2012-2013 Seminar Schedule

Immunology and Microbial Sciences Affinity Group Image Seminars are held Thursdays @ 12:00 - 1:00 pm in The Committee Lecture Hall of the Molecular Biology Building at Scripps Research in California, unless otherwise noted.

Students and post-docs at Scripps Research can reserve a space for lunch with the speaker by calling Daniella Carlson at (858)784-2776. Click here for past schedule.

2012 Schedule

	Lawrence Stern, PhD Professor of Pathology University of Massachusetts Medical School “Insights into molecular mechanisms of antigen presentation and T cell activation, from crystal structures of ERAP1, HLA-DO, and SIV-Nef”	09/20/12
	Pamela L. Schwartzberg, MD, PhD Senior Investigator, Genetic Disease Research Branch National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH “Regulating Lymphocyte Interactions: lessons from a Primary Immunodeficiency”	10/18/12
	Abul K. Abbas, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology University of California, San Francisco “Controlling autoimmunity: the effector/regulatory T cell balance”	11/01/12
	Kazuma Tomizuka, PhD Vice president & Chief Scientific Officer Kyowa Hakko Kirin California “New approaches to explore in vivo gene functions and expressions: B-cell complementation system and human artificial chromosomes”	11/08/12
	Herbert "Skip" Virgin, MD, PhD Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair Dept. of Pathology & Immunology Washington Univ. School of Medicine “Role of autophagy proteins in host defense and disease susceptibility”	11/15/12
	Olivier Lantz, MD, PhD Research Director :: Immunity and Cancer Institut Curie, France “Mucosal Associated Invariant T cells: an evolutionarily conserved subset with anti-microbial activity”	11/29/12
	Charles P. Lin, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology Harvard Medical School “Optical techniques for cell tracking in live animals”	12/06/12
	Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD President and Chief Scientific Officer Autoimmune Research; Developmental Immunology La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology “Diverse roles of HVEM, a TNF super family receptor, in controlling immune responses at mucosal surfaces”	12/13/12
2013 Schedule
	Kenneth L. Rock, MD Professor and Chair of Pathology University of Massachusetts Medical School “New insights into MHC class I presentation and T cell development”	01/10/13
	Jonathan Yewdell, MD, PhD Laboratory of Viral Diseases Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section NIH/ NIAID “Adventures in Viral Immunology: Translating DRiPs”	01/17/13
	Special Friday Seminar CANCELED Committee Lecture Hall @ 3 pm Richard Flavell, PhD Professor and Chair, Immunobiology Yale School of Medicine Investigator, HHMI “Inflammasomes in health and disease”	01/25/13
	Nilabh Shastri, PhD Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley “Revealing the inner self. Immune surveillance by killer T cells”	01/31/13
	Paul H. Patterson, PhD Professor of Biological Sciences Division of Biology California Institute of Technology “Brain-Immune-Gut Connections in Autism and Schizophrenia”	02/07/13
	Martin Kagnoff, MD CANCELED Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Director of the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology UC San Diego	02/14/13
	Patrick Wilson, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Rheumatology University of Chicago “Human B cell responses to influenza: insights for vaccine development ”	02/21/13
	Stephen Smale, PhD Professor and Vice Chair Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics UCLA School of Medicine “Selective regulation of pro-inflammatory gene expression”	02/28/13
	Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Director, Signal Transduction Program Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute University of Pennsylvania “TCR Signaling Mutants Uncover Rare Innate-like T cell Populations”	03/07/13
	Special Monday Seminar Imm. East Conference Room @ 4pm Yina Huang, PhD Assistant Professor Washington University Department of Pathology and Immunology “Signals driving T cell migration and activation”	03/11/13
	Anthony DeFranco, PhD Professor Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology UC San Francisco “Mechanisms of TLR stimulation of germinal center antibody responses”	03/14/13
	William Robinson, MD, PhD Associate Professor Division of Immunology and Rheumatology Stanford University School of Medicine “Large-scale characterization of antibody repertoires”	03/21/13
	Daniel B. Stetson, PhD Assistant Professor of Immunology Department of Immunology Univ. of Washington “Endogenous Retroelements and Autoimmune Disease”	03/28/13
	Paul Allen, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Washington Univ. St. Louis “Signaling and specificity of positive selection of CD4+ T cells”	04/04/13
	Eric G. Pamer, MD Investigator Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center “Microbiota-mediated defense against intestinal infection”	04/18/13
	Frederick Alt, PhD Professor of Genetics and Medicine Harvard Medical School “Antigen Receptor Locus Diversification, Genome Stability and Cancer in the Immune System”	04/25/13
	David Schatz, PhD Professor of Immunobiology Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale School of Medicine HHMI Investigator “TBA”	05/02/13
	William Schief, PhD Associate Professor of Immunology Department of Immunology & Microbial Science TSRI “TBA”	05/09/13
	Averil Ma, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology UC San Francisco “TBA”	05/16/13
	Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD Professor Department of Immunology & Microbial Science TSRI “TBA”	05/23/13
	Joseph G. Sodroski, MD Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School “TBA”	05/30/13
	Dario Vignali, PhD Member, St. Jude Faculty Vice Chair, Immunology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital “TBA”	06/06/13
	Jenny Ting, PhD Alumni Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Director, Center for Translational Immunology University of North Carolina “TBA”	06/13/13

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