Programme

08.25 Registration opens, refreshment on arrival

08.55 Welcome and Introduction from the Division of Infection & Immunity

Professor Kathy Triantafilou, Head of the Division of Infection & Immunity 

Session 1: Infections and Inflammatory diseases

Chairs: Dr Stephanie Hanna and Dr Anne-Catherine Raby
 

09.10 Invited Speaker: Professor Kathy Triantafilou, Head of the Division of Infection & Immunity

09.40 Selected Talk 1: Jordan Aston Tregurtha Mathias (PhD student) Antibiotic consumption drives E. coli virulence in rural Wyoming and Cymru

09.52 Selected Talk 2: Wei Hang (PhD student) Osteoarthritis and Obesity: Do Fibroblasts Matter?

10.04 Selected Talk 3: Dr Sandra Dimonte (Postdoc)
IL-6 and IL-27 offer new insights into the heterogeneity of synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis

10.16 Selected Talk 4: Dr James A Pearson (Fellow)
Time of day alters Treg abundance and function through cholesterol metabolism

10.28 Selected Talk 5: Zhizhong Yang (PhD student)
Generating in vitro platforms for testing blood-brain barrier penetrance of novel anti- complement drugs for therapy of dementia

10.40 Session 2: SIURI- Data Stewardship: Dr Robert Andrews 

11.10 Coffee break - Trade stand and poster viewing

Session 3: Cancer Immunology
Chairs: Dr Sarah Lauder and Dr Bruce McLachan

11.40 Invited internal Speaker: Professor Awen Gallimore, Professor of Cancer Immunology, Co-Director of Systems Immunity Research Institute

12.10 Selected Talk 6: Dr Stephanie Burnell (Postdoc) The Generation of an Organoid Toolkit

12.22 Selected Talk 7: Samantha Hill (PhD student) T-cell Homing and Cancer Immunotherapy 

12.34 Selected Talk 8: Dr Kate Milward (Postdoc) Assessment of a pre-clinical adenoviral vectored cancer immunotherapy designed to harness antiviral immunity against cancer cells

12.46 Selected Talk 9: Dr Hannah Thomas (Postdoc) MHC-related protein 1-restricted recognition of cancer via a semi-invariant TCRα chain

13.00. Lunch, Poster session, Trade stand viewing

14.00. Keynote external speaker: Dr Clive McKimmie – University of York Immune responses at the vector-vertebrate interface

Session 4: Viral immunology and use of viruses 

Chairs: Nia Cwyfan Hughes and Dr Kirsten Bentley

14.45. Invited internal Speaker: Dr Ceri Fielding – Lecturer in virology Interactions of viruses with the immune system

15.15 Selected Talk 10: Dr Alicia Teijeira Crespo (Postdoc) Oncolytic Ad5NULL-A20 as a carrier of immune modulating molecules

15.27 Selected Talk 11: James Geary (PhD student) Bespoke targeting of MHC-II epitope from influenza matrix 1 antigen improves immunogenicity and provides superior protection against seasonal influenza infection.

15.39 Selected Talk 12: Rowan Casey (PhD student) Immunometabolism in HCMV-infected Kidney Transplant Patients

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

16.20. Clinical academic forum 

Chair: Dr Tanya Smith

Usman Khalid, Sian Griffin (Nephrology), Peter Taylor (Endocrinology)

17.00. Award presentations and meeting close: Professor Kathy Triantafilou