Join us for the latest instalment of the Wright-Fleming Institute Infection and Immunity Seminar Series, and hear from Dr Margarita Dominguez-Villar (Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London)
Margarita Dominguez-Villar is a Senior Lecturer in Immunology in the Department of Infection at Imperial College London and an Assistant Professor Adjunct in the the Department of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude in 2000 from University of Granada (Spain), degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and she obtained her Ph.D. from University of Cadiz, Spain, in 2007. During her Ph.D. she studied the molecular mechanisms of peripheral tolerance in Hepatitis C infection. After a short postdoctoral period at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, under the supervision of Dr. Benedict J. Chambers, she joined Dr. David Hafler laboratory at Harvard Medical School in January 2009 as a postdoctoral associate to work on regulatory T cell function in human autoimmune diseases with a focus on Multiple Sclerosis. In 2010 she moved to Yale University and in 2012 she became junior faculty at Yale School of Medicine, where she started developing a new line of research related to mechanisms that control TLR signaling in the innate and adaptive immune system. In 2015 Dr Dominguez-Villar was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Yale University, where she set up her laboratory focusing on understanding how regulatory T cells and effector T cells function in autoimmune and infectious diseases that affect the central nervous system. In September 2018 Dr Dominguez-Villar joined Imperial College London where she continues focusing on the mechanisms that drive adaptive immune responses in viral and autoimmune conditions of the CNS.
All welcome.
If you have any questions or to meet with the speaker please contact the organisers: Cecilia Johansson (c.johansson@imperial.ac.uk) and Geodele Maertens (g.maertens@imperial.ac.uk)