Seminar Archive

2020-12-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Christophe Peyrefitte, Scientific Director, Pasteur Institute of Dakar, Senegal, Associate Professor of Vale-De Grace, Lyon France

Title: Institut Pasteur de Dakar a research institute involved public health issues in Senegal and West Africa

Host: Dr. David Marchant, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2020-11-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Casey Fowler, University of Alberta

Title: Salmonella enterica offers a window into the remarkable evolution of bacterial exotoxins

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-11-19

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Elodie Ghedin, Senior Investigator and Chief of Systems Genomics Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID/NIH

Title: Defective (interfering) virus genomes in the control of severe influenza

Host: Dr. Lara Mahal, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

2020-11-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Paige Lacy, Professor, University of Alberta

Title: Eosinophil Degranulation and Cytokine Production in Allergic Asthma

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-11-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Irene Salinas, Associate Professor, Associate Chair in Biology, University of New Mexico

Title: What it takes to live outside the water: the extraordinary adaptations of the lungfish immune system

Host: Dr. Brad Magor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

2020-10-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division Director Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Alberta Diabetes & Transplant Institutes, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: True donor specific tolerance: How close are we?

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-10-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentstry, University of Alberta

Title: Chronic Cytomegalovirus Infection and its Impact on Breast Cancer Metastasis and Survival

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-10-15

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Alyson Kelvin, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

Title: Male sex and age biases viral burden and shedding during SARS-CoV-2 infection in ferrets' Where: ZOOM When: 10:00 am

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2020-10-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Pepper, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentisty, University of Alberta

Title: Beta Cell Engraftment: A Battle Against Attrition

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-10-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John Lewis, Sojonky Chair Prostate Can. Res. Oncology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: Rapid Prototyping and Development of a SARS-CoV-2 Fusogenix DNA Vaccine

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-09-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series - COVID-19 Research Updates

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Götte, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Remdesivir: From Mechanisms and Antiviral Effects to Clinical Approval for Treatment of COVID-19

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-09-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series - COVID-19 Research Updates

Speaker: Dr. Joanne Lemieux, Professor, Director, Membrane Protein Disease Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Structural insights into the feline coronavirus drug GC376, which inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-1 and blocks virus replication

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-09-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lara K. Mahal, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Glycomics, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: The Glycomics of Host Response to Pathogens

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-03-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD, FRCP (C), OC, FRSC, Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, Professor of Medicine & Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The Molecular Microscope system: combining microarray assessment with machine learning

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-03-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Craig McCormick, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University

Title: Stress Responses and herpesviruses

Host: Dr. Kathy Magor, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

2020-02-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lars Nitschke

Title: The role of sialic acids and Siglecs for lymphocyte survival and leukemia formation

Host: Dr. Matthew Macauley, Dept of Chemistry

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2020-02-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jason Plemel, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Alberta

Title: Heterogeneous microglia response limits macrophage dispersion

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-02-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Pratip Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Applied Immunology Core, Perlmutter Cancer Centre, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY

Title: Precision Immunology Through Deeper, Single Cell Profiling

Host: Dr. Aja Reiger, Flow Cytomerty Core Manager, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2020-01-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Howard S. Young, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: New Regulators of Cellular Calcium Homeostasis & an Introduction to Cryo-EM (Why all the hype?)

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-01-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Judith N. Mandl, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University

Title: Unexpected hazards of immune cell migration: crowding, shattering and nuclear rupture

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2020-01-16

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Michael F. Good, AO FYSE FAHMS NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus

Title: Exploiting cryptic epitopes in group A streptococcus for developing vaccines and immunotherapies

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2020-01-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Croxen, Program Lead, Public Health Genomics and Bioinformatics, Public Health Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta

Title: Exploring microbial diversity in public health microbiology

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-12-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Carlos Cervera, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical Direcctor, Transplant Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta

Title: Cytomegalovirus, transplantation and thrombosis: A perfect storm?

