12-19-2017- Faculty Candidate Speaker: Dr. Min Wu, M.D. Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota Title: Can non-coding RNA's Regulate Inflammation in Bacterial Infection Host: Dr. Harley Tse |
12-12-2017 Speaker: John Guatelli, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Title:"How HIV-1 Vpu and Nef Co-op Endosomal Trafficking Pathways to Evade Host Immunity." Host: Dr. Raghavendar Thipparthi |
11-28-2017 - Faculty Candidate Speaker: Wook-Jin Chae, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine Title: Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1): A new immunomodulator of inflammatory diseases. Host: Dr. Harley Tse |
11-14-2017 Speaker: Yuru Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine Title: Regulation of alveolar type II Cells in in the repair of lung injury. Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang |
10-31-2017 -Faculty Candidate Speaker: Heather M. Gibson, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Title: Genetic Linkage analysis and immunoPET imaging to identify regulators of immunotherapy response. Host: Dr. Harley Tse |
10-17-2017 - Faculty Candidate Speaker: Eric Sebzda, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. Division of Molecular Pathogenisis, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr, Nashville, TN. Title: Targeting immune regulators to treat autoimmunity and cancer. Host: Dr. Harley Tse |
10-10-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP Speaker: Shari Pilon-Thomas, Ph.D., Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy with Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes Host: Wei-Zen Wei, PhD |
10-03-2017 - Orten Lecture Speaker: Dr. Michael Levin, Professor, Vannevar Bush Chair Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems Title: Rewriting bioelectrical pattern memories for the control of growth and form: exploiting somatic primitive cognition for regenerative medicine. Host: BMI graduate students and Dr. Domenico Gatti |
9-26-2017 Speaker:David Crich, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, WSU Title: "Shaping Next Generation Aminoglycoside Antibiotics for Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Diseases. Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari |
9-12-2017 Speaker:Joseph Brunzelle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team, Argonne, IL Title:"Structural Biology and LS-CAT at the Advanced Photon Source." Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari |
9-05-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP Speaker: Xiaoping Zhong, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University Title: Signal control of invariant T cell development and function Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, Henry Ford Health System |