The Committee on Immunology - Past Activities

2011 - 2012

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series Schedule
October 3, 2011 Rafael Casellas
NIH
AID Overrides the Contribution of Nuclear Architecture in B Cell Chromosomal Translocations

October 10, 2011

Peter Cresswell
Yale University

Chaperone Functions in the MHC Class I Peptide Loading Complex

October 17, 2011
Cancelled. To be Rescheduled.

Bali Pulendran
Emory University

Systems Vaccinology

October 24, 2011

Averil Ma
University of California, San Francisco

The Ubiquitous Immune System

October 31, 2011

Marsha Wills-Karp
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 

Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses in Asthma

November 7, 2011

Michael McHeyzer-Williams
The Scripps Research Institute

Programming B Cell Memory

November 14, 2011

Ellen Rothenberg
California Institute of Technology

Creating a T-Cell Identity: New Views from the Genome

November 21, 2011 No Seminar Autumn Immunology Conference

November 28, 2011

Paul Roche
NIH

The Birth and Death of MHC Class II-Peptide Complexes

December 5, 2011

Ward Wakeland
University of Texas Southwestern

A Genomic Analysis of Susceptibility to
Systemic Autoimmunity

December 12, 2011

Uli von Andrian
Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School

Anti-Viral Immune Responses in Lymph Nodes

January 9, 2012

Michael Dustin
New York University

The Immunological Synapse in Health and Disease

January 23, 2012

Dominik Schenten
Yale University

The Role of TLR-Induced IL-1 and IL-6 in the Control of Adaptive Immunity

January 30, 2012

Yang-Xin Fu
University of Chicago

The Role of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Gut Homeostasis in Response to Pathogens, Diet, and Commensals

February 6, 2012

Peter Turnbaugh
Harvard University

A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism

February 13, 2012

Fotini Gounari
University of Chicago

Tcf-1 in Thymocytes: New Tricks of an Old Dog

February 20, 2012

Mark Mandel
Northwestern University

Identification of Factors that Mediate Host Specificity in a Model Mutualism

February 27, 2012

Megan Sykes
Columbia University

Translational Studies of Immune Tolerance

March 5, 2012

Shane Crotty
La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology 

Differentiation and Function of Follicular Helper (Tfh) CD4 T Cells

March 12, 2012 John Wherry
University of Pennsylvania
Regulating T Cell Responses to Persisting Infections

March 26, 2012

Shiv Pillai
Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Promiscuous-T-B Collaboration and T Follicular Helper Cell Generation in the Absence of SIAE

April 9, 2012

Lishan Su
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Modeling Infection and Immunopathogenesis of HCV/HBV in Humanized Mice

April 16, 2012

Kate Fitzgerald
University of Massachusetts

Sensing Cytoplasmic Danger: Role of NLRs and PYHINs in Host-Defense and Inflammation

April 23, 2012

Daniel Cua
Merck Research Laboratories

IL-23 Regulation of Innate and Adaptive Immunity

April 30, 2012

Wendy Havran
The Scripps Research Institute

Crosstalk Between Epithelial  T Cells and Their Neighbors

May 14, 2012

Andrew Luster
Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Chemokine Control of T Cell Migration in Homeostasis and Inflammation

May 21, 2012

Peter Savage
University of Chicago

 

Development and Specificity of Tumor-Associated Regulatory T Cells
June 11, 2012 KOSHLAND LECTURE
Ronald Germain
NIH
The Immune System in Action: Insights into Host Defense from Dynamic Intravital Imaging and Systems Biology

PDF of the 2011/2012 Seminar Schedule

2010 - 2011

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series Schedule
October 4, 2010 Aaron Dinner
University of Chicago

Modeling Regulatory
Networks in Lymphocytes

October 11, 2010

Gary An
University of Chicago

Facilitating Dynamic Knowledge Representation with Agent-Based Modeling: Towards an Evolutionary Paradigm for Biomedical Research

