Seminar Series: Academic Year 2020-2021

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
9/19/2019	Harry W. Schroeder, Jr, MD, PhD	UAB	Implications of genetic restrictions on the antigen repertoire
9/26/2019	Zaza Ndhlovu, PhD	Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard Africa Health Research Institute	Lessons from Acute HIV infection that inform Immune Cell Based HIV Cure strategies
10/3/2019	Peter Cresswell, PhD, FRS	Yale School of Medicine	Adventures in MHC class I-restricted cross-presentation
10/10/2019	Laurie Harrington, PhD	UAB	Regulation of Pathogenic CD4 T Cell Responses during Autoimmunity
10/17/2019	Jeffrey C. Rathmell, PhD	Vanderbilt University	Fueling T cells in inflammation and cancer
Friday, 10/25/2019, 12-1 pm, Shelby 105	Patrick C. Wilson, PhD	University of Chicago	Influenza in context: insights from antibody-mediated immunity guiding novel influenza vaccine design
11/7/2019	Paulo C. Rodriguez, PhD	Moffitt Cancer Center	Restoring protective anti-tumor immunity by targeting central mediators of Myeloid and T cell activities
11/14/2019	Troy Randall, PhD	UAB	Manipulating anti-tumor immunity with HDAC inhibitors
11/21/2019	Hassan Jumaa, PhD	University Hospital Ulm, Germany	Role of immunoglobulin gene modifications in autonomous signaling and abnormal B cell responses
11/26/2020	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
12/19/2019	Carolyn Baloh, MD	Duke University Medical Center	Issues across the lifespan of patients with 22q11.2 DiGeorge Syndrome
12/26/2019	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
1/2/2020	New Year Holiday - No Seminar
1/9/2020	Louis B. Justement, PhD	UAB	Differential Expression of the Adaptor Protein HSH2 Regulates Terminal Differentiation of B Lymphocytes and the Qualitative Nature of the Humoral Response
1/16/2020	Luis J. Montaner, DVM, PhD	The Wistar Institute	Marshalling Innate Immunity: Clinical Implications of Recent Advances in Cure-Directed Research
1/30/2020	Shannon Kahan, PhD	UAB	Instructing anti-viral CD8 T cell fate
2/13/2020	Luisa Cervantes-Barragan, PhD	Emory University School of Medicine	Role of microbiota and diet in the development of intestinal T cells
2/20/2020	Jonathan S. Bromberg, MD	University of Maryland School of Medicine	Lymph Node Structure in Tolerance: New Insights from Microbiota and Bio-Engineering
3/5/2020	Lucy Walker, PhD	Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, Division of Infection and Immunity, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK	CTLA-4-mediated control of follicular helper T cells and autoimmunity
3/12/2020	Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar Sushma Boppana Doctoral Candidate NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Mentor: Paul Goepfert, MD, Medicine-Infectious Diseases Ashley Landuyt Doctoral Candidate GBS Immunology Theme Mentor: Craig Maynard, Ph.D, Department of Pathology	UAB	HIV-1 evolves towards gaps in CD8T-cell response cross-reactivity T-dependent antibodies and IL-10 cooperatively maintain colonic immune homeostasis
Seminars for the rest of the Academic Year 2019-2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic