19 Nov 2020 - Myco-talks 5: Drs Joseph Heitman and Tobias Hohl
29 Oct 2020 - Myco-talks 4: Drs Sarah Gaffen and Alex Brand
24 Sept 2020 - Myco-talks 3: Profs Bernhard Hube and Geraldine Butler
24 Aug 2020 - Myco-talks 2: Dr Liz Ballou and Prof Bruce Klein
30 July 2020 - Myco-talks 1: Professor Arturo Casadevall and Dr Rebecca A Drummond
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Studying within MRC CMM: Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology MRes, covering all aspects of medical mycology, immunity, the molecular basis of infection, and the genomics of infectious disease.
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M Y C O - T A L K S
The MRC CMM would like to invite you to join us at the Monthly Myco-talks, where experts in Medical Mycology and related fields will be presenting their latest research.
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- JOINING: by Zoom on the last working Thursday of each month at 4pm (UK time) | 5pm CET | 8am West Coast | 11am East Coast.
- REGISTRATION: For each meeting you will have to register and will receive the zoom link to join by email.
- CANCELLATION: if you are no longer available to attend, please DO CANCEL your registration to make your space available for another attendee.
Current 2020/21 programme of invited speakers:
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Meeting date |
Chair |
Deputy chair |
Speakers |
Title |
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30 July 2020 |
Sarah Gaffen |
Jay Kolls |
Arturo Casadevall |
Updating the fungal infection-mammalian selection hypothesis at the end of the Cretaceous Period |
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Rebecca Drummond |
Understanding Mechanisms of Organ-Specific AntiFungal Immunity |
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27 Aug 2020 |
Gordon Brown |
Sarah Gaffen |
Liz Ballou |
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Bruce Klein |
Genetic variation at the Interleukin-6 locus and human susceptibility to fungal infection |
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24 Sept 2020 |
Neil Gow |
Jay Kolls |
Bernhard Hube |
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Geraldine Butler |
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29 Oct 2020 |
Oliver Kurzai |
Jay Kolls |
Sarah Gaffen |
A Tale of Two Cytokines: IL-17 and IL-22 in driving oral mucosal immunity to Candida albicans |
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Alex Brand |
Rsr1 - a simple GTPase with a complex function in the cellular organisation of Candida albicans. |
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19 Nov 2020 |
Gordon Brown |
Oliver Kurzai |
Joe Heitman |
RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antifungal drug resistance |
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Tobias Hohl |
Foiling Fungal Invasion: Lessons from the Mycobiome and Pulmonary Antifungal Immunity. |
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17 Dec 2020 |
Joseph Heitman |
Neil Gow |
Judy Berman |
Tolerating challenges: lessons from pathogenic yeast |
| Michail Lionakis |
Aberrant type 1 immunity drives mucosal fungal infection susceptibility |
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28 Jan 2021 |
Judith Berman | Joseph Heitman | Suzanne Noble | TBC |
| Amariliz Rivera | TBC | |||
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25 Feb 2021 |
Nelesh Govender | Milestones in the Prevention and Management of Cryptococcal Meningitis | ||
| Anna Selmecki | TBC | |||
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25 Mar 2021 |
Scott Filler | TBC | ||
| Tihana Bicanic | TBC | |||
| 29 April 2021 | Leah Cowan | TBC | ||
| Iliyan Iliev | TBC | |||
| 27 May 2021 | Neil Gow | TBC | ||
| Floyd Wormley | TBC | |||
| 24 June 2021 | Julian Naglik | TBC | ||
| Elaine Bignell | TBC | |||
| 29 July 2021 | Duncan Wilson | TBC | ||
| Jules Ene | TBC |
Organising Committee:
Gordon Brown, Alex Brand and Neil Gow (MRC CMM, UK), Sarah L Gaffen (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Iliyan D Iliev (Weill Cornell Medical College, USA), Geraldine Butler (University College Dublin, Ireland), Oliver Kurtzai (University of Wuerzburg, Germany), Judith Berman (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Joseph Heitman (Duke University School of Medicine, USA) and Jay Kolls (Tulane University, USA).