Events
The Research Division of Immunology (RDI)—Department of Biomedical Sciences and Kao Autoimmunity Institute, co-host a seminar series featuring lectures on a broad range of topics related to immunology and immunotherapy. Other seminars and research-in-progress series on immunology-related topics are also hosted by other groups.
Previous and upcoming speakers in the RDI Immunology Seminar Series include:
- Tanya Freedman, University of Minnesota: “Pro-inflammatory and protective roles of Lyn kinase”
- Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University School of Medicine St Louis: “Mechanisms that govern dissemination of inflammatory signals from the intestine - lessons from immune cells and HDL in transit”
- Ken Cadwell, University of Pennsylvania: “Gene-environment interactions in inflammatory disease”
- Ari Molofsky, University of California, San Francisco: "Stromal-Immune Niches for Tissue Lymphocytes"
- Susan Lynch, University of California, San Francisco: "Microbial Future-Proofing"
- Stephen Girardin, University of Toronto: "Control of the colonic mucus barrier by NLRP6 during parasitic infection"
- Louis-Marie Charbonner, Harvard Medical School: "Strategies to mitigate immune dysregulation mediated by Foxp3 deficiency"
- Michael Lenardo, National Institutes of Health: "Gene Identification in Congenital Immune Disorders Leads to Precision Medicine Treatments"
- Stephanie Eisenbarth, Northwestern University: "The immune response to allogeneic red blood cells: what it teaches us about splenic architecture and innate immunity"
- Hal Hoffman, University of California, San Diego: "NLRP3 in diseases of man and mice"
- Lawrence Fong, University of California, San Francisco: "Determinants of response to immunotherapy in cancer patients"
- George Tsokos, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: current concepts on the cellular and molecular pathogenesis and prospects for new treatments"
- Paul Kubes, University of Calgary: “Imaging the immune response to infection in lung, skin and liver”
- Connie Weyand, Mayo Clinic: "Mitochondria in Autoimmune Disease"
- Alessandra Pernis, Hospital for Special Surgery: “Regulation of B cells by ROCK kinases in immunity and autoimmunity”
- Aviv Regev, Genentech Research: "Cell Atlases as Roadmaps to Disease"
- Gretchen Diehl, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: "Microbiota and Intestinal Immunity"
- Barbara Rehermann, National Institutes of Health: "Wild Mouse Microbiota in Preclinical Models of Inflammation and Metabolism"
- Catherine "Lynn" Hedrick, Medical College of Georgia: "Monocytes and Immunotherapy Responses in Human Cancers"
- Nicholas Collins, Weill Cornell Medicine: "Nutritional Optimization of Immunity"
- Theresa Alenghat, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: "Regulation of the host-microbiota relationship"
- Chandrashekhar Pasare, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: "Mechanisms of memory T cell-driven innate inflammation"
- June Round, University of Utah: "Adaptive Immunity Promotes a Mutually Beneficial Association Between Commensal Eukaryotes"
- Bana Jabri, University of Chicago: "Compartmentalization of Immune Responses in Health and Disease"
- Anthony Rongvaux, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: "Using Humanized Mice to Study Hematopoiesis and Immunity in Health and Disease"
- Tiffany Scharschmidt, University of California, San Francisco: "Living at Peace With Our Skin Bacteria: Early Life Lessons"
- Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology: "Gene network and epigenetic mechanisms controlling the generation of T lymphocytes"
- Randy Longman, Weill Cornell Medicine: “Microbial Regulation of Mucosal and Systemic Immunity in IBD”
- Phillip West, Texas A&M University: “Mitochondrial Control of Innate Immunity and Inflammation: implications for Mitochondrial Disease and Aging”
- Arlene Sharpe, Harvard Medical School: “The Biology Behind the PD-1 Pathway”
- Julie Blander, Weill Cornell Medicine: “Cell Death in the Intestinal Epithelium: Implications for IBD”
- David Masopust, University of Minnesota Medical School: “Resident Memory T Cell Distribution, Function and Developmental Plasticity”
- Manuela Raffatellu, University of California, San Diego: “Mucosal Immunity During Salmonella Infection”
- Andreas Baumler, University of California, Davis: “Healthy Guts Exclude Oxygen”
- Hilde Cheroutre, La Jolla Institute for Immunology: “CD4 Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes: Not a Contradiction But an Absolute Necessity at the Mucosal Borders”
- Eicke Latz, University of Massachusetts Medical School: “The Art of Keeping Inflammasomes Silent”
- Jonathan Kagan, Harvard Medical School: “Initiation and Regulation of Innate Immunity”
- Jessica Hamerman, Benaroya Research Institute: “TLR Signaling, Monocytes Differentiation and Macrophage Activation Syndrome”
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