Brown University Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Calendar of Events

SRP Seminar Series 2011-2012

P20-Children's Environmental Health Seminar Series 2011-2012

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Seminar Schedule Fall 2011

Date and Host

Speaker

Seminar Title

September 22

Hosted by:
 Laurent Brossay

Alan Rothman, M.D.
Institute for Immunology and Informatics
Professor, College of the Environment and Life Sciences
University of Rhode Island

“A double-edged sword: protective and pathologic immunity in secondary dengue virus infections”

September 29

ADVANCES IN INFLAMMATION RESEARCH
Conference at Rhode Island Hospital

 

October 6

Hosted by:
Christine A. Biron

Wendy Watford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases
University of Georgia College for Veterinary Medicine

“Regulation of effector T cell responses by the serine-threonine kinase, tumor progression locus 2 (Tpl2)”

October 13

 

Hosted by:
Andrew G. Campbell

Avery August, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Co-sponsored by IMSD

“Same Signal, Different
Outcome: Tec Kinases in
Innate Immune T Cells”

October 20

 

 

Hosted by:
 Christine A. Biron

Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Leo and Julia Forchheimer Chair in Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University

"Thoughts on the Origin of Virulence"

October 27

 

Hosted by:
Richard Bennett

Igor C. Almeida, PhD
Professor
The Border Biomedical Research Center
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso

“Systems biology approaches for development of vaccines and drugs against Trypanosoma cruzi”

November 3

Hosted by:
Christine A. Biron

Vijay Rathinam, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School

 

November 10

 

 

Hosted by:
 Richard Bennett

47th Annual Charles A. Stuart Memorial Lecture:

Joseph DeRisi, Ph.D.
Gordon Tomkins Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
HHMI Investigator
University of California, San Francisco

 

November 17

 

Hosted by:
Laurent Brossay

Michael Brenner, M.D.
Theodore Bayles Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

“CD1 self-antigen recognition by invariant TCRs translates microbial danger signals”

November 24

Thanksgiving

 

December 1

 

Hosted by:
 Christine A. Biron

Leo Lefrancois, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut Health Center
Professor of Immunology and Director, Center for Integrated Immunology & Vaccine Research
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility                  

 

December 8

Hosted by:
Laurent Brossay

Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Esther Elizabeth Brintzenhoff Professor
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department
Brown University

 


Seminar Time and Location:
Thursdays, 4:00 pm
Room 291, Eddy Auditorium, BioMed Center
Brown University campus

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

 


Last updated: September 6, 2011 |   Questions & Comments: Beth_Martin@brown.edu