Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases

Mass General Immunology Seminar Series schedule

Mass General Immunology Seminar Series

September 6, 2012

Dr. Edda Fiebiger - "IgE-mediated immunity - perspectives beyond mast cell and basophil activation"

September 13, 2012

Dr. Tomasz Zal - "TCR's useful autoreactivity and tissue surveillance"

September 20, 2012

Dr. Filip Swirski - "Innate response activator B cells: a lymphocyte SWAT team"

September 27, 2012

Dr. Nandini Krishnamoorthy - "Breaching of pulmonary homeostasis: dendritic cells and regulatory T cells as targets"

October 4, 2012

Dr. Duane Wesemann - "Primary B cell receptor diversification in the gut lamina propria"

October 11, 2012

Dr. Eric Pamer - "Antibiotics, the microbiota and defense against intestinal pathogens"

October 18, 2012

Dr. Stephan Kissler - "Towards a functional understanding of autoimmunity-associated genes"

October 25, 2012

Dr. Brian Schaefer - "Selective self-eating and other degrading behavior in T cell receptor signaling to NF-kappaB"

November 1, 2012

Dr. Walther Mothes - "Seeing is believing - visualizing individual steps of the retroviral life cycle"

November 8, 2012 - No seminar

November 15, 2012

Dr. Abul Abbas - "Controlling autoimmunity: the effector/regulatory T"

November 22, 2012 - No seminar

November 29, 2012

Dr. Richard Flavell - "Inflammasomes in health and disease"

December 6, 2012

Dr. Chyi-Song Hsieh - "Regulatory T cell development to self and non-self antigens"

December 13, 2012

Dr. Max Cooper - "A Darwinian view of immune system development"

December 20, 2012 - No seminar

December 27, 2012 - No seminar

January 3, 2013 - No seminar

January 10, 2013

Dr. Ming Li - "Control of adaptive immunity by evolutionarily co-opted signaling pathways"

January 17, 2013

Dr. Dennis Kasper - "Regulation of immune maturation by the microbiome"

January 24, 2013

Dr. Mark Ansel - "microRNA regulation of helper T cell responses"

January 31, 2013

Dr. Anne Sperling - "Breaching of pulmonary immune homeostasis: dendritic cells and regulatory T cells as targets"

February 7, 2013 - No seminar

February 14, 2013

Dr. Andy Caton - "How TCR spcificity shapes the formation and activity of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells"

February 21, 2013 - No seminar

February 28, 2013

Dr. Albert Bendelac - "Developmental acquisition of innate lymphoid effector programs"

March 7, 2013

Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi - "Control of immune responses by regulatory T cells"

March 14, 2013

Dr. Jolan Walter - "Immune dysregulation in Rag deficiencies"

March 21, 2013 - No seminar

March 28, 2013

Dr. Dan Campbell - "Control of regulatory T cell homeostasis and function"

April 4, 2013

Dr. Valerie Verhasselt - "Neonates are not prone to oral tolerance: mechanisms and implications for allergic disease prevention"

April 11, 2013

Dr. David Fox - "A role for T lymphocyte interactions with synovial fibroblasts in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis"

April 18, 2013 - No seminar

April 25, 2013

Dr. Talal Chatila - "Induced regulatory T cells in mucosal tolerance"

May 2, 2013 - No seminar

May 9, 2013 - No seminar

May 16, 2013

Dr. Max Krummel - "The immune bee hive"

May 23, 2013

Dr. Adam Lacy-Hulbert - "Apoptosis, autophagy and alpha-v integrins regulate autoimmunity"

May 30, 2013

Dr. Carla Rothlin - "MeTAMorphosis of protein S"