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-12-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Qiumin Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: Role of capicua in hematopoietic and immune cells

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-11-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Esmé Dijke, Associate Director, Histocompatability Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta

Title: Therapeutic regulatory T cells from discarded human thymus: the road to the clinic

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-11-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Coombs, Assistant Dean (Research), Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Univeristy of Manitoba

Title: Cell and drdug-specfic Zika-induced proteomics

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund *** Dr. Coombs will be acting as the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Wan Kong Yip who defends his thesis Wednesday, November 20th ***

2019-11-13

UofA Infectious Diseases Conference Keynote

Speaker: Dr. Charu Kaushic, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity

Host: Dr. Matthias Götte, Chair Dept. of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2019-11-07

9th Annual Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Marc Ouellette, FRSC, FCAHS, Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobial Resistance, Professor, Université Laval

Title: Genomics of antimicrobial resistance

Host: Dr. Amit Bhavsar, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: The Dean's Lectureship Series, FoMD and The Diane Taylor Endowment Fund

2019-10-31

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Sylvie Lesage, Professor, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Centre de recherche, Montréal, QC

Title: MHC-independent thymic selection, is it possible

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Division Director Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Alberta Diabetes & Transplant Institutes

Sponsor: LKS Sino-Canadian Exchange Program Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research

2019-10-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Karen Madsen, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

Title: Harnessing the microbiome for treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-10-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Evans, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Poxvirus recombination and reactivation: Mechanism, applications, and real-world implications

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-10-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Jack H. Jhamandas, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FCAHS, Distinguished University Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Quest for a Novel Therapy for Alzheimer's disease

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-09-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Hyo-Jick Choi, PhD, PEng, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta

Title: Universal infection control measures against airborne/foodborne/waterborne diseases

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-09-19

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Holger Wille, Asssociate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta

Title: Translating structural biology into disease prophylaxis: Rationally designed, structure-based vaccines for neurodegenerative diseases?

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Seminar Chair

2019-09-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Svetlana Sapelnikova, PhD, MBA, Vice President, Business Development Strategy, KMT Hepatech - PhoenixBio Group

Title: Bridging the gap between the lab research and clinical outcome: cDNA-uPA/scid chimeric mouse with humanized liver for in vivo and in vitro research and drug development

Host: Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series

2019-09-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John Parkinson, Professor, Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

Title: Systems Biology of Parasites: Identiying complexes - Modeling Pathways

Host: Dr. Joel Dacks, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology

Sponsor: ImmuNet Seminar Series Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2019-05-16

Special MMI Seminar - Dean's Lecture Series

Speaker: Dr. Brett B. Finlay, OC, OBC, FRSC, FCAHSW, UBC Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, CIFAAR Senior Fellow, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia

Title: Role of the microbiome in asthma and malnutrition

Host: Dr Amit Bhavsar, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and The Dean's Lecture Series FoMD

2019-05-02

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Brad Nelson, Immunotherapy Program, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer

Title: Deciphering and re-engineering the immune response to cancer

Host: Dr. Kristi Baker, Department of Oncology, Division of Experimental Oncology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2019-04-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Tony Schountz, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Colorado State University

Title: HL18K11 bat influenza A virus infection of Jamaican fruit bats

Host: Dr. Tom Hobman, Professor, Department Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2019-04-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Mansour Haeryfar, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Viral Immunity and Pathogenesis, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Western University

Title: PD-1 mediated Suppression of Anticancer T Cells: A Matter of Exhaustion or Promoting a Fatal Menage a Trois?

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2019-04-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Catherine Field, Professor, Agriculture Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Title: Should you care about the diet of subjects/animals in immunology studies?

Host: Dr. Gabrelle Siegers

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2019-03-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Matthew S. Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University

Title: Viruses, Vaccines and Neurodegeneration - An Anthology

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2019-03-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Tim Audas, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University

Title: Cellular stress triggers the formation of natural amyloid aggregates

Host: Dr. Rob Ingham

Sponsor: ImmuNet and The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2019-03-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Macauley, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Roles for Siglecs in Controlling Immune Cell Function

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2019-02-28

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr.Jennifer A. Gaddy, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre

Title: Nutritional immunity at the Group B Streptococcus-Host interface during Pregnancy

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

Sponsor: ImmuNet and the Diane Taylor Lectureship Endowment fund

2019-02-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Aja Rieger, Flow Cytometry Core Facility Manager, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: State-of-the-art: Advances in Flow Cytometry technology and techniques

