Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital


2007-11-01 12:00: HSV1 and apolipoprotein E: a dangerous liaison for Alzheimer’s and several diseases of known infectious cause (Prof. Ruth Itzhaki, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester)

2007-11-08 12:00: Why is the coronavirus replication-transcription complex so elaborate? (Prof. Stuart Siddell, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol)

2007-11-22 12:00: HSV1 and apolipoprotein E: a dangerous liaison for Alzheimer’s and several diseases of known infectious cause (Prof. Ruth Itzhaki, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester)

2007-11-29 12:00: Perturbation of growth factor receptor signalling by the hepatitis C virus NS5A protein (Prof. Mark Harris, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds)

2007-12-06 12:00: The Jane Allen Seminar: Equine influenza - antigenic variation and epidemics (Dr Debra Elton, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket)

2008-02-07 12:00: Epstein-Barr virus infection and the pathogenesis of Burkitt’s lymphoma (Prof. Alan Rickinson FRS, Cancer Research UK Institute for Cancer Studies and MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham)

2008-03-06 12:00: Role of nonstructural proteins in rotavirus replication (Dr Oscar Burrone, Molecular Immunology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy)

2008-03-13 12:00: Immune evasion and escape by Hepatitis C: Challenges for Vaccination (Prof Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2008-03-20 12:00: Integrin-mediated foot-and-mouth disease virus cell-entry (Dr Terry Jackson, Division of Microbiology, Institute for Animal Health-Pirbright)

2008-05-08 12:00: Regulation of adaptive and innate immunity by Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (Dr Dimitris Lagos, Cancer Research UK Viral Oncology Group, UCL Cancer Institute, University College London)

2008-05-15 12:00: Comparisons between how influenza A viruses and parainfluenza virus 5 interact with the interferon system: what such studies tell us about the biology of these viruses (Professor Rick Randall, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews)

2008-05-22 12:00: Interactions between virus and cell during the initiation of human cytomegalovirus immediate early gene expression (Professor Chris Preston, MRC Virology Unit, Glasgow)

2008-06-12 12:00: The molecular biology of Noroviruses (Professor Ian Clarke, School of Medicine, University of Southampton)

2008-06-19 12:00: The twists and turns of viral genomic RNA (Professor Andrew Lever, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2008-10-23 12:00: The Jane Allen Seminar: APOBEC Proteins and Intrinsic Resistance to HIV Infection (Dr Kate Bishop, Division of Virology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London)

2008-11-06 12:00: Putting the brakes on anti-viral innate immune signaling (Dr Andrew MacDonald, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)

2008-11-13 12:00: The influenza virus RNA polymerase: interactions with the host cell (Dr Ervin Fodor, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

2008-11-27 12:00: Endogenous retroviruses, evolution and modern civilization (Prof. Massimo Palmarini, Institute of Comparative Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow)

2008-12-04 12:00: SEMINAR CANCELLED***** (Structure and Morphogenesis of Birnaviruses, a weird dsRNA virus family) ***** (Prof. Paco Rodriguez, Depto. de Biología Molecular y Celular, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)

2009-02-26 12:00: Structure and Morphogenesis of Birnaviruses, a weird dsRNA virus family (Prof. Paco Rodriguez, Depto. de Biología Molecular y Celular, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)

2009-03-05 12:00: The importance of viral translation and proteolytic polyprotein processing on hepatitis C virus replication: everything is good in moderation (Dr Chris McCormick, School of Medicine, University of Southampton)

2009-03-12 12:00: Mechanisms of Picornavirus Cell Entry: Towards a Common Theme? (Prof. David Rowlands, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds)

2009-03-19 12:00: Virus genomics: Finding the 'hidden' genes in RNA viruses (Dr Andrew Firth, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork, Ireland)

2009-05-14 12:00: Predicting response to HIV therapy by computational modeling of large clinical datasets (Dr Brendan Larder, HIV Resistance Response Database Initiative, UK)

2009-06-11 12:00: Cell biology of hepatitis C virus replication (Dr Benno Wölk, Department of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Germany)

2009-06-18 12:00: Evasion of host defences by African swine fever virus (Dr Linda Dixon, Division of Microbiology, Institute for Animal Health-Pirbright, UK)

2009-06-25 12:00: Conserved function of host microRNAs in modulating herpesvirus infections (Dr Amy Buck, Division of Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK)

2009-07-02 12:00: Interaction of HIV-1 with DC-SIGN (Dr William A Paxton, Department of Medical Microbiology Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2009-10-08 12:00: “Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Lost in Mistranslation” (Dr. Babak Javid, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA)

2009-10-15 12:00: “Human Cytomegalovirus Chromatin Dynamics” (Dr. Michael Nevels, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)

2009-11-05 12:00: “Swine Flu: the latest influenza surprise” (Prof. Maria Zambon, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, London)

