Wednesday Immunology Seminar Series 2011 - 2012
Location: Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue, unless otherwise noted
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PM
This weekly lecture series is one of the most widely attended in the Boston medical area and features presentations by leaders in the field of immunology, both local and international.
Fall 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011:
Dr. Michael Lenardo, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health
"New lymphocyte regulatory pathways revealed by human genetics"
Wednesday, September 14, 2011:
Dr. Paul Kubes, University of Calgary
"Imaging the immune response to sterile injury and infection"
Wednesday, September 21, 2011: FRED S. ROSEN SEMINAR
Dr. Barry Sleckman, Washington University in St. Louis
"DNA Damage Responses in Developing Lymphocytes"
Wednesday, October 5, 2011:
Dr. Mikael Pittet, Mass. General Hospital, Center for Systems Biology
"Remote control of the immune response by tumors"
Wednesday, October 12, 2011:
Dr. Massimiliano Pagani, Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare, Milan, Italy
"Enforcement of T lymphocyte naiveness by microRNAs"
Wednesday, October 19, 2011: FRED S. ROSEN SEMINAR
Dr. Alexander Tarakhovsky, The Rockefeller University
"Control of inflammation by natural and synthetic mimics"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
Dr. Neal Silverman, University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Regulation and Signaling in the Drosophila Immune Response"
Wednesday, November 2, 2011:
Dr. Greg Barton, University of California, Berkeley
"Regulation of intracellular Toll-like receptors"
Wednesday, November 9, 2011: Note: This seminar is in TMEC Amphitheatre
Dr. Boris Reizis, Columbia University
"Molecular control of dendritic cell development and homeostasis"
Wednesday, November 16, 2011:
Dr. Michael McHeyzer-Williams, Scripps Research Institute, California
"Programming B Cell Memory"
Wednesday, November 30, 2011:
Dr. Richard Locksley, University of California, San Francisco
"Allergic immunity: dissecting the components"
Wednesday, December 7, 2011:
Dr. Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
"Immunity in Tuberculosis: From basic to translational research."
Wednesday, December 14, 2011:
Dr. Susan Kaech, Yale University
"Effector and memory T cell fate decisions during infection"
Spring 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012: SEMINAR CANCELED
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Yale University School of Medicine
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012:
Dr. Sebastian Amigorena, Institut Curie
"Antigen presentation and T cell activation by Dendritic Cells"
Wednesday, February 8, 2012:
Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute
"Innate sensing by dendritic cells"
Wednesday, February 15, 2012:
Dr. Jacques Neefjes, Netherlands Cancer Institute
"Data-based Systems Cell Biology of Antigen Presentation by MHC class II molecules"
Wednesday, February 22, 2012:
Dr. J. Christopher Love, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Engineering single-cell technologies to monitor dynamic responses of T cells"
Wednesday, February 29, 2012: FRED S. ROSEN SEMINAR
Dr. David Schatz, Yale University
"Targeting of RAG and AID during V(D)J recombination and somatic hypermutation"
Wednesday, March 7, 2012:
Dr. K. Christopher Garcia, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Interrogating structure, signaling and ligand recognition by Ig superfamily receptors"
Wednesday, March 21, 2012:
Dr. Ananda Goldrath, University of California, San Diego
"Making Good Immunological Memories: Transcriptional Control of CD8+ Immunity"
Wednesday, March 28, 2012:
Dr. Gerard Eberl, Institut Pasteur
"Symbiotic microbiota and development of pro-inflammatory immunity"
Wednesday, April 4, 2012:
Dr. Marco Colonna, Washington University, St. Louis
"Innate Lymphoid Cells in Mucosal Immunity"
Wednesday, April 11, 2012:
Dr. Beth Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
"Viruses, Autophagy, and Innate Immunity"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012:
Dr. Lisa Coussens, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
"Reprogramming Immune Response in Solid Tumors to Enhance Therapy"
Wednesday, April 25, 2012:
Dr. Jason Cyster, University of California, San Francisco
"Sphingolipids and Oxysterols in B cell Immunity and Cancer"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012: EDWIN J. COHN LECTURE
Dr. Shigekazu Nagata, Kyoto University Medical School
"Apoptosis and exposure of phosphatidylserine"
Wednesday, May 9, 2012:
Dr. Hao Wu, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
"Oligomeric signalosomes in Toll-like receptor and TNF receptor signaling pathways – a new concept in signal transduction?"