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Updated July 03, 2008
The 2008 Seminar Season will be on hiatus through the summer. Check back the beginning of September for news about our upcoming speakers.

 

 



2008 Seminar Season - Past Seminars

 

June 24 , 2008

Golo Ahlenstiel, MD
Immunology Section
Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK
National Institutes of Health
Title: KIR/HLA Compound Genotypes Regulate Antiviral Response Kinetics of Natural Killer Cells

 

June 17 , 2008

Mark C. Poznansky , MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Title: Exploring novel mechanisms by which HIV-1 dysregulates the immune response to itself: Implications for pathogenesis and vaccine design

 

June 10 , 2008

Daniel J. Irvine , PhD
Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Title: Engineering approaches to immunology: Materials for vaccines and model systems for the study of lymphocyte biology

 

June 3 , 2008

Art Poon, PhD
Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine
Department of Pathology, UCSD
Title: Mapping complex phenotypes to sequence variation in HIV-1

 

June 2 , 2008

Christopher Love, PhD
Texaco-Mangelsdorf Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Microtools for profiling single cells

 

May 27, 2008

Arup Chakraborty, PhD
Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: How T Cells See Antigen

 

May 12, 2008

Michael Dustin, PhD
Professor of Pathology,
Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
Title: Mechanisms of signal initiation, modulation and termination in immunologial synapses

Jim Riley, PhD
Associate Professor, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Title: Building the Bionic T cell to Fight HIV-1 Infection

 

May 6, 2008

Christopher Aiken, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Title: TRIM5alpha and HIV-1 Uncoating: Role of the Proteasome

 

March 25 , 2008

Takamasa Ueno, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Viral Immunology
Center for AIDS Research
Kumamoto University, Japan
Title: Role of Nef-specific CTLs in HIV-1 infection

 

March 4 , 2008

Otto Yang, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics,
AIDS Institute
UCLA Medical Center / Geffen School of Medicine
Title: Designing a CTL-Based HIV Vaccine

 

February 26 , 2008

Philip Norris , MD
Associate Investigator, Director of Immunology, BSRI
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Medicine
Associate Director, UCSF / Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Center for AIDS Research
Title: Relationship between Treg levels and disease outcome in human West Nile virus infection

 

February 12 , 2008

Gordon J. Freeman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Oncology/Hematologic Neoplasia
Harvard Medical School
Title: Immune regulation by CD160 and by TIM proteins

 

January 29 , 2008

Abraham Brass, MD, PhD
Department of Genetics, Center for Genetics and Genomics
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Title: A Functional Genomic Screen Reveals Host Proteins Required for HIV Infection

 

January 15 , 2008

Glenn Dranoff, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Human Gene Transfer Laboratory Core, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Co-Leader, Cancer Vaccine Center, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Title: Balancing Tumor Immunity and Inflammatory Pathology

 

Please contact Doug Kwon at dkwon@partners.org if you have any questions or if you wish to meet with the speakers while they are here.

 

 

   
       

 

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