October 18, 2010

Nina Papavasiliou
The Rockefeller University

DNA Editors and RNA Mutators: Cytidine Deaminases and the Immune Response

October 25, 2010

Eyal Raz
UC San Diego

Th17: Canonical vs. Non-Canonical Subsets

November 1, 2010

Kenneth Murphy
Washington University

Transcriptional Control of Macrophages and Dendritic Cells

November 8, 2010

Andrea Cerutti
Mt. Sinai

Regulation of Immunoglobulin Production
and Diversification
by the Innate Immune System

November 18, 2010

Tanya Golovkina
University of Chicago

Retroviruses and Innate Immunity

November 22, 2010 No Seminar Autumn Immunology Conference

November 29, 2010

Carole Ober
University of Chicago

Regulation of Immunoglobulin Production
and Diversification
by the Innate Immune System

December 6, 2010

Greg Barton
UC Berkeley

An Unexpected Relationship Between Pathogen Virulence and Innate Immunity

December 13, 2010

Philippe Gros
McGill University

Genetic Effects in Malaria: from Mice to Humans

January 10, 2011

Nir Hacohen
Harvard University

Reconstructing Molecular Circuits of the Innate Immune System

January 24, 2011

Mattias Von Herrath
UC San Diego

Viral Infection and Type 1 Diabetes, Good or Bad?

January 31, 2011

Allan Aderem
Institute Systems Biology

A Systems Approach to
Dissecting Immunity

February 7, 2011

Erin Adams
University of Chicago

Molecular Studies of Lipid Presentation & T Cell Receptor Recognition of Human CD1 Molecules

February 14, 2011

Barbara Kee
University of Chicago

Regulation of Innate Lymphocyte Development by Id3

February 21, 2011

Thomas Malek
University of Miami

IL-2: At the Interface of Tolerance and Immunity

February 28, 2011

Liang Zhao
Northwestern University

Molecular Modulation of the Th17/Treg Balance and Gut Immunity

March 7, 2011

Chris Karp
University of Cincinnati

Immunobiology of TLR signaling: From
Asthma to Obesity

March 14, 2011 Alan Sher
National Institutes of Health
Opposing functions of IL-1R and IFNR signaling in the innate immune response to Mycobactrium tuberculosis

March 28, 2011

Philippe Sansonetti
Collège de France

Bacteria at Epithelial Surfaces: the Yin of Commensals and the Yang of Pathogens

April 4, 2011
Cancelled - To Be Rescheduled

Ellen Rothenberg
California Institute of Technology

Transcriptional Control of T-Cell Lineage Identity

April 11, 2011

Andre Veillette
McGill University

Signaling by SLAM-SAP Families in Immune Cells

April 18, 2011

Judy Lieberman
Harvard University

Delivering the Kiss of Death: A New Model for Perfori

April 25, 2011

Chris Hunter
University of Pennsylvania

Biology of IL-27

May 2, 2011Cancelled - To Be Rescheduled

Rafi Ahmed
Emory

n/a

May 16, 2011 Robert Rickert
Sanford | Burnham Medical Research Institute
Cellular and Biochemical Mechanisms Regulating Selection of Newly Formed B Cells
May 23, 2011 KOSHLAND LECTURE
Max Cooper
Emory
Evolution of Adaptive Immunity
June 6, 2011

Ira Mellman
Genentech

Endosomes, Dendritic Cells, and Antigen Presentation in Innate and Adaptive Immunity

 

 

2009 - 2010

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series Schedule

September 28, 2009

David Nemazee
The Scripps Research Institute

"Missing Self Recognition by B Lymphocytes"

October 5, 2009

Hans Schreiber
University of Chicago

" Specificity of the T Cell Recaction and Bystander Killing"

October 19, 2009

Yang Liu
University of Michigan

“CD24 and Discrimination of Danger vs. Pathogen Assiciated Molecular Patterns"

