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Hosted by WIN Access, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion member network at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, this seminar provides an introduction on how the immune system works, what happens when things go wrong and what that means for us and our interactions with others?

This image is advertising an Oxford Talks seminar titled, Immune system disorders in the workplace, hosted by WIN Access, the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion member network at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford. The seminar will take place on Wednesday 20th January 2021 at 12:30 pm.

An introduction to the immune system: Nature’s great balancing act

Dr Dannielle Wellington, from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

This lecture will take you through the basics of the immune response to a pathogen before exploring how a tip in the balance of the immune response in either direction can be detrimental and put people at greater risk of serious infection. 

Dr Dannielle Wellington is a postdoc from the Human Immunology Unit of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine working on the immune responses to viral infections such as influenza and SARS-Cov-2.  Her current work focusses on how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is processed and presented to effector cells of the immune system called T cells leading to the targeted killing of infected cells. She previously completed her PhD at the University of Southampton on the autoimmune disease Ankylosing Spondylitis.

 

Autoimmunity in academia: A personal perspective

Dr Paula Croal, University of Nottingham

This talk will cover some of the challenges of living with an autoimmune disease, how this has impacted my day-to-day life and career, as well as questioning what can be done both on an individual and institutional level to support students and staff with compromised immune systems.

Dr Paula Croal is currently a research fellow in The Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at The University of Nottingham focusing on methods development for physiological MRI in brain tumours. Since being diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease Paula has become an advocate for disabled academics.

 

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