Program in Immunology Seminar Series: Academic Year 2018 - 2019

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
9/13/2018	Amy Weinmann, PhD	UAB	Mechanistic insight into T cell differentiation: role for metabolites and genetic variation
9/20/2018	David Cooper, MD, PhD	UAB	Cross-species organ transplantation – The next great medical revolution
9/27/2018	Alexander Szalai, PhD	UAB	CRP and immunosuppression
10/4/2018	Robbie Mailliard, MD	University of Pittsburgh	A little help goes a long way: Programming dendritic cells for the 'kick and kill' of latent HIV
10/18/2018	Randall Davis, MD	UAB	An alternative pathway of early innate-like B cell development
11/1/2018	Charles O. Elson, III, MD	UAB	Targeting memory T cells as immunotherapy of Crohn’s Disease
11/8/2018	Virginia Pascual, MD	Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY	Novel B cell helper pathways in human SLE
11/22/2018	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
11/29/2018	James F. George, PhD	UAB	Mononuclear phagocytes in kidney injury and homeostasis
12/13/2018	Emmanuel Zorn, PhD	Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbia University Medical Center	Innate B Cell Immunity in Human Transplant Rejection
12/27/2018	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
1/10/2019	Jan Novak, PhD	UAB	Glycomedicine: Glycosylation in health and disease
1/17/2019	Randall Q. Cron, MD, PhD	UAB	Macrophage Activation Syndrome – Kill or Be Killed
1/24/2019	Hubert Tse, PhD	UAB	Curbing Antiviral Responses and Encapsulating Islets to Delay Autoimmune Diabetes
2/7/2019	Anita Chong, PhD	University of Chicago	B cell tolerance to allografts
2/14/2019	Craig Maynard, PhD	UAB	Immune control of the mucosa-associated microbiota
2/21/2019	Rodney King, PhD	UAB	Visualizing B cell repertoires, one antibody at a time
2/28/2019	Frances Eyn-Hyung Lee, PhD	Emory University	Model of Human IgE Plasma Cell Generation in the Mucosa
3/7/2019	Melissa Harris, PhD	UAB	Exploiting gray-haired mice to identify and investigate novel aspects of stem cell biology; A story about MITF, innate immunity and hair graying
3/14/2019	Beatriz Ruiz-Leon, PhD	UAB	Regulation of Th2 Cell Responses and Allergic Inflammation through Infant and Adult Life
3/21/2019	Anoma Nellore, MD	UAB	Understanding antigen-specific memory B cell function after influenza vaccination
3/28/2019	Shannon Turley, PhD	Genentech	Stromal-immune interactions in diverse tissue microenvironments
4/4/2019	Lyse Norian, PhD	UAB	Does obesity improve anti-tumor immunity?
4/18/2019	Nora E. Sarvetnik, PhD	University of Nebraska Medical Center	T-Cell Expansions in Pre-T1D
4/25/2019	Gabriel Nuňez, PhD	University of Michigan	Host-Microbiota interactions in Health and Disease
5/2/2019	Alec Davidson, PhD	Morehouse School of Medicine	Environmental circadian disruption in animal models: mortality, inflammation and stroke
5/9/2019	Moon Nahm, MD	UAB	Innate immunity to a non-conserved structure of a pathogen
5/16/2019	Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar Katie Alexander, PhD Zhaoqi Yan	UAB	H. pylori Drives Gastric Epithelial Cell Expression of Glycosyltransferase ST6Gal-I in the Pathogenesis of Gastric Adenocarcinoma in an Organogenesis Model Deficiency of Socs3 Leads to Brain-targeted EAE via Enhanced Neutrophil Activation and ROS Production
5/30/2019	Jeremy M. Boss, PhD	Emory University	Epigenetic regulation of immune responses
6/6/2019	John Volanakis Immunology Lecture Rafi Ahmed, PhD	Emory University	T cell exhaustion and immunotherapy