Speakers
Clare Bryant is Professor of Innate Immunity at the University of Cambridge. She graduated in Physiology and Biochemistry, then qualified as a veterinary surgeon, but decided to focus on research rather than clinical work. After completing a PhD at the Un Read More... Host-virus interactions; innate immunity; drug development and vaccines Click here for more information. Read More... Coming soon... Read More... Lourido studies parasitic diseases caused by members of the phylum Apicomplexa, which represent a huge burden to global mortality and morbidity and the development of many nations. Lourido performed his graduate work under the mentorship of Professor L. D Read More... Penny Moore is a Reader and DST/NRF South African Research Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics at the University of the Witwatersrand and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa. Moore holds a joint post as a Research Associate at CAPRIS Read More... Mihai Netea was born and studied medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He completed his PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, on studies investigating the cytokine network in sepsis. After working as a post-doc at the University of Colorado Read More... Lalita Ramakrishnan studies the pathogenesis of tuberculosis using a zebrafish model that her laboratory developed. The optical transparency and genetic tractability of the zebrafish larva have enabled her group to make surprising discoveries about TB pa Read More... After graduating from Bristol University with degrees in Cellular Pathology and Veterinary Science, Eleanor Riley interned in veterinary pathology at Cornell University and obtained her PhD in immunology and parasitology from the University of Liverpool. Read More... A/Prof Freya Fowkes is an ARC Future Fellow, Deputy Director of Maternal and Child Health and Head of the Malaria and Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. She completed her doctorate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Read More... Ash completed his BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences in 1997 at Cambridge University, UK, followed by a PhD (2002) in microbial biochemistry with Prof. Gordon Dougan FRS at Imperial College, London. After a first post-doc at the London School of Hygiene & T Read More... Dr Sumaira Hasnain is a Senior Research Fellow and a Career Track Fellow at the Mater Research Institute. Sumaira heads up a team of eight researchers as the Immunopathology Research Group and has an interest in chronic inflammatory diseases and such as p Read More... Coming soon... Read More... Coming soon... Read More... Dr. Kanta Subbarao is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne. She Read More...International Speakers 2018
Prof Clare Bryant
Dr Michael Gale
Prof Cui Hua Liu
A/Prof Sebastian Lourido
Penny Moore
Prof Mihai Netea
Lalita Ramakrishnan
Eleanor Riley
Local Speakers 2018
Associate Professor Freya Fowkes
Associate Professor Ashraful Haque
Dr Sumaira Hasnain
Prof Nicholas King
A/Prof Chris McDevitt
Prof Kanta Subbarao