Use the selection list below to find more information about our seminar programs.
This page shows the Department of Pathology sponsored seminars database for the full
academic year 2007-2008. For a listing of upcoming
Pathology seminars, please select an appropriate link in the select list below.
Please bookmark this page and check back frequently, especially
just before the events you wish to attend, as schedules often shift.
August 2007 |
Tuesday, August 7,
2007
"Identification of T cells associated with graft versus host disease and autoimmunity"
Monika Mak, PhD
Blood Research Institute
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
September 2007 |
Wednesday, September 5,
2007
"Imprinting of gut-homing lymphocytes: when, where, how and why?"
Dr. J. Rodrigo Mora
Assistant Immunologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, September 5,
2007
"Imprinting of gut-homing lymphocytes: when, where, how and why?"
Rodrigo Mora, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School |
Tuesday, September 11,
2007
"Isolation of CD8+ T cells specific for CNS proteins"
Angela Bean
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Tuesday, September 11,
2007
"Examining the role of TFF2 in the immune response"
Freidrich Cruz
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Tuesday, September 11,
2007
"To phenotypically and functionally characterize conventional and T regulatory cells in DAB2-/- mice"
Nidhi Malhotra
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Wednesday, September 12,
2007
"Subduing a Killer: Innate and Adaptive Mechanisms of Resistance to Mousepox"
Luis Sigal, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Member, Fox Chase Cancer Center |
Tuesday, September 18,
2007
"Delineating the inflammatory response to dead cells"
Dipti Karmarkar
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Tuesday, September 18,
2007
"T cell epitopes in the Dengue virus NS1 protein"
Inez Andrea Medado
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Tuesday, September 18,
2007
"Japanese encephalitis/West Nile virus cross-reactive T cell responses"
Derek Trobaugh
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Tuesday, September 18,
2007
"Using Iron to Modulate Listeria Killing in Macrophages"
Gabriel Hendricks
2nd Year Graduate Student
Immunology and Virology Program
UMMS |
Monday, September 24,
2007
"Delineating how gamma delta T cells function, from mouse to human"
Dr. Julie M. Jameson
The Scripps Research Institute |
Wednesday, September 26,
2007
"New structural insights into T and B cell receptors"
Dr. Christopher Garcia
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Wednesday, September 26,
2007
"New structural insights into T and B cell receptors"
Dr. Christopher Garcia
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford Medical School |
October 2007 |
Wednesday, October 17,
2007
"An aminopeptidase defines an endocytic compartment invovled in MHC class I cross-presentation of phagocytosed antigens"
Dr. Peter van Endert
Universite Paris-Descartes/INSERM U580 |
Tuesday, October 23,
2007
"Loading The Groove"
Peter Jensen, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology
University of Utah |
Wednesday, October 24,
2007
"Human Tumor Antigens and a New View of Cancer Immunosurveillance"
Olivera (Olja) Finn, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Dept of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
Wednesday, October 31,
2007
"Class switch recombination: A self-organizing system that is dependent on chromatin architecture, transcription and DNA repair"
Dr. Amy Kenter
University of Illinois College of Medicine |
Wednesday, October 31,
2007
"DISEASES OF THE SMALL AIRWAYS
Seminars in Surgical Pathology in conjunction with Pulmonary Grand Rounds of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
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William Travis, MD
Attending Pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute |
November 2007 |
Wednesday, November 7,
2007
"The Cbl family protiens at the cross roads of immune system development, activation and anti-tumor immunity"
Dr, Hua Gu
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Wednesday, November 14,
2007
"In vivo analysis of the CD8 T-cell response to infection"
Dr. Leo Lefrancois
University of Connecticut Health Center |
Wednesday, November 28,
2007
"The pathogenicity of pandemic influenza viruses"
Dr. Peter Palese
Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
December 2007 |
Wednesday, December 12,
2007
"Calcium signalling in lymphocytes"
Dr. Cynthia Chambers Memorial Lecture"
Dr. Anjana Rao
Harvard Medical School |
Wednesday, December 19,
2007
"IgH Class Switching, DNA breaks, Translocations, and Cancer"
Dr. Frederick Alt
Children's Hospital, Boston |
January 2008 |
Wednesday, January 16,
2008
"Decoding T cell responses to viruses: principles of clonal selection in the periphery"
Dr. David Price
Professor of Infection and Immunity
Cardiff University of Medicine
Medical Biochemistry and Immunology
Wales, UK |
Thursday, January 17,
2008
"The Role of T cell subsets in allergic disease and asthma"
Omid Akbari, PhD
Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, January 24,
2008
"Entry of VSV into cells and expression of its genome"
Dr. Sean Whelan
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School |
Monday, January 28,
2008
"Lymphocyte Differentiation: Lessons from SAP -/- mice"
Jennifer L. Cannons, PhD
National Human Genome Research Institute
Genetic Disease Research Branch
National Institutes of Health |
Thursday, January 31,
2008
"Generation of tolerogenic dendritic cells through a novel E-cadherin maturation pathway"
Aimin Jiang, Ph.D
Department of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine |
February 2008 |
Tuesday, February 5,
2008
"MicroRNA control in the immune system and cancer"
Changchun Xiao, PhD
Immune Disease Institute
(formerly the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
Harvard Medical School |
Thursday, February 7,
2008
"Signaling to engulfment of apoptotic cells-the beginnings of a good meal"
Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Carter Immunology Center
University of Virginia |
Thursday, February 21,
2008
"Macrophage heterogeneity: Biochemical differences and functional consequences"
Dr. David Mosser
Director, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute
University of Maryland |
March 2008 |
Wednesday, March 5,
2008
"TRAIL: From killing to saving immune cells, and its antiviral function"
Dr. Irene Bosch
Associate Professor
CIDVR
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, March 6,
2008
"Molecular control of immunodominance in CD4 T cell responses to antigen: Implications for vaccine design"
Andrea J. Sant, PhD
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center |
Wednesday, March 12,
2008
"Characterization of the HLA-DO/HLA-DM complex"
Dr. Sarah Mortimer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, March 13,
2008
"Jaasiekte Sheep Retrovirus and Ovine Pulmonary Carcinoma"
Dr. Hung Fan
Professor and Director, Cancer Research Institute
University of California, Irvine
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry |
Tuesday, March 18,
2008
"Analysis of a role of tripeptidyl peptidase II in MHC-I antigen presentation"
Masahiro Kawahara, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester
Rock Lab |
Wednesday, March 19,
2008
"To kill a meningococcus"
Dr. Sanjay Ram
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, March 20,
2008
"T cell bioenergetics and apoptosis"
Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University |
April 2008 |
Tuesday, April 1,
2008
"TNF Regulates the Magnitude and Quality of Virus-Specific T Cell Responses"
Dr. Michael A. Brehm, Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Welsh Lab |
Wednesday, April 2,
2008
"A role for NK cells in regulation of CD8 T cell responses during persistent LCMV infection"
Dr. Stephen Waggoner
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 3,
2008
"Regulating expression of the V(D)J recombinase"
Dr. Mark Schlissel
Professor of Immunology
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley |
Tuesday, April 8,
2008
"Why do TCRs bind MHC proteins?
