Previous Seminars
Spring 2012
February 8th – Gwendalyn Randolph
Professor, Pathology and Immunology
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
“Dendritic cell interactions with and trafficking through lymphatic vessels”
Room: L201/203
February 15th – Department of Microbiology and ITP Faculty Candidate Seminar
Louise D’Cruz, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego
“Transcriptional Regulation of Natural Killer T Cell Development and Homeostasis”
Room L504
February 22nd -Cristine Penaranda, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco CA
“Activation of NKT cells by a sphingolipid produced by a gut commensal”
Room L211/213
March 7th – Journal Club
R103
March 21st – Stephanie N. Vogel, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
“The Role of Alternatively Activated Macrophages in the Resolution of RSV-induced Disease”
Room L301
March 28th- Jae U Jung
Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor
Hastings Foundation Professor
Chair of Mol Micro & Immunol Department
Director of USC Institute of Emerging Pathogens & Immune Diseases
“When Autophagy Meets Microbes”
Room L201/203
April 4th – Jyoti Sen, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Investigator, Lymphocyte Development Unit
Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Immunology National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Department of Medicine School of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University
“TCF1 regulates T cell development and function”
Room L201/203
April 11th -Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
“Alpha(v) Integrins: Critical regulators of immunity and tolerance”
Room L110
April 18th – Dennis Metzger, Ph.D.
Professor and Theobald Smith Alumni Chair
Director, Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease
Albany Medical College
“Death from Influenza – Secondary Bacterial Infections are the Culprit”
Room L211/213
April 25th – Journal Club
Room R103
May 2nd – Stephanie Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Medicine (Immunology)
Yale School of Medicine
“A new NOD-like Receptor that regulates the Innate-Adaptive Immune Interface”
Room L110
May 9th – Journal Club
L201/203
Fall 2011
10/26/2011
Peter Henson
Professor of Medicine, Immunology, Pathology, and Pharmacology
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Title: Apoptosis, Inflammation and Immunity
11/2/2011
Deborah Kurosawa
Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Enterohemorrhagic E.coli & their Toxins: Animal Models and New Therapeutics
11/9/2011
David Center
Section Chief, Professor, Pulmonary Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Selective Inhibition of Th2 Responses by Targeting CD4
11/16/2011
No seminar – journal club organizational meeting for ITP students
12 pm, room L201/203
11/23/2011
Thanksgiving Break
No seminar
11/30/2011
Padmini Salgame
Professor and Director, MD/PhD Program & Graduate Medical Research Program
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Title: “Regulation of host immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection”
12/7/2011
Susan Winandy
Asst Professor, Pathology and Lab Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Spring, 2011
1/19/2011
Daniel Remick, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Cockroaches + Endotoxin = Asthma
1/26/2011
Lee Wetzler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
2/9/2011
Gerald Denis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Co-activator and chromatin control of transcription in the immune system
2/16/2011
Kei Yasuda, Ph.D.
Instructor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Toll-like receptors and systemic lupus erythematosus
3/2/2011
Caroline Genco, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Pathogen Mediated Chronic Immune Stimulation Defines TLR Specific Immunoregulatory Events that Promote Atherosclerosis Progression.
3/9/2011
Lisa Ganley-Leal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Host-Parasite Interactions between human CD23 and Schistosomes
3/23/2011
Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Type 2 Diabetes from an Immunologist’s perspective
3/30/2011
Andrew Taylor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: The reassertion of immune privilege by the ocular microenvironment during autoimmune uveitis
4/6/2011
Rahm Gummuluru, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Parasitization of Dendritic Cell Functions by HIV-1
4/13/2011
Steven Holland
National Institutes of Health
4/27/2011
John Connor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Learning to defend against viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm
5/11/2011
Gregory Viglianti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: Targeting Nuclear Receptors to Inhibit HIV Transmission
5/18/2011
Avery August
Cornell University
Fall 2010
WEDNESDAYS, 12:00-1:00 PM, L804 (**Unless otherwise noted**)
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Mark H. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Basic Research
Indiana University
Host: Joseph Mizgerd, Sc.D.
Title, “Transcriptional regulation of T helper subsets”
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
Sue Kim Hanson Lecture
Daniel R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D.
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology
New York University
Host: David Center, M.D.
