Pathology Microbiology Seminar Series


2015-10-15 11:00: The membrane proteins Mhp1 and H1 at work (Simone Weyland, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-29 11:00: Meningococcal immune evasion (Christoph Tang, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

2015-11-06 11:00: Remodelling the bacterial flagellar motor and the related T3SS (Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

2015-11-12 11:00: Lipopolysaccharide transport and insertion into the bacterial outer membrane (Changjiang Dong, UEA Medical School, Norwich)

2015-11-26 11:00: Molecular handshakes in plant-pathogen interactions (Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre/Sainsbury Lab, Norwich)

2015-12-10 14:00: Transient misfolding dominates multidomain protein folding (Katie Kemplen, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

2016-03-10 11:00: Cooperation and Conflict in  Bacterial Biofilms (Nuno Oliveira, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2016-03-17 11:00: Persister Cells and a Cure for Chronic Infections (Prof Kim Lewis, Dept. of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA)

2016-05-12 11:00: Chlamydia: unlocking the molecular secrets of a stealth pathogen (Dr Richard Hayward, Inst. of Structural & Molecular Biology, Birkbeck)

2016-05-26 11:00: A second line of defence: Exploring the functionality and hidden roles of gliotoxin bisthiomethylation in Aspergillus fumigatus (Dr Stephen Dolan, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2016-06-09 11:00: Bacterial targeting of small GTPases to manipulate endocytic recycling (Dr Abigail Clements, Imperial College, London)

2016-10-13 11:00: Inhibition of phagocytosis by extracellular pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (Dr Dan Humphreys, Dept. of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield)

2016-10-27 11:00: Molecular and cellular studies of membrane perforation in the arms race between host and pathogen (Prof Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College, London)

2016-11-10 11:00: Developing inhibitors of metallo-beta-lactamases (Dr Phil Hinchliffe, School of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol)

2016-11-24 11:00: Bacterial protein translocation systems for the export of folded proteins (Prof Tracy Palmer, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee)

2017-03-02 11:00: Structure of the hexagonal surface layer on Caulobacter crescentus cells (Jan Löwe, MRC LMB)

2017-04-27 11:00: Allosteric inhibition of enzymes involved in aminoglycoside antibiotic resistance (Dr Elise Kaplan, Department of Pathology, Cambridge)

2017-05-11 11:00: Salmonella forms intracellular persisters with TacT (Dr Sophie Helaine, Imperial College London)

2017-06-08 11:00: Bacterial warfare: the Type VI secretion system of Serratia marcescens (Dr Sarah Coulthurst, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee)

2017-10-19 11:00: A new proposal for the mechanism of protein translocation (Prof Ian Collinson, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol)

2018-02-22 11:00: Cryo-EM structures of two Chaperone-Usher Pili Reveal the Molecular Basis of Rod Uncoiling (Dr Manuela Hospenthal, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck)

2018-03-22 11:00: Breaking up is hard to do: how a dynamic protein nanomachine drives bacterial cell division (Dr Seamus Holden, Newcastle University)

2018-04-05 11:00: Trace nutrient metals in bacterial physiology and pathogenesis (Dr Karrera Djoko, Durham University)

2018-04-26 11:00: The type VI secretion system: a bacterial killing machine and an inspiration for new drug targets (Prof Alain Filloux, Imperial College London)

2018-05-03 11:00: Flux-sensing by kinase/transporter pairs – need-based activation of antibiotic resistance (Dr Susanne Gebhard, University of Bath)

2019-06-13 11:00: Cellular structural biology of Gram-negative bacteria: atoms to cells (Dr Tanmay Bharat, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

2021-02-11 11:00: RNA structuromics: In vitro, in vivo and in silico  (Franz Narberhaus (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany))