Speaker Series - Department of Immunology UWSOM

Immunology 573, Mondays, 3:30 PM Fall Quarter 2009: T-733 HSC

Seminar Date
September 14 Ft. Worden Confrence Center, Pt. Townsend, WA	Jonathan W. Yewdell, MD, PhD Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH SANDRA CLARK ENDOWED LECTURE IN IMMUNOLOGY Seminar title: Adventures in viral immunology
October 5	OPEN
October 12	James P. Allison, PhD Professor and Immunology Program Chairman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Seminar title: Immune checkpoint blockade in cancer therapy Research Interests: molecular immunology of the T cell antigen receptor complex, co-stimulatory receptors, and other molecules involved in T cell activation
October 19	OPEN
October 26	OPEN
November 2	OPEN
November 9	Boris Reizis, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology The Weizmann Institute of Science, Columbia University Seminar title: Molecular control of dendritic cell development and homeostasis Research Interests: stem cell function; dendritic cell development and function
November 16	Christopher M. Walker, PhD Director, Center for Vaccines and Immunity, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Wilby S. Cowan Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research, Ohio State University, Seminar title: Cellular immunity in chronic hepatitis C: Can a failed response be rescued? Research Interests: Hepatitis C virus infection
November 23	THANKSGIVING WEEK
November 30	Greg Barton, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Seminar title: Self/non-self discrimination by the Toll-like receptor family Research Interests: function and regulation of Toll-like receptors
December 7	Pamela Schwartzberg, MD, PhD Senior Investigator, Genetic Disease Research Branch National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Seminar title: Regulation of T helper subsets: Lessons from primary immunodeficiencies Research Interests: signal transduction in T lymphocytes
December 14	FINAL EXAM WEEK
December 21	WINTER BREAK
December 28	WINTER BREAK
Immunology 573, Mondays, 3:30 PM Winter Quarter 2010: Location TBA
Seminar Date
January 4	OPEN
January 11	OPEN
January 18	MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. HOLIDAY
January 25	MIDWINTER CONFERENCE, ASILOMAR
February 1	Matthew Krummel, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, UCSF Seminar title: Visualizing antigen presentation and T cell activation in peripheral tissues Research Interests: molecular coordination in T cell signaling and molecular coordination in multipartite interactions
February 8	Stephen Hedrick, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, UCSD Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: immune homeostasis
February 15	HOLIDAY
February 22	GRADUATE STUDENT RECRUITING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
March 1	Kai W. Wucherpfennig, PhD Associate Professor, Department Cancer Immunology & AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: T cell receptor activation and recognition
March 8 WEISER ENDOWED LECTURE	Richard Locksley, MD Marion and Herbert Sandler Distinguished Professor in Asthma Research, UCSF Seminar title to be announced Research interests: development of effector T lymphocytes
March 15	FINAL EXAM WEEK
March 22	SPRING BREAK
Immunology 573, Mondays, 3:30 PM Spring Quarter 2010: Location TBA
Seminar Date
March 29	Douglas R. Green, PhD Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair in Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: central mechanisms of apoptosis in cancer adn the immune system
April 5	OPEN
April 12	Raul Andino, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: replication of RNA viruses and vaccine development
April 19	Yong-Jun Liu, MD, PhD Professor and Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair , Department of Immunology and Director, Center for Cancer Immunology Research, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, UTexas Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: Innate immunity; dendritic cell biology; T cell biology; cytokine biology; vaccine for cancers and viral infectious diseases
April 26	Vijay K. Kuchroo, PhD Professor of Neurology, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard University Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: autoimmune T cell response, role of costimulatory molecules and their receptors in the induction and differentiation of T cells and identification of cell surface molecules differentially expressed on T cell subsets
May 3	Richard Flavell, PhD HHMI Investigator, Professor and Chairman of Immunobiology, Yale University Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: molecular basis of the activation and differentiation of T-lymphocytes; mechanisms of CD4 T cell differentiation to effector cells; autoimmunity
May 10	AAI ANNUAL MEETING
May 17	Michael Dustin , PhD Irene Diamond Professor of Immunology, Skirball Institute of Molecular Medicine, NYU Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: Cell adhesion, T cell activation, immunological synapse, immune cell migration, microscopy
May 24	Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mt. Sinai Seminar title to be announced Research Interests: differentiation and trafficking of monocytes and antigen-presenting dendritic cells
May 31	HOLIDAY
June 7	FINAL EXAM WEEK
June 14	SUMMER BREAK

Speaker Series 2009-2010