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2023-2024
| Date | Speaker and Affiliation | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | Kathy McCoy (Calgary) | Cancelled |
| Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | Diane Mathis (Harvard) | William E. Paul Lecture| Thymic Mimetic Cells: Tolerogenic Masqueraders |
| Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | Iliyan Iliev (Cornell) | Immunity, hematopoiesis and cancer through the prism of the gut mycobiome |
| Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | Han-Yu Shih (NEI) | TBD |
| Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Ben Afzali (NIDDK) | TBD |
| Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | Tim Sparwasser (Mainz) | TBD |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | Thierry Gauthier (NIDCR) | TBD |
2022-2023
| Date | Speaker and Affiliation | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Vanja Lazarevic NCI/NIH |
Transcriptional regulation of CD4+ T cells that mediate neuroinflammation |
| Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | Catherine Wu Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard University |
Updates on personal cancer vaccines |
| Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | Michela Locci University of Pennsylvania |
Germinal center responses to messenger RNA vaccines |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Dan Littman, MD, PhD (NYU/HHMI) | Unlocking the logic of microbiota-instructed T cell differentiation |
| Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 2pm | Ron Germain, ScB, ScM, MD, PhD (NIH) | William E. Paul Lecture | Gaining New Insights into 'Fundamental Immunology' Using Imaging and Computation |
| Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | Coleen McNamara, MD (UVA) | The B-side of Atherosclerosis |
| Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | Michelle Linterman (Babraham Institute) | Lost in space: How ageing changes the immune response to vaccination. |
| Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | Claudia Kemper (NIH) | New tricks from a very old dog – the complosome as orchestrator of normal cell physiology |
| Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Marco Colonna (Washington University in St. Louis) | TREM2 signaling in neurodegeneration and cancer |
| Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | David Sancho (CNIC) | Connecting myeloid cell metabolism and function |
| Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | Julie Zikherman (UCSF) | Balancing tolerance and immunity downstream of the antigen receptor |
| Wednesday, December 14, 2022 | Jonathan Kagan (Harvard) | Initiation and Regulation of Innate Immunity |
| Wednesday, December 21, 2022 | Sergio Pontejo (NIH) | Chemokines and anionic phospholipids: new binding partners for microbial killing and apoptotic cell clearance |
| Wednesday, January 4, 2023 | Barbara Kee (University of Chicago) | Transcriptional Control of Innate Lymphocyte Development and Function |
| Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | Klaus Frueh (OHSU) | The unique immune biology of cytomegalovirus-based vaccines |
| Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | Victor Torres (NYU Langone Health) | Mammalian DNases and their role in the tug of war between Staphylococcus aureus and the host |
| Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | Gabriel Victora (The Rockefeller University) | Clonal dynamics of the recall antibody response |
| Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | Andres Hidalgo (Yale) | Diversity of neutrophils |
| Wednesday, February 8, 2023 | Matthew Krummel (UCSF) | Identifying and Modulating Immune Archetypes in Cancer and Beyond |
| Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | Fathia Mami-Chouaïb (Gustave Roussy) | Tissue-Resident Memory T (TRM) cells in cancer |
| Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | Cynthia Dunbar (NIH) | Lineage tracking in rhesus macaques: new insights into natural killer cells and tissue-resident myeloid cells |
| Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | Roi Gazit (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) | Exciting Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
| Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Maria Yazdanbakhsh (Leiden University) | Modulation of immune responses by exposure to environments rich in microorganisms and parasites |
| Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | Cornelia Bergmann (Cleveland Clinic) | Interferons and TREM2 as regulators of murine neurotropic coronavirus pathogenesis |
| Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | Ann Chahroudi (Emory University) | Viral reservoirs and rebound in a model of perinatal HIV infection |
| Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Muzlifah Haniffa (Newcastle University) | Decoding the developing human immune system |
| Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | Michal Bassani-Sternberg (University of Lausanne) | The tumor antigenic landscape associated with T cell infiltration and immunoediting |
| Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | Nobuhiko Kamada (University of Michigan) | Pathogenic communications between the mouth and gut |
| Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | Tobias Hohl (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) | The Last of Us: foiling fungi in the air and in the microbiota |
| Wednesday, May 3, 2023 | Gwendalyn Randolph (Washington University in St. Louis) | Phagocyte and vascular features of the immunological landscape in the gut-mesenteric-peritoneal space |
| Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | Henrique Veiga-Fernandes (Champalimaud Foundation) | Neuroimmune Ecosystems |
| Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | Enfu Hui (UCSD) | Unconventional signaling of CD28 and CTLA4: when their ligands get onto T cells |
| Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | Eric Vivier (Aix-Marseille University) | Harnessing Natural Killer cells in cancer therapies |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Richard Gallo (UC San Diego) | Antimicrobial Peptides, the Microbiome and Human Health |
| Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | Neil Henderson (The University of Edinburgh) | Multimodal decoding of liver regeneration and repair |
| Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | Nicole Joller (University of Zurich) |
Heterologous Immunity: How Infection History affects Inflammatory Diseases |
| Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | Eric Huseby (UMass Med) | MHC-II heterozygosity limits T1D susceptibility through non-cognate negative selection |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | Eui-Cheol Shin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) | IL-15-induced bystander T cell activation in human viral disease |
| Wednesday, July 5, 2023 | Guillaume Gaud (NIH) | CD3z ITAMs mediate TCR ligand discrimination |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | Chuan Wu (NIH) | Immune calibration of neuroendocrine homeostasis |
2021-2022
| Date | Speaker and Affiliation | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021 | Samuel Katz, SIG FARE National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Novel approaches for high-throughput analysis reveal alternative splicing as a critical regulator of macrophage activation |
| Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021 | John Tsang NIH |
Do differences make a difference: integrating human immune health and single cell variations |
| Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021 | Ethan Shevach NIH |
Counterintuitive Immunology: Enhancement of Immune Responses by Blocking MHC I or MHC II |
| Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021 | Kenneth Cadwell New York University |
Host adaptations to microbial diversity |
| Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021 | Pamela Bjorkman Caltech |
Neutralizing antibodies against coronaviruses |
| Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021 | Miriam Merad Mount Siani |
Mapping suppressive myeloid programs in the tumor microenvironment |
| Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 | Christoph Hess University of Cambridge |
Metabolic control of T cell co-stimulation |
| Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021 | John Wherry University of Pennsylvania |
Immunological Memory to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination |
| Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 | Claude Perreault University of Montreal |
Discovery of Actionable Tumor Antigens |
| Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 | Hedda Wardemann Heidelberg |
Guiding malaria vaccine design through functional antigen-receptor repertoire studies |
| Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021 | Brigitta Stockinger Francis Crick |
Environmental input in intestinal tissue repair |
| Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021 | John O'Shea, Bill Paul Lecture NIH |
Cytokine Signaling: The more things change the more they stay the same |
| Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022 | Kristin Hogquist University of Minnesota |
'The thymus: a raucous nursery' |
| Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 | Deborah Fowell Cornell University |
T cell activation niches in inflamed tissues |
| Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022 | Marion Pepper University of Washington |
Imprinted SARS-CoV-2-specific memory lymphocytes define hybrid immunity |
| Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 | Melody Swartz University of Chicago |
Immunoregulatory roles of lymphatic vessels in cancer and opportunities for immunoengineering |
| Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 | Jennifer Gommerman University of Toronto |
Fantastic IgA plasma cells and where to find them |
| Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 | Margaret Ackerman Dartmouth College |
Maternal antibody interventions to prevent early life infection |
| Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 | Greg M. Delgoffe University of Pittsburgh |
Metabolic liabilities and opportunities in cancer immunology |
| Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 | Philippa Marrack National Jewish Health |
The repertoire of T cells bearing TCR alpha/beta receptors |
| Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | Nicola Ternette University of Oxford |
Driving antigen discovery by integrating proteogenomics and de novo peptide sequencing strategies |
| Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | Catherine Blish Stanford |
Modeling COVID-19 immunopathogenesis in vivo and in vitro |
| Wednesday, March 16, 2022 | Montserrat Anguerra University of Pennsylvania |
Understanding genetic contribution for female-biased disease: X-Chromosome Inactivation in immune cells |
| Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | Arthur Weiss University of California, San Francisco |
Unique features in the TCR signaling pathway for recognition of weak ligands and for ligand discrimination |
| Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | Ronen Alon Weizmann Institute |
Integrin signals for lymphocyte differentiation and effector functions: facts and puzzles |
| Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Susan Kaech Salk |
Co-opting tissue resident macrophages in cancer |
| Wednesday, April 13, 2022 | Alessandro Sette Lo Jolla Allergy Institute |
Adaptive responses to SARS CoV2 infection and vaccination |
| Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | Graham Anderson University of Birmingham |
Thymus Generation and Regeneration |
| Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | Richard Flavell Yale |
Mechanisms of pathogenesis revealed by a humanized model of COVID-19 |
| Wednesday, May 4, 2022 | Florent Ginhoux STAR |
Macrophage Biology: From Development to Disease |
| Wednesday, May 18, 2022 | Peng Jiang | Big Data Approaches to Study Intercellular Signaling in Cancer Immunotherapy Resistance |
