This event has now finished.
This event has been moved online.
  • Date and time: Friday 24 May 2024, 1pm to 2pm
  • Location: Online only
  • Audience: Open to alumni, staff, students (postgraduate researchers, taught postgraduates, undergraduates)
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

Join us for our first international online Biomedical Sciences Seminar!

Here at the York Biomedical Research Institute (YBRI) we run a weekly in-person seminar series locally at the University of York. We welcome speakers from across the UK who share their cutting-edge research in Biomedical Sciences, spanning topics across our research themes:

  • Immunology, Haematology and Infection
  • Molecular and cellular Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Chemical and Structural Biology
  • Biomedical Technologies

Please sign up for our live online seminar via the Eventbrite - details on how to join will be shared with registered attendees. 

Frequently asked questions

Who is this seminar aimed at? Who can attend?

We welcome undergraduate, postgraduate students, postdocs, ECRs and Group Leaders who have some scientific knowledge of the seminar topic and are eager to learn more from an expert in the field!

What online platform will the seminar be held on?
In the interest of security, we'll share details of how to join the live seminar closer to the date to those who have signed up.
Will the seminar be recorded?
This will vary based on the speaker - we'll let attendees know if the seminar is being recorded.

 

About the speaker

Professor Boris Striepen

Boris grew up in the harbor neighborhood of Ruhrort, at the confluence of the rivers Ruhr and Rhein, an industrial area of Germany, then dominated by coal and steel. He studied biology at the universities of Bonn and Marburg, and conducted undergrad research on liver flukes in Bonn, and trypanosomes in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Boris earned a PhD for work on parasite biochemistry with Ralph Schwarz, was a postdoc with David Roos, studying parasite cell biology, and started his own laboratory at the University of Georgia in 2000. In 2017 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where he is now the Mark Whittier and Lila Griswold Allam Professor of Microbiology and Immunology.

Boris studies the cell and molecular biology of apicomplexan parasites. His current research focus is the parasite Cryptosporidium, a leading global cause of severe diarrhoea and mortality in young children. His lab pioneered molecular genetics and mouse models for this important infection and leads a range of interdisciplinary efforts to understand fundamental parasite biology, and to advance translation towards drugs and vaccines. Boris is also engaged in education and training. He taught undergraduate and graduate classes, directed NIH training grant programs in parasitology, served as lecturer, faculty, and director of the Biology of Parasitism summer research course at the MBL for many years, and he hosts the online Global Parasitology Seminar Series.

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