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MMI Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Date: *September 8 - note location
42nd Annual Charles A. Stuart Memorial Lecture
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D. and Paul M. Knopf, Ph.D.
Speaker:
George R. Stark, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Distinguished Scientist of the Lerner Research Institute and Professor of Genetics
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Molecular Biology
Seminar Title:
“Unraveling complexity in mammalian signaling pathways involving STATs and NfkB




Date: **September 15
*Combined seminar with the Department of Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital - note location below
Speaker:
R. Alan B. Ezekowitz, M.B.Ch.B., D.Phil., F.A.A.P.
Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School
Chief of Pediatrics, Partners Healthcare System
Mass General Hospital for Children
Head of Laboratory of Developmental Immunology,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Seminar Title:
“Innate immunity from flies to man "
*This seminar will be held at the George Auditorium, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903



Date: September 22
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Alfred Ayala, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery (Research)
Department of Surgery
Brown University
Seminar Title:
"Discerning the contribution of apoptotic signaling in shock induced priming for acute lung injury."


Date: September 29
Host: Thais Salazar-Mather, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology and Loboratory Medicine
UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
Seminar Title:
“Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells: Key Players in host anti-viral resistance "



Date: October 6
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Speaker:
M. Pilar Gil, Ph.D.
Instructor of Medical Science (Research)
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Brown University
Seminar Title:
"Type I Interferon Signaling in Immunity to Viral Infection"



Date: October 13
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Speaker:
George Yap, Ph.D.
Manning Assistant Professor of Medical Science
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Brown University
Seminar Title:
"The Th1 Response to Toxoplasma gondii infection: Initiation, Regulation and Execution"



Date: October 20
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
Speaker:
Michael Bustin, Ph.D.
Chief, Protein Section
Laboratory of Metabolism
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Seminar Title:
“Dynamic Protein Networks in Chromatin Function”



Date: October 27
Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Norma Andrews, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
Section of Micropathogenesis
Yale University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
“Regulation of Pathogen Invasion & Survival by Synaptotagmin VII”



Date: November 3
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
Speaker:
Eyal Raz, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
“The Homeostatic Role of Type-1 IFN in experimental colitis”



Date: November 10
Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Mark H. Kaplan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Indiana University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
“STAT4 in T helper cell fate decisions "



Date: November 18
Host: Laurent Brossay
Speaker:
Susan Kaech, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Section of Immunobiology
Yale University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
“Mapping Memory CD8T Cell Development”



Date: December 1
Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
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:
“Understanding Adaptive Immunity: From Molecules to Models to Movies”

Date: December 8
Host: Laurent Brossay
Speaker:
Moriya Tsuji, M.D., Ph.D.
Aaron Diamond Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
Staff Investigator, HIV and Malaria Vaccine Program
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
Seminar Title:
“Novel NKT cell ligands as an adjuvant for HIV/Malaria Vaccines”

Date: December 15
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Marco Colonna, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
“Plasmacytoid dendritic cells in immunity”

Seminar Time and Location

Thursdays, 4:00 PM
Eddy Auditorium, Room 291
Biomedical Center
Brown University Campus

*The Stuart Lecture will be held in Smith-Buonanno, room 106 at 4 PM

**This seminar will be held at George Auditorium, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI, from 4:30 – 5:30 PM.

The MMI 2005 Fall Seminar Series is funded in part by a gift in memory of Dr. Merrill W. Chase
, from his children

   
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