Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine


2007-02-16 08:45: CTL regognition of maedi visna virus antigens (Dr Barbara Blacklaws)

2007-02-23 08:45: Development of ex vivo model of pig trachea for swine influenza dynamics . (Filipe Nunes)

2007-02-23 08:45: Results of portovenography are related to outcome in dogs receiving surgical treatment for single congenital portosystemic shunts’ (Karla Lee)

2007-03-02 08:45: Unexpected dynamics of resistance to helicase primase herpesvirus antivirals (Dr Hugh Field)

2007-03-02 08:45: "Polyneuropathy in Leonberger dogs: An emerging pan-European polyneuropathy" (Nicolas Granger)

2007-03-09 08:45: Zebrafish Myelination - A Transparent Model for Remyelination? (Clare Buckley)

2007-03-09 08:45:  A biomechanical evaluation of pullout strength of three suture patterns for canine trachea anastamosis" (Jackie Demetriou)

2008-04-04 13:00: "New insight into the secretion and function of Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin" (Dr Peggy Cotter, Associate Professor, MCDB, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara)

2008-04-07 13:00: Bordetella autotransporters: virulence factors, vaccine candidates and models for unraveling type V secretion mechanisms (Dr Rachel Fernandez, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

2008-09-17 16:30: Avian influenza in China: Epidemiology, Control Strategies and Problems (Xiufan Liu, Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine,)

2008-10-14 12:30: Evolution of viral host ranges through alterations of receptor binding - canine and feline parvovirus capsid interactions with host transferrin receptors and antibodies. (Colin R. Parrish, Professor of Virology, Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

2011-05-31 16:45: Trade-offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save (Nigel Leader-Williams, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-16 15:30: Combating TB:  the challenges aheads (Professor Seyed E Hasnain, Professor of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology and Emertius Vice C)

2012-06-11 16:30: The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments (Andrew Knight, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics)

2012-09-12 16:30: Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC): hidden genetic diversity in an economical important poultry pathogen (Professor Lothar Wieler, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität, Berlin)

2013-01-21 16:30: Why Animals Matter (Marian Stamp Dawkins, University of Oxford)

2013-03-11 11:00: Area Coordinated Disease Control:  Tools, methods and collaborations targeting PRRS in the US  (Dr Dale Polson, Boehringer-Ingelheim Vetmedica )

2013-12-04 16:15: Bovine TB: A Black and White Issue? (Prof Glyn Hewinson, Chief Scientist Animal Health & Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA))

2014-01-29 16:15: Understanding and manipulating CNS remyelination - in mouse, man and zebrafish. (Dr Anna Williams, University of Edinburgh, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research)

2014-02-12 16:15: Sensors and systems for animal monitoring and welfare assessment (Malcolm Mitchell, SRUC, the Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, UK)

2014-02-26 16:15: Preclinical and Clinical Animal Models in Translational Orthopaedic Research (Matthew J. Allen, Vet. M.B., Ph.D.Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH )

2014-03-05 16:15: Digital Pathology: Why bother? (Will Howat, Cancer Research UK)

2014-03-12 16:15: Just how do the poor chickens survive all those pathogens? (Professor Jim Kaufman)

2014-04-30 16:15: Lessons in innate immunity taught by a virus (Dr Brian Ferguson, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-07 16:15: Cellular self-defense: how cell-autonomous immunity protects against pathogens (Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2014-05-21 16:15: Working internationally and locally; rolling out the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy, one step at a time  (Keith Sumption, Executive Secretary, European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) Animal Health Service, Food-and-Agriculture Organization of the United Nations )

2014-06-04 16:15: Molecular subclasses in canine osteosarcoma and mammary cancer (Geoffrey Wood, Associate Professor, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada)

2014-06-18 16:15: Regulators of inflammatory responses (Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti,  St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA)

2014-10-01 16:15: One Health and the future of the Veterinary Profession (Professor Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2014-10-08 16:15: Evolving technologies for liver targeted gene and cell therapies. (Professor Ian Alexander, Professor in Paediatrics & Molecular Medicine, Disciplines of Paediatrics and Child Health and Genetic Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, )

