2015

12th European Meeting on Glial cells in Health and Disease
July 2015, Bilbou, Spain.
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at the 12th European meeting in Bilbou. Marie, Yvonne and Denise presented their current work as a poster presentation. Denise gave an oral presentation on how 'Regulatory T-cells directly promote myelin regeneration in the central nervous system'.

REMERGE Annual Symposium
June 2015, Belfast.
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at Riddel Hall, Belfast. Thomas, Marie, Yvonne and Denise presented their current work as a poster presentation.

MS-Frontiers 
June 2015, London, Heathrow
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at the MS-frontiers conference. Samara, Yvonne and Denise presented their current work as a poster presentation and Marie gave an oral presentation on how 'Regulatory T-cells enhance oligodendrocytes differentiation in vitro'

2014

Frontiers in Neurology
November 2014, Trinity College, Dublin.
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at the 5th annual meeting of Frontiers in Neurology. Marie and Yvonne presented their current work in posters and Thomas O'Hagan gave an oral presentation.

12th International Congress of Neuroimmunology
November 2014, Mainz, Germany.
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at the 12th ICN conference. Thomas, Marie and Yvonne presented their current work in posters.

REMERGE Annual Symposium
July 2014, Belfast
The entire Fitzgerald group participated at Riddel Hall, Belfast. Thomas, Marie and Samara presented their current work in posters and Denise gave an oral presentation on 'Harnessing the immune system to repair the brain.'

Gordon MYELIN Research Conference
March 2014, Ventura, California, USA
Thomas O’Hagan, a 2^nd year PhD student in The Fitzgerald Lab, attended the Gordon Myelin Research Conference in California, USA. The conference is a biannual meeting of the world's leading myelin biologists where Thomas presented his poster entitled 'Secreted factors of CD4⁺ regulatory T cells promote CNS myelination."

British Neuropathology Society Annual Meeting
March 2014, London, UK
Dr. Yvonne Dombrowski presented her work in a talk entitled “Toxin-mediated FoxP3 cell depletion: Impact on remyelination?”at the British Neuropathological Society meeting in London form 5^th-7^th March 2014.

I&I TRG Young Scientist Symposium
February 2014, Belfast
The entire Fitzgerald group participated in the on 25^th February 2014 at Riddel Hall, Belfast. Thomas, Marie, Ulrike and Samara presented their current work in posters and Yvonne gave an oral presentation on her work on The role of regulatory T cells in CNS remyelination. Denise gave a career lecture for young researchers about Networking in science. The keynote speaker, Prof. Burkhard Becher from ETH Zurich, who was invited and hosted by Yvonne and Denise, was deeply impressed by the excellent science he encountered at QUB and had a “fecking good time” in Belfast (which he explained the direct, legitimate tranlsation of to be a 'large quantity'!).

MRC Neuroinflammation workshop
February 2014, London
Both, Dr. Fitzgerald and Dr. Dombrowski attended the MRC Neuroinflammation workshop on 10^th February 2014 in London.

2013

British Society of Immunology Annual Meeting
December 2013, Liverpool
Thomas O’Hagan and Dr. Yvonne Dombrowski attended the BSI meeting in Liverpool. Both presented their current work in posters.

Annual Meeting Irish Society of Immunology
September 2013, Dublin
Dr. Yvonne Dombrowski and Eimear Linehan attended the ISI meeting in Dublin. Eimear presented a poster on her work entitled “Ageing impairs peritoneal but not bone marrow-derived macrophage phagocytosis” and Yvonne gave a talk about 'Impact of toxin-mediated FOXP3+ cell depletion on de-/remyelination in vivo?'.

MS Frontiers
May 2013, London, UK
Dr. Yvonne Dombrowski delivered an oral presentation  entitled 'Impact of toxin-mediated FOXP3+ cell depletion on de-/remyelination in vivo?'

Young Scientist Symposium of Infection and Immunity Translational Research Group
Feb 2013, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dr. Yvonne Dombrowski delivered an oral presentation and Ms. Eimear Linehan, Mr. Andrew Young, Mr. Paul Denver and Mr. Thomas O'Hagan each delivered poster presentations on their respective research projects.

2012

International Society for Neuroimmunology Congress
Nov 2012, Boston, USA
Dr. Denise Fitzgerald presented a poster entitled 'Ageing impairs the phagocytic capacity of macrophages: implications for central nervous system repair'

Irish Society for Immunology Annual Meeting
Sep 2012, Dublin, Ireland
Eimear Linehan (PhD student) attended and gave an oral presentation  entitled 'Ageing impairs the phagocytic capacity of macrophages: implications for central nervous system repair'

European Congress of Immunology
Sep 2012, Glasgow, Scotland
This meeting was attended by Denise Fitzgerald, Yvonne Dombrowski, Rachel Hassan, Eimear Linehan and Andrew Young. PhD students, Eimear and Rachel delivered oral presentations on their research and Andrew Young delivered a poster presentation

Gordon Research Conference and Seminar: Myelin
May 2012, Il Ciocco Resort, Italy
Rachel Hassan (PhD student) attended and presented a poster entitled 'A novel model to investigate T cell-oligodendrocyte precursor cell interactions'

European Phagocyte Workship at ESCI Meeting 
April 2012, Budapest, Hungary
Eimear Linehan (PhD student) attended and presented a poster entitled 'Ageing impairs the ability of macrophages to phagocytose myelin debris'

Keystone Symposium: Th17 Cells in Health and Disease
February 2012, Keystone Resort, USA
Andrew Young (PhD student) attended and presented a poster

Infection and Immunity and Translational Research Group Away Day
February 2012, Stormont Parliament Buildings, Belfast
Eimear Linehan, Rachel Hassan and Andrew Young (PhD students) attended and presented posters. Eimear Linehan was awarded 1st prize for her poster.

2011

Australasian Society for Immunology Annual Congress
December 2011, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Denise Fitzgerald was an invited speaker at this meeting. 

British Society of Immunology (BSI) Annual Congress
December 2011, Liverpool ACC, UK
Eimear Linehan and Rachel Hassan (PhD students) attended and presented posters. Andrew Young (PhD student) gave a talk entitled 'Suppression of GM-CSF in murine and human T cells by IL-27'.

Health Research Board (HRB) Annual Research Day
October 2011, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 
Eimear Linehan (PhD student) attended and was awarded 1st prize for her poster. 

MS Ireland’s MSLiving Convention and Research Symposium
September 2011, Dublin, Ireland
Rachel Hassan (PhD student) attended. 

Irish Society of Immunology annual meeting
August 2011, Galway, Ireland
Andrew Young, Eimear Linehan and Rachel Hassan attended (PhD students). Eimear Linehan presented a poster and Andrew Young gave a short talk, for which he was awarded €100 as runner up for the Best Student Presentation.

MS Frontiers Meeting
June 2011, Sofitel London Heathrow, UK
Eimear Linehan and Andrew Young (PhD students) attended and presented posters. Dr Denise Fitzgerald also attended.

The Herrenhausen Symposium on Autoimmunity
June 2011, Seeon, Germany
Dr Denise Fitzgerald attended. 

2010

10th International Congress of Neuroimmunology
October 2010, Barcelona, Spain
Dr Denise Fitzgerald, Eimear Linehan and Andrew Young (PhD students) attended and Andrew Young also presented a poster. 

Multiple Sclerosis Immunology: A foundation for current and future treatments
University of Nottingham, UK 
Dr Denise Fitzgerald attended as an invited speaker.

Pritchard Lecture
QUB, Belfast
Andrew Young, Eimear Linehan (PhD Students) attended. Dr Denise Fitzgerald was an invited speaker