Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus


2023-12-11 14:30: Regulation of natural killer cell activity in solid tumours (Andreas Lundqvist, Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet Sweden)

2024-01-12 13:00: Neuroimmune signalling at and across brain borders regulating neuronal fate (Dr Soyon Hong, Programme lead - UK Dementia Research Institute, University College London)

2024-01-19 13:00: ILC2 regulation of tissue-localised immunity... and beyond (Dr. Andrew McKenzie, Head of Division & Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2024-02-16 13:00: Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia and inflammation (Professor Sonia Rocha, Executive Dean of the Institute of Systems Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2024-03-08 13:00: Empowering T Cell Therapy through Stemness and Mitochondria (Luca Gattinoni, Division of Functional Immune Cell Modulation, Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy (LIT), Regensburg, Germany)

2024-03-22 13:00: Maximising the impact of CAR T cell therapy for acute leukaemia (Sara Ghorashian, Honorary Associate Professor, University College London)

2024-04-12 13:00: Transposon escape points to function in somatic cells? (Professor Geoff Faulkner, Professorial Research Fellow at Mater Research and Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), University of Queensland, Australia)

2024-05-10 13:00: The kinetic-segregation model of immune receptor signalling. (Professor Simon Davis, MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford)

2024-05-24 13:00: STING and inflammatory disease: insights from monogenic conditions (Dr Karen Mackenzie, MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)

2024-06-18 14:00: “The Spliceosome in Health and Disease”  (Daniel R. Larson, Ph.D., Head of Systems Biology of Gene Expression, Co-Chair Trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies Program, NCI Centre for Cancer Research )

2024-06-21 13:00: Genetics and Environment Induce Loss of FoxP3+ Regulatory T cell Function in Autoimmunity (David A. Hafler, M.D. Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Immunobiology, Chairman, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine)

2024-07-03 11:00: Human Immune organoids for investigating interactions and mechanisms in autoimmunity, vaccination and infection (Mark Davis, Professor, Stanford University)

2024-07-12 13:00: Stromal/Immune crosstalk to control lymphoid tissue structure and function (Sophie Acton, LMCB Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Senior Research Fellow, MRC-UCL)

2024-07-19 13:00: “Scientific publishing at JEM: What, How and Why” (Dr. Gaia Trincucci, Deputy Editor at Journal of Experimental Medicine, Rockefeller University Press)

2024-10-03 16:00: Placental macrophages and how they fight Listeria monocytogenes infection. (Dr Naomi McGovern, Department of Pathology & Centre for Trophoblast Research, Cambridge)

2024-10-10 16:00:  "Molecular methods to identify zoonotic coronaviruses" ( Dr Suzannah Rihn, ERC Senior Research Fellow, CITIID)

2024-10-17 16:00: Failure to recruit lymph node resident cDC1 results in poorly functional anti-tumour CD8 T cell responses (Dr Ed Roberts, CRUK Scotland Institute (formerly the CRUK Beatson Institute), University of Glasgow)

2024-10-18 13:00: Carbonyl adducts of nucleobases are new antigens stimulating T cells (Prof. Dr. Gennaro De Libero, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel)

2024-10-31 16:00: 'Enhancing T cell immunity to cancer metastasis.' (Dr Jie Yang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pathology)

2024-11-07 16:00: 'Fuelling Cancer: Exploring the Role of Metabolism in Tumorigenesis.' (Dr Guadalupe Sabio, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid)

2024-11-14 16:00: ZAPing viral RNAs: Targeted RNA degradation as an antiviral defence system (Dr Chad Swanson,Reader in Viral RNA Biology, Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King College London)

2024-11-21 16:00: “Memory output from the Germinal Centre. A second level of selection?” (Prof Kai-Michael Toellner, Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2024-12-05 16:00: ‘Immunological memory of ILC2s’ (Itziar Martinez Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

2024-12-12 16:00: 'An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis' (Jan Rehwinkel, Professor of Innate Immunology, University of Oxford)

2025-01-16 16:00: “Host Determinants of Cancer Immunity. Killing cancer with a gut instinct.” (Dr. Evangelos Giampazolias, CRUK Manchester Institute)

2025-01-30 16:00: Pattern Recognition Receptor signalling in infection and sterile inflammation (Clare Bryant, Professor of Innate Immunity, Cambridge)

2025-02-06 16:00: “Innate immune sensing of viral nucleic acids" (Dr. Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology)

2025-02-13 16:00: Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease. (Prof. Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium)

2025-02-20 16:00: “Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, pleomorphic tumour necrosis, and metastasis” (Jose M. Adrover, Francis Crick Institute)

2025-02-27 16:00: “The multifaceted roles of gamma delta T cell subsets in colon cancer”  (Seth B. Coffelt, Ph.D, Professor of Cancer Immunology, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow)

2025-03-06 16:00: “Primitive steroidogenesis in mast cells: A novel regulatory mechanism for mast cell function” (Dr Bidesh Mahata, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

2025-03-20 16:00: ‘Humoral immunity in the lung of influenza infected mice’ (Tal Arnon, Professor of Cellular Immunology, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford)

2025-03-27 16:00: 'Targeting CD4+ T Cells to Enhance Tumour Immunity' (Professor Awen Gallimore, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University)

2025-04-03 16:00: Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - TBC (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-04-10 13:00: 'Dendritic cells control the formation, maintenance, and function of tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer.'  Raphael Mattiuz, Mount Sinai (Raphael Mattiuz, Post-doctoral Fellow in Immunobiology, Mount Sinai)

2025-04-17 16:00: Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - NO TALK (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-05-08 16:00: “Imaging the Immune System in Tissue Repair” (Professor Paul Kubes, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)

