Upcoming Events

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Recent Events

Thursday, 13 December 2012, 5.30pm
Christmas Lecture with Lord Dick Taverne

Room G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Ian Sabroe, University of Sheffield
Mechanisms of Human Airway Inflammation
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 16 October 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Dr. Roy Pettipher,Director of Pharmacology, Oxagen
CRTH2 in allergic disease: basic biology and clinical effects of CRTH2 antagonists
Room 120, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Dr Toshiaki Kawakami, Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego
IgE, mast cell, and allergic diseases
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Thursday, 13 September 2012, 2 days
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Retreat
13th - 14th September 2012
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey

Wednesday, 04 July 2012, 12.00 noon
Seminar with Professor Ray Penn, University of Maryland
OGR1 signaling and function in ASM
Room G34, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 19 June 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Mark Lindsay
Non-coding RNAs in the regulation of lung disease and inflammation
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar CANCELLED

Room 120, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 01 May 2012, 10.30am
Science Day
New Hunts House Classroom G.8

Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar CANCELLED
We suggest you visit talk of Prof. Bart Lambrecht instead
http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/institutes/centre_respiratory_infection/cri_events/cri/

Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Jonathan Grigg
Assessing therapies for wheeze in children
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Dr Jeremy Brown, University College London
Immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae
Room 120, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Maria G. Belvisi, Imperial College London
Airway reflexes and TRP channels
Room G34, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Friday, 13 January 2012, 9am-5pm

Advisory Board Meeting
Gordon Museum

Thursday, 15 December 2011, 5.30pm
Drugs science and politics: not a festive cocktail?
Christmas Lecture with Prof Nutt
Room G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Philip Bardin,
Asthma, rhinovirus and mechanisms of immune dysfunction
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Philippe Gevaert, Ghent University
From local IgE to anti-IgE treatment in Nasal Polyps with Asthma
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor Lena Uller, Lund University
Epithelial TSLP as a drug target for viral induced asthma and COPD exacerbations
Room 120, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Thursday, 08 September 2011, 2 days
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Away Day
8th - 9th September 2011
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey

Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4.00pm
Seminar with Dr Andrew McKenzie, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
Nuocytes: New insights into type-2 Immunity
Room 120, SAF Building, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 4.00pm
Seminar with Professor David Strachan, St. George's University of London
Searching for Gene-Environment interactions in Asthma and Allergy
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 6pm
Professor Chris Corrigan
After Christmas Centre Concert
Atrium 1, Ground Floor, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 4pm
Seminar with Dr. Andrew Clark; Imperial College London
Do we understand the anti-inflammatory actions of corticosteroids?
AALB Seminar Room, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Monday, 08 November 2010, 11am
Science Day 11am - 5pm

Robens Suite, 29th Floor, Guy's Tower

Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 4pm
Seminar
TBC
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 4pm
Randolph Noelle Department of Nephrology and Transplantation - KCL
TBC
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 4pm
Seminar with Professor Jürgen Schwarze - University of Edinburgh
Mechanisms of viral inflammation at the interface of innate and adaptive immunity
Room 122, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Thursday, 27 May 2010, 4pm
Seminar with Dr Barbara Bohle; Medical University of Vienna
T cell recognition of allergens
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 9am-6pm
http://www.asthma-allergy.ac.uk/ylss2010/
The next generation of Asthma & allergy research Tackling a 21st century epidemic
London South Bank University

Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 4pm
CANCELLED - Seminar with Dr. Andrew Clark; Imperial College London
Do we understand the anti-inflammatory actions of corticosteroids?
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 11 am
Science Day 11am - 5pm

SAF Building, G34 lecture theatre

Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 9am
Organised by Prof C. Griffiths and Prof C. Hawrylowicz
Vitamin D: mechanisms of action in health and disease
Perrin Lecture Theatre The London Medical School

Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 4pm
Seminar with Prof. Judith Allen; Edinburgh University
Alternative macrophage activation during helminth infection and allergy
Room 122, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College

Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 4pm
Seminar with Dr Philip Eaton - KCL
Thiol-based redox sensing and signaling in the cardiovascular system – relevance to respiratory diseases
Room 122, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 4pm
Mag. Dr. Elke Luger Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin
The biology of IgE plasma cells: Origin – Migration – Survival
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Friday, 15 January 2010, 9am

Advisory Board Meeting
Gordon Museum

Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 5:30pm
Christmas Lecture with Prof. Edzard Ernst; Peninsula Medical School
Alternative medicine for asthma - trick or treatment?
G16 - SAF Building, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 4pm
Professor David Ray, University of Manchester
Glucocorticoid receptor function at the membrane and in the nucleus: beyond transcription
Room 122, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 4pm
Prof. Ratko Djukanovic, University of Southampton
Ex vivo human models as a means of overcoming obstacles to translational research in airways diseases
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Thursday, 24 September 2009, 2 Days

Away Day
University of Sussex

Friday, 11 September 2009, 9am

Symposium
SAF Building, South Kensington Campus

Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 4pm
Professor Alan Knox, University of Nottingham
Regulation of inflammatory gene expression by chromatin remodelling
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Thursday, 16 July 2009, 2 pm