2009-12-03 12:00: Jane Allen Seminar: “Tetherin Antagonism by Virally-encoded Countermeasures” (Dr. Stuart Neil, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London School of Medicine, London)

2010-01-21 12:00: “The Coronavirus Replicase: Structures, Functions and Subunit Interactions” (Prof. John Ziebuhr Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University Belfast, UK)

2010-03-04 12:00: “HPV Vaccines” (Prof. Margaret Stanley Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK)

2010-03-11 12:00: “The Interplay between HCV Infection and Lipid Metabolism” (Prof. John McLauchlan MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Glasgow, UK)

2010-04-22 12:00: Integration of herpesvirus DNA into host chromosomes - where, when and why (Professor Klaus Osterrieder, Free University, Berlin)

2010-04-29 12:00: “Metagenomic study of the viral community from an extreme and isolated Antarctic ecosystem” (Dr. Antonio Alcami, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain)

2010-06-10 12:00: 	“The Innate and Acquired Cell-Mediated Immune Response to 	Human Cytomegalovirus” (Dr. Mark Wills, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK)

2010-07-01 12:00: “Influenza: The Continuing Challenge” (Professor Jeff Taubenberger, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)

2010-10-07 12:00: “Deciphering the transcriptional regulation of dendritic cell  differentiation (Dr Gabrielle Belz, Department of Immunology, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia)

2010-10-14 12:00: Marek's disease virus latency and reactivation: the role of telomeres in integration and mobilization of viral DNA (Professor Klaus Osterrieder, Free University, Berlin)

2010-10-14 12:00: Marek's disease virus latency and reactivation: the role of telomeres in integration and mobilization of viral DNA (Professor Klaus Osterrieder, Institut für Virologie, Berlin, Germany)

2010-10-28 12:00: Xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus - a new pathogenic human retrovirus or a laboratory artefact? (Professor Myra McClure, Imperial College London)

2010-11-25 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Philip Stevenson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

2010-12-02 12:00: The Jane Allen seminar: Synapses, secretion and HIV-1 (Dr Clare Jolly, University College London)

2011-01-27 12:00: Imaging virus-host interactions by electron cryotomography and complementary approaches (Dr Kay Grünewald, Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, Oxford, UK)

2011-02-17 12:00: Non-canonical translation in RNA viruses: some unexpected findings (Dr Andrew Firth  Division of Virology, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-02-24 12:00: Immunity to influenza and future vaccination strategies (Professor Guus Rimmelzwaan Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, NL)

2011-03-10 12:00: HIV and protease inhibitors: It’s all a good Gag (Dr Chris Parry Health Protection Agency, Colindale, UK)

2011-05-26 12:00: “Genome Organisation and Assembly of ssRNA Viruses: Where Geometry Meets Function” (Professor Reidun Twarock University of York, UK)

2011-06-09 12:00: “Polio eradication: current prospects and end-game problems” (Professor Phil Minor NIBSC, UK)

2011-06-16 12:00: “Herpesvirus assembly and egress” (Dr Colin Crump  Division of Virology, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-06-30 12:00: “Viral and host factors required for hepatitis C virus replication and assembly” (Professor Ralf Bartenschlager University of Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-09-15 12:00: “Early steps of HIV replication: What imaging and next generation sequencing are teaching us” (Prof Johnson Mak, Deakin University, Australia)

2011-10-06 12:00: “The human cytomegalovirus transcriptome” (Dr Andrew Davison MRC, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, UK)

2011-10-13 12:00: “Mutual viral host interactions controlling cellular and viral gene expression programs” (Dr Christian Hagemeier Charite, University of Berlin, Germany)

2011-10-27 12:00: "How does vaccinia virus induce hypoxia and spread rapidly?" (Professor Geoff Smith, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-12-01 12:00: “Functional analysis of viral microRNAs” (Dr Finn Grey,  University of Edinburgh, UK)

2012-02-16 12:00: The life cycle of influenza viruses (Dr Jeremy Rossman, School of Biosciences, University of Kent)

2012-02-23 12:00: Mutual viral host interactions controlling cellular and viral gene expression programs (Dr Christian Hagemeier Charite, University of Berlin, Germany)

2012-03-01 12:00: New insights into cell transforming mechanisms of HTLV-1 Tax using mouse models (Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, Bethesda, USA)

2012-05-03 12:00: Activation and evasion of pattern recognition receptor signalling by paramyxoviruses (Dr Steve Goodbourn, St George's Hospital Medical School, London)

2012-06-07 12:00: How does HSV1 exploit endocytosis? (Dr Gillian Elliott, Imperial College, London)

2012-06-21 12:00: Shall we Dance? Choreographing HIV Proviral DNA Synthesis by Single Molecule Spectroscopy (Dr Stuart Le Grice, NCI-Frederick, USA)

2012-06-28 12:00: BAC: open sesame! to CMV biology (Professor Ulrich Koszinowski, Max von Pettenkofer Inst, Munich)

