Harvard Medical School Wednesday Immunology Seminar Series

2007-2008

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 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007:

Dr. Jeffrey Ravetch, The Rockefeller University
"Modulating Immunity through Antibody-Receptor Interactions"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, September 26, 2007:

Dr. Maria Grazia Roncarolo, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Milan, Italy
"Biology and Clinical Application of Regulatory T Cells"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, October 3, 2007:

Dr. Max Cooper, University of Alabama at Birmingham, HHMI
"Evolution of Adaptive Immunity"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, October 10, 2007:

Dr. Lawrence Steinman, Stanford University
"Proteomic Analysis of Brain Lesions In Multiple Sclerosis Reveals Molecules Unexpectedly Engaged in Silencing Inflammation"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, Ocotober 17, 2007:
ANNUAL BENACERRAF LECTURE

Dr. Michel Nussenzweig, The Rockefeller University, HHMI
"Dendritic Cells & B Cells in Immunity & Tolerance"
5:00-6:00 pm
**Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute**

Wednesday, October 24, 2007:

Dr. Bruce Walker, Massachusetts General Hospital, HHMI
"Prospects for durable immune control of HIV infection"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, October 31, 2007:

Dr. Brigitta Stockinger, National Institute for Medical Research, London
"Th17 in the Regulation of Immune Responses"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, November 7, 2007:

Dr. Bruce Beutler, The Scripps Research Institute
"Innate immune sensing and response: forward genetic analysis in mammals"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, November 14, 2007:

Dr. Vijay Kuchroo, Center for Neurologic Diseases, BWH
"Reciprocal relationship between pathogenic Th17 and CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, November 21, 2007:

NO SEMINAR

November 28, 2007:

Dr. Doug Fearon, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
"The Problem of Clonal Persistence Despite Cellular Senescence in the CD8+ T Cell Response"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, December 5, 2007:

Dr. Chris Hunter, University of Pennsylvania
"IL-27 as an antagonist of inflammation"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, December 12, 2007:

Dr. Michael Diamond, Washington University, St. Louis
"The Structural and Immunologic Basis of Antibody Protection against West Nile and Dengue Viruses"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

SPRING 2008

Wednesday, January 16, 2008:

Dr. Menno van Lookeren Campagne, Genentech
"Complement Receptor of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily (CRIg): A new member of an ancient pathway"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, January 23, 2008:

SEMINAR CANCELLED

Wednesday, January 30, 2008:

Dr. Stephen Jameson, University of Minnesota
"T Cell Homeostasis"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, February 6, 2008:

Dr. Amy Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center
"Stem Cells and Tissue Repair"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, February 13, 2008:

Dr. Leo Lefrancois, University of Connecticut Health Center
"Memory T cell Development and Localization in vivo"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008:

Dr. Steve Ziegler, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason
"FOXP3 and CD4 T Cell Function"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, February 27, 2008:

Dr. Piet Gros, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
"Structural complexity of the complement system, with focus on the convertase formation and membrane-attack-complex"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, March 5, 2008:

Dr. Fred Alt, Children's Hospital, CBRI, HHMI
"Class Switching, Editing, DNA Breaks and Lymphoma"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, March 12, 2008:

Dr. Shannon Turley, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"New mechanisms to promote T cell tolerance in lymph nodes and overcome it in tumors"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, March 19, 2008:

Dr. Michael Potter, National Cancer Institute
"Inhibition of plasma cell tumor development"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, March 26, 2008:

NO SEMINAR

Wednesday, April 2, 2008:

Dr. Yasmine Belkaid, NIAID, NIH
"Forging Durable Host-Microbe Interactions: Role of Foxp3 Positive Treg"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, April 9, 2008:

Dr. Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology, University of Washington
"A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunity"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, April 16, 2008:

Dr. Alan Sher, NIAID, NIH
“Self-control of anti-microbial Th1 responses”
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, April 23, 2008:

Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa, London Research Institute
“Innate regulation of dendritic cell function”
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, April 30, 2008:

Dr. Jason Cyster, University of California at San Francisco
"Lymphocyte migration and the antibody response”
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008:

Dr. Judy Lieberman, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
"Granzyme A Enters Mitochondria to Trigger a Serine Death"
5:00-6:00 pm, [Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue]

Wednesday, May 14, 2008: