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All Lectures will be held in NG3.112 Auditorium at 10:30 a.m.

2009-2010 Schedule    

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST
09/23/09    

Willem van Ewijk

Department of Immunology Leiden University Medical Center

The thymus: Classrooms, teachers and students

Edward K. Wakeland, Ph.D., Professor, Chairman 

Department of Immunology

10/07/09

Nikolas Nikolaidis, Ph.D. Professor

Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University Fullerton

 

Edward K. Wakeland, Ph.D., Professor, Chairman 

Department of Immunology

10/21/09

Matthew Mescher, Ph.D. Professor & Director  

University of Minnesota

Programming naïve CD8 T cells to develop effector functions and memory

David Farrar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor 

Department of Immunology

11/04/09

Marsha Wills-Karp, Ph.D. Professor & Associate Dean

Department of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children's Hospital

 

David Farrar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor 

Department of Immunology

11/11/09

Steve Almo

 

 

11/18/09

Gary Koretsky, Ph.D. Professor

Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

                

Christoph Wuelfing, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Department of Immunology

12/09/09

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. Investigator

Mucoasl Immunobiology Unit, NIAID, NIH

 

Lora Hooper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

12/16/09

Xiaoxia Li, Ph.D. 

Department of Immunology, Lener Research Institute, Cleveland

 

Chandrashekar Pasare, Ph.D.  Associate Professor    

Department of Immunology

01/13/10

Christopher Hunter, Ph.D. Professor & Chair

Department of Pathobiology University of Pennsylvania

 

Felix Yarovinsky, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

01/27/10

John Harty, Ph.D. Professor

Department of Microbiology University of Iowa

 

David Farrar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 

Department of Immunology

02/10/10

Roman Dziarski, Ph.D. Professor

Indiana University School of Medicine

 

 

Lora Hooper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 

Department of Immunology

02/24/10

Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor

Department of Microbiology New York University

 

Chandrashekhar, Pasare, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

03/10/10

Brian Kelsall, M.D., Chief

Mucosal Immunobiology Section, NIAID, NIH

 

Felix Yarovinsky, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

03/24/10 Chen Dong, Ph.D., Professor

Department of Immunology M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  Chandrashekar Pasare, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology
04/07/10 Sarkis Mazmanian, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
  Lora Hooper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology
04/14/10 Virginia Sanders   David Farrar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology
05/05/10 Steve Hedrick
Professor & Chair

Section of Molecular Biology UC San Diego
  Felix Yarovinsky, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

FALL/WINTER 2008

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST
10/08/08    

Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D. Director 

Cancer and Inflammation

Program Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH

Innate Resistance Inflammation, and Carcinogenesis

Felix Yarovinsky, Ph.D 

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

10/22/08

Michael Starnbach, Ph.D Associate Professor

Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Harvard Medical School

Inhibition of T cell responses by bacterial pathogens

Lora Hooper, Ph.D 

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

11/05/08

Markus Mohrs, Ph.D Associate Member  

Trudeau Institute

Tracking Immune Responses with Cytokine Reporter Mice

Felix Yarovinsky, Ph.D 

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

11/19/08

Max Cooper, M.D.   Professor                    

Emory Vaccine Center for Immunology                

Emory University

Convergent Evolution of Adaptive Immune Systems

Chandra Pasare, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

12/03/08

Donna Farber, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

University of Maryland at Baltimore

Memory CD4 T cell responses to influenza virus: a double edge sword

David Farrar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

12/10/08

Laurence Morel       Associate Professor 

Department of Pathology,Immunology

University of Florida

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Mapping Lupus Susceptibility Genes in the NZM 2410 Mouse Model                  

Ward Wakeland, Ph.D 

Chairman/Professor Department of Immunology

12/17/08

Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D  Professor               

Molecular Biology

Whitehead Institute

Protein Surgery and Mouse Engineering: New Tools for the Immunologist and Cell Biologist

Iwona Stroynowski, Ph.D

Professor   Department of Immunology

01/14/09

Jordan Orange, MD/Ph.D Assistant Professor 

Department of Pediatrics/Division of Immunology 

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

The cytolytic natural killer cell immunological synapse

Christoph Wuelfing, Ph. D.             

Associate Professor Department of Immunology

01/28/09

Stephen Jameson, Ph.D Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 

University of Minnesota

T cell homeostasis

Chandra Pasare, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

02/11/09

Robert Munford, Ph.D Professor             

Department of Internal Medicine                             

UT Southwestern Medical Center

TBA

Lora Hooper, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

02/25/09

Tim Mosmann, Ph.D.  Director 

Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

University of Rochester Medical Center

TBA

David Farrar, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

03/11/09

David Artis, Ph.D.    Assistant Professor

Professor of Pathobiology

University of Pennsylvania

Good neighbors: acquisition of commensal bacteria and the regulation of intestinal immune homeostasis

Lora Hooper, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

03/25/09

Lewis Lanier, Ph.D. Professor 

Department of Microbiology & Immunology

University of California

NK cell immunity to viruses0

Nicolai van Oers, Ph.D

Associate Professor Department of Immunology

04/15/09

Dana Philpott, Ph.D Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

University of Toronto

Nod proteins in innate and adaptive immunity

Lora Hooper, Ph.D

Assistant Professor Department of Immunology

 

WINTER/SPRING 2008

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST
1/23/08 Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Yale University
CANCELLED Lora Hooper
2/13/08 Susan Swain, Ph.D.
Trudeau Institute
Novel mechanisms of CD4 memory protection against influenza David Farrar
2/27/08 David Artis, Ph.D.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
CANCELLED Lora Hooper
3/12/08 Jason Cyster, Ph.D.
UC San Francisco
TBA Sally Ward
3/26/08 Robert Schreiber, Ph.D.
Washington University
TBA Iwona Stroynowski
4/9/08 Robert Hardy, M.D.
UT Southwestern
New concepts in the microbiologic and immunologic pathogenesis of M. pneumoniae associated airway dysfunction Nicolai Van Oers
4/23/08 Zhijian "James" Chen, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern
Unraveling the antiviral innate immunity pathways Lora Hooper
5/7/08 Niicolas Gascoigne, Ph.D.
Scripps Research Inst.
TBA Immunology Retreat
Christoph Wuelfing

 

FALL/WINTER 2007

DATE SPEAKER TITLE HOST
**Special Time and Place**
9/17/07
Richard Blumberg, M.D.
Harvard University
The role of FcRn in antigen presentation: extending the horizons of this IgG receptor Sally Ward
*****NOTE: 11:00 am in room NA7.206******
10/24/07 Raphael Clynes, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University
Antibodies as opsonins:  implications for tumor immunity and autoimmunity Sally Ward
11/14/07   

Stephen Schoenberger, Ph.D.

La Jolla Institute

Programming of CD8 T cell responses Christoph Wuelfing
11/28/07 Steven Reiner, Ph.D.
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Specifying T cell fates required for immunity Nicolai Van Oers
12/12/07 Man-Wah Tan, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Modulation of C. elegans innate immunity by the neuroendocrine system Lora Hooper