2025-05-15 16:00: 'DRiPs, SLiPs and Retirees,  Oh My!  Generating Peptides for MHC I Immunosurveillance' (Prof. Jonathan W Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID))

2025-05-22 16:00: Immune Escape and Immune Suppression in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (Prof. Vincenzo Bronte, Universita di Verona, Italy)

2025-05-29 16:00: Regulation of human T cell responses by the microenvironment – novel mechanisms underlying T cell cytotoxicity (Prof. Christina Zielinski, Chair of Infection Immunology, Leibniz Institute HKI )

2025-06-12 16:00: “Characterizing and preventing host cell entry of emerging RNA viruses” (Professor Thomas Bowden, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford)

2025-07-03 16:00: ‘Unpicking the biology of healthy human nasal microbiome’ (Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute)

2025-07-10 16:00: Induction, persistence and function of microbiota-specific CD4 T cell memory (Jakob Zimmermann, Department for Biomedical Research, University of Berne)

2025-07-17 16:00: Elucidating T Cell Signalling Dynamics Using Reconstitution and Optogenetics (Dr John James, Warwick Medical School. Warwick Medical School)

2025-07-29 11:00: Systems Vaccinology (Dr. Bali Pulendran, Violetta L. Horton Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Director of the Institute for Immunology, Transplantation and Infection, and the Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology.)

2025-08-01 13:00: Systematic CRISPR-Cas9 Genetic Characterization of Epstein-Barr Virus/Host Interactions (Ben Gewurz, )

2025-09-25 13:00: The impact of cellular senescence within a human inflammatory tissue environment (Professor Arne Akbar, Professor of Immunology Aging, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, University College London)

2025-10-02 15:30: Chronic stress-mediated effects on the immune system: links to mental health (Stacey Kigar, CRUK)

2025-10-16 16:30: Outside the brain: how glial cells orchestrate tissue immunity (Dr Fränze Progatzky, Principal Investigator in Tissue Biology, Kennedy Institute, Oxford)

2025-10-30 16:30: Zombies, ninjas and all things killer cells (Dr Anneliese Speak, Principal Scientist and Group Leader, CITIID, Department of Medicine, Cambridge University)

2025-11-13 16:30: Engineering antibodies for agonism: from Fc to Fab (Prof Mark Cragg, Professor in Experimental Cancer Biology, University of Southampton)

2025-11-20 16:30: Virus‐host interactomics identify pathogen restriction factors and highlight the importance of non-canonical regulatory processes for antiviral immunity (Prof Andreas Pichlmair, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich / DZIF, German Center for Infection Research)

2025-11-27 16:30: “Cryptic RNA splicing in tumors generates new protein isoforms and tumor-specific antigens” (Dr Sebastian Amigorena, Head of the Immunology Department, Immunity and Cancer Unit, Institut Curie, Paris)

2026-01-16 12:30: “Reprogramming the Neutrophil” (Prof Sarah Walmsley, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)

2026-01-22 16:00: Innate immune regulation of lymphatic vessels (Dr Mayuri Gogoi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2026-01-29 16:00: RSV Revisited: Immune responses in the post vaccine era (Prof John Tregoning, Professor of Vaccine Immunology, Imperial College London)

2026-02-05 16:00: Mechanisms of Xist RNA function in X chromosome Inactivation (Professor Neil Brockdorff, Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

2026-02-12 16:00: Harnessing the Tumour Microenvironment to Unlock CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy (Prof James Arnold, Professor and Head of Tumour Immunology Group, King's College London)

2026-02-26 16:00: Monogenic and autoimmune forms of inflammatory bowel disease - an emerging taxonomy (Professor Holm Uhlig, Director of the Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)

2026-03-05 16:00: KnotBody technology creates ion channel blocking antibodies and enables modulation of T cell function by blocking the Kv1.3 channel (John McCafferty, Affiliated Professor, CTO and founder, Maxion Therapeutics, CITIID, Department of Medicine)

2026-03-12 16:00: NK cell receptors: on with the old and in with the new (Professor Salim Khakoo, Professor of Hepatology, Southampton University)

2026-03-19 16:00: *CANCELLED!* [NK cells in host immunity] (Dr Joseph Sun, Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

2026-03-26 16:00: Functional Genomics in the Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Prof Susanne Häußler, Head of Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research)

2026-04-16 16:00: Roser Vento-Tormo, Group leader, Sanger Institute (Roser Vento-Tormo, Group leader, Sanger Institute, Cambridge)

2026-04-23 16:00: Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute (Claudia Ribeiro Almeida, Group Leader, Babraham Institute)

2026-04-30 16:00: Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute (Dr Dinis Calado, Senior Group Leader, Immunity and Cancer Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute)

2026-05-07 16:00: Interferon: Tug of War between Host and Pathogen (Dr Charlotte Odendall, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London)

2026-05-14 16:00: Professor Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University  (Prof Philip Rosenstiel, W3 Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology, Director, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB), Kiel University )

2026-05-21 16:00: Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute (Prof Caetano Reis e Sousa, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute)

2026-05-28 16:00: Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Arturo Zychlinsky, Director of the Department of Cellular Microbiology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology)

2026-06-11 16:00: Studying viruses to understand what makes pandemic viruses special and how innate immunity works (Prof Greg Towers, Professor of Molecular Virology, Centre for Immunobiology and Infection, Queen Mary University of London)

2026-06-18 15:00: Professor James Davies, Professor of Genomics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford (Speaker to be confirmed)

2026-06-25 16:00: Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London (Dr Leticia Monin Aldama, Department of Immunology and Inflammation - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2026-07-02 16:00: Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London (Dr Masahiro Ono, Reader in Immunology, Imperial College London)

2026-07-09 16:00: Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF, USA (Dr Molofsky, Tissue Immunology Research Lab, UCSF)