Science Day
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 4pm
Professor Ian Hall, Nottingham University
Is airway smooth muscle abnormal in asthma?
Room 119, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Thursday, 21 May 2009, 4pm
Dr Peter Howarth, University of Southampton
Chronic asthma and airway microflora: a role for bacteria in disease persistence?
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 4pm
Dr Meinir Jones, Imperial College
Natural tolerance in a human model of allergic asthma
Room 119, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 4pm
Dr. Mathias Gautel, Randall Division for Cell and Molecular Biophysics and Cardiovascular Division; KCL
Mechanoregulated protein kinases- towards a new paradigm in signalling?
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 4pm
Dr Charles Pilette - Université Catholique de Louvain - Belgium
Mucosal IgA responses in allergy and inflammatory airway diseases
Room 119, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 4pm
Dr Yassine Amrani - University of Leicester
Novel insight into the molecular mechanisms mediating steroid resistance in lung diseases
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Thursday, 04 December 2008, 5.15pm
Professor Mark Jackson, Professor of History, Director of Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Christmas Lecture
G16 Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 4pm
Dr George Santis, Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science
Title to be confirmed
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 4pm
Dr Graham Devereux, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Dietary influences on asthma and allergy: which nutrients, when and how?
Room 120, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 4pm
Dr Malcolm Shepherd, University of Glasgow
Potassium Channels: new targets in pulmonary remodelling?
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 4pm
Dr Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, ZAUM-Center for Allergy and Environment, Munich
Title to be confirmed
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 4pm
Dr Dedmer Schaafsma, Section of Respiratory Disease, University of Manitoba
Central Role of Rho kinase in the Pathophysiology of Allergic Asthma
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Wednesday, 09 July 2008, 4pm
Professor Jeremy Saklatvala, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London
Recent insights into pro- and anti-inflammatory mechanisms
MRC & Asthma UK Centre room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital

Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 4pm
Dr Trevor Hansel, National Heart & Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
Challenges in studying new drugs for asthma
MRC & Asthma UK Centre Seminar room, 5th floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Hospital

Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 4pm
Professor Tracy Hussell, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London
Harnessing or inhibiting immune potentiators during respiratory infection
Room 120, 1st floor, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 4pm
Professor John Warner, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London
The foetal origins of allergic disease
Room 120, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 4pm
Dr Michael Roth, The Woolcock Institute for Medical Research, New South Wales
Transcription factor interaction in asthma and COPD
Capital House, 6th floor seminar room, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 4pm
Professor Sue Chinn, Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group, Imperial College London
"Asthma and obesity- evidence for and against a causal relation"
Room 120, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 4pm
Professor Frank Kelly, Lung Biology Group, King's College London
"Radical-antioxidant Interaction at the Lung Surface: A Basis for Understanding Sensitivity to Air Pollution."
Capital House, 6th floor, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 4pm
Professor Donna Davies, Division of Infection, Inflammation Research, Southampton General Hospital
The epithelial mesenchymal trophic unit in the pathogenesis of asthma
Capital House, 6th floor, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 4pm (Business meeting at 5pm)
Professor Gernot Achatz, Division of Molecular Immunology, University of Salzburg
The biology of IgE and concepts to interfere IgE synthesis in vivo
Room 120, SAF, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 4pm
Professor Reza Razavi, Professor Tobias Schaeffter, Dr Rainer Heintzmann, King's College London
Centre seminar on imaging
Immunobiology Seminar room, New Guy's House, 2nd floor, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 4pm
Dr Sarah Howie, Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh
"Regulation of Allergic Lung Inflammation."
Room 119, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College

Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 4pm
Dr Giovanna Lombardi, King's College London
Adoptive cell therapy with “customised” antigen-specific CD4+CD25+ Tregs
Capital House, 6th Floor, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 06 March 2007, 4pm
Professor Graham Lord, King's College London
"Transcriptional and Translational Control of the Immune Response"
Room 122, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Thursday, 18 January 2007, 5.15pm
Dr Jonathan Arm, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Harvard University
Phospholipase A2 in Inflammation and Innate Immunity
Immunobiology seminar room, 2nd floor, New Guy's House

Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 4pm
Dr David Dombrowicz, Institut Pasteur, Lille
"Mast cells can promote the development of multiple features of chronic asthma in mice"
Room 122, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 4pm
Professor Paul Garside, Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation, University of Glasgow
"Visualising Immune Responses in vivo"
Capital House, 6th floor, Guys Campus

Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 4pm
Professor Andrew Bush, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
"Endobronchial biopsy studies in children: what are the potentials?"
Room 121, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 4pm
Dr Sam Janes, Centre for Respiratory Research (CRR), University College London
"Tissue engineering for the lung, still several controversies away."
Capital House, 6th Floor, Guy's Campus

Tuesday, 06 December 2005, 4pm
Dr Karen Chapman, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
"Regulating glucocorticoid action at the cellular level; ligand availability and receptor density"
Capital House, 6th floor, Guys Campus