Host: Dr. Gabrielle Siegers

2019-02-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Rineke Steenbergen, Research Associate, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Hepatitis C infection, metabolism and culturing cells in human serum

Host: Dr. Deanna Santer

2019-02-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Olivier Julien, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Mechanisms of Caspase-mediated Cell Death

Host: Dr. Garielle Siegers

2019-01-30

13th Annual D. Lorne Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection & Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Caetano Reis e Sousa, Senior Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute, Head of Immunobiology Laboratory, Professor of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, England

Title: Cells and pathways in immunity to cancer and infection

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Chair of ImmuNet

Sponsor: ImmuNet The seminar was followed by a meet and greet reception in the LKS 1st floor Atrium. Seminar attendees were encouraged to stay after the seminar and chat with the speaker

2019-01-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Noyce, Research Associate, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Building the next generation of therapeutic poxvirus vectors

Host: Dr. Deanna Santer

2019-01-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Corcoran, University of Calgary

Title: Viral modulation of RNA granules is reliant on autophagic flux' Where: Classroom F When: 4:00 pm

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

Sponsor: ImmuNet, The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2019-01-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Purcell, Senior Staff Scientist, INfectious Diseases and Director, Science Research, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc

Title: Dupilumab imprints a TH1/Type 1 response and enhances the efficacy of the acellular whooping cough vaccine in mice and infant baboons

Host: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

Sponsor: ImmuNet, The Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2019-01-08

MMI Special Guest Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Yan Zhou, Senior Scientist (IV), VIDP-InterVac, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Organization, International Vaccine Centre, University of Saskatchewan

Title: Innate immune Response to influenza A virus infection

Host: Dr. Kathy Magor, Department of Biological Sciences

Sponsor: The LKS Sino-Canadian Exchange Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies *** Dr. Zhou acted as the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Yanno Xiao who defendsed her thesis on Monday, January 7, 2019

2018-12-19

MMI Special Guest Speaker

Speaker: Dr. C. James Lim, Investigator, Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program, BC Children's Hospital, Associate Professor, UBC Dept. of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia

Title: Modulation of immunogenic cell death by integrins

Host: Dr. Robert Ingham

Sponsor: The Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, The Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Graduate Studies *** Dr. Lim acted as the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Joyce Wu who defended her thesis on December 20th

2018-12-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mason, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastoenterology, University of Alberta

Title: Autoimmunity immunodeficiency and retroviruses. The upside down world of primary biliary cholangitis

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-12-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Logan, Research Associate, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: HCV Vaccine Development: Research to GMP manufacturing

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-11-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Todd Lowary, Professor, Scientific Director, Candian Glycomics Network, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Understanding glycan biosynthesis and function using synthetic glycoconjugates

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-11-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Xiaoli (Lilly) Pang, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Program Leader, Provincial Public Health Laboratory (Microbiology), Co-Lead, Alberta Provincial Pediatric En Teric Infection Team (APPETITE)

Title: Update on norovirus infection

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-11-14

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Bruno Lemaitre, Professor, Immunology, Director of the Global Health Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Title: “How host parasite evolution forged the Drosophila immune system.”

Host: The Students of the University of Alberta Immnology Network

Sponsor: Walter MacKenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, ImmuNet

2018-11-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Gary Eitzen, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: Control of mast cell exocytosis by Rho GTPases

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-11-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Gabrielle M. Siegers, MA, PhD, Research Associate, Department of Experimental Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: Harnessing yo T Cell Plasticity for Cancer Immunotherapy

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-10-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Natahalie Labrecque, Professor, Medicine, Université de Montreéal, Centre de recherche, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont

Title: “The Notch signaling pathway: a master regulator of CD8+ T cell differentiation.”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet and Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2018-10-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nelson Lee, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Human influenza and non-influenza respiratory virus infections -- what's new?

