Genome Science Theme Seminar College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology Genome Science Theme Seminar Wednesday 29th April 2015: 2.00 – 3.00pm Frank and Katherine May Lecture Theatre, Henry Wellcome Building Professor Julia Dorin, MRC Centre of Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh Julia’s research focus is on host defence peptides. Currently she is working on a multigene family of antimicrobial peptides called β-defensins which are astonishingly potent against yeast, bacteria and viruses and recognised as major players in innate immunity and yet deletion of these genes results in novel and exciting phenotypes. Julia has also recently developed single gene, clade specific and whole locus deletions of these genes to reveal their full in vivo functional repertoire. “Novel function(s) for the defensin antimicrobial peptide family” All welcome