Seminars - Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Below seminars are held in the Doherty Auditorium, Ground Floor.
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 Friday afternoons from 3.30pm – 4.30pm.
Doherty Institute Immunology Theme: Data Presentation Series - Fortnightly on Mondays 1.00pm generally featuring speakers from across the Institute.
Below seminars are held in the larger Seminar Room GM002, Ground Floor Mezzanine
Work in Progress Seminar Series - generally held every third Thursday of each month at 4pm
Respiratory Research Seminars - generally held every third Monday of each month at 11am
Seminar attendees are welcome to refreshments after every each seminar.
DEPARTMENT RESEARCH SEMINAR SCHEDULE
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 June, 12pm (Tuesday) | Dr Amabel Tan RIC, University of Melbourne | Identifying and navigating grant funding opportunities through the Medical Research Futures Fund (MRRF) | Dr Brendon Chua |
| 6 June | A/Prof Wai-Hong Tham Walter & Eliza Hill Institute | Malaria Parasite Invasion: versatile structural scaffolds and alternate erythrocyte receptors | Dr Amy Chung |
| 17 June, 12pm (Monday) | Dr Denisse Leyton Australian National University | Molecular basis for the folding of β-helical autotransporter passenger domains | Dr Hayley Newton |
| 20 June | A/Prof Thomas Gebhardt | Tissue-resident memory T cells in persisting infection and cancer surveillance | Dr Alexandra Corbett |
| 27 June | A/Prof Charles Scanga | Modeling TB in Nonhuman Primates- New Paradigms | A/Prof Shelby O'Connor |
| 18 July | A/Prof Victoria Lawson DMI, University of Melbourne | Strain variation in medically relevant prion disease | Dr Alexandra Corbett |
| 25 July, 1pm | Prof Antoine Roquilly University of Nantes, France | Acute inflammation induces susceptibility to infection by initiating a protracted paralysis program of alveolar macrophages | Prof Jose Villadangos |
| 1 August | Prof Bana Jabri University of Chicago, USA | Tissue resident T cells in health and disease | A/Prof Laura Mackay |
| 21 August (Wednesday) | A/Prof Michael Gerner University of Washington, Seattle USA | Innate-adaptive immune cell crosstalk in the context of lymphoid tissue organization | A/Prof Scott Mueller |
| 19 September | Dr Daniel Utzschneider DMI, University of Melbourne | Precursor exhausted T cells (TPEX) maintain T cell responses in chronic infections and cancer | Dr Alexandra Corbett |
| 30 September, 10am (Monday) | Prof Percy Knolle Technical University Munich, Germany | Metabolic activation of CD8 T cell causing liver auto-agression during non-alcoholic steatohepatitis | A/Prof Thomas Gebhardt |
| 30 September, 12pm (Monday) | Matteo Iannacone, MD, PhD San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy | In vivo imaging of antiviral immune responses | A/Prof Scott Mueller |
| 17 October | Dr Tobias Bald QIMR Berghofer | tbc | A/Prof Thomas Gebhardt |
| 21 November | Prof Lorena Brown DMI, University of Melbourne | tbc | tbc |
| 5 December | Ronald Germain, M.D., Ph.D. NIH, USA | tbc | tbc |
PhD COMPLETION ORATION SCHEDULE
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | HOST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July | date not available STI | ||
| 12 July | no seminar scheduled | ||
| 19 July | Michael Souter | Identification and characterisation of unconventional T cells | Godfrey/ McCluskey labs |
| 26 July | date available | ||
| 2 August | date available | ||
| 9 August | date not available SPASIM Retreat | ||
| 23 August | Miku Kuba | Life in the recycling bin: understanding intracellular replication of Coxiella burnetii | Newton lab |
| 30 August | date available | Bedoui lab | |
| 6 September | Pengfei Li | Charactering virulent factors of L. pneumophila A. castellanii infection | Hartland lab |
| 13 September | Yi Liu | Understanding influenza B humoral immunity to improve vaccine design | Kent lab |
| 20 September | date available | ||
| 27 September | date not available AFL Grand Final Day | ||
| 4 October | Catriona Nguyen-Robertson | tbc | Godfrey lab |
| 11 October | Ana Maria Valencia | tbc | Heath lab |
| 18 October | Thao Huynh | tbc | VIDRL |
| 25 October | Keit Loi | tbc | Mueller lab |
| 31 October (Thursday) | Divya Narayanan | tbc | Fazakerley lab |
| 1 November | Elise Gressier | tbc | Bedoui lab |
| 8 November | Yogeswari Chandran | tbc | Hartland lab |
| 15 November | Fernando Villalon-Letelier | tbc | Brooks/ Reading labs |
| 22 November | date avilable | ||
| 28 November (Thursday) | Natalia Salazar-Quiroz | tbc | Purcell lab |
| 29 November | date not available World Aids Day | ||
| 6 December | date available | ||
| 9 December (Monday) | Zuwena Richardson | tbc | Lewin/Cameron Labs |
| 12 December (Thursday) | Julio Carrera | tbc | Mackenzie/Simmons Labs |
| 13 December | Bhavna Padmanabhan | tbc | Newton lab |
DOHERTY INSTITUTE IMMUNOLOGY THEME - DATA PRESENTATION SERIES
| DATE | CHAIR | SPEAKERS |
|---|---|---|
| 24 June | Nancy Wang (Strugnell lab) | Maria Nogueira de Menezes (Heath lab), Timon Damelang (Chung lab), Tina Meischel (Brooks lab) |
| 8 July | Sanda Stankovic (Reading lab) | CANCELLED Hannah Kelly (Kent lab), Jimmy Chan (Godfrey lab), Santiago Valle Torres (Kallies lab) |
| 22 July | Mitra Ashayeri-Panah (Villadangos lab) | Hannah Kelly (Kent lab), Catherine Kennedy (F. Mackay lab), Santiago Valle Torres (Kallies lab) |
| 5 August 2pm start | Zhe Zhao (McCluskey lab) | Will Horman (Kedzierska lab), Rohan Hitchcock (Heath lab), Rebecca Chisholm (MSPGH) |
| 19 August 2pm start | Nazanin Ghazanfari (Heath lab) | Jason Trubiano (Austin Hospital), Jen Juno (Kent lab), Srinath Govindarajan (Godfrey lab) |
| 2 September 2pm start | Wen Shi Lee (Kent lab) | Annabell Bachem (Bedoui lab), Alex Boussioutas (Associate Dean Graduate Research), Yannick Alexandre (Mueller lab) |
| 16 September 2pm start | Maximilien Evrard (L. Mackay) | Patrick Gubser (Kallies lab), Romain Guerillot (Howden lab), Hamish McWilliam (Villadangos lab), Abdou Hachani (Mackenzie lab), Christina Scheffler (Villadangos) |
WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR SERIES
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 13 August | Dr Lauren Holz | Glycolipid-peptide vaccination induces liver-resident memory CD8+ T cells that protect against malaria |
| 17 September | Dr Jori Symons | Triplex forming oligonucleotides: a potential way to permanently silence HIV transcription |
RESPIRATORY RESEARCH SEMINARS
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| 26 August | Prof Steven Riley Imperial College London, UK | A life course of influenza infections and antibody repsonses |
| 23 September | Benjamin Smith, Tong lab Milla McLean, Chung lab | Identifying patients with influenza - can we do better? An Inflammatory Story - Antibodies in Tuberculosis and Kidney Disease |