Year 4, 2011-12
Module leaders
Dr Peter Karayiannis
Dr Ashley Brown
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Tuesday 3 January - Friday 3 February 2012

Module 3: Infective, immunological and inflammatory mechanisms in gut and liver disease - timetable [Word]

PowerPoint presentations:
Tues 3 Jan Introduction to immunology - Dr Marco Purbhoo
Wed 4 Jan Interferons, cytokines and viruses [pdf] - Dr Michael McGarvey
Thurs 5 Jan The humoral immune response - Professor Marina Botto
MHC and TCR - Professor Mark Thursz
Fri 6 Jan Regulatory T cells - Professor Federica Marelli-Berg
The adaptive immune response - Dr Marco Purbhoo
Innate immunity and toll-like receptors - Professor Mark Thursz
Mon 9 Jan Induction of tolerance to self-antigens - Professor Julian Dyson
Mechanisms of fibrosis in the liver - Dr Ameet Dhar
Tues 10 Jan Steatohepatitis: science of inflammatory damage - Dr Jeremy Cobbold
Fri 13 Jan Viral structure and replication of  HAV and HEV - Dr Peter Karayiannis
Immune mediated mechanisms of ALD and AIH - Dr Harry Antoniades

Immune defence of the liver and GI tract - Dr Marco Purbhoo
Mon 16 Jan Viral structure and replication of HBV and HDV - Dr Peter Karayiannis
HIV and the gut - Dr Peter Kelleher
Tues 17 Jan Mechanisms of immune rejection - Professor Andrew George
The immune response to hepatitis viruses and vaccines - Dr Peter Karayiannis
Wed 18 Jan Schistosomiasis and the liver - Professor Alan Fenwick
Viral structure and replication of HCV - Dr Peter Karayiannis
Fri 20 Jan Hepatitis A-E viruses - Dr Janice Main
Mon 23 Jan Immune mechanisms of coeliac disease - Dr Peter Kelleher
Tues 24 Jan Opportunistic Infections in the Liver - Dr Khaleel Jamil
Thurs 26 Jan The pathology of autoimmune hepatitis - Professor Rob Goldin
C difficile: Public health – mechanism of toxicity - Dr Luke Moore
Pathology of chronic viral hepatitis - Professor Rob Goldin
Fri 27 Jan Mechanisms of immune mediated drug hepatotoxicity [pdf] - Professor Alan Boobis
Amoebic and pyogenic abscesses of liver - Dr Janice Main
Mon 30 Jan Current treatment of HCV infection - Dr Janice Main
Traveller’s diarrhoea - Dr Ashley Whittington
Tues 31 Jan Assessment of T cell function – Dr Wafa Khamri
Collectins and defensins in the gut – Dr Wafa Khamri
Wed 1 Feb

New approaches to antivirals for HBV and HCV – Dr Michael McGarvey
Viral mutations – Dr Peter Karayiannis
Thurs 2 Feb Treatment of HBV – Dr Ashley Brown

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