Year 4, 2012-13
Module leaders
Dr Nicola Rogers
Dr Mick Jones
Immunity and infection
Monday 8 October - Friday 9 November 2012

Module 1: Inflammation, immunology, infection and wound healing - timetable [Word]

PowerPoint presentations, unless otherwise indicated:
Mon 8 Oct Introduction - Professor Julian Dyson
Innate antigens: recognition receptors - Dr Nicola Rogers

Antigen recognition by T-cells - Professor Julian Dyson
Tues 9 Oct MHC class I and antigen processing - Professor Julian Dyson

MHC class II and antigen processing [pdf] - Dr Salvatore Papa

Complement - Professor Matthew Pickering
Thurs 11 Oct Overview of mycobacteria [pdf] - Dr Nitya Krishnan
Generation of receptor diversity 1: generation of the repertoire + learning objectives [Word] - Professor Andrew George

Generation of receptor diversity 2: somatic mutation + learning objectives [Word] - Professor Andrew George

Reading: Receptor editing during affinity maturation - Immunology Today, April 1999
Mon 15 Oct The immunological synapse - Dr Paul McKay

Anatomy of the immune system - Professor Federica Marelli-Berg

Stem cells and regenerative medicine [pdf] - Dr Wei Cui
Thurs 18 Oct Immune responses to viruses [pdf] - Dr Juthathip Mongkolsapaya

Fungi as human pathogens - Dr Elaine Bignell
Fri 19 Oct B cell effector functions - Dr Liliane Fossati-Jimack

B cell activation [pdf] - Dr Concetta Bubici
Mon 22 Oct Critical role of DC in the initiation of the adaptive immune response - Dr Fang-Ping Huang

T cell effector functions - Dr Fang-Ping Huang
Tues 23 Oct Data interpretation + scenarios [Word] - Dr Nicola Rogers
Tutorial: Problem-solving exercise - Dr Nicola Rogers
Cytotoxic T cell effector functions - Dr Abigail Culshaw (instead of Professor Gavin Screaton)
Thurs 25 Oct Immunological memory - Dr Sophie Rutschmann
Cell death and the immunological implications + learning objectives [Word] - Dr Fang-Ping Huang
EBV and cancer - Professor Paul Farrell
Tues 30 Oct DI session: Functional analysis of T cells - Professor Julian Dyson
Wound healing - Dr George Bou-Gharios
Thurs 1 Nov Endothelial progenitor cells - Dr Richard Starke
Immune regulation - Dr Fang-Ping Huang
Malaria [pdf] - Dr George Christophides
Mon 5 Nov Genetics of the immune system - Dr Rosemary Boyton

Models of autoimmune disease - Dr Rosemary Boyton

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