Newcastle University will be hosting a workshop lead by a University of Southampton team who developed the Person-Based Approach (PBA) from insights gained from thousands of interviews with users while developing health and illness management interventions.
The workshop will be held on 9th May 10:00-13:00 at Devonshire Building. Attendance is free but limited by space and requires registration. Check the flyer for more details and link for registration.
Our next INE journal club will be on Thursday 22nd February between 1pm-2pm. Journal club will be held in the large meeting room M1.025, located on the 1st floor corridor that links the Cookson and Leech Buildings. Lunch will be provided.
Rob Usher will be presenting the paper:
The atypical chemokine receptor 2 limits renal inflammation and fibrosis in murine progressive immune complex glomerulonephritis
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All talks are currently planned to take place at 4pm (3.30pm for Tea and Coffee with biscuits) in the Research Beehive, room 2.22 (except 17th May which is in the Baddiley Clark seminar room and 15th March in DLTE).
Thursday February 15th 2018
Dr Wafa Khamri, Imperial College London
Lymphocyte dysfunction in liver failure
Wednesday March 15th 2018 (joint ICM and INE seminar) 2pm Dental Lecture Theatre E
Dr Sandrine Henri, Centre d’Immunologie Marseille-Luminy (CIML)
Disentangling the myeloid cell complexity in the skin to unravel cutaneous specific immune function
Thursday March 15th 2018
Dr Joanne Konkel, University of Manchester
Title to follow; “Immune cell networks at barrier sites, effects of tissue microenvironment on immune function”
Thursday 12th April 2018
Dr. Dean Naisbitt, University of Liverpool
Title to follow;. “chemistry of antigen formation and the mechanisms behind an aberrant T-cell-mediated immune response”
Thursday May 17th 2018
Baddiley Clark seminar room
Prof. Ben Wilcox, Professor of Molecular Immunology, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham
Title to follow; “Novel tumour antigens and unconventional T cell function”
June 2018 AGM Meeting –Durham (14th June, details to be confirmed)
Wednesday 7th March from 2.15pm to 4pm in the David Shaw Lecture Theatre (with tea and biscuits beforehand in the David Shaw Foyer).
On the 8th March there is another International Women’s Day event organised by the University which has Marcia Willis Stewart QC (Hons) speaking as part of the overall celebratory events. Please see more details and registration form for this event on:-
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/athena-swan/events/eventitems/eventiwd2018.html
The events are of particular significance this year as they mark the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which allowed some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time. So definitely something to celebrate!!
15 February 2018 at 6pm
Partner’s Room, Newcastle University Business School.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing is running an event with Newcastle University Business School on the “The commercialisation of medical products”
The event is free to CIM members and students, and all others pay £15. Book here https://www.cim.co.uk/event/88449/
More information below.
