DOID Seminars
This updated seminar series will now be held monthly and feature guest speakers from the UK and international, based on our research interests (alternating with internal department of infectious disease staff/student presentations of their ongoing research).
Date/Time: Monthly - one Tuesday per month 1-2 pm (unless advertised differently) in person and online.
Note: students are advised to clear this time to attend as part of their learning. Staff are invited to support the seminar series by attending in person where possible.
Everyone is welcome to join in person at the South Kensington Campus or online. See programme list below. For general enquiries contact Yasmin Mallu.
Current Seminar Series - Jan-Dec 2026
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host Section/Chair | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd February | Prof Mala Maini, UCL |
Harnessing frontline immunity for prophylactic and therapeutic vaccination |
I of I, J Tregoning |
G16 LT, SAF | |
| 24th March | Dr Javier Pizarro-Cerda, Institute Pasteur, Paris |
tbc | Post Doc led, A McCarthy |
G47A/B, Flowers Bldng |
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| 28th April | Prof Jacques Fellay, EPFL, Switzerland |
tbc | Paediatrics, V Sancho Shimizu |
tbc | |
| 12th May | vacant tbc | ||||
| 30th June | Prof John Briggs, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich |
tbc | Structural Biology, H Low |
tbc | |
| 7th July | Dr Charlotte Uetrecht, CSSB, Hamburg |
tbc | Virology, R Edgar |
tbc | |
| SUMMER BREAK | |||||
| 6th October | Dr George Chamilos, University of Crete |
tbc | Molecluar Microbiology, D Armstrong-James |
tbc | |
| 27th Oct |
Prof Susan Hopkins, UKHSA |
tbc | Adult Infect Disease, S Sriskandan |
tbc | |
| 3rd/24th Nov | tbc |
Past Seminars
- Recent/Past seminars Oct-Dec 25
- Past Seminars - May-August 25
- Past Seminars - Jan-April 25
- Past seminars Oct-Dec 24
Recent/Past seminars Oct-Dec 25
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th Oct - 3-4 pm | Prof Charles Bangham, ICL (Retirement Seminar) | ' Do Something Different'! | Room 200, City & Guild Bldng, S Kensington Campus | None |
| 28th Oct - 1-2 pm | Dr Francesco Boccellato - Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford | Epithelial barrier homeostatis and response to infections | SAFB 120/online | None |
| 25th Nov - 1.15.-2.15 pm | Paul Bastard - Institute IMAGINE, France | SAF 122/online | link |
Past Seminars - May-August 25
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27th May, 2025 - 1-2pm | Dr Amber Barton (University of Oxford) | Evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source | SAFB 120/Online | link |
| 24 June, 2025 - 1-2pm | Prof Thumbi Ndung'u (Provost's visiting professor) | Towards improved HIV prevention and antiretroviral-free control: lessons from the FRESH cohort in South Africa | SAFB 122/Online | link |
| 4th July, 2025 (Friday - 11-12 am) |
Prof Sumit Chanda (Scripps Research Institute) | Defending the host: antivirals and innate responses | SAFB 122/Online | link |
| 22nd July, 2025 - 1-2pm | Prof Peter Cherepanov (Crick Institute) | Two personalities of HIV-1 integrase | G34/Online | link |
| 29th July (12-1 pm) | Prof Seyed E Hasnain | Can we win the war against the very intelligent TB bacterium? | Flowers, G47A/Online | link |
| 4th August, 2025 (Monday) 1-2 pm |
Dr Benjamin Gewurz (Harvard, USA) | A fantastic voyage of how Epstein-Barr virus BALF1 targets B-cell receptor complexes for degradation upon viral reactivation | G34/Online | link |
Past Seminars - Jan-April 25
| 21st Jan, 1-2 pm | Dr Tamas Korcsmaros (ICL) | Mapping host microbe interactions with network biology and organoid-based approaches | SAFB 122/online | link |
| 4th Feb, 1-2 pm | Dr Charlotte Odendall (Kings College London) | Interferon: Tug of War between Host and Pathogen | SAFB 121/online | no recording |
| 18th Feb, 1-2 pm | no seminar |
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| 4th March, 1-2 pm |
Prof Angelika Gründling (ICL) |
Lipid Phosphatases and beyond | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 18th March, 1-2 pm | Prof John Tregoning (ICL) | RSV and RNA vaccines: can John squeeze 3 year’s work into a brief talk? | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 1st April, 1-2 pm | Prof Sarah Fidler (ICL) | The use of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to control HIV off antiretroviral therapy | SAFB 120/Online | link |
| 15th April, 1-2 pm | Dr Sylvie Alonso (University of Singapore) |
Viral determinants that drive Dengue virus fitness and virulence | SAFB 122/Online | no recording |
| 29th April, 1-2 pm | Dr Borko Amulic (University of Bristol) | Fine tuning the neutrophil response for improved infection outcome | SAFB 120/Online | no recording |
Past seminars Oct-Dec 24
| Date/Time | Speaker/Institute | Title | Venue | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29th October 2024 | Dr Dinesh Aggarwal | Determining the basis of Staphylococcus aureus carriage and virulence | SAFB Seminar Room 121/ONLINE |
link |
| 12 November 2024 | Dr Matthew Child | How to ‘get’ Fat: targeted saturation mutagenesis reveals biochemical signatures of amino acid function | SAFB G34 LT/ONLINE |
link |
| 26 November 2024 | Professor Jethro Herberg | Precision diagnosis of febrile illness in children | SAFB Seminar Room 121/ONLINE | link |
| 3rd December 2024 | Professor Ashraful Haque | Temporal mapping of adaptive immune responses during experimental malaria using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics | SAFB G34 LT/Online | link |
| 10 December 2024 | Professor George Kassiotis (Francis Crick Institute, London) | Endogenous retroviruses in immunity and cancer | SAFB G34 LT/ONLINE | no recording |