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-10-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John Lewis, Frank and Carla Sojonky Chair in Prostate Cancer Research, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: Selective Ablation of Senescent and Malignant Cells using Apoptotic Gene Therapy

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-10-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Marchant, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Entry Receptor Signalling and Trafficking

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2018-09-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Karst, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida

Title: The Influence of the Intestinal Microbiota on Norovirus Pathogenesis

Host: Dr. John Law, Post doctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet and the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2018-09-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. A.M. James Shapiro, Canada Research Chair in Transplantation Surgery and Regenerative Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Transforming treatments for diabetes at the interface of immunity and transplantation

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2018-08-27

Special MMI Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Michael Gold, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: B Cell signaling in space and time

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard

Sponsor: ImmuNet and Faculty of Graduate Studies (pending) *** Dr. Gold was the external examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Shugang Yao who defended his thesis on August 28, 2018

2018-08-23

Special MMI Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Pranav Danthi, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana University

Title: Reovirus RIPs the cells to death

Host: Dr. Maya Shumulevitz

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund and Faculty of Graduate Studies *** Dr. Danthi was the external examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Adil Mohamed who defended his thesis on August 24, 2018

2018-05-31

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Che Colpitts, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London

Title: “Targeting host cyclophilins to inhibit viral evasion of innate immune sensing: HCV and beyond..”

Host: Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2018-05-14

MMI Guest Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Momar Ndao, Associate Professor,Immunology & Parasitology, Montreal General Hospital, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University

Title: “Parasitic Diseases vaccination: What are the best approaches?”

Host: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, School of Public Health

Sponsor: Walter MacKenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, Faculty of Graduate Studies * Dr. Ndao was the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Ken Gavina who defends his thesis May 15, 2018

2018-05-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Alexandre Corthay, Head of Tumor Immunology Group, President of the Norwegian Society for Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Title: Targeting macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery

Sponsor: ImmuNet and the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2018-05-14

MMI Guest Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Kristi Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Oncology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: “Defective DNA repair in colorectal cancer controls anti-tumor immunity.” * Dr. Baker is requesting a cross appointment with student privileges in the Department of MMI

2018-05-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: “Herpes simplex virus nucleases and innate antiviral responses.”

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-04-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John Law, Research Associate, Houghton Lab Group, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: A Vaccine Against Hepatitis C - The Remaining Challenge To Control This Global Epidemic

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-04-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Götte., Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Nucleotide Analogue Inhibitors of Viral Polymerases: From HIV to Ebola

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, ImmuNet Seminar Chair

2018-04-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Tracy Raivio, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: The role of bacterial envelope stress response is surface sensing, pathogenesis, and antibiotic resistance

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-03-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Amit Bhavsar, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The coolest SalmoNELIa effector...it's in the name!

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, ImmuNet Seminar Chair

2018-03-22

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology & ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Rodney Dekoter, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Children's Health Research Institute, The University of Western Ontario

Title: Counteracting roles of the related ETS transcription factors Pu.1, Spi-B and Spi-C in B cell immunity

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology and the Walter Mackenzie Visitng Speaker Fund

2018-03-15

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Refurbishing reovirus for the tumor niche

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, ImmuNet Chair

2018-03-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Joyce, Research Associate, Tyrrell Lab Group, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Repression of the host innate immune response by HCV and other flaviviruses

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-02-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Maria Febbraio, Professor, Depatment of Dentistry, Divison of Foundational Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Role of Epigenetics in Periodontitis Mediated Persistence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-02-15

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Brinkman, Professor, Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia

Title: Data-driven cytometry

Host: Dr. Aja Reiger, Flow Cytometry Core Manager, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2018-02-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Graham Tipples, Medical / Scientific Director, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (ProvLab), University of Alberta Hospital

Title: The public health laboratory role for emerging diseases

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-02-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Craig Jenne, Canada Research Chair in Imaging Approaches Towars Studying Infection, Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Immunolo9gy & Infectious Diseases (MIID) Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Director, Snyder Translational Lab in Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgaryl

Title: Infection, Inflammation and Coagulation

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2018-01-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Richard R.E. Uwiera, Associate Professor, University of Alberta Veterinary Pathologist, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Antimicrobial growth promoters in a mouse animal model: Effects on immune and physiological function

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-12-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Gary Kobinger, Université Laval

Title: Rapid vaccine development for public health emergencies on the long road to licensure

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-12-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Linda Chelico, Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan

Title: Antiviral mechanisms of the APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminases

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-12-04

Medical Microbiology Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Macauley, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

Title: Siglec-mediated control of immune cell function

Host: Dr. Mathias Götte, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology * Dr. Macauley has requested a cross appointment to the department with graduate student privleges

2017-11-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deanna Santer, Research Associate, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The regulatory effects of IFN-lasmbda 3 on human immune cells

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-11-24

Medical Microbiology Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Rodney S. Russell , Associate Professor, Division of BioMedical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Title: Virus-Induced Pyroptosis: A Pathogenic Assault or a Cellular Fire Alarm?

