Program in Immunology Seminar Series: Academic Year 2015 - 2016

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
9/3/2015	Robin Hatton, PhD	UAB	The expanding universe of IL-2 regulation
9/10/2015	Susan Bellis, PhD	UAB	Regulation of cell survival by glycan-dependent death receptor signaling
9/17/2015	Hui Xu, PhD	UAB	Mechanisms of ultraviolet radiation induced immune suppression
10/1/2015	Mariana Kaplan, PhD	NIH-NIAMS	Neutrophils in systemic autoimmunity: casting the NET widely
10/8/2015	John Teijaro, PhD	Scripps Research Institute	Unexpected Roles for Type 1 Interferon: Promoting Immunopathology and Virus Persistence - 2 Sides of the Same Coin
10/15/2015	Janusz Kabarowski, PhD	UAB	Modulating HDL to Identify Novel Immune Suppressive and Anti-inflammatory Lipids in Lupus
10/29/2015	Rosa Serra, PhD	UAB	Mechanisms of chondroprotection by TGF-beta
11/5/2015	Rae S.M. Yeung, MD	University of Toronto, Canada	Of Mice and Men - Lessons Learned from Kawasaki Disease
11/12/2015	Troy Randall, PhD	UAB	Anti-tumor immunity in the peritoneal cavity
11/19/2015	Ross Kedl, PhD	University of Colorado Denver	T cell vaccinology: what infections are not telling us
11/26/2015	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
12/3/2015	S. Louis Bridges, Jr, MD, PhD	UAB	Insights into the Role of Genetics in Rheumatoid Arthritis
12/10/2015	Yi-Guang Chen, PhD	Medical College of Wisconsin, Max McGee National Research Center	Zinc-finger nuclease medaited mutagenesis reveals role of CD137 in type 1 diabetes
12/17/2015	John Mountz, MD, PhD	UAB	Interferon-induced mechanosensing defects impede apoptotic cell clearance in lupus
12/24/2015	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
12/31/2015	New Year Holiday - No Seminar
1/7/2016	Harry W. Schroeder, Jr, MD, PhD	UAB	Selective forces that shape and restrict the antibody repertoire
1/14/2016	Brian Evavold, PhD	Emory University	Force awakens T cell activation
1/21/2016	Hubert Tse, PhD	UAB	The first six years flew by...OR An update on Type 1 diabetes research
1/28/2016	Qi-Jing Li, PhD	Duke University Medical Center	microRNA, a Micromanager with Many Faces
2/4/2016	Etty Benveniste, PhD	UAB	Protein Kinase CK2: From Cancer to Autoimmunity
2/11/2015	Michael Saag, MD	UAB	HIV Bedside to Bench: A model for translational science
2/18/2016	Marcus Clark, MD	The University of Chicago	Targetting Ig-kappa recombination in lymphopoiesis
2/25/2016	Xu Feng, PhD	UAB	Osteoimmunology in Inflammatory Bone Loss
3/5/2016	Marion Pepper, PhD	University of Washington, Seattle	The differentiation of Allergen-specific Th2 memory cells
3/10/2016	Allan Zajac, PhD	UAB	The ascent of memory T cells
3/17/2016	John Volanakis Immunology Lecture Susan Kaech, PhD	Yale School of Medicine HHMI Early Career Scientist	PEPing up T cell responses to infection and cancer
3/31/2016	*Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar* Sara Stone, MSTP Trainee Carson Moseley, Graduate Student	UAB	T-bet regulates memory B cell and long-lived plasma cell development in an influenza model A transcriptional regulatory mechanism governing Th17-driven autoimmunity
4/14/2016	Hongbo Chi, PhD	St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN	mTOR and metabolic control of T cell fate
4/21/2016	John D. Rioux, PhD	Montreal Heart Institute University of Montreal Canada	Going from genetic association to a better biologic understanding and treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases
4/28/2016	Matthew Pipkin, PhD	The Scripps Research Institute, FL	Unraveling How Chromatin Structure Regulates Transcription and the Differentiation of CD8 T cells
5/19/2016	Ravi Bathia, MD	UAB	Regulation and Targeting of Leukemia Stem Cells
5/26/2016	Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD	Cornell University	Mechanisms limiting the formation of memory CD8+ T cells in early life