2014-10-22 16:15: Ebola Wave Spread and Gorilla Vaccination (Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-29 16:15: Vets and Animal Research - 5 short talks (Dr Bella Williams, Head of Engagement, Understanding Animal Research)

2014-11-05 16:15: Re-building the diseased retina with stem cells (Dr Rachael Pearson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology)

2014-11-12 16:15: Understanding Mechanisms of Sterile Inflammation (Dr David Brough, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

2014-11-19 16:15: Fowling things up for avian flu - transgenic intervention as an approach to combatting influenza infection in livestock. (Dr Laurence Tiley, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-26 16:15: Evidence-based Veterinary medicine – so what? (Nick Royle, Executive Director of RCVS Knowledge,)

2015-01-07 16:15: Hedgehog signalling in Cytotoxic T cell function (Maike de la Roche, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)

2015-01-14 16:15: Neurones calling: neuronal activity regulates oligodendrocyte differentiation in health and disease (Dr Ragnhildur Thora Karadottir, Cambridge Neuroscience, Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2015-01-28 16:15: The political economy of bovine tuberculosis (Richard Bennett, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Director of Research and Enterprise, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading)

2015-02-11 16:15: Finding cancer drivers in mouse, man and dog (Dr David Adams, Experimental Cancer Genetics, Faculty Lead Mouse Genetic Project,  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

2015-02-25 16:15: Nutritional and immunoparasitological insights into the cause of death in a wild ruminant population (Dr Romain Garnier, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA)

2015-03-11 16:15: Generating Evidence from Vetcompass for Practice: Survival of dogs with Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease (David Brodbelt, Senior Lecturer, Companion Animal Epidemiology,  The Royal Veterinary College)

2015-04-29 16:15: The impact of Toxoplasma gondii on host behaviour: can this parasite play a role in some cases of human schizophrenia? (Joanne Webster,  Chair of Parasitic Diseases, Department of Pathology and Pathogen Biology,, Centre for Emerging, Endemic and Exotic Diseases (CEEED), RVC; and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London)

2015-05-13 16:00: Onobrychis viciifolia a natural alternative to ivermectin (Marina Mora Ortiz, The Legume Plus Project, NIAB, Cambridge)

2015-05-27 16:00: Noisy stress responses and their fitness consequences for C. elegans (Olivia Casanueva, Group Leader, Epigenetics ISPG, Babraham Institute)

2015-06-03 16:00: Microbiota-host interplay in the intestine and its impact on health and disease   (Prof Jerry Wells, Chair - Host-Microbe-Interactomics Group University of Wageningen)

2015-06-10 15:00: Ebola: Response, vaccines, survivors and sequencingon (Professor Miles W Carroll, Head of Research & Deputy Director, Public Health England)

2015-06-17 16:00: Of worms, germs and men: a role for the gut microbiota in helminth-induced suppression of inflammation (Dr Cinzia Cantacessi, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2015-08-12 16:00: Ocular Canine Herpesvirus-1 Infections: Recurrent Disease Triggers and Treatments (Dr. Eric Ledbetter, DVM, DACVO, Cornell University)

2015-08-12 18:30: Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Infectious Disease (Dr. Eric Ledbetter, DVM, DACVO, Associate Professor, Ophthalmology, Cornell University)

2015-10-07 16:00: “If only they could talk” – the role of a vet in Parliament (Hannah Jordan, Parliamentary Veterinary Intern)

2015-10-21 13:00: Introducing the High Performance Computing Service: a computing resource for researchers (Jenny Barna,  High performance computing service )

2015-11-11 16:00: Invasive Salmonella infections in animal models and man: castles of cards, roundabouts, vaccines and disease  (Dr Piero Mastroeni, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-25 16:00: What is a Pet? (Dr Philip Howell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2016-01-13 16:00: Bottlenecks, diversity and phase variation during infection; the pneumococcal model. (Professor Marco Oggioni, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester)

2016-02-03 16:00: Parasites on the move.  Travelling pets and parasite control. (Professor Laura Kramer, University of Parma Veterinary School, Parma, Italy)

2016-02-10 16:00: Natural history collections and parasitology - links with veterinary research (Dr Tim Littlewood, Head of Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum)

2016-02-17 16:00: New discoveries about ageing in C. elegans (Prof David Gems, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London)

2016-02-22 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Mariana Varela, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflamation, University of Glasgow.)

