyer)

Speaker: Dr Ronan O’Cualain, University of Manchester
Host: Dr Emeir McSorley
Topic: Combining sub-cellular extraction and isoelectric fractionation enables identification of low-abundance proteins from the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum
Venue: LT13, University of Ulster
Time: 11.15am

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Programme Arrangements for 2010

January 2010

Speaker: to be confirmed
Host: Dr Adrien Kissenpfennig
Venue: CCRCB seminar room, Queen’s University Belfast
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

Friday, 26th February 2010

Speaker: Dr Colin Bingle, University of Sheffield
Host: Dr Cliff Taggart
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

March/April 2010

Speaker: Dr Nancy Hogg, London Cancer Research UK
Host: Dr Karim Dib
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

May 2010

Speaker: Dr Marcus Mall, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Host: Dr Cliff Taggart
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

June 2010

Speaker: Prof James Stewart, University of Liverpool
Host: Dr Ultan Power
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

July 2010

Speaker: Prof David Lomas, University of Cambridge
Host: Prof Cliff Taggart
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

August 2010

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kavanagh, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
Host: Dr Lisa Connolly
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed

September 2010
Joint ISI/UIG September 2010 meeting
Speaker: Prof Arturo Zychlinsky, Max-Planck Institut fur Infecktionsbiologie, Berlin, Germany
Host: Dr Karim Dib
Venue: to be confirmed
Title: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed