Programme

08.15 Registration opens, refreshment on arrival

08.50 Welcome and Introduction from the Division of Infection & Immunity and Systems Immunity University Research Institute (SIURI) 

Professor Susan Wong, Deputy Head of the Division of Infection & Immunity & Clinical Professor of Diabetes

Session 1: Multimorbidity and Cancer

Chairs: Dr Soma Meran and Dr Sarah Lauder

09.00  Invited Speaker: Professor Donald Fraser, Head of the Division of Infection & Immunity and Director Wales Kidney Research Unit 

"Understanding kidney disease through RNA"

09.30  Invited Speaker: Professor Andrew Godkin, Chair in the Division of Infection & Immunity and Chief Medical Officer and Scientific Advisor at ImmunoServ

"Outflanking Viruses and Cancer with CD4+ T Cells"

10.00  Selected Talk 1: Miss Jessica Oliver, PhD student

"Uncovering the Unique Radiation-induced Immunopeptidome of Malignant Colon Cell Line"

10.12  Selected Talk 2: Dr Luned Badder, Research Associate

"Delivery of suicide therapies using a precision virotherapy; novel approaches for pancreatic cancer"

10.24  Selected Talk 3: Miss Anna Gaspar, MSc Student

"The role of arginase metabolism on T cell responses to COVID vaccination in immune compromised renal patients"

10.36  Selected Talk 4: Dr Dan Smith, Research Associate

"Discovery of novel urinary microRNA biomarkers of kidney disease progression"

10.48  Selected Talk 5: Dr Tanya Smith, PhD student

"Single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies sex-specific Proximal Tubular Cell differentiation pathways in the developing kidney"

11.00  Coffee break - Trade stand and poster viewing

Session 2: Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)

Chairs: Dr Stephanie Hanna & Dr Mat Clement

11.20  Invited Speaker: Professor Ian Humphreys, Professor of Viral Pathogenesis and Lead Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute

"Virus-Induced Inflammation"

11.50  Invited Speaker: Professor Simon Ward, Director Medicines Discovery Institute

"Working with the Medicines Discovery Institute"

12.10  Invited Speaker: Dr Elaine Ferguson, Reader in Polymer Therapeutics and Director of Research

"How the Cardiff Materials Research Network could support translation of the Division’s discovery research"

12.30  Invited Speaker: Dr Hantao Liu, Reader in Human-centric AI

"Predicting radiologists’ gaze and decisions using deep learning"

12.50  PGR update: Dr Martha Triantafilou

"I&I PGR Day"

12.55  Lunch, Poster session, Trade stand viewing

Session 3: Autoimmunity and Neuroimmunology

Chairs: Professor F. Susan Wong & Dr Wioleta Zelek

13.55  Keynote Speaker: Professor Claudia Mauri, Professor of Immunology, Centre for Rheumatology and Bloomsbury Rheumatology Unit, UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences, University College London

"Metabolic requirement of Regulatory B cells: Can we harness it for therapeutic purposes?"

14.45  Invited Speaker: Professor Simon Jones, Professor of Inflammation Biology and lead for multimorbidity research in the Systems Immunity Research Institute

"How do cytokines instruct disease progression?"

15.15  Selected Talk 6: Miss Katie Boest-Bjerg, PhD Student

"Time of day changes in B cells in the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse model of autoimmune diabetes"

15.27  Selected Talk 7: Dr Nikoleta Daskoulidou, Research Associate

"Complement receptor 1 length polymorphism impacts glial functions relevant to Alzheimer’s disease"

15.39  Selected Talk 8: Dr Jacqui Nimmo, Research Associate

"Neuroimmune interactions and Tauopathy Complement activation in tauopathies: exploring the association of complement, glia and tau"

15.51  Selected Talk 9: Dr Ryan Bevan, Research Associate

"Uncoupling of synaptic loss from amyloid burden by an Alzheimer’s disease protective variant of PLCγ2"

16.03  Coffee break – Trade stand and poster viewing - Posters to be removed by the end of this break

Session 4: Viruses and Engagement

Chairs: Dr Carly Bliss & Dr James McClaren

16.25  Selected Talk 10: Miss Rosie Mundy, PhD Student

"Broad sialic acid usage amongst species D human adenovirus"

16.37  Selected Talk 11: Miss Hannah Preston, PhD Student

"Controlling HCMV Through NK-dependent ADCC-inducing Immunotherapies"

16.49  Invited Speaker: Professor Anwen Williams, Professor of Experimental Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Director of Organisation and Wellbeing

"The Applied and Experimental Clinical Immunology MSc programme: any 'value' for Research/Researchers?"

17.04 Selected Talk 12: Professor Matthias Eberl, Professor of Translational Immunology, Division of Infection and Immunity, Joint Academic Lead for Public Involvement and Engagement, School of Medicine

"Superbugs: Raising awareness and increasing understanding of the microbial world in, on and around us"

17.16  Invited Speaker: Dr Emma Yhnell, Senior Lecturer, School of Biosciences

"The tricky task of science communication: challenges and opportunities"

17.31  Invited Speaker:  Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Division of Infection and Immunity and Systems Immunity Research Institute

"Negotiating a career in Immunology"

18.01 Award presentations and meeting close: Professor Donald Fraser