Talk Title: Multi-omics and the host response to infection

The Center for Genetic Epidemiology is hosting a virtual seminar with Dr. Julian Knight, (https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/people/julian-knight) Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Oxford, Director of the Doctoral Training Program in Genomic Medicine and Statistics, and a Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at Merton College. Since 2005 he has worked at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics as a Principal Investigator and as an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust in internal medicine. He is also Research Director of the Central and South Genomic Medicine Services Alliance. His research investigates the genomics of immunity and how this can determine our individual response to infections such as sepsis and development of autoimmunity.