Location: Keefer Auditorium
Title, “Microbiota and HIV at the Interface of Innate and Adaptive Immunity”
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
Garnett Kelsoe, D.Sc.
Professor of Immunology
Duke University
Host: Andrew Henderson, Ph.D.
Title, “Immunological Tolerance: In Sickness and in Health, ‘till Death….”
OCTOBER 6, 2010
Kenneth Dorshkind, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Host: Andrew Henderson, Ph.D.
Title, “Patterns of B Lymphopoiesis During Senescence and Leukemogenesis”
OCTOBER 13, 2010
David M. Mosser, Ph.D.
Professor
Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
University of Maryland
Host: Amanda Watkins
Title, “Monocyte and macrophage heterogeneity during homeostasis and disease”
OCTOBER 20, 2010
David Masopust, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota
Host: Lisa Ganley-Leal, Ph.D.
Title, “Memory CD8 T cells: issues of quantity, quality, and location”
OCTOBER 27, 2010
D. Branch Moody, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Host: Jillian Richmond
Title, “CD1 Beyond NKT Cells: surprisingly diverse lipid antigens”
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
Gregory Sempowski, Ph.D.
Director, Laboratory of T-Cell Biology and Immune Reconstitution
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Pathology
Duke University
Host: Rahm Gummuluru, Ph.D.
Title, “Augmenting Thymopoiesis”
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
Sina Bavari, Ph.D., PharmD
Chief, Immunology, target identification, and translational research
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Host: Elke Műhlberger, Ph.D.
Title, “Application of “Systems Therapeutic” to infectious diseases and target discovery”
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
Charles L. Sentman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Dartmouth Medical School
Host: Gerald Denis, Ph.D.
Title, “NK cell receptor based cancer immunotherapy”
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Lynda Stuart, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Laboratory of Developmental Immunology
Mass General Hospital
Host: Robin R. Ingalls, M.D.
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Lee J. Quinton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
The Pulmonary Center
Boston University School of Medicine
Title, “The Ins and Outs of STAT3 Signaling During Pneumonia”
**R115**
Spring, 2010
WEDNESDAYS, 12:00-1:00 PM
L804 (**Unless otherwise noted**)
January 27, 2010
ROBERT VONDERHEIDE, M.D., D. Phil
University of Pennsylvania
(Host: David Sherr, Ph.D.)
“Cancer immunosurveillance and immunotherapy: translational strategies for stepping on the gas and cutting the brakes”
February 3, 2010
RICHARD BLUMBERG, M.D.
(Host: Lee Wetzler, M.D.)
“ER Stress and Intestinal Inflammation”
February 10, 2010
PAULA PITHA-ROWE, Ph.D.
Cancelled
John Hopkins School of Medicine
(Host: Caroline Genco, Ph.D.)
“IRF-5, linking innate antiviral response to autoimmunity and cancer”
February 24, 2010
JEFFREY MOLD, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
(Host: David Sherr, Ph.D.)
“Identification of an Endogenous Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand that Could Balance Inflammation and Tissue Repair”
March 17, 2010
JONGSOON LEE, Ph.D.
Joslin Diabetes Center/ Harvard Medical School
(Host: Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D.)
“Regulation of monocyte heterogeneity in obese-induced inflammation and insulin resistance.”
March 31, 2010
DALE UMETSU, M.D., PH.D.
Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
(Host: Jay Mizgerd, Sc.D.)
“The many pathways to asthma: Th2 cells, NKT cells and distinct asthma phenotypes”
April 7, 2010
LISA SPENCER, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
(Host: Lisa Ganley-Leal, Ph.D.)
“Eosinophils: an evolving story”
April 14, 2010
RICHARD TAPPING, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Host: Paola Massari, Ph.D.)
“Human TLR10 is a bona fide TLR2 family member with a unique innate immune function.”
April 28, 2010
JAY KOLLS, M.D.
Louisiana State University, New Orleans
(Host: Jay Mizgerd, Sc.D.)
“Th17 Cytokines and Mucosal Immunity”
May 5, 2010
ANDREW LUSTER, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
(Host: Jay Mizgerd, Sc.D.)
“Chemokine control of effector T cell trafficking”
Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in L504 unless otherwise noted.
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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 |
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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 Seminar Erin 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 |