The Immunology seminar series, held during the Fall and Winter terms, includes formal presentations by speakers from outside the University of Michigan.
Speakers for the 2008-2009
year included:
Xiao-Hong Sun, Ph.D., Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Charles Sentman, Ph.D., Dartmouth Medical School
David Nemazee, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute
Avinash Bhandoola, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Dario Vignali, Ph.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Mary K. Crow, Ph.D., Hospital for Special Surgery
Anita S. Chong, Ph.D., University of Chicago
David H. Raulet, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Students are given
the opportunity to meet with the speakers at a luncheon immediately following
the seminar.
Student Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. in 2903 LRC (Frederick Neidhardt Lecture Hall), unless otherwise noted. Invited speakers' seminars are also held on Wednesdays, but from 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. in one of the Medical Science II lecture halls (i.e. NLH, SLH, WLH).
2009 - 2010 speakers will include:
Matthias Wabl, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 9/16/09 in SLH
Lawrence Steinman, M.D., Stanford University, 10/7/09 in SLH
Karsten Sauer, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute, 11/4/09 in SLH
Marilyn Diaz, Ph.D, NIEH -NIH, 12/16/09 in SLH
Mary L. (Nora) Disis, M.D., University of Washington, 2/10/10
Chuxia Deng, Ph.D., NIDDK - NIH, 3/17/10
E. John Wherry, Ph.D., Wistar Institute, 4/7/10
Douglas Green, Ph.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 4/21/10
The Immunology journal
club (Immunology 815), held weekly, consists of informal presentations
by students and fellows of journal articles or ongoing research
in the presenter's laboratory. University of Michigan immunologists attend
these meetings. Please click here for the 2009-2010 Journal Club schedule.
The Immunology Program also sponsors an annual retreat, which is an opportunity for the University's immunology community to get together in an off-campus location and for students and research fellows to present their research. Our 9th Annual Immunology Retreat keynote speaker is John J. O'Shea, M.D., Scientific Director, NIAMS Intramural Research Program; Chief Lymphocyte Cell Biology; Section Chief, Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases - NIH.
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