October 26, 2009

Jianzhu Chen
MIT

"T Cell-Tumor Cell Interaction and Recent Development of Humanized Mouse Model"

November 2, 2009

Stephen Galli
Stanford

“The Mast Cell Paradox: Mast Cells as Positive and Negitive Regulators of Innate and Adaptive Immunity, and Tissue Remodeling”

November 30, 2009

Javier Di Noia
University of Montreal

“Regulation of the Mutator in Antibody Gene Diversification”

December 7, 2009

Laurie Glimcher
Harvard University

“The XBP1 Story: From Mouse to Man”

December 14, 2009

Lora Hooper
University of Taxas, Southwestern

"Innate Defense of Gut Epithelial"

January 11, 2010
Cancelled - To Be Rescheduled

Daniel Littman
New York University

"Transscriptional Programs During T Lymphocyte Development and Inflammation"

January 25, 2010

Kevin White
University of Chicago

"Nuclear Receptors, Transcriptional Neworks and Cancer"

February 1, 2010

Bana Jabri
University of Chicago

"IL-15 Mediated Control of Tissue Immunity"

February 8, 2010

Herbert (Skip) Virgin
Washington Univesity

"Pathogenic & Symbiotic Interactions Between the Virome & the Genome: New Paradigms & New Players"

Rescheduled
to March 29th, 2010

from February 22, 2010

Julie Blander
Mount Sinai

"Apoptosis and TH17 cell Differentiation"

March 1, 2010

Jon Bromberg
Mount Sinai

“Migration and Function of Treg”

March 8, 2010

Susan Kaech
Yale University

"Memory T Cell Development:
A Life & Death Decision"

March 15, 2010

Steve Smale
University of California ,
Los Angeles

"Selective Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Genes by Chromatin"

March 22, 2010

Lewis Lanier
University of California ,
San Francisco

"NK Cells in Viral Immunity"

April 5, 2010

Carla Rothlin
The Salk Inistitute

"TAMing Inflammation InVivo"

April 12, 2010

Remy Bosslut
National Institutes of Health

"Making a CD4 T Cell"

April 19, 2010

Eric Meffre
YaleUniversity

"Human B Cell Tolerance Checkpoints:
From Individuals to Mouse Models?"

April 26, 2010

Jacques Banchereau
Baylor Health Care System

"Will Dendritic Cell Subsets Help us Address the Challenges of HIV and Cancer Vaccines"

May 3, 2010

Boris Reizis
Columbia University

"Molecular Control of Dendritic Cell Development and Homeostasis"

May 15 & 16, 2010

Abbott Symposium & COI Retreat

Abbott Symposium: Infection and Immunity



Friday, May 14, 2010 -8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Cinema
1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

List of Speakers:

Vishva Dixit
Genentech, San Francisco, CA

Antonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Dan Littman NYU, Langone Medical Center, New York, NY

Ruslan Medzhitov
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Eric Pamer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Bill Paul
NIH/NIAID, Bethesda, MD

Dana Philpott
University of Toronto, Canada

Alexander Rudensky
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Ulrich von Andrian
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA



COI Retreat: Same Place & Time on May 16th, 2010

More information to be Posted Soon.

Please contact Chevette Young for more information: cyoung1@bsd.uchicago.edu or 2-9819.

May 24, 2010

Nancy Speck
University of Pennsylvania

"Runx1 Function in Hematopoietic
Stem Cell Emergence"

June 7, 2010

KOSHLAND LECTURE
Diane Mathis
Harvard University

"AIRE Control of Immunologial Tolerance"

 

 

2008 - 2009

Committee on Immunology Seminar Series Schedule

October 13, 2008

Casey T.  Weaver
University of Alabama at Birmingham

" The Th17 Lineage; Development, Function and Fate"

October 20, 2008

IBD RETREAT

 

October 27, 2008

David Sacks
National Institutes of Health

“In Vivo Imaging of Host-Parasite Interactions Following Transmission of Leishmania by Vector Sand Flies”

November 3, 2008

Anjana Rao
Harvard University

"Transcriptional Programs in T Cells"

November 10, 2008

Cornelis Murre
University of California,
San Diego

“The 3D-Structure of the Immunoglobulin Heave Chain Locus”

November 17, 2008

Mark Anderson

University of California,
San Francisco

“Genetic Control of Immune Tolerance by Aire”

December 1, 2008

Anne Sperling
University of Chicago

“Up-Shifting and Down-Shifting the Th2 Inflammatory Response”

December 8, 2008

Leslie  Berg
University of Massachusetts

"Signaling Pathways that Regulate T cell Development, Activation, and Differentiation"

January 5, 2009

Vijay Kuchroo
Harvard University

"Here, There and Everywhere: Treg & T17 Cells"

January 12, 2009

BSLC 109

Michael Brenner
Harvard University

"Antigen Presentation by CD1: Complementary Roles of Group 1 (CD1a, b and c) and Group 2 (CD1d) Restricted T Cells"

January 26, 2009

Michael Caligiuri
Ohio State University

"Human Natural Killer Cells: Receptor Biology Spills the Secrets"

February 2, 2009

Melissa Brown
Northwestern Univesity

"MASTering the Immune Response: Mast Cells in Autoimmunity"

February 9, 2009

Warren Strober
National Institutes of Health

"The Immunology of the C1AS1-Mutated Knock-in Mouse"

February 16, 2009

Chang-Zheng Chen
Stanford University

“miR-181a is an Intrinsic Modulator of T cell Sensitivity and Selection”

February 28, 2009

Sasha Chervonsky
University of Chicago

"Autoimmune T Cells"

March 2, 2009

(Cancelled)

Randolph Noelle
Dartmouth

"Immune Privilege in Transplant and Cancer"

March 9, 2009

(Cancelled)

Herbert (Skip) Virgin
Washington University

"Pathogenic Virome-Genome Interactions: New Paradigms & New Players

March 16, 2009

Anita Chong
University of Chicago

"Bacterial Infections as Barriers of Transplantation Tolerance"

March 30, 2009
BSLC 001

Art Weiss
University of California,
San Francisco

"Regulation Antigen Receptor Mediated Signal Transduction"

April 6, 2009

Chyi (Chyi-Song)Hsieh
Washington University

"Thymic and Peripheral Regulatory T Cell Development"

April 13, 2009

Steve Reiner
University of Pennsylvania

"Inducing the Cell Fates Required for Immunity"

April 20, 2009

Jason Cyster
University of California,
San Francisco

"Cell Migration Dynamics During the Humoral Immune Response"

April 27, 2009

Dario Vignali
St. Jude Children's
Research
Hospital

"Molecular Control of T Cell Development and Regulatory T Cell Function"

May 4, 2009

Katia Georgopoulos
Harvard University

"Priming of Lineage Potential in the Hematopoietic System"

May 18, 2009

Gwendalyn Randolph
Mt. Sinai

  "Monocytes, Dendritic Cells and Their Migration in Atherosclerosis"

June 1, 2009

KOSHLAND LECTURE
Richard Locksley
University of California,
San Francisco

"Tracking Allergic Immunity In Vivo"

June 4, 2009
GCIS W301 & 303
12:00pm


K. Christopher Garcia
Stanford University

"New Structural Insights into Cytokine Receptor Recognition and Activation"

June 8, 2009

Matthias Wabl
University of California,
San Francisco

"Retroelements in Autoimmune Disease"

June 26, 2009
GCIS W303
9:00am

Nicholas R.J. Gascoigne
The Scripps Research Institute

"The Influence of Endogenous Peptides on T Cell Activation, and Themis, a New Player in Postive Selection"

 



Seminar and Webpage Contact:
Jo Beaudreau
(773)702-1857
beaudreau@bsd.uchicago.edu

 

 

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