Since my appointment at QUB I have undertaken several external research activities, which reflect my expertise in my research domain, which are summarised below:

Invited Research Presentations

·       MUGEN EU Network of Excellence, Athens (April 2006)

·       BSI Immunology group, Edinburgh University (June 2006)

·       DC-THERA EU Network of Excellence, Nijmegen (June 2006) 

·       National Institute of Immunology, New Dehli (November 2006)

·       Nikolas Symposia on The Histiocytoses, Athens (June 2007)

·       The British Society of Oral Maxillofacial Pathology, Belfast (May 2008)

·       Roslin Institute, Edinburgh (September 2010)

·       Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin (October 2009)

·       Joint Meeting of the ISI/UIG Annual Conference, Belfast (September 2010)

·       Royal Society of Microscopy, Belfast (July 2010)

·       University of Otago, Dunedin (September 2011)

Established International Collaborations with Leading Researchers

·       Prof Padraic Fallon (Trinity College Dublin)

·       Prof Bernard Malissen (CIML, France)

·       Prof Frederic Geissmann (King’s College, London)

·       Dr Uwe Ritter (University of Regensburg, Germany)

·       Dr Peter Hammerl (University of Salzburg, Austria)

External Peer Reviewer for the following Journals/Organisations

·       Journal of Investigative Dermatology

·       Trends in Immunology

·       Vaccine

·       Blood

·       Health Research Board

Consultancy

·       Consultant for Innate Pharma Biotech, France (Jan 2007 – Jun 2008)

·       Expert Panel for Sanofi Pasteur MSD, France (April 2008)