Host: Dr. Luis Schang, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund Faculty of Graduate Studies *** Dr. Russell is the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Abdullah Awadh of Dr. Luis Schang's lab

2017-11-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Philip F. Halloran, Professor,Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta

Title: The immunology of transplant organ rejection: insights from the Molecular Microscope

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-11-16

2017 Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Lauren O. Bakaletz, Principal Investigator and the Director of the Centre for Microbial Pathogenesis at the Research Institute at Nathionwide Children's Hospital, Professor, Dept of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Title: Harnessing the power of the skin to immunize against otitis media by bandaid

Host: Dr. Troy Balwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Diane Taylor Lectureship, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-11-02

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Osborne, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: Regulation of Intestinal Immunity by the Multibiome

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2017-10-19

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Touret, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Regulation of CD36 signal transduction by F-actin & lipid nanodomains

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-10-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Shokrollah Elahi, Assistant Professor, School of Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: New players in immune regulation: The role of erythroid suppressor cells in physiological and pathological conditions

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-10-05

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology & ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Celia Schiffer, Professor, Director to UMass CFAR, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Title: Constraining Evolution - Avoiding Drug Resistance: Lessons from Viruses

Host: Dr. Matthais Götte, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker fund

2017-09-21

12th Annual D. Lorne Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection & Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Sonja Marie Best, Investigator, Innate Immunity and Pathogenesis Unit, NIAID, Hamilton, MT

Title: Beyond retroviruses: Restriction of Flavivirus replication by TRIM5

Sponsor: Tyrrell Endowmnet Fund and the University Hospital Foundation

2017-09-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Hawkes, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta

Title: Neuroprotective agents for cerebral malaria

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Seminar Chair

2017-09-07

Medical Microbiology Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Michele Anderson, Associate Professor, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto

Title: Transcriptional control of gamma delta T cell development by HEB transcription factors

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker fund and Faculty of Graduate Studies *** Dr. Anderson was the External Examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Dominic Golec who defended his thesis Friday, September 8 ***

2017-06-14

ImmuNet Research Day - Keynote Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Jayne Danska, Professor & Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto

Title: Complex causes of autoimmune disease: genes, environment and microbes

Host: MMI Graduate students Visit

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-05-31

2017 Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Title: Influenza Virus-Host Interactions

Host: Graduate student driven event

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-05-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John Patton, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland

Title: Rotavirus evasion of the innate immune response: A tale of deception and destruction

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology and ImmuNet

2017-05-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Hyo-Jick Choi, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta

Title: Preparation for the next pandemic Influenza Outbreak

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Seminar Chair

2017-04-27

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology & ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Selena Sagan, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University

Title: Host-virus interactions in Hepatitis C and Zika virus infection

Host: Dr. Tom Hobman, Professor, Department of Cell Biology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker fund

2017-04-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Robert Ingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The function of the c-June and JunB transcription factors in 'B and T cell lymphomas

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-04-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta

Title: The promise and perils of an immune reset

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-03-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Did Cytomegalovirus' immune evasion protein UL18 force down the human inhibitory receptor LILRB1 just on NK cells?