| Wednesday, May 25, 2022 | Garry Nolan Stanford |
Cancer rearranges the rules in tissue building blocks. A new class of targets for therapy? |
| Wednesday, June 1, 2022 | Joonsoo Kang University of Massachusetts |
Regulation of mucocutaneous inflammation and innate lymphocytes by cholesterol metabolites |
| Wednesday, June 8, 2022 | Akiko Iwasaki Yale |
Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 |
| Wednesday, June 15, 2022 | Gillian Griffiths, WALS University of Cambridge |
Identifying novel genes that impact T cell effector function |
| Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | Niki Moutsopolous NIDCR |
Fibrin is a critical regulator of neutrophil effector function in the mucosal tissue microenvironment |
2020-2021
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 | Elina Zuniga University of California, San Diego |
Type I Interferon Induction and Exhaustion upon Viral Infection |
| Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 | Caetano Reis e Sous, WALS Crick |
DaNGeRous Indigestion and Immunity to Cancer |
| Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 | Michel Nussensweig, Bill Paul Lecture | Human Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 |
| Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 | Harikesh Wong NIAID |
Multicellular Control of Immunological Homeostasis |
| Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 | David Artis Cornell |
Immune Regulation at Barrier Surfaces |
| Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 | Stefan Feske New York University |
Ion channels regulating immunity: ORAI, STIM et al. |
| Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 | Georg Holländer Oxford |
The rise and fall of the thymus: A molecular perspective |
| Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 | Mihalis Lionakis NIAID |
Aberrant type 1 immunity drives susceptibility to mucosal fungal disease |
| Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 | Naomi Taylor National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
Metabolite shifts at the crossroads of T cell and myeloid/erythroid progenitor differentiation |
| Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 | Mike Dustin Oxford |
T cells on the attack against cancer and infection |
| Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2020 | Ken-ichi Hanada NCI |
Single-cell Analysis of Fresh Human Lung Cancers Allows Rapid Cloning of Neoantigen-reactive T-cell Receptors |
| Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 | Chiara Romagnani DRFZ |
T-bet controls lymph node formation by regulating differentiation of fetal innate lymphoid cells (ILC) |
| Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 | Virginia Pascual Cornell |
Human SLE: a complex interferonopathy |
| Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 | Steve Jameson University of Minnesota | ICOS engagement promotes establishment of CD8+ resident memory T cells |
| Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | Menna Clatworthy Cambridge |
B cells and antibodies - uncovering unexpected roles in homeostasis, autoimmunity and defense |
| Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 | Leslie Berg University of Colorado |
Linking TCR Signaling to Variations in Gene Expression |
| Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 | Talal Chatila Harvard |
License to Inflame: Notch4 Treg Cells in Allergic and Viral Lung Diseases |
| Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | Jeffrey Rathmell Vanderbilt |
Fueling T cells: Immunometabolic Checkpoints in Cancer & Inflammation |
| Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | Laura Chopp NCI |
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| Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | Steffen Jung Weizmann Institute |
Probing brain macrophage functions |
| Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | Gérard Eberl Pasteur |
Imprinting and regulation of the immune and nervous systems by microbiota |
| Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | Chuan Wu NCI |
Immune-neural transmission regulates gut sensation |
| Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | Luisa DiPietro University of Illinois, Chicago |
The healing wound: How apoptosis, phagocytosis, and scar formation intersect in the closing chapter |
| Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | Noah Palm Yale |
Mapping uncharted landscapes of host-microbiota connectivity |
| Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | Janis Burkhardt University of Pennsylvania |
The T cell actin cortex: New insights into homeostatic trafficking and immunodeficiency |
| Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | Shannon Turley Genentech |
Stromal evolution in cancer and immunotherapy |
| Wednesday, May 5, 2021 | Christina Leslie Sloan-Kettering |
Decoding T cell dysfunction and the tumor immune microenvironment |
| Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Susan Carpenter University of California, Santa Cruz |
How do long noncoding RNAs function to control inflammation? |
| Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | Virginia Shapiro Mayo Clinic |
Regulation of T cell development and activation by HDAC3 |
| Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | Richard Locksley University of California, San Francisco |
Innate Allergy and Tissue Resilience |
| Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | Frances Lund University of Alabama |
Inflammatory cytokine-mediated control of effector and memory B cell development and function |
| Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | Ananda Goldrath University of California, San Diego |
Transcriptional programming of CD8 T cell responses to infection and malignancy |
| Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | David Underhill Cedars Sinai |
Innate and Adaptive Immunity to the Mycobiome in Crohn’s Disease |
| Wednesday, June 30, 2021 | Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker University of Toronto |
Teaching New Tricks to an Old Thymus |