Wednesday Immunology Seminar Series

2010 - 2011


Location: Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Ave.


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 2010

 

 

Wednesday, September 15, 2010:

Dr. Yong-Jun Liu, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

"Isolating Nucleic Acid Sensors from Dendritic Cells" 

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, September 22, 2010:

Dr. Greg Petsko, Brandeis University

"How Master Transcriptional Regulators of Immunity Work: Lessons from T-bet"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, September 29, 2010:

Dr. Eicke Latz, UMass Medical School

"Mechanisms of Inflammasome activation by DNA and danger signals"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2010:

Dr. Facundo Batista, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute

"Early events in Lymphocyte Activation"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, October 13, 2010:

Dr. Koichi Kobayashi, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

"Regulation of adaptive immune responses by NLR family proteins"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, October 20, 2010:

Dr. Rafi Ahmed, BENACERRAF LECTURE

"Immunological Memory to Viral Infections"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, October 27, 2010:

Dr. Beth Stevens, Children's Hospital - Boston

"Pruning CNS Synapses : An Unexpected Role for Glia and Proteins of the Classical Complement Cascade"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, November 3, 2010:

Dr. Chang-Zheng Chen, Stanford University

"Micromanagement of the immune system by microRNAs: From Mechanisms to Function"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: Seminar Canceled

 

Wednesday, November 17, 2010:

Dr. Cornelis Melief, Leiden University Medical Center

"Immunotherapy of established disease caused by high risk Human Papilloma Virus"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, November 24, 2010: No Seminar

 

Wednesday, December 1, 2010:

Dr. Sergio Grinstein, University of Toronto

"Imaging phagocytosis: receptors, phospholipids and the cytoskeleton"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, December 8, 2010:

Dr. Andrea Cerutti, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

"Mucosal immunoglobulin class switching in health and HIV infection"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010:

Dr. Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute

"How do regulatory T cells control immune homeostasis?"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

SPRING 2011

 

Wednesday, January 26, 2011:

Dr. Julie Magarian Blander, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

"Innate Immune Sensing of Microbial Viability"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, February 2, 2011: Seminar Canceled due to winter storm.

 

 

Wednesday, February 9, 2011:

Dr. Chen Dong, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

"T Cell Subsets and Inflammation"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011:

Dr. Alexander Flugel, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

"Real-time imaging of auto-aggressive T cells attacking the brain"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, February 23, 2011:

Dr. Shane Crotty, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

"Follicular helper CD4 T cell differentiation and the development of protective antibody responses"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, March 2, 2011:

Dr. Vishva Dixit, Genentech, Inc.

"Signaling lessons from Death Receptors: Inflammasomes and Ubiquitin Editing"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, March 9, 2011:

Dr. Stan Riddell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

"Functional heterogeneity in human CD8+ T cell memory subsets – implications for immunotherapy"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011:

Dr. Drew Pardoll, Johns Hopkins University

"Regulation of Pro-carcinogenic vs Anti-carcinogenic Immune Responses"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011: COHN LECTURE

Dr. Dan Littman, New York University

"Transcriptional Networks and Microbiota in the Regulation of Inflammatory T Cells"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, April 6, 2011:

Dr. Kees Murre, U.C. San Diego

"Global Networks that Orchestrate Lymphocyte Development and Long-Range Genomic Interactions"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011: Seminar Canceled

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011:

Dr. Shannon Turley, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

"The role of lymph node stromal determinants in regulating leukocyte function"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011: FRED S. ROSEN SEMINAR

Dr. Averil Ma, U.C. San Francisco

"Ubiquitin Dependent Immune Regulation"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, May 4, 2011:

Dr. Jamie Rossjohn, Monash University

"T-cell receptor interactions: up close and personal"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011:

Dr. Pamela Schwartzberg, NIH

"Integrating T cell signals"

5:00-6:00 pm