Fall 2016 | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Talk | Sponsored in part by: |
9/12/2016 | Avery August, Ph.D. | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Steve Jameson | “Kinase turntabilism: tuning T cell effector responses”. | |
9/26/2016 | Megan Sykes, M.D. | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University New York, NY | Brian Fife | “Tracking the human allo response in transplant recipients” | |
10/3/2016 | Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. | Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University Atlanta, GA | Dave Masopust/Vaiva Vezys | " T Cell Memory and Exhaustion" | Biothera |
10/17/2016 | John Kappler, Ph.D. | Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado | Brian Fife | "Breaking through T cell self-tolerance" | BioLegend |
11/7/2016 | Larry Turka, M.D. | Center for Transplantation Sciences (CTS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA | Marc Jenkins | “Regulatory T Cells - from Basic Biology to the Clinic" | Miltenyi Biotec |
12/5/2016 | Shane Crotty, Ph.D | Department of Immunology, La Jolla Institute, San Diego CA | Ph.D. Students invite | "Vaccine immune response evaluation. Assessing the engines of affinity maturation: germinal centers and Tfh cells | Transnetyx |
Spring 2017 | | | | | |
1/30/2017 | June Round, Ph.D | Department of Pathology, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT | Marc Jenkins | "The immune system sculpts the microbiota to prevent obesity and metabolic disease" | |
2/13/2017 | Russell Vance, Ph.D | Division of Immunology and Pathogenesis, University of California, Berkeley, CA | Bryce Binstadt | “Strategies for Cytosolic Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens” | |
2/27/2017 | Virginia Shapiro, Ph.D | Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN | Mike Farrar | "Regulation of T cell development and lineage commitment by Hdac3" | Tonbo |
3/13/2017 | Jane Buckner, M.D. | Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA | Jerry Molitor | "The Role of IL-6 in T1D" | Miltenyi Biotec |
3/27/2017 | Dan Littman, Ph.D | Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY | Vaiva Vezys | "Shaping of Immune Responses by the Microbiota." | BioLegend |
4/10/2017 | Arlene Sharpe, Ph.D, M.D. | Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard University, Boston, MA | Bruce Blazar | "Multifaceted Functions of the PD-1 Pathway" | BioLegend |
4/24/2017 | Amy Andreotti, Ph.D. | Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA | Marc Jenkins/Tanya Freedman | "Exploring the conformational switches within the Tec kinases; regulating the immune response at the molecular level” | Bio-Techne |
5/8/2017 | Darrell Irvine, Ph.D | Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA | Marc Jenkins | "Engineering immunity in cancer" | Bio-Techne |