2016-02-24 16:00: Functional genomics for schistosomes: approaches to interrogate host-parasite interaction, and schistosomiasis-associated diseases.  (Dr Gabriel Rinaldi, Sanger Institute)

2016-03-02 16:00: People, pathogens and parks: ecosystem health research in Tanzania (Sarah Cleaveland, University of Glasgow)

2016-04-27 16:00: "The meaning of art, life and everything"   An introduction to your resident artist (John Piper, Artist in Residence, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambrdige)

2016-05-04 16:00: 100 years after William Bateson - what can we learn about epistasis by today's statistical machine learning? (Professor Jukka Corander, Bayesian Statistics Group, University of Helsinki)

2016-05-09 16:00: Recombinant adeno-associated virus for therapeutic gene delivery: 30 million years in the making. (Dr Grant Logan, Research Fellow in the Gene Therapy Research Unit at the Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney Australia)

2016-05-11 16:00: Horizontal transfer of mitochodria in cancer. (Professor Jiri Neuzil, Head of Apoptosis Research Group, Griffith University, Australia)

2016-05-25 16:00: Rapid adaptation and the predictability of evolution (Richar Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)

2016-06-01 16:00: Hello From the Other Side:  The Cutting Edge of Skeletal Reconstruction in Human Medicine’ (Dr Will Eward, Orthopaedic Oncology Section, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, NC, USA)

2016-06-08 16:00: Climate Change, Infectious Disease and the Arctic: Are we opening Pandora's box? (Dr Claire Heffernan, Chair in Infectious diseases,  School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol)

2016-06-15 16:00: (Cancelled:) Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC (Professor Linda Wooldridge, Chair in Translational Immunology, University of Bristol)

2016-07-20 13:30: Non-antibiotic Strategies to Prevent and Control Respiratory Bacterial Infections in Swine (Dr Tracy Nicholson, The Swine Respiratory Disease Project of the USDA, USA)

2016-07-22 14:30: Biocompatible Virucidal Materials as Broad Spectrum Antivirals (Dr Samuel Jones,  Postdoctoral Researcher SuNMIL Lab, EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

2016-08-10 16:00: The translation of discovery research with nanostructured bio-minerals: from Cancer to Crohn’s disease’ (Prof Jonathan Powell, Group Leader, Biomineral Research Group, MRC Human Nutrition Research)

2016-10-05 16:00: Debunking the Neandertal myth (Professor William Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-12 16:00: Syntax in C. elegans locomotion (Dr Andre Brown, Group leader,  MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London )

2016-10-19 16:00: Disease dynamics in animal hosts: How natural selection affects disease transmission in insects; and how animal density and climatic factors can influence the prevalence of zoonotic diseases (Dr David Paez, Montana State University)

2016-10-26 16:00: Interpreting variants in the genomic era and utility of IPSC derived retinal cells and optic cups to explore mechanisms of disease and potential therapies for retinal degenerations (Prof Alison Hardcastle,  Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

2016-11-02 16:00: Woofing it down – lessons on the neurobiology of appetite from man’s best friend (Dr Eleanor Raffan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Canine Obesity Group, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge)

2016-11-09 16:00: Cognitive antimicrobial discovery (Dr Max Ryadnov, Science Leader for Biosciences, National Physical Laboratory, UK)

2016-11-16 16:00: A Natural History of Sentience (Dr Liz Paul, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol)

