Events and Open Days
Open Days
We run open days for our undergraduate courses and our graduate-entry Medicine (MB ChB) programme several times per year. Our 2025 open days will be taking place on the following dates.
- Saturday 11 October (undergraduate only)
- Saturday 25 October (undergraduate only)
Leading Lights Lectures
Our Leading Lights lectures give our new professors the opportunity to share their career journey and current work with their colleagues, friends, and family, as well as members of the public with an interest in their area of research. These events are open to all. See our upcoming lectures here and watch the recordings of our previous lectures here.
WMS and SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: A single-molecule view on bacterial nucleoid organization, Dr Christoph Spahn, University of Würzburg
WMS and SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: Dr Georgia Isom, University of Oxford
BMS Insights -Talks from our Principal Investigators: Electric fields and osmotic gradients in cells and tissues, Dr Amit Singh and Limits of Epigenetic Homeostasis, Professor Sascha Ott
Influenza Update Meeting
This informal meeting will once again bring together the influenza virus research community from across industry, government and academia to present and discuss ongoing research.
BMS Insights -Talks from our Principal Investigators: Circadian Molecular Phenotyping for Risk Stratification in Disease Populations, Dr Robert Dallmann; Your Hidden Flu Immunity, Dr Craig Thompson
WMS and SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: Professor Thushan de Silva, University of Sheffield
BMS Seminar by Professor Alpha Yap ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
BMS Seminar: A Jedi and a Chosen One: GATA6⁺ Cavity Macrophages and the Divergent Repair Outcomes of Monocyte-Derived Cells, Professor Joel Zindel, Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, ETH Zurich
Abstract: Body cavities are an evolutionarily conserved architectural feature of metazoans: fluid-filled spaces in which organs are suspended, allowed to move, and mechanically interact to fulfill their function. These same spaces harbor a primordial, highly specialized immune ecosystem. Among its most striking components are cavity-resident macrophages, which exist in suspension within the serous fluid. Positioned for constant surveillance, they sense deviations from homeostasis within minutes and initiate broad, pleiotropic responses that shape the ensuing inflammatory trajectory.
Using intravital microscopy, we have uncovered new principles of the biology of these cavity macrophages—how they patrol, how they respond to micro-injury, and how rapidly they can be depleted. Their depletion, classically observed as “macrophage disappearance” from the peritoneal fluid, marks a critical threshold: once resident macrophages are spent, secondary waves of immune cells such as neutrophils and monocytes are recruited. These monocytes, in turn, differentiate into non-resident macrophages with distinct phenotypes and functions.
I will discuss how these macrophage populations and mesenchymal cells cooperate during inflammation and resolution, and how their division of labor ultimately influences tissue repair within serous environments.
BMS Insights -Talks from our Principal Investigators: Professor Meera Unnikrishnan and Dr Michael Smutny
Exploring host-microbial interfaces
Professor Meera Unnikrishnan
Shaping tissues in the early embryo
Dr Michael Smutny