The Committee on Immunology - Activities

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series

The Committee on Immunology seminar series is held Mondays of the Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters of the academic year from 4:00-5:00 pm. in the Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 205. The seminar series brings prominent Immunologists from all over the world to campus to discuss their research in a public forum, and meet with Immunology faculty and students. 

October 8, 2007	David Roth NYU Medical Center	"Maintaining Genomic Stability in Developing Lymphocytes by Minimizing Alternative Nonhomologous End Joining"
October 15, 2007	Patrick Wilson The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation	“Autoreactive B cells in health and immunity”
October 22, 2007	IBD RETREAT Yasmine Belkaid; NIH	“Natural and induced Treg during parasitic infections”
October 29, 2007	Michael Dustin NYU Medical Center	"Regulation of T cells activation and tolerance through synapses and kinapses"
November 5, 2007	Harinder Singh University of Chicago	“Gene regulatory networks orchestrating cell fates in the immune system”
November 12, 2007	Michel Nussenzweig The Rockefeller University	“Immunity, Tolerance and Cancer”
November 19, 2007	Steve Ziegler Benaroya Research Institute	“TSLP and the regulation of allergic inflammation”
November 26, 2007	Shannon Turley Harvard	"Antigen presentation by dendritic cells and lymph node stromal cells"
December 3, 2007	Eric Pamer Memorial Sloan-Kettering	"Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Microbial Pathogens"
December 10, 2007	Casey Weaver University of Alabama @ Birmingham	“The Th17 Lineage; Development, Function & Fate”
December 17, 2007	NO SEMINAR -QUARTER OVER
January 7, 2008	Michael Caligiuri Ohio State University	“Human NK Cells: Biology and Clinical Implications”
January 14, 2008	David Schatz Yale	“Mechanism and Targeting of Immunoglobulin Gene Somatic Hypermutation”
January 21, 2008	NO SEMINAR - MLK, Jr. DAY
January 28, 2008	Phil Greenberg University of Washington	“Targeting Tumors with T Cells: Recognizing the Antigen is the Easy Part”
February 4, 2008	Polly Matzinger NIH; Head Scientiest,  Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, T-Cell Tolerance and Memory Section	“Conversations between tissues and T cells”
February 11, 2008	NO SEMINAR - RECRUITMENT
February 18, 2008	Maria-Luisa Alegre University of Chicago	“Targeting adaptive and innate immunity for the induction of transplantation tolerance”
February 25, 2008	NO SEMINAR - RECRUITMENT
March 3, 2008	Kristin Hogquist University of Minnesota	"T Cell Development in the Thymus."
March 10, 2008	Chen Dong MD Anderson Cancer Center	“Regulation and function of inflammatory T cells”
March 17, 2008	Harold von Boehmer Harvard Medical School	TBA
March 24, 2008	Alexander "Sasha" Rudensky University of Washington	TBA
March 31, 2008	Veronika Groh Fred Hutchinson-Seattle	TBA
April 7, 2008	NO SEMINAR - AAI CONFERENCE
April 14, 2008	Marco Colonna Washington University; St. Louis	TBA
April 21, 2008	Anjana Rao Harvard	TBA
April 22, 2008	Caetano Reis e Sousa Cancer Research-UK	TBA
April 28, 2008	NO SEMINAR - BMSC RETREAT
May 5, 2008	Koshland Lecture-Shige Nagata Japan	TBA
May 12, 2008	Gary Koretzky University of Pennslyvania	TBA
May 19, 2008	John Cambier University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center	"Silencing of Autroreactive B cells by Anergy: Physiologic Importance and Molecular Underpinning"
May 26, 2008	NO SEMINAR-MEMORIAL DAY
June 2, 2008	Juan Lafaille NYU Medical Center	TBA

Committee on Immunology Friday Journal Club Schedule

2007 - 2008

October 19, 2007	Bryan Clay (Paper link)	March 7, 2008	Albert Bendelac and Barbara Kee
October 26, 2007	Erin Adams (Paper #1) (Paper #2)	March 14, 2008	Bana Jabri and Erin Adams
November 2, 2007	Seth Scanlon  (Paper link)	March 21, 2008	Audrea Truoutman and Mendy Miller (will be held in CIS W-508)
November 9, 2007	Rescheduled	March 28, 2008	Tiphanie Vogel (Boone) and James Lodolce (will be held in CIS W-508)
November 16, 2007	Jeremy O'Sullivan (Paper link) and Angela Colmone (Paper link)	April 4, 2008	Atsushi Tanaka and Rebecca Liu
November 30, 2007	Sarah Powers (Paper link) and Seddon Thomas (Paper link)	April 11, 2008	Azusa Tanaka and Kevin Ramirez
December 7, 2007	Luciana  Molinero (Paper link) and Ruth Taniguchi (Paper link)	April 18, 2008	Tamson Moore and Tanya Golovkina
December 14, 2007	Will DePaolo (Paper link) and Jochen Mattner (Paper link)	April 25, 2008	COI Retreat
January 11, 2008	Michael Seiler (Paper link)	May 2, 2008	Jeannette Messer (will be held in CIS W-508)
January 18, 2008	Markus Boos (Paper link) and Adam Savage (Paper link)	May 9, 2008	InYoung Kim
January 25, 2008	Nathan Schoettler (Paper link)	May 16, 2008	Emily Ahmed
February 1, 2008	Tony Cooper (Paper link) and Cameron MacDearmid  (Paper link)	May 23, 2008	Eric Mortenson
February 8, 2008	Judy Cannon
February 15, 2008	Marisa Alegre
February 22, 2008	Canceled:  Tanya Golovkina (Rescheduled for 3/14/08)
February 29, 2008	Laure Case (will be held in CIS W-508)

Faculty contact:
Dr. Harinder Singh
(773)702-3607
hsingh@uchicago.edu