2016-11-23 16:00: Informing immunisation policy for meningitis vaccines in UK and Africa using mathematical models (Dr Caroline Trotter, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-30 16:00: The highs and lows of rotavirus vaccines; why don’t they work as well where they are needed most? (Prof Miren Iturriza-Gomara, Institute of Infection and global health, Univeristy of Liverpool)

2016-12-07 16:00: Large Animal Models For Retinal Gene Therapy (Prof Simon Petersen-Jones, Myers-Dunlap Endowed Chair in Canine Health, Michigan State University)

2017-01-11 16:00: Complement therapeutics on the crossroads between inflammatory and infectious disease (Professor Wilhelm Schwaeble, Professor of Immunology, University of Leicester)

2017-01-18 16:00: Mechanical signalling in stem cells and development (Dr Kevin Chalut, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)

2017-01-25 16:00: Zoonotic leishmaniosis: don’t put the blame on dogs only (Professor Emanuele Brianti, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, University of Messina)

2017-02-01 16:00: Understanding and manipulating the T-cell response to peptide-MHC (Prof Linda Wooldridge, University of Bristol)

2017-02-08 16:00: 'Translational orthopaedics - vet in a medics world' (Dr Fran Henson, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-15 16:00: A Biotechnology Start Up Approach to Developing Medicines for Animal Health (Simon Aspland, General Manager Acidophil Ltd, VP Business Development)

2017-02-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University))

2017-02-22 16:00: Sensitivity to BST-2 restriction correlates with Orthobunyavirus host range. (Dr Mariana Varela, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow)

2017-03-01 16:00: Vector-borne helminths of zoonotic concern in Europe: emerging or neglected? (Professor  Domenico Otranto, Professor of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Bari)

2017-03-08 16:00: Please note: Talk now Cancelled (Dr Jaume Forcada, British Antarctic Survey)

2017-03-15 16:00: It's a dog's life - or is it? The health and welfare of dogs owned by homeless people (Dr David Williams, Associate Lecturer in Veterinary Ophthalmology, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2017-03-22 16:00: IgA-mediated enchained growth mediates protection and modulates bacterial evolution in the intestinal lumen (Dr Emma Slack, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)

2017-05-03 16:00: Molecular dissection approaches to study diseased tissues (Dr Walker Jackson, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE))

2017-05-10 16:00: Can we exploit companion dogs to advance therapies for spinal cord injury? (Dr Nicolas Granger,  Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol)

2017-05-17 16:00: Recent advances in the molecular diagnosis of canine and feline lymphoma (Dr Sabine Hammer (Molecular Geneticist),  and Dr Barbara  Rütgen (Clinical Pathologist) Dept of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna)

2017-05-24 16:00: THERE IS NO TALK  ON WEDNESDAY 24TH May (Cancelled)

2017-05-31 16:00: Compensatory lameness in dogs: kinematic description and inertial sensors detection (Dr Constanza B. Gómez Álvarez, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Biomechhanics, Head of Veterinary Biomechanics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey)

2017-06-07 16:00: Selection and diseases in structured populations (Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University))

2017-06-14 16:00: Linking Mammary Development and Breast Cancer (Professor Pamela Cowin, NYU School of Medicine)

2017-10-04 16:00: A transmissible RNA pathway in honeybees (Dr Eyal Moari, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)

2017-10-11 16:00: Could pluripotent stem cells ever be used for equine tendon regeneration? (Dr Debbie Guest, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK)

2017-10-25 16:00: Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland (Professor Don Broom, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-08 16:00: Dissecting disease transmission between species (Dr Mafalda Viana,Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow)

2017-11-15 16:00: The value of improving livestock health and fitness through genetics (Prof Eileen Wall,  Professor of Integrative Livestock Genetics at SRUC)

2017-11-22 16:00: Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance drives multi-species population level epidemics  (Dr Kate Baker, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool)

2017-11-29 16:00: Rapid host-pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak (Dr Camille Bonneaud, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Exeter)

