DATE

SPEAKER AND LECTURE TITLE

HOST

February
2

70 Ship Street

Fen-Biao Gao, Ph.D.
Professor, and Governor Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research
Department of Neurology
UMass Chan Medical School

“Understanding Pathogenic Mechanisms of C9ORF72-ALS/FTD: Insights from Drosophila and iPSC-Derived Patient Neurons”

February
9

SPECIAL TIME
4:00PM

Marcuvitz Auditorium

THE 58th ANNUAL CHARLES A. STUART MEMORIAL LECTURE

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.
Director NIAID Microbiome Program
Chief, Metaorganism Immunity Section
Co-Director NIH Center for Human Immunology
 

 “Microbiome Control of Host Immunity”

February
16

70 Ship Street

Victor Nizet, M.D.
Distinguished Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research, Department of Pediatrics
Distinguished Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics
University of California - San Diego

"Collaborating with the Innate Immune System to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs”

March
2

Marcuvitz Auditorium

Keke Fairfax, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Molecular Microbiology Program
University of Utah

"Using helminths to expose the role of pathogens in modulating host immune development"

March
9

70 Ship Street

Monica L. Guzman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Weill Cornell Medicine

"Tailoring Therapies to Target Leukemia Stem Cells"

Patrycja Dubielecka

March
16

Marcuvitz Auditorium

Daniel Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh

"Neuronal control of cutaneous inflammation”

March
23
 

Marcuvitz Auditorium

David F. Boyd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
University of California - Santa Cruz

"Fibroblasts as regulators of influenza immunopathology and post-viral lung disease"

Yang Zhou

March
30

70 Ship Street

Mariano Viapiano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology
Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
SUNY Upstate Medical University

"Brain Cancer: Finding New Targets Outside the Tumor Cells"

April
6

REMOTE
LECTURE

Egle Cekanaviciute, Ph.D.
Ames Research Center Lead, NASA Human Research Program
Course Director, NASA STAR Program
NASA Ames Research Center

 “Immune effects of space radiation”

April
13

Marcuvitz Auditorium

Francesca S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

“Microbiome illuminates a mechanistic strategy for cancer immunotherapy”

April
20

REMOTE
LECTURE

Maureen A. Su, M.D.
Professor of Molecular Immunology and Medical Genetics
Professor of Pediatrics
University of California - Los Angeles

“XX Natural Killer cells”

Samantha Borys

April
27

85 Waterman, Room 130

ANNUAL DR. CHRISTINE BIRON MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY LECTURESHIP

Galit Alter, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director Harvard University Center for AIDS Research
Harvard Medical School

"Dissecting the humoral immune response to define correlates of immunity against respiratory pathogens"

May
4

70 Ship Street

Pascale Guiton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
Santa Clara University

"The interplay between Toxoplasma differentiation and virulence"

May 
11

70 Ship Street

Lucas Salas, M.D., MPH, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

“Using epigenetics to define cell heterogeneity in health and disease"

May 
18

Marcuvitz Auditorium

Nicole James, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Research
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

"Exploiting Chemotherapeutic Immune Effects in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer”