2011-2012 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.

2011 Schedule

	Paolo Casali, MD Donald L Bren Professor, Medicine, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Director, Institute for Immunology University of California, Irvine "Immunoglobulin Class Switch DNA Recombination: Induction, Targeting and Beyond”	09/29/11
	Jerrold Olefsky, MD Assoc. Dean of Scientific Affairs Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism UCSD “Role of inflammation in insulin resistance”	10/06/11
	Shane Crotty, PhD Associate Director Center for infectious Disease La Jolla Institute for Allergies and Immunology “Designing vaccines: Differentiation and function of follicular helper CD4 T cells (Tfh)”	10/27/11
	Facundo Batista, PhD Head, Lymphocyte Interaction Laboratory London Research Institute IAVI Lecture “Early events in adaptive immunoresponse: from single molecule to in vivo”	11/03/11
	Nathalie Franc, PhD Assistant Professor, Genetics The Scripps Research Institute “Genetic dissection of apoptotic cell clearance”	11/10/11
	Mike McCune, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Experimental Medicine San Francisco General Hospital UC San Francisco “Human T Cell Development and Maternal Fetal Interactions in utero: Implications for Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV”	11/17/11
	Yueh-Hsiu Chien, MD, PhD Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Member, Cancer Research Stanford School of Medicine “Gamma delta T cell activation: antigen recognition vs. environmental cues”	12/01/11
	Jason Cyster, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco Investigator :: Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF “Intercellular signaling lipids and the adaptive immune response”	12/08/11
	Anjana Rao, PhD CANCELED Professor, Signaling and Gene Expression Research La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology “Signaling to Gene Expression”	12/15/11
2012 Schedule
	Kartik Chandran, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University, NY “Niemann-Pick C1 is a critical intracellular receptor for Ebola virus entry”	01/12/12
	Donna Farber, PhD Professor of Surgery University of Maryland School of Medicine and Columbia University “Translational studies in tissue-specific immune responses”	01/26/12
	Kristin Hogquist, PhD Professor Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Minnesota “TCR signal strength in thymic selection”	02/02/12
	Matthew Krummel, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology University of California, San Francisco “The Immune Bee-Hive: Motor-protein Regulated Motility, Motile Synapses and the Generation of Collective Behaviors in the Immune Response”	02/09/12
	Teresa Ramirez-Montagut, MD, PhD Research Investigator Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation “Development of Cancer Vaccines”	02/16/12
	Cynthia Leifer, PhD Assistant Professor of Immunology College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University “Regulation of nucleic acid-sensing Toll-like receptors”	02/23/12
	Toshi Kawakami, MD, PhD Professor, Allergy & Asthma Research La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology “Histamine-releasing factor: a novel mechanism in asthma and allergy”	03/01/12
	Charles Lin, PhD CANCELED Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology Harvard Medical School “Optical techniques for cell tracking in live animals”	03/08/12
	Chris Hunter, PhD CANCELED Prof. & Chairman, Department of Pathobiology University of Pennsylvania “Predatory T cells”	03/15/12
	John T. Harty, PhD Mark Stinski Chair in Microbial Immunology, Professor, Microbiology University of Iowa “Maintaining Memory CD8 T cells”	03/22/12
	Andrew Luster, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School “Chemokine control of T cell migration in homeostasis and inflammation”	03/29/12
	Christopher Garcia, PhD Professor Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology & Dept. of Structural Biology :: Stanford University School of Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute “Interrogating T cell and cytokine receptor signaling with combinatorial biology and structure”	04/05/12
	Richard Wyatt, PhD Professor of Immunology Director Viral Immunology IAVI Center for Neutralizing Antibodies at TSRI “Neutralizing Antibodies to the HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins”	04/12/12
	J. Lindsay Whitton, MD, PhD Professor of Immunology The Scripps Research Institute “Coxsackievirus evasion and exploitation of host defense systems”	04/19/12
	David Brooks, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics University of California, Los Angeles “Deciphering the underlying mechanisms of immunosuppression and viral persistence”	04/26/12
	Lisa Coussens, PhD CANCELED Professor, Department of Pathology University of California, San Francisco “TBA”	05/03/12
	Mark Shlomchik, MD, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine and of Immunobiology Yale School of Medicine “Lupus Pathogenesis: B vs T and other NET results”	05/10/12
	Ajit Varki, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California, San Diego “Adventures in Anthropogeny: Uniquely Human Features of Sialic Acid Biology”	05/17/12
	Elina Zuniga, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Biological Sciences University of California, San Diego “Host determinants of viral persistence”	05/24/12
	Nir Hacohen, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital “Initiation of immunity to pathogens and self”	05/31/12
	Special Wednesday Seminar Salvatore Valitutti, MD Professor of Immunology University of Toulouse Research Group Leader at the INSERM U1043, Toulouse, France “Human T cell immunological synapses in health and disease” When & Where: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 @ 1:00 pm The Committee Lecture Hall	06/06/12
	Anjana Rao, PhD Professor, Signaling and Gene Expression Research La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology “Signaling to Gene Expression”	06/07/12
	Dale Ian Godfrey, PhD CANCELED Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Melbourne, Australia “NKT cell TCR diversity and its impact on CD1d recognition and lipid antigen specificity”	06/14/12

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