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

 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010:

Dr. Michel Nussenzweig, Rockefeller University

"Antibodies in Immunity and Cancer"

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:

Dr. Eric Vivier, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy

"Natural Killer Cells and Innate Immunity"

5:00-6:00 pm

 

Wednesday, February 17, 2010:

Dr. Warren Leonard, NIH

"Cytokines that share the Common Cytokine Receptor gamma-chain: Old Ideas and New Lessons"

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:

Dr. Fred Alt, Boston Children's Hospital, Immune Disease Institute

"Influence of DNA breaks, Repair Pathways, and Nuclear Positioning on B Cell Chromosomal Translocations:  New Insights from Large Scale Translocation Libraries"
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