2018-01-24 16:00: DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS AND CELL THERAPIES FOR BONE REGENERATION (José Miguel Campos DVM MRCVS, Veterinary Clinics, Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), Porto, PORTUGAL)

2018-01-31 16:00: Cancelled - Intracellular Salmonella persisters  (Dr. Sophie Helaine, MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London)

2018-02-07 16:00: Streptococcus suis - managing a global zoonotic pathogen of pigs (Dr Dan Tucker, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2018-02-14 16:00: Participatory approaches to encourage responsible use of antibiotics in livestock (Dr Kristen Reyher, Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Science, University of Bristol)

2018-02-21 16:00: The MHC ligandome of two contagious cancers within the Tasmanian devil population, Devil Facial Tumour 1 and Devil Facial Tumour 2 (Dr Hannah Siddle, Lecturer in Molecular Immunology, University of Southampton)

2018-03-14 16:00: Sneks long balus (Professor David Pritchard, University of Nottingham)

2018-03-21 16:00: Accelerating the control of bovine Tuberculosis in developing countries (Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2018-04-25 16:00: Insect-based biomass valorisation: using Hermetia illucens to convert waste into food & medicine (Miha Pipan, Entomics, Chief Scientific Officer, Entomics)

2018-05-02 16:00: The Power of Non-invasive Approaches to Conservation Science (Professor Samuel K Wasser, Department of Biology, University of Washington on sabbatical, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University)

2018-05-09 16:00: Optimisation of a recombinant vaccine to control parasitic nematodes (Dr Alasdair Nisbet, Moredun Research Institute)

2018-05-16 16:00: Vaccines for notorious Zoonotic Viruses (Prof. Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine,  (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-23 16:00: Unlocking medical questions with a developmental biology key (Dr Laura Hardwick, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-13 16:00: Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in schools. (Citizen Scientists from Cottenham Village College and St Bedes Inter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-20 16:00: 'Friends or Foes? Helminth-microbiota interactions in the equine gastrointestinal tract (Dr Laura Peachey, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2018-10-03 16:00: The HIV glycan shield as a target for broadly neutralizing antibodies (Dr Katie Doores, MRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Infectious Diseases, King's College London )

2018-10-17 16:00: Engineering biology – where science meets imagination (Dr Wayne Bowen, Chief Scientific Officer, TTP Laptech)

2018-11-07 16:00: AGE IMMUNE: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity? (Professor Emma C Teeling, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland)

2018-11-14 16:00: Comparative glucocorticoid metabolism; lessons from horses, humans and mice (Dr Ruth Morgan, University of Edinburgh)

2018-11-21 16:00: Brachycephalic dogs: There is plenty of bad news. So is there any good news? (Dr David Sargan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-28 16:00: Challenges in Veterinary Forensic Pathology (Dr Lorenzo Ressel, Head of Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Liverpool)

2018-12-12 16:00: Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: shedding new light on old enemies (Dr John M. Atack, Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University )

2019-01-16 16:00: New materials and devices for interfacing with the nervous system (Prof George Malliaras, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-30 16:00: Jockeying for position: defining Streptococcus equi gene essentiality in the horse (Dr Andrew Waller, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket)

2019-02-06 16:00: Udderly different?: A comparative approach to studying the mammary gland in health and disease. (Dr Kate Hughes, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-13 16:00: The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections (Prof Daniel Wilson, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)

2019-02-20 16:00: Broad complement inhibition in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease (Dr Elena M. Ribe, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

2019-02-27 16:00: The dynamics of haemorrhagic fever in Africa (Prof Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2019-03-06 16:00: Pathophysiology of feline diabetes mellitus (Prof Thomas Lutz, University of Zurich | UZH · Institute of Veterinary Physiology)

2019-03-13 16:00: Direct from sputum sequencing of TB in the field, and connecting them to a global google. (Dr Zamin Iqbal, Research Group Leader, The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

2019-04-24 16:00: Machine Learning in Radiology (Dr Joshua Kaggie, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge)

2019-05-08 16:00: Canine Babesiosis: selected aspects of the topic (Prof. Stanislaw Winiarczyk, University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lublin, Poland)

2019-05-15 16:00: How Listeria sense the environment-to-host transition via PrfA (Professor Jose Vazquez-Boland, Chair of Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh)

2019-05-22 16:00: Sickle cell anaemia:  the first molecular disease (Prof John Gibson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.)

2019-05-29 16:00: Understanding Unconscious/Implicit Bias (Dr Miriam Lynn, Equality and Diversity Consultant, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-05 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute)

2019-06-12 16:00: The parallelism of evolution of multi-drug resistant clones (Professor Alan McNally, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

2019-10-09 16:00: Equine Rotavirus Diarrhoea in Neonates: Situation in Argentina and optimisation of prevention and therapeutic methods (Dr Aldana Vissani, Institudo de Investigación Virología, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

2019-10-16 16:00: The role of nutrients in host-pathogen interactions (Dr Sheena Cotter (University of Lincoln))

2019-10-23 16:00: Role of extracellular vesicles in helminth-host interactions: From immunomodulation to vaccine development (Dr Javier Sotillo-Gallego (Instituto Carlos III, Madrid))

2019-10-30 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-11-06 16:00: Genome remodelling in Streptococcus pyogenes (Dr Claire Turner (The University of Sheffield))

2019-11-13 16:00: Dissecting the host response during pathogen-specific mastitis in cows (Dr Wolfram Petzl, Ludwig (Maximillians-Universitat Munich (LMU)))

2019-11-27 16:00: The lectin pathway of complement: The Swiss army knife of innate immunity (Professor Peter Garred, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen)

2019-12-04 16:00: Paint-on antimicrobial bandages: a new approach for veterinary wound management (Dr Nuno Faria (University of Cambridge))

2020-01-15 16:00: Organoids: closing the gap between in vitro & in vivo models (Professor Jerry Wells (Wageningen University & Research))

2020-01-22 16:00: Unravelling mysterious interactions between viruses and antibodies: molecular mechanisms and importance in vaccination (Dr Sarah Caddy, Senior Research Fellow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2020-01-29 16:00: Ancient DNA, extinction, domestication and the cost of modern farming (Dr Laurent Frantz, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London)

2020-02-12 16:00: A Wobbly Path:  Looking for answers on Cervical Spondylomyelopathy (Professor Ronaldo C. da Costa, The Ohio State University, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences)

2020-02-19 16:00: Exploring the intimacy between bats and viruses: the evolution and function of bat antiviral IFITM proteins (Dr Camilla Benfield, Royal Veterinary College, University of London)

2020-02-26 16:00: Genomic epidemiology of bacterial antimicrobial resistance across the One Health spectrum (Dr Alison Mather, Group Leader and Food Standards Agency Fellow,  Quadram Institute)

2020-03-11 16:00: Dogs, Cats, Disease, and the Galapagos Islands (Ben Howitt MRCVS, Galapagos Animal Doctors)

2020-10-14 16:00: The therapeutic utility of inhibiting the lectin pathway of complement activation  (Dr Wilhelm Schwaeble, Department of Veterinary Medicine)

2020-10-21 16:00: The Cancer Paradox: Investigations into the somatic mutation rate across mammals (Dr Alex Cagan, Wellcome Sanger Institute)

2020-10-28 16:00: 'Use of genetic and serological data in dynamical models of infectious disease' (Dr Henrik Salje, Pathogen Dynamics Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge )

2020-11-04 16:00: Unsocial Medicine: exploring intersections between livestock health epidemiology and local knowledge networks (Dr Alex Tasker, Embedded Scientist at UK Government International Joint Comparisons Unit; Teaching Fellow in Human Ecology/Health and Environment, Dept of Anthropology,  University College London)

2020-11-25 16:00: Detection and Characterization of Blood-borne Prions (Dr Candace K Mathiason, Colorado State University)

 : tbc (Dr Emma Slack, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)