Program in Immunology Seminar Series Academic Year 2017-2018

Seminars are in the Bevill Biomedical Research Building, room 170, on the dates shown below, from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
9/21/2017	Hongwei Qin, PhD, PhD	UAB	The Function of Protein Kinase CK2 in CD4 T Cell Differentiation and Autoimmunity
10/5/2017	Andrew Collins, PhD	School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences University of New South Wales	Antibody repertoire development in the mouse and human: It may be stochastic, but nothing is left to chance
10/19/2017	Jaroslaw Zmijewski, PhD	UAB	Activation of phagocytes
11/2/2017	Peter Nigrovic, MD	Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy	Megakaryocytes as Immune Cells
11/9/2017	Andre Ballesteros-Tato, PhD	UAB	Control of T Follicular Regulatory (Tfr) cell responses during influenza infection
11/16/2017	Ichiro Tanuichi, MD, PhD	Riken Center for Integrative Medical Sciences	Roles of Runx Transcription Factors during T cell development
11/23/2017	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
11/30/2017	Andrew West, PhD	UAB	Neuroinflammation in the progression of Parkinson disease
12/7/2017	J. Edwin Blalock, PhD	UAB	Activated PMN Exosomes: Pathogenic Entities Causing Matrix Destruction in the Lung
12/28/2017	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
1/4/2018	Subbarao Bondada, PhD	University of Kentucky	Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Novel Growth Regulatory Mechanisms
1/11/2018	Jessy Deshane, PhD	UAB	Exosomes and T helper Responses in Asthma
1/25/2018	David Standaert, MD, PhD Ashley Harms, PhD	UAB	The role of Neuroinflammation in Parkinson disease
2/1/2018	Robin Hatton, PhD	UAB	Pioneers of the chromatin landscape of CD4 T cells
2/8/2018	Daniel L. Barber, PhD	NIAID	Protective and Pathogenic CD4 T cell responses in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
2/15//2018	Stijn De Langhe, PhD	UAB	Lung stem cells and their niche
3/1/2018	Marcella V. Maus, MD, PhD	Dana Farber/Harvard Medical Center	CAR T cells: the new wonder drugs
3/8/2018	Kristin Hogquist, PhD	University of Minnesota	Thymic selection of soldiers and peacekeepers
3/15/2018	Chander Raman, PhD	UAB	TGFβR3 (Betaglycan) function in T cells and in autoimmune neuroinflammation
3/22/2018	Thomas Malek, PhD	University of Miami	IL-2 and regulatory T cells: From basic mechanisms to therapies for autoimmune diseases
3/29/2018	*Stroud Advanced Immunology Lecture* Danielle Chisolm Sarah Dulson	UAB	Mechanistic connections between metabolic and differentiation programs in T cells STAT4 is required for protective Innate Lymphoid Cell responses to gastrointestinal infection
4/5/2018	Garnett Kelsoe, D.Sc.	Duke University	The Germinal Center: New Biology from an Ancient Response
4/12/2018	John Harty, PhD	University of Iowa	T resident memory in the lung
4/19/2018	Mandy J. McGeachy, PhD	University of Pittsburgh	Th17 differentiation and function in mouse and human
5/17/2018	Nicole Frahm, PhD	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Preventing infections with variable viruses: HIV vaccines and beyond
5/24/2018	Gregory C. Ippolito, PhD	The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences	Molecular level analysis of protein antibody repertoires in autoimmune diseases
5/31/2018	*John Volanakis Immunology Lecture* Daniel Mucida, PhD	The Rockefeller University	Tissue adaptation: implications for gut immunity and tolerance
6/7/2018	Frank Wolschendorf, PhD	UAB	Nutritional immunity and the doom of invading microbes