Seminars - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Below seminars are held in the Doherty Auditorium, Ground Floor.
Update March 2022: Department seminars will be delivered in a hybrid format.

Research Seminars - Held on Thursdays 12.00pm – 1.00pm.

Special Research Seminars - In addition to the usual Thursday Research Seminars, there may be occasional Special Research Seminars which could be held at different times.

PhD Completion Orations - Held on Fridays from 3.00pm – 4.00pm.

Doherty Institute Immunology Theme: Data Presentation Series - Fortnightly on Mondays 12.00pm - 1.00pm generally featuring speakers from across the Institute.

Below seminars are held in the larger Seminar Room GM002, Ground Floor Mezzanine

Currently on hold
Work in Progress Seminar Series - generally held every third Thursday of each month at 4pm

Currently on hold
Respiratory Research Seminars - generally held every third Monday of each month at 11am

Seminar attendees are welcome to refreshments after every each seminar.

Enquiries: micro-admin@unimelb.edu.au

2022 DEPARTMENT RESEARCH SEMINAR SCHEDULE

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST
24 March	Dr Belinda Hall University of Surrey, UK	How the exotoxin mycolactonedrives Buruli ulcer pathology Zoom ID: 861 5591 0502	Prof Tim Stinear
Wednesday 30 March, 12pm	Dr Jason Kelly Fiona Elsey Cancer Center, Ballarat	The functional potential of MAIT cells in human colorectal cancer. In-person only, L5 Seminar Room	Dr Hamish McWilliam
31 March	A/Prof Kaylene Simpson Peter Mac	Using multi-OMIC approaches to drive target discovery Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Nick Scott
28 April	Dr Michelle Wille University of Sydney	Towards an understanding of the ecology of viruses in wild birds Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Danielle Ingle
Monday 9 May, 3:30pm	Genoveffa Franchini, M.D.	HIV vaccine candidate efficacy augmented by the zinc finger inhibitor SAMT-247 via NK cytotoxicity, monocytes efferocytosis and decreased T-cell activation Zoom ID: 863 8329 9492	Prof Damian Purcell
12 May	Dr Karl Hassan University of Newcastle	A decade of research into Acinetobacter efflux pumps Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Nick Scott
19 May	Justin S. A. Perry, Ph.D. M.A. (Weill Cornell Medical Center (USA)	Novel adaptations supports homeostatic apoptotic cell clearance by macrophages in limited-oxygen environments Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Presented by POSSIIM
26 May	Dr Cyril Seillet WEHI	Neural control of non-canonical function of innate immune cells Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Prof Scott Mueller
2 June	Susan Johnson, PhD Vaxart, Inc. (USA)	Drop the needle: Oral tablet vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Prof Stephen Kent
9 June 5pm	Prof Christopher Jewell University of Maryland (USA)	Miegunyah Fellowship Lecture Biomaterials as tools to study and control immune function Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Prof Andrew Brooks
30 June	Professor Helene Andrews-Polymenis College of Medicine Faculty Texas A&M University (USA)	Identification of genetic factors underlying the host response to bacterial infection. Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	A/Prof Hayley Newton
7 July	Dr Tamar Kleinberger - Institute of Technololgy, Haifa, Israel	Virus – host cell interactions and cancer cell death: The adenovirus E4orf4 story Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Prof Damian Purcell
14 July	Dr Ryan Thwaites, National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London	Mucosal inflammatory and antibody responses associated with protection and disease after human SARS-CoV-2 challenge Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Brendan Chua
18 July	Dr Max Evrard, McKenzie Post-Doctoral Fellow, Peter Doherty Institute	Resolving circulating and tissue-resident memory T cells using high-dimensional protein screens Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Yannick Alesandre
11 August	Dr Adele Lehane, Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Biology, Australian National University (ANU)	Membrane transport proteins in the malaria parasite - new drug targets and resistance determinants Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Ash Haque
18 August, 1.00pm	Dr Bart A. Eijkelkamp Molecular Sciences and Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA	"The battle for nutrients at the host-pathogen interface: They are what you eat” Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Stephanie Neville
25 August, 1.00pm	A/Prof Maria Kaparakis-Liaskos is Head of the Host-Pathogen Interactions laboratory in the Department of Microbiology at La Trobe University, and Deputy Director of the La Trobe Research Centre for Extracellular Vesicles	"Immune modulation by Helicobacter pylori and the biological functions of bacterial membrane vesicles" Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Aimee Tan
15 September	Dr Danny Wilson, Laboratory Head – Malaria Biology Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide	"The essential cytosolically exposed rhoptry leaflet interacting proteins of malaria merozoites and their role in RBC entry" Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Lynette Beattie
29 September	Dr Sebastian Duchene Australian Research Council fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Melbourne	"Moleculat clocks and quantifying statistical evidence in evolutionary analyses" Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Dr Danielle Ingle
6 October	Professor Sammy Bedoui, MD Director of Research, School of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences	"DC-T cell interactions: microbiota, metabolism and memory" Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571
13 October	Dr Carolien van de Sandt ARC-DECRA Senior Research Fellow	"Virus-specific CD8+ T cells across the human lifespan: a suboptimal reset for the elderly" Zoom ID: 857 7231 4373 Passcode: 371571	Prof Katherine Kedzierska
19 October (Wednesday)	Dr Sandrine Henri Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy	"Myeloid Cell Heterogeneity in Murine Tissue in Health and Disease” Zoom ID: 870 4042 1074 Passcode: 327117	Prof Jose Villadangos

