2021-2022 Seminars

This year, our seminar series is organised by Dr Susan Joyce, Dr Malgorzata Krajewska, Dr Gary Loughran, Yvonne Brennan (Admin) and supported with advertisements and graphics by Mary Heapes.

Please check this page every week from September for news of our 2021-2022 seminars.

Adventures in inflammation research

Professor Luke O'Neill, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 20 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Biological timekeeping, homeostasis and viral infections

Dr Rachel Edgar, Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 13 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

From understanding cancer cells to fighting against them: How can we improve current CAR-T cell therapies?

Dr Verónica Ayllón Cases, Universidad de Granada, Spain.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 06 April 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Rosemary O'Connor, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

SARS-Cov-2 lung pathology in animals from natural infection to ex-vivo model

Dr Sandra Vreman, Wageniningen Bioveterinary Research, The Netherlands.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 09 March 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

How feeding time regulates circadian rhythms in mammals

Dr John O'Neill, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

ZOOM 
Wednesday, 02 March 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Justin McCarthy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

And yet they oscillate: uncovering the biological function of circadian regulated long non-coding RNAs in plants

Dr Rosanna Henriques, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Susan Joyce, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Data-driven advances in precision oncology

Professor Aedin Culhane, School of Medicine, University of Limerick.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 02 February 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Professor Pasha Baranov, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Visualising ‘Crick’s comma’: Structural basis of ribosomal frameshifting in SARS-CoV-2

Dr Fred Sheedy, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology; and School of Microbiology, UCC.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 26 January 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Train to Win: Education of the innate immune system by fungal beta-glucans

Dr Fred Sheedy, Trinity College Dublin.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Ken Nally, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Phosphorescence based oxygen sensing platforms for biomedical research

Professor Dmitri Papkovsky, University College Cork.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 22nd December 2021 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Malgosia Krajewska, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

LNX proteins: a well-connected family, but what do they actually do?

Dr Paul Young, University College Cork.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 15th December 2021 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

RNA at the therapeutic frontier - Autoimmunity, Cancer & Neurodegeneration

Dr Vincent Kelly, Trinity College Dublin.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 1st December 2021 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Gary Loughran, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC

Interleukin-36: an orchestrator of inflammation and homeostasis at barrier surfaces

Dr Patrick Walsh, Trinity College Dublin.

MS Teams 
Wednesday, 17th November 2021 @ 1.00 pm

Academic host: Dr Anne Moore, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UCC