CID Weekly Seminar: Tuesday 25 October "Clinton vs Trump: the presidential election mirrors the immune response to pathogenic Influenza A virus."

25 October 12:00 - 1:00pm, Seminar Room 1, Level 2, TRF Building

Dr Ashley Mansell

Research Group Head of the Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation lab in CiiiD.

Ashley Mansell is a senior scientist and head of the Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation in the Centre for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Hudson Institute of Medical Research. Dr Mansell completed his PhD with Professor Luke O’Neill at Trinity College, Dublin. Returning to Australia, he was recruited to the Monash Institute of Medical Research to form a TLR research laboratory where he has continued his research of PRR signal transduction and its role in inflammatory diseases. His studies have concentrated on understanding how TLRs, and other Pattern recognition receptors, recognise and respond to pathogen challenge. Mostly he has failed, but occasionally he’s got lucky and published these studies to underwhelming acclaim. His recent studies have investigated the role of the inflammasome in pathogenic Influenza A virus infections.

A light lunch is served prior to the seminar at 11:45am in the seminar room foyer, level 2, TRF Building.

Further information is available from CID Weekly Seminar Series website [http://www.med.monash.edu.au/scs/medicine/cid/seminar-series.html]