John Hammond, The Pirbright Institute
Thu 26 Nov 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)

If you have a question about this talk, please contact: Dominik Ruckerl (druckerl)

PhD students and early postdocs can meet John during the Metchnikoff club just before the seminar at 3.15pm. Please also join us for drinks and nibbles and to chat to Isabelle and your fellow immunologists in the Darwin Dance Hall after the seminar!

Please see John's website for more details on his work:
http://www.pirbright.ac.uk/research/Immunogenetics/Default.aspx

Some of John's most recent publications

The assembly and characterisation of two structurally distinct cattle MHC class I haplotypes point to the mechanisms driving diversity.
Schwartz JC, Hammond JA.
Immunogenetics. 2015 Sep;67(9):539-44. doi: 10.1007/s00251-015-0859-9. Epub 2015 Jul 31.

Cattle NK Cell Heterogeneity and the Influence of MHC Class I.
Allan AJ, Sanderson ND, Gubbins S, Ellis SA, Hammond JA.
J Immunol. 2015 Sep 1;195(5):2199-206. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1500227. Epub 2015 Jul 27.

Definition of the cattle killer cell Ig-like receptor gene family: comparison with aurochs and human counterparts.
Sanderson ND, Norman PJ, Guethlein LA, Ellis SA, Williams C, Breen M, Park SD, Magee DA, Babrzadeh F, Warry A, Watson M, Bradley DG, MacHugh DE, Parham P, Hammond JA.
J Immunol. 2014 Dec 15;193(12):6016-30. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1401980. Epub 2014 Nov 14.