Departmental Seminar – April 22, 2016
Seminar Series: Spring 2016 ~~ Friday, April 22, 2016
2:00-3:00 PM
“Cellular Stress and Innate Signaling: Integrating Therapeutic Pathways in the Host Defense and Inflammation”
Pranoti Mandrekar, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Translational Science Graduate Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Location & Time:
670 Albany Street
Lobby Level #107/108
2:00-3:00 PM
Friday, April 22, 2016
Target Audience: Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT’s Bulletin).
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to: 1) state that binge or moderate alcohol exposure impairs host defense and increases susceptibility to infection because of compromised innate immune responses 2) recall that there is a lack of consensus on the molecular mechanism by which alcohol mediates this immunosuppression; and 3) report that cellular stress proteins HSF1 and hsp70 play a mechanistic role in alcohol-mediated inhibition of the TLR4/MyD88 pathway.
Course Director: Barbara Slack, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.