| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 01/23/2006 | Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Ph.D. Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey |
“Biology of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and their Role in HIV Infection” |
| Host: Dr. Christel Uittenbogaart | ||
| 02/13/2006 | Thomas Wynn, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health |
“Regulation of chronic inflammation and fibrosis by IL-13 and its decoy receptor” |
| Host: Dr. Carrie Miceli | ||
| 03/06/2006 | Lewis L. Lanier, Ph.D. Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor, Cancer Research Institute, UCSF |
“Negative regulation of innate immunity by ITAM-bearing receptors” |
| Host: Dr. John Timmerman | ||
| 03/13/2006 | Steven M. Dubinett, M.D. Professor, Medicine and Pathology, Director, UCLA Lung Cancer Research Program David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
“Immune and Inflammatory Regulation of the Lung Cancer Environment” |
| Host: Dr. John Timmerman | ||
| 03/20/2006 | Michael Jensen, M.D. Director, Pediatric Oncology Program City of Hope Medical Center |
“Translational Aspects of T Lymphocyte Gene Transfer For Cancer Immunotherapy Applications” |
| Host: Dr. John Timmerman | ||
| 03/24/2006 | Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. Scientist, National Institute of Immunology New Delhi, India |
“Mechanism of Survival of Salmonella in Macrophages” |
| Host: Dr. Debi Nayak | ||
| 04/03/2006 | Michael Carroll, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics & Pathology Harvard Medical School & The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research |
“The Complement System and Humoral Immunity” |
| Host: Dr. Paul Dempsey | ||
| 04/24/2006 | Joseph Craft, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Yale University |
“Pathogen challenge: A role for innate-like lymphocytes” |
| Host: Dr. Ram Raj Singh | ||
| 05/25/2006 | Kam C. Yeung, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology Medical University of Ohio |
“A Dual Role of RKIP in NF-kB Signaling” |
| Host: Dr. Benjamin Bonavida | ||
| 06/12/2006 | Robert Schreiber, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine |
“Cancer Immunoediting: Fundamental Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications” |
| Host: Dr. Genhong Cheng | ||
| 06/19/2006 | Benjamin M. Segal, M.D., Associate Professor, Director, Neuroimmunology Research Departments of Neurology, Microbiology & Immunology, and the Cancer Center, University of Rochester |
“Cytokines, Chemokines and the Blood- Brain-Barrier: Implications for Future Therapies in Multiple Sclerosis” |
| Host: Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl | ||
| 06/19/2006 | Dr. Barbara Shacklett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine University of California, Davis |
“Mucosal immunity: the first line of defense against HIV-1 infection” |
| Host: Dr. Christel Uittenbogaart | ||
| 07/20/2006 | Graham Pawelec, Ph.D. Professor, Transplantation and Hematology Section University of Tubingen, Germany |
“Longitudinal Studies Implicate Cytomegalovirus in Accelerating Human Immunosenescence” |
| Host: Dr. Rita Effros | ||
| 07/24/2006 | Luc Van Kaer, Ph.D. Department of Microbiology and Immunology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
“Modulation of Immune Responses with Ligand-Activated Natural Killer T Cells” |
| Host: Dr. Ram Raj Singh | ||
| 08/22/2006 | Dominique Charron, M.D., Ph.D. Director, INSERM U662, Paris, France |
“The APC Side of the Immunological Synapse: MHC II Membrane Organization and Signalling” |
| Host: Dr. Elaine Reed | ||
| 09/11/2006 | Mark Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Immunobiology Yale University School of Medicine |
“Activation and Regulation of Autoreactive B Cells: Tolls, T cells, and Tolerance” |
| Host: Dr. Ram Raj Singh | ||
| 09/15/2006 | Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D. Nobel Prize Laureate Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The University of Melbourne www.advance.org |
“Plagues, Pestilence and Influenza” |
| Host: Dr. Genhong Cheng | ||
| 11/06/2006 | Betty Diamond, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Columbia University |
“Thresholds of B Cell Selection and Autoimmunity” |
| Host: Dr. Ram Raj Singh | ||
| 11/14/2006 | Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., Professor, Biological Sciences, Translational Oncology Program, UC San Diego |
“NKT Cells Act at the Convergence of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in the Response to Microbes” |
| a Microbial Pathogenesis Training Grant Seminar Host: Dr. Lee Goodglick and Philip Liu (Modlin Lab) | ||
| 11/20/2006 | Howard T. Petrie, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Scripps/Florida Research Institute |
“Dissecting Novel Stromal Signals that Control Lymphopoiesis in the Post-Natal Thymus” |
| Host: Dr. Kenneth Dorshkind | ||
| 11/27/2006 | Michael L. Dustin, Ph.D. Irene Diamond Associate Professor of Immunology and Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine NYU School of Medicine |
“A Dynamic View of the Immunological Synapse” |
| Host: Dr. Carrie Miceli | ||
| 12/6/2006 | Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Professor of Immunobiology and Investigator, HHMI Yale University School of Medicine |
“Toll Pathway of Innate Immunity” |
| a Microbial Pathogenesis Training Grant Seminar Host: Dr. Stephen Smale and Scott Pope (Smale Lab) | ||
| 12/11/2006 | Anjana Rao, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology CBR Institute for Biomedical Research Harvard Medical School |
“Signalling to Transcription: the Ca/calcineurin/NFAT pathway” |
| Host: Dr. Ram Raj Singh | Date | Speaker | Title |