Harvard Medical School Wednesday Immunology Seminar Series

2009-2010

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.

View of the Weekly Immunology Lecture Series

FALL 2009

Wednesday, September 9, 2009:

Dr. Ken Murphy, Washington University
"The role of Ap-1 heterogeneity in immune system lineages"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, September 16, 2009:

Dr. Alexander Chervonsky, University of Chicago
"Commensals in immunity and autoimmunity"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, September 23, 2009:

Dr. Rich Lewis, Stanford University
"Regulation of calcium signaling in developing and mature T Cells"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, September 30, 2009:

Dr. Peter Cresswell, Yale University
"Mechanisms of Antigen Processing"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, Ocotober 7, 2009:

Dr. Kate Fitzgerald, UMass Medical School
"Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Sensing in the Innate Immune Response"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, October 14, 2009:

Dr. Tak Mak, Ontario Cancer Institute

BENACERRAF LECTURE
"Lymphocyte homeostasis: To kill or be killed"

5:00-6:00 pm
Jimmy Fund Auditorium, DFCI, 35 Binney Street
Reception to follow in Smith Lobby

Wednesday, October 21, 2009:

Dr. Larry Turka, BIDMC
"The Role of the Tumor Suppressor Gene PTEN in T Cell Homeostasis"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, October 28, 2009:
CANCELED - NO SEMINAR

Wednesday, November 4, 2009:

Dr. Steve Reiner, UPenn
“Inducing the cell fates required for immunity”
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, November 11, 2009:

NO SEMINAR

Wednesday, November 18 , 2009:

Dr. Craig Roy, Yale University
"Activation of host immune surveillance pathways by vacuolar pathogens"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, November 25 , 2009:

NO SEMINAR due to Thanksgiving Holiday

Wednesday, December 2, 2009:

Dr. Bana Jabri, University of Chicago
"IL-15: A checkpoint in tissue Immunity"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, December 9, 2009:

Dr. Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota
"Tracking the generation of microbe-specific CD4+ T memory cells"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, December 16, 2009:

Dr. Alain Fischer, Hospital Necker - Enfants
"Primary T cell immunodeficiencies"
5:00-6:00 pm

SPRING 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010:

Dr. Michel Nussenzweig, Rockefeller University
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, February 3, 2010:

Dr. Lewis Lanier, University of California at San Francisco
"Natural Killer Cells in Viral Immunity "
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, February 10, 2010:

TBD

Wednesday, February 17, 2010:

Dr. Warren Leonard, NIH
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, February 24, 2010:

Dr. Hiroshi Kawamoto, Riken Research Center for Allergy & Immunology
"Lineage Restriction Pathway in Hematopoieis: Revision of the Classical Concept of Myeloid-Lymphoid Dichotomy"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 3, 2010:

Dr. Jon Kagan, Boston Children's Hospital
"Cell Biological Aspects of Innate Immunity"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 10, 2010:

TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 24, 2010:

Dr. Jules Hoffman, National Center for Scientific Research
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, April 7, 2010:

Dr. Ludger Klein, University of Munich
"Functional adaptation of thymic antigen presenting cells for T cell repertoire selection"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, April 14, 2010:

Dr. John O'Shea, NIH
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, April 21, 2010:

Dr. Michael Karin, U.C. San Diego
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, April 28, 2010:

Dr. Lora Hooper, UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Innate defense of gut epithelial surfaces"
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, May 5, 2010:

Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University
TBD
5:00-6:00 pm

Wednesday, May 12, 2010:

Dr. Pippa Marrack, National Jewish Medical Research Center
"Adjuvants and the Immune Response"
5:00-6:00 pm

Please check back frequently as additional information will be posted as it is received.

Contact person: Susan Fahlbeck Susan_Fahlbeck@hms.harvard.edu