2022 PhD COMPLETION ORATION SCHEDULE

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE	HOST
11 February	Damien Phan	RNA Stability in alphavirus infected cells Zoom ID 828 0122 4201	Fazakerley Lab
25 February		Not available
4 March	Stefano Giulieri	Exploiting bacterial adaptation analyses to improve clinical management of Staphylococcus aureus infections In person attendance: Doherty Auditorium or Zoom ID: 872 0892 6615. Password: 165742	Howden/Stinear Labs
11 March	Tina Meischel	Understanding the early events in influenza A virus infection of human airway macrophages compared to epithelial cells Zoom ID: 97 1674 8507 Password: 899504	Londrigan/Reading Labs
18 March	Sarah Sandford	Formation and maintenance of immune memory after viral infection in the intestines Zoom ID: 810 5080 1027 Password: 361519	Mueller Lab
1 April		Not available
15 April		Not available (Good Friday)
29 April	Christina Scheffler	Characterization and prevention of stunning, a cytotoxic T lymphocyte inactivating program that impairs adoptive T cell therapy against cancer Zoom ID: 840 1296 9788 Password: 989968	Villadangos Lab
6 May	Yianni Droungas	Evaluating chimeric HBeAg-epitope HBV virus-like particles for their ability to generate therapeutic anti-HBV responses Zoom ID: 846 2137 8685 Password: 234731	Revill/Netter Labs
13 May	Katherine Gourley	Interleukin-1 is Unique In Its Ability to Modulate PD-L1 and PD-L2 Expression By CD1a+ Mo-DCs Zoom ID: 846 1977 9851 Password: 615595	Godfrey Lab
20 May	Marina Zupan	The molecular basis for zinc import in Streptococcus pneumoniae via the solute-binding protein AdcAII Zoom ID: 813 7882 6985 Password: 281755	McDevitt Lab
27 May		Not available
3 June		Not available
10 June	Alice Trenerry	Lipid metabolism and immune regulation during flavivirus infection Zoom ID:860 6837 0427 Password: 899127	Mackenzie Lab
17 June	Courtney Lane	Implementation of Genomic Epidemiological Methods to Inform Routine Public Health Practice in Australia Zoom ID: 850 0281 9616 Password: 599552	Howden Lab
1 July		Not available
22 July		Not available (IgV seminar)
29 July	Sam Davis	Antibody Fc effector functions & plasma IgA in viral pandemics (COVID edition) Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Chung Lab
5 August		Not available
19 August	Ebene Haycroft	Into the variant-verse: Functional antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Chung/Kent Labs
26 August	Ashley Hirons	Chronic immune activation and T-cell dysfunction mediated from the HTLV-1c provirus graveyard Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Purcell Lab
2 September	Thiago Maass Steiner	Requirements for efficient humoral immunity to DC-targeted Ag Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Heath Lab
9 September	Yu Cheng Chua	Generating CD8⁺ liver-resident memory T cell immunity against malaria Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Heath Lab
23 September		Not available (GF Holiday)
7 October	Calvin Xu	The Development and Homeostasis of Unconventional T cells Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Godfrey Lab
14 October		Not available (MRFF COVID Immunity meeting)
21 October	Cheryll Sia	tba	Williamson Lab
28 October	Sven Engel	tba	Bedoui Lab
4 November	Yi Nong	tba	Williamson Lab
11 November	M. Z. Mitchell Zheng	tba	Wakim Lab
18 November		Not available (Symposium with Peter Mac)
25 November	Ariane Renita Lee	tba	Bedoui Lab
2 December		Not available (ASI)
9 December	Isaac Barber-Axthelm	Monkeys and Tattoos: gd T-cell immunotherapies and lymph node immune responses to vaccines Zoom ID: 858 6695 9190 Password: 381008	Kent Lab
14 December (Wednesday)	Freya Maria Kretzmer	tba	Gebhardt Lab
16 December		Not available

