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2009 Immunology Research in Progress

The "Immunology Research in Progress" seminar series is co-sponsored by the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity (IHII), the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology, Pathology, and Pediatrics.

Presenters will be faculty members and senior postdoctoral fellows/graduate students who are in the areas of research for "immune regulation or host defense." For sign up or questions/suggestions, please contact Dr. Lynn Soong either by phone 409-772-8149 or via email.

Room: Levin Hall 2.222 (unless otherwise noted)
Times: Wednesday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

DATE NAME OF PRESENTER TOPIC 08/27/08 Frank Scholle Asst. Professor Dept. of Microbiology North Carolina State U. (Host: P. Mason) Virus-host interactions during the early stages of West Nile virus infection LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202 09/17/08 Edward Sherwood The role of natural killer cells in the pathogenesis of septic shock LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202 09/24/08 Catherine Schein Determining epitopes responsible for cross-reactions of allergens LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202 10/01/08 Lynn Soong Innate immune responses to Leishmania parasites 10/08/08 10/15/08 Iryna Pinchuk Human colonic myofibroblasts/fibroblasts as a regulators of CD4+ T cell activity 10/22/08 Sandhya Das Chemokine and chemokine receptor interaction 10/29/08 11/05/08 Dirk Werling Royal Vet. Collage, London (Hosts: D. Estes) The extracellular domain of a given TLR drives species-specific antigen recognition 11/12/08 Terumi Midoro-Horiuti Perinatal exposure to environmental estrogens and asthma pathogenesis 11/19/08 Tina Wang Gamma delta T cells & adaptive immunity to West Nile virus infection 12/03/08 12/10/08 ASTMH annual meeting 12/17/08 01/07/09 01/14/09 Rolf Konig Functional genomics as a tool for early detection of chemical-induced autoimmune hepatitis 01/21/09 01/28/09 Gavin Bowick Comparative molecular pathogenesis of emerging viral infections 02/04/09 02/11/09 David B. Corry Baylor College of Med. (Host: L. Soong) MicroRNAs in allergic lung disease 02/18/09 02/25/09 03/04/09 Gary Klimpel Immunity to Francisella tularensis 03/11/09 LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202 03/18/09 03/25/09 04/01/09 04/08/09 04/15/09 04/22/09 Mayura Desai / Jiabin Yan Transgenic mouse models for HCV research 04/29/09 David Hudnall Tumor-Infiltrating lymphocytes 05/06/09 Jere McBride Defining humoral immunodeterminants of Ehrlichia 05/13/09 05/20/09 05/27/09 06/03/09 Gustavo Valbuena TBA 06/10/09 Gregg Milligan TBA 06/17/09 Nisha Garg / Shivali Gupta Host responses to Trypanosoma cruzi LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202 06/24/09 Tonyia Eaves-Pyles YBA LOCATION CHANGE: SAHS/SON Quad Rm 1.202

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