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Dr. Eric Huseby
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department of Pathology
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Wednesday, April 9,
2008
"Immunopathogenesis of Heterologous Flavivirus Infections"
Dr. Sharone Green
Associate Professor
CIDVR
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 10,
2008
"Mucosal immunity and HIV transmission, pathogenesis, and prevention"
Dr. Ronald Veazey
Chair, Division of Comparative Pathology
Tulane University Schoo of Medicine
Tulane National Primate Research Center |
Tuesday, April 15,
2008
"Aminopeptidases And Antigen Presentation
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Arron Hearn, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Rock Lab |
Wednesday, April 16,
2008
"Characterization of T cell memory response to vaccination with viral anitgens"
Dr. Heidi Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
CIDVR
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 17,
2008
"The role of CD8 and endogenous MHCp in T cell antigen recognition and some new faces in thymocyte"
Dr. Nicholas Gascoigne
Professor of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute |
Tuesday, April 22,
2008
"Regulatory CD4+ T cells and heterologous immunity"
Anke Kraft, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Selin Lab |
Wednesday, April 23,
2008
"Genetic approaches to dissecting antigen presentation"
Dr. Eleanor Kincaid
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, April 24,
2008
"The Th17 linegae: development, function and regulation"
Dr. Casey Weaver
University of Alabama, Birmingham |
Tuesday, April 29,
2008
"Inflammatory response to cell death"
Hajime Kono, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Rock Lab |
Wednesday, April 30,
2008
"Inflammation induced by 'danger' signals in the lung"
Dr. Fernando Ontiveros
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
May 2008 |
Thursday, May 1,
2008
"Autophagy and apoptosis regulation of T lymphocyte homeostasis"
Dr. You-Wen He
Associate Professor of Immunology
Duke University Medical Center |
Tuesday, May 6,
2008
"Protection or immunopathology upon heterologous infection: a decision of memory cells"
Myriam F. Wlodarczyk, Graduate Student
Nekker Institute, France and the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Selin Lab |
Wednesday, May 7,
2008
"Stimulation of T cells with Dengue Antigens"
Dr. Steven Hatch
Postdoctoral Fellow
CIDVR
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, May 8,
2008
"Immunological memory following infection or vaccination - how long can it last?"
Dr. Mark Slifka
Associate Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute |
Tuesday, May 13,
2008
"Heterologous Immunity during Chronic Viral Infection in Humans"
Maire Quigley, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Selin Lab |
Wednesday, May 14,
2008
"Combatting Drug Resistance: Lessons from Substrate Recognition in HIV-1 Protease"
Celia Schiffer, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
UMMS |
Thursday, May 15,
2008
"Regulation of TH2 bias: mechanism and disease impact"
Mark Bix, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Wednesday, May 21,
2008
"Epitope Specific Cross-reactive CD8+ T Cells During Heterologous Flavivirus Infections in Mice"
Dr. Rekha Singh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Infectious Disease & Vaccine Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School |
Thursday, May 22,
2008
"Regulatory T cell autoimmunity and infection"
Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D.
University of Washington, Howard Hughes |
Tuesday, May 27,
2008
"Role of gd T and NK cells in resistance to polyomavirus-induced tumors."
Rabinarayan Mishra
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Szomolanyi-Tsuda Lab |
Thursday, May 29,
2008
"Immunological Strategies for Treating Chronic Viral Infections”. "
Dr. Rafi Ahmed
Emory University |
June 2008 |
Tuesday, June 3,
2008
"SHP-1 influences both conventional and regulatory T cell function and development"
Ulrike Lorenz, PhD
Department of Microbiology
University of Virginia School of Medicine |
Tuesday, June 10,
2008
"Novel defects affecting the huma phagocytes respiratory burst function"
Antonia Condino, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
University of Sao Paulo, Spain |
Tuesday, June 10,
2008
"Novel defects affecting the human phagocytes respiratory burst function"
Antonio Condino, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
University of Sao Paulo, Spain |
Tuesday, June 10,
2008
"Abl in TCR signaling"
Wenfang Wu, Phd
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Berg Lab |
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