2022 DOHERTY INSTITUTE IMMUNOLOGY THEME - DATA PRESENTATION SERIES

DATE	SPEAKERS	Zoom
11 April	Catarina Almeida – Godfrey Lab “The antigenic landscape of Type 2 NKT cells: Lipids and beyond…” Laura Cook – Villadangos lab “Induction of stable human FOXP3+ Tregs by a parasite-derived TGF-β mimic” Chair: Zhenjun Chen – McCluskey lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
9 May	Phoebe Dewar – McCluskey Lab “The role of MAIT cells in Plasmodium infection” Samantha Davis – Chung lab “Heterologous SARS-CoV-2 IgA neutralising antibody responses in convalescent plasma” Chair: Isaac Barber-Axthelm – Kent lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
23 May	Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz – Heath Lab “Harnessing liver-resident T cell immunity for protection against malaria” Maximilien Evrard – Mackay lab “S1PR5 regulates the peripheral retention of tissue-resident lymphocytes” Chair: Annabell Bachem - Bedoui lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
6 June	Jieru Deng – Villadangos Lab “Discovery MHC-Class-I-related protein (MR1) expression in vivo” Sven Engel – Bedoui lab “The flexible network of programmed cell death pathways during intracellular infection” Chair: Raissa Fonseca - Mackay lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
20 June	Oanh Nguyen – Kedzierska Lab “Robust SARS-CoV-2 T cell immunity towards COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in haematology patients in the presence and absence of B cells” Chris Chiu – Lewin lab “Analytical strategies for single cell RNAseq of rare tetramer positive cells in people living with HIV following anti-PD1 therapy” Chair: Garth Cameron - Godfrey lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
4 July	Alex Sedgwick – Barrow Lab “Defining the role of the NKp44-PDGF-D pathway in NK cell cytotoxicity” Rosanna Hare – Brooks lab “Investigating the importance of TIGIT nanoscale organisation in NK cell signalling” Chair: May Pongvattanapor - Corbett Lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
18 July	Wuji Zhang – Kedzierska Lab "Robust and prototypical immune responses towards COVID-19 BNT162b2 vaccine in Indigenous people" Lewis Newland – Gebhardt Lab "Dissecting mechanisms of immune-mediated control of melanoma’’ Chair: Hamish McWilliam - Villadangos Lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
1 August (starting at 12pm)	Maleika Osman – Mackay Lab "Differential role of CD4+ T cells in programming tissue-resident versus circulating memory CD8+ T cells’" Timothy Patton – McCluskey Lab "RIPK3 deficiency in mice leads to an accumulation of MAIT cells at steady state’’ Chair: Josh Lee - Haque Lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
15 August	Saba Asad – HaqueLab "Mapping B cell differentiation during Blood- stage Infection and treatment" Nick Gherardin – Godfrey Lab "Generation of nanobodies to modulate MAIT cell function’’ Chair: Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz - Heath Lab	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
29 August	Carlson Tsui – Kallies Lab "MYB orchestrates T cell exhaustion and response to checkpoint inhibition" Garth Cameron – Godfrey Lab "Glycolipids from the gut symbiont Bacteroides fragilis are agonists for NKT cells and induce their regulatory differentiation’’ Chair: Sapna Devi (Mueller lab)	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
12 September	Ariane Lee – Bedoui Lab "The microbiota-dependent metabolite butyrate induces enhanced cytotoxicity of CD4+ T cells" Kirsty Field – Kent Lab "Anatomical distribution of human γδ T cell subsets’’ Chair: Michael Souter (McCluskey lab)	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
26 September	Helena Horvatic - Kallies lab "Impact of obesity on memory CD8 T cell responses to reinfection” Emma Bawden - Gebhardt lab "CD4+ T cell immunosurveillance in cutaneous melanoma’’ Chair: Jennifer Habel (Kedzierska lab)	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385
10 October	Meghanashree Malavvar Shreenivas - Strugnell lab (supervised by Nancy Wang) "B cells are essential for CD4⁺ T cell memory response during intracellular bacterial infections" Songyi Li - McCluskey lab (supervised by Zhenjun Chen & Michael Souter) "Insight into MR1T cell TCR recognition specificity with MR1/Ag couples’’ Chair: Emma Bawden (Gebhardt lab)	ID: 835 3261 8073 Passcode: 964385

WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES

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RESPIRATORY RESEARCH SEMINARS

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04 Oct 2022