Speakers
Zania Stamataki - University of Birmingham
Invited Speaker
Dr Zania Stamataki is an Intermediate Career Fellow funded by the Medical Research Foundation. She obtained her PhD at Imperial College London and the Institute for Animal Health in Compton, studying B cell interactions with follicular dendritic cells and the impact of viral infection. Dr Stamataki learned in vivo lymphocyte biology as a postdoc at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and trained in hepatitis C virus research at the University of Birmingham before taking up an early career Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship to start her own group. Dr Stamataki is academic lead for early career researcher training and development and academic lead for the containment level 3 facility at the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Her group studies lymphocyte-hepatocyte interactions with a special focus on “enclysis”, a new live cell engulfment process discovered in her lab.