Program in Immunology Seminar Series: Academic Year 2011-2012

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
9/1/2011	Hui-Chen Hsu, PhD	UAB	Autoreactive germinal centers directed by IL-17 producing CD4 T cells
9/8/2011	Jianming 'James" Tang, PhD	UAB	Immunity to HIV: Lessons from population-based studies
9/22/2011	Jessy Deshane, PhD	UAB	Myeloid-derived regulatory cells in inflammation
9/29/2011	Nabiha Yusuf, PhD	UAB	Toll like receptor-4 mediated cutaneous immune responses:Implications for photodamage and tumor development”.
10/3/2011	Adrian Hayday, PhD	King's College London, UK	The biology and clinical applications of lymphoid stress-surveillance
10/6/2011	Yueh-Hsiuh Chien, PhD	Stanford University	From (the lack of) thymic selection to IL-17 production, why gamma delta T cells are indispensable
10/13/2011	Rachael A. Clark, MD, PhD	Brigham and Women's Hospital	What skin diseases are teaching us about human T cell biology
10/27/2011	John F. Kearney, PhD	UAB	Modulation of allergic airway disease and type 1 diabetes by B cells and antibodies
11/3/2011	Hans-Martin Jaeck, MD	Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany	RNA controls B cells
11/17/2011	David Randolph, MD, PhD	UAB	T cells go to high school: Secondary education and tolerance of recent thymic emigrants in the periphery
11/24/2011	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
12/1/2011	Lisa Schwiebert, PhD	UAB	Exercising the immune response within the asthmatic lung
12/8/2011	James Moon, PhD	MGH, Harvard Medical School	Studying the self-antigen specific T cell repertoire
12/22/2011	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
12/29/2011	New Year's Eve Holiday - No seminar
1/5/2012	Marcus Altfeld, MD, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Antiviral NK cell function in HIV infection
1/19/2012	Etty (Tika) Benveniste, PhD	UAB	Targeting the JAK/STAT pathway for treatment of CNS diseases
1/26/2012	David Chaplin, MD, PhD	UAB	Mycoplasma pneumoniae and asthmatic inflammation: The chicken and the egg
2/2/2012	Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD	First Moscow State Medical University and Moscow State Medical & Dentistry University	Introduction to predictive and preventive medicine: Antibody-Proteases as molecular tools to predict and to prevent demyelination
2/9/2012	Patrick C. Wilson, MD, PhD	The University of Chicago	Human B cell responses to influenza
2/16/2012	David Masopust, PhD	University of Minnesota at Minneapolis	Memory CD8 T cells: Issues of quantity, quality and location
2/23/2012	Annette HH van Boxel-Dezaire, PhD	Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute	Unraveling the Complexity of the Signaling Pathways Activated by IFN-β in order to explain Cell Type-specific Responses and Individual Responsiveness to IFN-β Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
3/8/2012	Douglas Green, PhD	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Cutting both ways: How caspases promote and prevent cell death
3/15/2012	Mark M. Davis, PhD	Stanford University	T cell recognition and repertoire
3/22/2012	John Mountz, MD, PhD	UAB	Menacing Myeloid cells conspire to cause autoimmune disease, from GC to Effector Cells
3/29/2012	Charles Surh, PhD	Scripps Research Institute	T cell recognition of self and commensal microbial antigens
4/5/2012	Tak Mak, PhD	Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto	Control of Immune Homeostasis
4/12/2012	Ramnik Xavier, MD	MGH, Boston	Genes and pathway maps in IBD
4/19/2012	Rafael Casellas, PhD	NIH/NIAMS	B cell susceptibility to translocations: nuclear architecture or promiscuous hypermutation?
4/26/2012	Randall Davis, MD	UAB	Dual Functionality of FCRL Molecules in Innate-like B Cells
5/3/2012	Anath Shalev, MD	UAB	TXNIP, diabetes and inflammation
5/10/2012	Marco Colonna, MD	Washington University School of Medicine	Innate lymphoid cells in mucosal immunity
6/14/2012	Lora Hooper, PhD	UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX	Immune defense of the intestinal epithelial surface

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