Previous Seminars

Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in L504 unless otherwise noted.

No Seminar

SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Date Speaker Title(s) Program Host
Jan. 14 Brian Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“iNKT Cells – Standing Guard at the Treg/Th17 Crossroads” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Jan. 21 Ann Haberman, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
“Definition of Migration Patterns by Intravital Two Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy: Germinal Center B Lymphocytes in the Spotlight” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Jan. 28 Rescheduled to April 8

Monday, February 2 Facundo Batista, Ph.D.
London Research Institute
“Early Events in B Cell Activation and Initiation of Immuno Response” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Feb. 11 Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.
MIT/Whitehead Institute
“New Tools for the Immunologist: Protein Surgery and Cloned Mice” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Feb. 20 The Annual Gijs van Seventer Lecture in Immunology
**Bakst Auditorium**
(1230-1:30)
Kevin Marsh, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Immunology Jean Van Seventer
Feb. 25 No Seminar
Mar. 4 Student Seminar
Krishna Moody
(Marshak-Rothstein Lab)
And
Amelia Haas

(David Sherr Lab)
Student Debate Student Seminars
Mar. 11 No Seminar
Mar. 18 Laurent Brossay, Ph.D.
Brown University
“Mechanisms of NK T Cell Activation in Response to Glycolipids or Viral Infection” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Mar. 25 No Seminar
Apr. 1 Dr. Selim Unlu, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Biosensing: Label-free Microarrays Genomics and Proteomics” Center for Nanotechnology and”
Nanomedicine
Caroline Genco
Apr. 8 Kathryn Moore, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“CD36 Ligands Trigger Sterile Inflammation via a Novel Toll-Like Receptor Heterodimer” Immunology Caroline Genco
Apr. 15 Student SeminarErin Trail
(John Connor Lab)And

Daniel Green
(Bill Cruikshank Lab)

“Characterization of S2, an attenuated mutant of VSV, reveals two genetically separable phenotypes”"Two Ligands, One Receptor: CD4 Mediated Desensitization of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1″ Student Seminars
Apr. 22 Marko Radic, Ph.D.
University of Tennesee
“Role of Apoptosis in Shaping B Cell Responses to Nuclear Autoantigens” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Apr. 29 Hy Levitsky, M.D.
John Hopkins University
“Dissecting the Host Immune Response to Cancer” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
May 6 Michelle Kelliher, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts
“NOD2, RIP2, and IRF5 contribute to type 1 IFN response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis” Immunology Caroline Genco
May 13 Clare Baecher-Allen, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Functional comparisons of distinct subsets of human regulatory T cells” Immunology Daniel Green
May 20 No Seminar
May 27 John Harley Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
“The Preposterous Idea That the Epstein-Barr Virus Causes Lupus” Immunology Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Primary teaching affiliate
of BU School of Medicine