This is a past event
Upcoming Immunology Symposium organised by the Aberdeen Immunology Group. Thank you to sponsors MERCK and British Society for Immunology.
This immunology symposium will see three excellent speakers from Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
1-2pm Dr Seth CoffeltCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, University of Glasgow
‘From rarity to clarity: gamma delta T cells in cancer’
Seth is a Senior Research Fellow within the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. His lab is based at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute. Seth obtained his Ph.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in 2006. He undertook his first postdoc position at the University of Sheffield in the UK where he studied the role of macrophages in tumor progression. Afterwards, Seth was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Career Development Fellowship to join Karin de Visser’s lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam. During this time, Seth discovered how certain immune cells cooperate with each other to promote metastasis through the suppression of other immune cells. Seth moved to Scotland in the summer of 2016 to focus on the molecular mechanisms that regulate T cell function during the evolution of metastasis. Recently, Seth was awarded the British Association for Cancer Research AstraZeneca Young Scientist Frank Rose Award.
2-2.30pm Dr Rasha Abu-EidUniversity of Aberdeen
‘T cell modulation for cancer therapy’
Rasha qualified from the University of Jordan as a dentist in 2001. In 2005, Rasha was awarded a PhD from the University of Birmingham for her work on quantification of oral cancer and pre-cancer growth patterns using digital imaging and innovative mathematical descriptors of morphology and complexity such as Fractal geometry. She returned to the University of Jordan as Assistant Professor in Oral Pathology, and in 2011 was awarded a prestigious research fellowship grant from the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer to conduct state of the art research in the field of cancer immunology in the USA, based at the National Cancer Institute/ National Institutes of Health and Georgia Regents University (currently Augusta University) working on T cell Biology and the modulation of the immune system as part of cancer immune therapy. In 2016, Rasha was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Oral Sciences at the Dental School, University of Aberdeen with research focus on T cell biology and head and neck cancer immunology, in addition to different applications of digital pathology.
2.30-3.15pm Refreshment Break & Networking
3.15-4.15pm Dr Bryan ConwayCentre for Cardiovascular Science, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
‘Seeking heroes and villains in the kidney - from whole organ to single cell’
Bryan is a senior clinical lecturer and consultant nephrologist in Edinburgh. He did his clinical training in Belfast and was awarded a PhD from Queen's University Belfast for his work on the genetics of diabetic kidney disease. He moved to Edinburgh on a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship and subsequently a Scottish Senior Clinical Fellowship. His research focus is on the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease, combining novel pre-clinical models with unbiased gene expression analysis and a wide spectrum of collaborative research across metabolic disorders including diabetes and obesity.
- Hosted by
- Institute of Medical Sciences
- Venue
- Level 7, Institute of Medical Sciences
- Contact
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To book please contact m.h.mclean@abdn.ac.uk or i.j.crane@abdn.ac.uk by Monday 27th May 2019.