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Fall 2003 Seminar Series Schedule

MMI Fall 2003 Seminar Series

Date: September 4
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Wen-Cheng Yeh, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor
University of Toronto
Seminar Title:
"Dissection of inflammatory signaling cascades"



Date: September 11
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Zigang Dong, M.D., Ph.D.
Hormel-Knowlton Professor
Executive Director
The Hormel Institute
University of Minnesota
Seminar Title:
"UV induced signal transduction and carcinogenesis"



Date: September 18
Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Steven L. Reiner, M.D.
Chair, Immunology Graduate Group
University of Pennsylvania
Seminar Title:
"Fashioning and re-fashioning T cell fate"


Date: September 25
Host: Paul M. Knopf, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Linda Baum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
The Chicago Medical School
Seminar Title:
"Antibody Dependent Cell-Mediated Cytoxicity (ADCC) against HIV in the Female Genital Tract"




Date: October 2
Host: Walter J. Atwood, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Junona Moroianu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Boston College
Seminar Title:
"Nuclear Import Strategies Developed by High Risk Human Papillomaviruses"



Date: October 9
Host: Thais Salazar-Mather, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Barrett J. Rollins, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title:
"The Chemokine System in Immunity and Cancer"



Date: October 14
42nd Annual Charles A. Stuart Memorial Lecture
Speaker:
Laurie Glimcher, M.D.,
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology,
Professor of Medicine                                   
Harvard School of Public Health                        
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title:
" Lineage Commitment in Lymphocytes "



Date: October 23
Host: Laurent Brossay, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Eric Long, Ph.D.
Section Head, Molecular & Cellular Immunology
Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID-NIH
Seminar Title:
"Regulation of natural killer cell cytotoxicity"



Date: October 30
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Boston University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
"Complicity of Toll-like receptors in the complexity of systemic autoimmunity"



Date: November 6
Host: Laurent Brossay
Speaker: Walter J. Atwood, Ph.D.
Karl Munger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pathology Department
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title:
"Human Papillomaviruses and Cervical Cancer"



Date: November 13
Host: Christine Biron
Speaker: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Charles L. Sentman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Dartmouth University
Seminar Title:
"Biology of Natural Killer cell subsets"



Date: November 20
Host: Christine A. Biron , Ph.D.
Speaker:
Nancy Ruddle, Ph.D.
John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Yale Univeristy
Seminar Title:
“Cytokines, Chemokines, and Adhesion Molecules
in Lymphoid Organogenesis and Neo-organogenesis”

Date: December 4
Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Craig Roy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Section of Microbial Pathogenis
Yale University School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
"Cellular and Immnunological Studies on Legionella Phagosome Transport"

Date: December 11
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Aldolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Seminar Title:
"Inhibition of the Interferon System by Viruses"

Date: December 18
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Speaker:
Frederick Alt, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Center for Blood Research
Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Seminar Title:
"Linking Histones to Cancer"