Wednesday 23 August, 1:30 - 2:30pm, Seminar Room 1, TRF Building
Sponsored by the Australian
Society of Immunology Visiting Speaker Program
Prof Adrian Liston
Professor
of Translational Immunology
University of Leuven and the VIB, Belgium
Adrian Liston
is Professor of Translational Immunology at the University of Leuven and the
VIB, Belgium. The laboratory works on both aspects of discovery immunology
(identifying intervention-points in regulatory T cell biology; developing
diabetes pre-clinical models) and applied immunology (human immunology;
immunogenetics; and mechanisms of immunodeficiency and inflammatory disease).
He has been awarded the Francqui Chair, Eppendorf prize and two ERC grants,
among other honours.
His PhD
research was on T cell tolerance and diabetes with Professor Chris Goodnow at
the Australian National University, followed by post-doctoral research on
regulatory T cell biology with Professor Sasha Rudensky at the University of
Washington. In 2009 Adrian was invited to set up an independent research
laboratory at the VIB and the University of Leuven.
Adrian Liston
has published more than 100 scientific papers, with over 4000 citations,
including key publications in the fields of:
Thymus biology,
diabetes, immunodeficiency-autoimmunity, human immunology and regulatory T cell
biology.
Further
information
Please contact andrea.johannessen@monash.edu
to schedule a meeting with Adrian before or after the meeting.
A light lunch will be served prior to the
seminar at 1:00pm in the seminar room foyer, level 2, TRF Building.
Please note that the CID Weekly Seminar has
been cancelled on Tuesday 22 August.
Further information, including the link to add
the seminar series to your google calendar, is available from CID Weekly
Seminar Series website [http://www.med.monash.edu.au/scs/medicine/cid/seminar-series.html]
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