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-03-16

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Barreda, Associate Professor, Agriculture, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Title: Evolution of phagocyte contributions to the induction and resolution of acute inflammation

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-03-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, Assistant Professor, School of Public Healh, University of Alberta

Title: A novel mechanism of cross-species immunity to malaria

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-02-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Bart Hazes, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: From bytes to bench to bedside

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-02-16

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology & ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Joyce Wilson, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan

Title: HCV replication promotion by miR-122, Argonaute, and other small RNAs

Host: Dr. Tom Hobman, Professor, Department of Cell Biology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker fund

2017-02-14

MMI External Examiner Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Karen Mossman, Professor, Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Chair, Biochemisty & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University

Title: Novel mechanisms of sensing viral infections

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund FGSR ** *Dr. Mossman acted as External Examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Ninad Mehta who defended his thesis on Friday, January 6, 2017 ***

2017-02-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Ashbolt, Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Title: The microbiota and pathogen control of your household plumbing

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-02-02

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Greg Tyrrell, Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta

Title: Invasive Group B streptococcal disease in Alberta

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, ImmuNet Chair

2017-01-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Dean Befus, Professor, Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: A long Journey from Discovery to Translation: An Anti-inflmmatory Drug: a Biomarker of Stress?

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2017-01-19

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology & ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Barrett, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University

Title: Modeling immune aging through chronic viral infection: lessions from curing Hepatitis C

Host: Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2017-01-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Chris Power, Neurology, University of Alberta

Title: Innate immune activation in the brain: pathogenic and protective outcomes

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-12-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Houghton, Professor and CERC, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Designing, producing and testing a HCV vaccine at the UofA' Where: Classroom F When: 4:00 pm

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-12-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Martin Richer, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University

Title: The not so sweet side of immunoregulation: Chronic inflammation dampens host immunity by targeting CD8 T cell antigen sensitivity

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-11-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Anil Kumar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hobman Lab Group, Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: Subversion of host anitviral response by Zika virus

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-11-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deanna Santer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Houghton Group, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Targeting the IFN-Lambda receptor to enhance the influenza vaccine immune response

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-11-07

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Wyndham W. Latham. Associate Professor in Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago

Title: From Mild to Murderous: How Yersinia pestis Evolved into an Efficient Killer

Sponsor: This event was sponsored in part by the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and the generous sponsorship of the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2016-11-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Valerie Sim, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Centre for Prions

Title: Poking Holes in Prion Disease Pathogenesis

2016-10-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Caroline Richard, PDF, AFNS, University of Alberta

Title: The essentiality of docosahexaenoic acid in the postnatal maternal and infant diets for the development of the infant's immune system early in life

2016-10-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Isobel Okyye, Research Associate, Elahi Laboratory, School of Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: Restoration of CD8 T cells using a forward genetics approach

2016-10-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Grant, Professor, Memorial University

Title: Cytomegalovirus Immunity and Lymphocyte Senescence in Controlled HIV Infection

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2016-10-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Getting a GRP on the development of intestinal T cells

2016-09-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Joel Dacks, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: Membrane-trafficking machinery and the evolution of parasitism: insights from microbial genomics

2016-09-22

D. Lorne Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Louis Picker, Oregon Health and Science University

Title: Cytomegalovirus Vectors: Exceptional Efficacy from Unconventional Cellular Immune Responses

2016-06-24

Special MMI Seminar

Speaker: Professor Michael F. Good, , Head, Laboratory of Vaccines for the Developing World and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, institute for Glycomics, Griffiths University QLD

Title: Using cryptic epitopes to design peptide-based vaccines for streptococcus

Host: Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2016-06-09

ImmuNet Research Day Millwoods Golf Course Keynote

Speaker: Dr. Heinz Feldman, NIH

2016-06-02

Journal Club

Speaker: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Neuronal Stress Pathway Mediating a Histone Methyl/Phospho Switch is Required for Herpes Simplex Virus Reactivation' References: A.R. Cliffe et al. Cell Host & Microbe 18: 649-658, Dec 2015

2016-05-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Tom Hobman, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: Summer is coming and so are the flaviviruses: A closer look at these emerging pathogens

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-04-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Alberta

Title: Sphingosine 1-phosphate regulates endothelial permeability: vascular and immune implications

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-04-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Les Nagata, Bio-threat Defence Section, Defence R&D Canada, Visiting Scientist, Dept of MMI, University of Alberta

Title: Vaccines and Therapeutics to the Encephalitic Alphaviruses

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor and ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2016-04-07

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Dario Vignali, PhD, Vic Chair and Professor of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Inhibitory Mechanisms in Cancer and Autoimmunity

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visitng Speaker Fund, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Stemcell Technologies, New England BioLabs, Cell Signaling Technology

