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PUBLIC LECTURE: Autoimmunity and Latent Infectious Disease

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
Autoimmunity and Latent Infectious Disease : The 2013 Ian Constable Lecture Other events...
Professor John Forrester, Professor in Ocular Immunology at UWA, Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti and Dr Matthew Wikstrom are currently exploring the role of viral infection in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity using uveitis as a model system. Uveitis is a sight-threatening disease for which there is no identifiable cause in around 50% of cases. Consequently such cases are considered to be “autoimmune”, and this notion is supported by evidence from experimental models of disease using antigens from the retina.

Autoimmune diseases represent a considerable burden to society in both health and economic terms. Our ideas of what constitutes autoimmunity are constantly under revision, particularly in the face of our current understanding of latent infectious disease as revealed by the ongoing AIDS epidemic. These ideas will be developed in Professor Forrester’s presentation.

The Ian Constable Lecture is presented by UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the Lions Eye Institute.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required via http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/forrester
Location Theatre Auditorium, University Club
Contact Institute of Advanced Studies <[email protected]> : 6488 1340
URL http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/forrester
Start Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:00
End Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:30
RSVP RSVP is required.
Submitted by Audrey Barton <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:18
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