BSI Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series: Dr Tamara Girbl-Huemer, University of Wurzburg, Germany. Location: MS Lecture Theatre, Michael Smith Building
| Dates: | 6 February 2025 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Biological Sciences |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Tamara Girbl-Huemer |
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Talk entitled: Investigations into the post-luminal phases of leukocyte transmigration through blood vessel walls in vivo
Bio/abstract
Tamara Girbl completed her PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Salzburg, Austria, studying leukemic B cell adhesion and migration in microenvironmental niches. As a postdoctoral Fellow of the British Heart Foundation, she joined Prof. Sussan Nourshargh’s group at Queen Mary University of London, UK to study chemotactic cues guiding neutrophil migration across blood vessel walls via intravital microscopy. After a short post-doctoral research stay in Prof. Michael Sixt (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Tamara Girbl joined the Rudolf Virchow Center at the University of Würzburg as a Junior Group Leader in 2020. With her team, she investigates the mechanisms mediating leukocyte breaching of blood vessel walls during inflammatory responses, using advanced (intravital) microscopy as a key technique. Specifically, her research aims to unravel how pericytes – the mural cells of microvessels- impact leukocyte transmigration and function during innate and adaptive immune responses.
At the seminar Tamara Girbl will present recent insights into how effector T cell breach the pericyte-layer of venular walls during their entry into the ear skin during viral infection and talk about their new insight into how platelets affect the post-luminal steps of neutrophil extravasation during acute inflammation in the cremaster muscle.
Speaker
Dr Tamara Girbl-Huemer
Organisation: University of Wurzburg
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