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MMI Fall 2004 Seminar Series

Date: September 9
Host: Christine Biron
Speaker:
John O'Shea, M.D.
Chief, Molecular Immunology & Inflammation Branch
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title:

"Cytokine Signaling: Basic & Applied"



Date: September 16
Host: Wen-Ming Chu
Speaker:
Haichao Wang, Ph.D.
Chief, Basic Science Research Program
Department of Emergency Medicine
North Shore University Hospital-NYU School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
"Discovery of HMGB1 as a late mediator of lethal systemic inflammation"



Date: September 23
Host: George Yap
Speaker:
Lionel B. Ivashkiv, M.D.
Assistant Attending Physician, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Associate Scientist, Department of Medicine,
Hospital for Special Surgery
Seminar Title:
"Inflammatory Modulation of Cytokine Jak-STAT Signaling"



Date: September 30
Host: *Combined seminar with Department of Surgery at RIH
Speaker:
Steven L. Kunkel, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School
Seminar Title:
"The chronic effect of acute inflammation"




Date: October 7
Host: Thais Salazar-Mather
Speaker:
Joshua M. Farber, M.D.
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases
National Institues of Health
Seminar Title:
TBA



Date: October 14
Host: Walter Atwood
Speaker:
Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda, M.D.
Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Brown University
Seminar Title:
TBA



Date: October 21
Host: George Yap
Speaker:
Tricia Serio, Ph. D.
Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, & Biochemistry
Brown University
Seminar Title:
"In Vivo Replication of the Yeast Prion"



Date: October 28
Host: Wen-Ming Chu
Speaker:
Anning Lin, Ph.D.
Ben May Institute for Cancer Research
Committee on Cancer Biology
Seminar Title:
TBA



Date: November 4
Host: Laurent Brossay
Speaker:
Chyung-Ru Wang, Ph.D
Department of Pathology
The University of Chicago
Seminar Title:
"The Regulation and Function of Murine CD1 Molecules"



Date: November 11
Host: Laurent Brossay
Speaker:
Luc Van Kaer, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
"Natural killer T cells: regulators of innate and adaptive immunity"



Date: November 18
Host: Christine Biron
Speaker:
Joan Durbin, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator, Center for Vaccines and Immunity & Investigator,
Center for Microbial Pathogenesis
Columbus Chilrdren's Research Institute
Seminar Title:
TBA



Date: December 2
Host: Christine A. Biron
Speaker:
Helen Su, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Development Section, Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title:
TBA

Date: December 9
Host: Wen-Ming Chu
Speaker:
Sankar Ghosh, Ph.D
Section of Immunobiology
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Yale University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
TBA

Date: December 16
Host: George Yap
Speaker:
Ronald N. Germain, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title:
“T Lymphocyte Activation:  From Self-recognition to Dynamic In Vivo Visualization and on to In Silico Modeling”

Date: February 17
41st Annual Stuart Lecture
Speaker:
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D.
Henry G. Kunkel Professor
The Rockefeller University
Senior Physician
The Rockefeller University Hospital
Seminar Title:
"Harnessing Dendritic Cell Function in vivo"







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