Program in Immunology Seminar Series: Academic Year 2014-2015

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
Special Seminar 7/31/2014	Maria Julia Westerink, MD	University of Toledo	The immune response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination: a B cell's perspective
9/18/2014	Lawrence S. Lamb, PhD	UAB	Combination Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy for High-Grade CNS Tumors using Drug-Resistant Gene-Modified T Cells
9/25/2014	Rakesh Patel, PhD	UAB	Role of endothelial N-glycan zip-codes in immune cell trafficking
10/2/2014	Tracy McGaha, PhD	Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA	Metabolic Signals and Prevention of Immunogenic Cell Death
10/30/2014	Cox Terhorst, PhD	Harvard Medical School	SLAM Family Cell Surface Receptors: Bridging Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses
11/6/2014	Amy Weinmann, PhD	UAB	The molecular balance between lineage-specifying transcription factors impacts the metabolic and cell cycle profiles of T cells
11/13/2014	Phillip D. Smith, MD	UAB	Role of mucosal macrophages in enteric CMV and HIV-1 infections
Special Seminar 11/14/2014	Ulus Atasoy, MD	University of Missouri School of Medicine	Posttranscriptional gene regulation:sometimes small fish are more important than big ones
11/20/2014	Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD	University of Pennsylvania	Immune regulation of intestinal health and disease
11/27/2014	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
12/4/2014	Brian T. Fife, PhD	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis	Identifying antigen specific cells in type 1 diabetes and pathways for T cell tolerance
12/11/2014	Heidi H. Kong, MD	National Cancer Institute	The skin microbiome in health and skin diseases
12/18/2014	Stuart Frank, MD	UAB	Growth Hormone Signaling: Better Living through Partnership
12/25/2014	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
1/1/2015	New Year Holiday - No Seminar
1/8/2015	Alexander Szalai, PhD	UAB	C-reactive protein and T cell fate in CNS disease: an update
1/15/2015	Laurie Harrington, PhD	UAB	Intestinal Immunity during Homeostasis and Disease
1/22/2015	Anath Shalev, MD	UAB	Diabetes, Cytokines and Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein
1/29/2015	Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD	Harvard Medical School	T cell migration and function during the anti-tumor response
Special Seminar Wednesday 2/11/2015	Darrell Pilling, PhD	Texas A & M University, College Station, TX	Regulation of inflammation and fibrosis by endogenous proteins: Role of Slit2 and pentraxins
2/19/2015	Michael Sieweke, PhD	CNRS, France	Control of macrophage self renewal and identity
2/26/2015	Nabiha Yusuf, PhD	UAB	Toll like receptor-4: Potential player in immunological responses in skin cancer
3/5/ 2015	Robin Hatton, PhD	UAB	The expanding universe of IL-2 regulation
3/12/2015	Hui Hu, PhD	UAB	A Fox(y) link between T cell quiescence and Tfh cell differentiation
3/19/2014	John Volanakis Immunology Lecture Marc Jenkins, PhD	University of Minnesota	What can one T cell do?
3/26/2015	Frank Carbone, PhD	The University of Melbourne, Australia	Generation and Function of Tissue-Resident Memory T cells
4/9/2015	Matthew Stoll, MD, PhD	UAB	Microbiota in Spondyloarthritis
4/16/2015	Lionel B. Ivashkiv, MD	Weill Cornell Medical College, NY	Epigenetic Regulation of Macrophage Polarization and Activation
4/23/2015	Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar Preeyam Patel (Mentor: John Kearney, DDS, PhD) Daniel Silberger (Mentor: Casey Weaver, MD)	UAB	B Cells Generated As a Result of Early Microbial Exposure Dampen the Development of Allergic Disease During Adult Life Role of IL-21 in Adaptive Immunity to Citrobacter rodentium
5/7/2015	David Artis, PhD	Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Weill Cornell Medical College, NY	Immune Regulation at Barrier Surfaces