2012-10-11 12:30: Targeting host cell genome integrity pathways: Novel mechanisms of HPV persistence. (Dr Jo Parish, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK )

2012-10-25 12:00: Electron cryomicroscopy of enveloped viruses (Dr Juha Huiskonen, Oxford Particle Imaging Centre, University of Oxford, UK )

2012-11-08 12:00: CANCELLED - Understanding the host range barriers in influenza (Prof. Wendy Barclay, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK )

2012-11-22 12:00: Translational control of RNA virus gene expression (Dr Ian Brierley, Division of Virology, University of Cambridge, UK )

2012-12-14 14:30: Life expectancy and origin (Ada Yonath)

2013-01-17 12:00: A tale of two viruses: HIV-1 and HIV-2 Gag synthesis, trafficking and assembly (Dr Emma Anderson, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK)

2013-01-31 12:00: Through the bottleneck and what we found there, the adventures of whole viral genome sequencing from clinical material (with apologies to Lewis Carroll) (Prof. Judith Breuer, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, UK)

2013-02-14 12:00: Understanding the host range barriers in influenza (Prof. Wendy Barclay, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK)

2013-02-28 12:00: Nuclear control of viral persistence: The Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency paradigm (Dr Patrick Lomonte, Center for Molecular and Cellular Genetics and Physiology, University of Lyon, France)

2013-03-14 12:00: Molecular identification of Bluetongue virus, and recent vaccination successes in northern Europe (Prof. Peter Mertens, Vector-borne Diseases Programme, Pribright Institute, UK)

2013-05-02 12:00: Targeting hepatitis C virus particle release through inhibitors of the p7 proton channel (Dr Stephen Griffin, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds, UK)

2013-05-16 12:00: Structural and functional studies on old and newly emerged bunyaviruses (Prof. Richard Elliott, MRC Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow, UK)

2013-05-30 12:00: Latent HCMV infection - can changes in the latently infected cell be targeted to clear latent infection? (Prof. John Sinclair, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-06-13 12:00: Nuclear control of viral persistence: The Herpes simplex virus type 1 latency paradigm (Dr Patrick Lomonte, Center for Molecular and Cellular Genetics and Physiology, University of Lyon, France)

2013-09-05 15:00: Dengue drug discovery and vaccine development (Professor Pei-Yong Shi, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore)

2013-10-24 12:00: The avian innate immune system and its modulation by viruses (Dr Michael Skinner, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK)

2013-10-31 12:00: Life (and death) after the genome (Dr Mike Allen, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK)

2013-11-14 12:00: Solving the m04 paradox: NK cell activation and immune evasion in murine CMV infection (Dr Lars Dölken, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-11-28 12:00: Antivirals, still many viruses to go (Prof. Johan Neyts, Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Belgium)

2014-01-30 12:00: The Cell Biology of Human Cytomegalovirus: Replication Compartments and the Nucleolus (Dr Blair Strang, St George's, University of London)

2014-02-13 12:00: RNA aptamers as novel tools to study virus biology (Dr Nicola Stonehouse, University of Leeds)

2014-02-27 12:00: Intracellular antibodies: in the wrong place, at the right time (Dr Leo James, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2014-03-13 12:00: Viral and cellular membrane fusion proteins: tracking common origins (Prof. Felix Rey, Institut Pasteur)

2014-04-24 12:00: Capturing the spread and evolution of influenza A (Dr Julia Gog, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK)

2014-05-08 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Steeve Boulant, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Germany)

2014-05-22 12:00: Identification of novel cellular factors regulating Vaccinia virus replication (Dr Pip Beard, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK)

2014-06-05 12:00: Human Papillomavirus Life-Cycle Regulation and Association with Cancer (Dr John Doorbar, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK)

2014-06-19 12:00: Integrated processes of induced cellular migration and immune mediated effects in herpesvirus cell-to-cell transmission (Prof. Peter O'Hare, Imperial College London, UK)

2014-08-21 12:00: The Role of Mucosal Dendritic Cells in Sexual Transmission of HIV (Dr Andrew Harman, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney)

2014-10-02 12:00: Immunotherapy for Human Papillomavirus Infections (Professor Ian Frazer, Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia)

2014-10-23 12:00: Regulation of hepatitis C virus by liver-specific microRNA-122 (Dr Catherine Jopling, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK)

2014-11-06 12:00: RNA virus evolution in vitro and in vivo: Monitoring and predicting evolutionary trajectories (Dr Marco Vignuzzi, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit, Institut Pasteur, France)

2014-11-27 12:00: Structural insights on cell entry of enveloped RNA viruses and the antiviral activities of viperin (Dr Yorgo Modis, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK)

2014-12-04 12:00: HIV and Cell Autonomous Innate Immunity: Going under the radar (Prof. Greg Towers, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, UK)