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. 

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series Schedule
2007 - 2008

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

The Committee on Immunology Journal Club is held on Fridays of the Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters of the academic year from 9:00-10:00 a.m. in room W-303 in the GCIS building.  The Journal Club provides a forum for postdoctorates, graduate students and faculty to discuss a wide variety of interesting topics in Immunology.

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)










 Committee on Immunology Work in Progress Schedule

2007 - 2008

The Committee on Immunology Work in Progress is held on Wednesdays of the Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters of the academic year from 4:00-5:00 a.m. in the GCIS buiding in room W-506.

Oct. 24, 2007: Bryan Clay (Sperling) and Jochen Mattner (Bendelac) Feb. 27, 2008 Audrea Troutman (Chong)
Nov. 7, 2007 Rebecca Liu (Jabri) and Angela Colmone (Sipkins)
March 12, 2008 Canceled
Nov. 21, 2007:  Atsushi Tanaka (Storb) and Luciana Moinero (Alegre)
April 1, 2008:  Seth Scanlon (Bendelac) and Sheila Dias (Kee)
Dec. 5, 2007:  Markus Boos (Kee)  and Marei Dose (Gounari) April 16, 2008: Nathan Schoettler (Weigert) and Christin Germar (Gounari)
Jan. 9, 2008:  Tamson Moore (Sperling) and James Lodolce
April 30, 2008 Mendy Miller  (Fu) and Atsushi Tanaka (Storb)
Jan. 23, 2008: Ruth Taniguchi (Kumar) and Tony Cooper (Weigart)  May 14, 2008:  Jeremy O'Sullivan (Guevara) and Yu Yu (Gounari)
Feb. 6, 2008:  Judy Cannon (Sperling lab)  (Canceled)
May 28, 2008:  Emily Ahmed (Chong) and InYoung Kim (Jabri)



Web page contact:
Jill Voss
(773)702-9199
jvoss@uchicago.edu

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

 

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