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On behalf of Professor Gordon Proctor of the Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions you are invited to the following seminar:
Date: Tuesday 28th May 2019
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Place: Lecture Theatre, Floor 18, Tower Wing, Guy’s Campus
Speaker: Dr Joanne Konkel of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester
Title: ‘Immune Control at Oral Barriers’
Dr Joanne Konkel is the David Phillips Research Fellow at the Division of Infection, Immunity & Respiratory Medicine in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. She gained her BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Bristol,completing her PhD with Professor Stephen Anderton at the University of Edinburgh. On finishing her PhD she moved to the National Institutes of Health in the USA to undertake post-doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr Wanjun Chen in the National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She was recently awarded a BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship.
Konkel has been interested in how T cells perceive and respond to their environment and differentiate accordingly since her PhD. Her post-doctoral research focused on mucosal immunology and the important mucosal cytokine TGFβ, exploring the development of both conventional T cells and, less well-studied, unconventional Tcells residing at barrier sites. She is now examining the immune cell networks present at barrier sites, with a particular emphasis on the oral mucosa, and how the unique and conventional immune cells present at barrier sites perceive and are locally conditioned by the tissue micro environment.
Event details
Lecture Room, Floor 18Guy's Tower
Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 1UL