Seminar Series – Spring 2012
Spring 2012 Seminar Series, Wednesdays, 12-1pm (room varies)
Details for some dates are still being finalized and will be filled in
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
