Teaching
- 3rd Year Immunology
- Immunology Honours
- Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD programme
- Immunity to Parasites course
- Immunology & Infection Course
3rd Year Immunology
Lectures taught by J Allen:
- The Nature of the Immune Response
- The Adaptive Immune Response
- Recognition Systems in the immune response
- Anatomy of the Immune System
- Antibody Structure & Function
- Cellular Effector Mechanisms
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Immunology Honours
- Deputy Course Organiser
- Module Organiser: Immunity to Parasites
- 10 week Honours project supervisor
Honours Project Students:
- Nuno Cordiero (Spring 1996)
- Charlie Brownlee (Spring 1997)
- Robert Martynoga (Spring 1998)
- Amy Robb (Spring 1999)
- Kristin Hochweller (Spring 2000)
- Lucy Walker (Spring 2001)
- Daniel Cochrane (Spring 2002)
- Wey Sung (Spring 2003)
- Jennifer Middleton (Spring 2004)
- Alexis Vogelzang (Spring 2004)
- Neill Storrar (Spring 2005)
- Stuart Richards (Spring 2005)
- Kara Filbey (Spring 2006)
- Eve Hegarty (Spring 2006)
- Daniel Adams (Spring 2007)
- Nicola Kerr (Spring 2008)
- Michael Adamson (Spring 2008)
- Noelle O’Regan (Spring 2009)
- Lucy Mckelvie(Spring 2009)
- Lorna Montgomery (Spring 2009)
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Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD programme
- Immunology & Infection Course Organiser
- 12 week mini-project supervisor
Past Wellcome project students:
- Meera Nair (Spring 2000)
- Iain Gallagher (Spring 2002)
- Gráinne Long (Spring 2003)
- Katie Mylonas (Spring 2004)
- Judith Zich (Spring 2006)
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Immunity to Eukaryotic Parasites course schedule 2007
- 21st September:
- Immune regulation by cytokines & immunity to intracellular protozoa (JE Allen)
- 28th September:
- Toxoplasma paper-based discussion (JE Allen)
- 5th October:
- Immunity to Helminths (JE Allen) GI nematode, Tissue Helminths handouts
- 12th October:
- GI nematode paper-based discussion (JE Allen)
- 19th October:
- Vaccine development against intracellular parasites (T Aebischer)
- 26th October:
- No class
- 2nd November:
- Genetics of the Immune Response (E Glass)
- 9th November:
- Schistosomiasis: A case study (AS MacDonald)
- 16th November:
- Co-infection studies (AL Graham )
- 23 November:
- Worms & the Hygiene Hypothesis (RM Maizels)
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Immunology & Infection Course 2009
| Week 1 | Tues 7-Apr | |||
| Fri 10-Apr | Good Friday (exchangeable university holiday) | |||
| Week 2 | Tues 14-Apr | 09:00 - 10:30 | Introduction to Immunology-1 | D Gray |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Introduction to Immunology-2 | J Allen | ||
| Fri 17-Apr | 09:00 - 10:30 | Immune responses - T cells | R Zamoyska | |
| 11:00-12.30 | T-cell subsets | J Allen | ||
| Week 3 | Tues 21-Apr | 09:00 - 10:30 | MHC and antigen processing | T Aebischer |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Dendritic cells | S Howie | ||
| Fri 24-Apr | 09:00 - 10:30 | Cytokine regulation | J Allen | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Co-stimulation | M Taylor | ||
| Week 4 | Tues 28-Apr | 09:00 - 10:30 | Inflammation and resolution | I Dransfield |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Immunological Memory | D Gray | ||
| Fri 1-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | Central & peripheral Tolerance | S Anderton | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Tolerance induction | S Anderton | ||
| Week 5 | Tues 5-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | I & I in the CNS | J Fazakerley |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Herpesviruses | A Nash/B Dutia | ||
| Fri 8-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | Protozoan Pathogens | K Matthews | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Malaria | A Rowe | ||
| Week 6 | Tues 12-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | Evolutionary Biology | A Graham |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Co-infection | A Graham | ||
| Fri 15-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | ||||
| Week 7 | Tues 19-May | May Holiday | ||
| Fri 22-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | Nematodes | M Taylor | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Genomics of pathogens | M Blaxter | ||
| Week 8 | Tues 26-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | HIV | A Leigh-Brown |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Vaccines | T Aebischer | ||
| Fri 29-May | 09:00 - 10:30 | Schistosomiasis | A MacDonald | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Are infections good for you? | R Maizels | ||
| Fri 12-Jun | 9:00 - 13:00 | Immunology and Infection Mini-project presentations |