Program in Immunology Seminar Series: Academic Year 2013-2014

Seminars are in the Bevill Biomedical Research Building, room 170, on the dates shown below, from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
9/12/2013	Hui-Chen Hsu, PhD	UAB	B-cell Traveling from the Marginal Zone to the Germinal Center, A Mechanism of Type I interferons-induced Autoimmunity
9/19/2012	Yi-Ping Li, PhD	UAB	Understanding of the role of Osteo-immune gene in inflammatory diseases and cancer
9/26/2013	Tomasz Zal, PhD	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Visualizing Anticancer Immune Surveillance and Immunotherapy
10/10/2013	Yang Yang, PhD	UAB	How do osteolytic cancer cells modify the bone microenvironment in distant bone?
10/17/2013	Boris Calderon, MD	Washington University School of Medicine	Central antigen presentation events in autoimmune diabetes
10/24/2013	Maaike Everts, PhD	UAB	The Alabama Drug Discovery Alliance: Translational Science through Collaboration
11/7/2013	Vanessa Ezenwa, PhD	University of Georgia	Exploring the ecological consequences of immunity: Can helminth-mediated immune suppression predict patterns of infection at the population and species levels
11/21/2013	Outstanding Trainee Lecture: Gordon Meares, PhD	UAB	AMPK and ER stress in Neuroinflammation
11/28/2013	Thanksgiving Holiday - No seminar
12/5/2013	Randy Cron, MD, PhD	UAB	Blurring of the Distinction between Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis and Macrophage Activation Syndrome
12/12/2013	Lewis Lanier, PhD	University of California at San Francisco	Natural Killer cells in viral immunity
12/19/2013	Pater Mannon, MD	UAB	Endotypes of Disease in Ulcerative Colitis
12/26/2013	Christmas Holiday - No Seminar
1/2/2014	New Year Holiday - No Seminar
1/16/2014	Prescott Atkinson, MD	UAB	Emerging Macrolide Resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae – Subtle Pathogen Implicated in Chronic Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disorders
1/23/2014	Andre Ballesteros-Tato, PhD	UAB	In vivo regulation of T follicular helper (Tfh) cell responses by Interleukin-2
1/30/2014	Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD	Harvard University	T cell migration and function during the anti-tumor response
2/6/2013	Roslyn Mannon, MD	UAB	The Barriers to Successful Kidney Transplantation: Translational Studies to Improve Outcomes
2/13/2014	Gloria Soldevila, PhD	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	New roles of the TGFβ superfamily in the regulation of the immune system
2/27/2014	Alexander Khoruts, MD	University of Minnesota	Can a fecal transplant alter the immune response?
2/28/2014	Polly Matzinger, PhD	NIH	Tissue-based control of immunity
3/20/2014	V. Michael Holers, MD	University of Colorado Denver	Complement in the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Arthritis: How Animal Models Inform the New Era of Human Therapeutics
3/27/2014	Moon Nahm, MD	UAB	Immunologic lessons from pneumococci
4/3/2014	Robert Stroud Advanced Trainee Seminar: Lindsey Padgett Nathan Bowers	UAB	LP - NADPH oxidase-deficient macrophages display an elevated M2 macrophage phenotype to prevent autoimmune diabetes NB - Neutrophil extracellular traps contribute to chronic inflammation in HIV-1-infection
4/10/2014	Suresh Boppana, MD	UAB	HCMV reinfections – failure of immunity?
4/17/2014	John Volanakis Lecture in Immunology: Shane Crotty, PhD	La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology	Genetics of Tfh cell differentiation
5/8/2014	Anjana Rao, PhD	La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology	Transcriptional programmes in T cells
5/15/2014	Roberta Pelanda, PhD	University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine	Development and function of an unusual B cell subset with the potential to drive autoimmunity
5/29/2014	Eric G. Pamer, MD	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	Microbiota-mediated defense against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
6/5/2013	Victor J. Thannickal, MD	UAB	Fibrosis: A Disease of Innate Immunity
6/26/2014	Hilde Cheroutre, PhD	La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology	Immune Regulation without Compromising Protective Immunity at the Mucosal Borders