Journeying into Virology
- Location
- Leonard Deacon Lecture Theatre Medical School Edgbaston Campus
- Dates
- Wednesday 7 March 2012 (16:30-18:00)
- Contact
For more information please contact:
Yvonne Dawson
Telephone: 0121 414 4054
Email: y.dawson@bham.ac.uk
Professor David Blackbourn from the School of Cancer Sciences gives his Inaugural Lecture.
David Blackbourn completed his PhD in bacterial genetics on Bacillus subtilis at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1990). He then moved to the USA for his postdoctoral studies. There he worked on simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) at the University of California (UC) and then with Dr Jay Levy at UC San Francisco (UCSF) on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). During this period he became a staff scientist at UCSF and developed his interests in Kaposi’s sarcoma, the leading tumour of AIDS patients and subsequently Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), on which his laboratory continues to work. He returned to the UK in 1999 to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow and moved to the University of Birmingham in 2005.
Cost: Free of charge