2016-03-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Case, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Marine microbial interactions - discovering and rediscovering bioactives

2016-03-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Yan Boucher, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Population structure of Vibrio cholerae on Local and Global Scales

2016-03-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Joseph C. Sun, Assistant Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York

Title: Adipose-resident group 1 innate lymphoid cells promote obesity-associated insulin resistance

2016-02-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Robert Campbell, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Engineering the next generation of fluorescent protein-based imaging probes

2016-02-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: “Regulation of cytotoxic T lymphocyte adhesion, migration and function”

2016-02-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Paige Lacy, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: How eosinophils contribute to allergy and immunity

2016-02-08

Special MMI Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Finlay Lab, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia

Title: Gut health early in life: the role of our first microbiota

Host: Dr. Matthias Götte, Chair, Department of MMI

2016-02-04

Journal Club

Speaker: Nikki Atanasova, MMI graduate student, Ashbolt lab

Title: Photoexcited quantum dots for killing multidrug-resistant bacteria' References: Colleen M. Courtney, Samuel M. Goodman, Jessica A. McDaniel, Nancy E. Madinger, Anushree Chatterjee and Prashant Nagapal. Nature Materials published online 18 January 2016 | DOI: 10.1038/NMAT 4542

2016-01-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Franco Vizeacoumar, Research Scientist, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency

Title: Targeting polo-like kinase 1 by synthetic dosage lethality

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz,Seminar Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2016-01-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kristi Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: Self, altered-self, and non-self: genomic integrity, microbiota, and the immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz,Seminar Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2016-01-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Viswanathan Natarajan, Professor of Pharmacology & Medicine, Co-Director, Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Nuclear S1P is a co-epigentic regulator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mediate4d lung inflammation: Role of SphK2 and Nox4

Host: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology *** Dr. Natarajan served as external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Daniel Kerage's thesis defense

2016-01-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Douglas J. Mahoney, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Disease, University of Calgary

Title: Oncolytic Rhabdovirus Therapy for Cancer

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology *** Dr. Mahoney will also be acting as the external examiner for MMI PhD candidate Wondim Teferi *This visit was sponsored in part by the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2015-12-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Bebhinn Treanor, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough

Title: The galectin lattice controls B cell receptor organization and signaling

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-12-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ben Willing, Assistant Professor, Agric, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Title: How the microbiome shapes responses to medical intervention and disease challenges

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-11-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Goetz Ehrhardt, Associate Director, Toronto FOCIS Centre of Excellence and Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto

Title: Ancient Tools for novel insights into human B cell responses

Host: Dr. Rob Ingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-11-19

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Marchant, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Virus: RSV Receptor: Nucleolin

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-11-12

Journal Club

Speaker: Anil Kumar

Title: Intercellular transmission of antiviral signals throgh virus particles' References: Bridgeman, A., et al., (2015) Science Vol. 349, pp. 1228-1232 and Gentili, M., et al., (2015) Science Vol. 349, pp. 1232-1236

2015-11-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Evans, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Fun with poxviruses

Host: Dr. Bart Hazes, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2015-10-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Chris Cairo, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Chemical tools to probe the role of human neuraminidase enzymes in cell adhesion

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-10-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kathy Magor, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: RIG-I activation in influenza defence

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-10-13

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. David A. Relman, Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor, Departments of Medicine and of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University

Title: Explorations of Inner Self: Time, Space and the Human Microbiome

Sponsor: Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Funding, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

2015-10-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Gabrielle Siegers, BSc, MA, PhD, Research Associate Postovit Lab, Departmernt of Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: Pitfalls and promise on the path to gamma delta T cell immunotherapy of leukemias and solid tumors

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-10-01

Journal Club

Speaker: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Microbiota-Dependent Acitvation of an Autoractive T Cell Receptor Provokes Autoimmunity in Immunologically Privileged Site' Reiko Horai 7, Carlos R. Zarate-Blades 78, Patricial Dillenburg-POilla, Jun Chen, Jennifer L. Kieiczewski, Phyllis B. Siver, Yinyos Jittayasothom, Chi-Chao Chan, Hidehiro Yameane, Kenya Hondi Click here to view this paper

2015-09-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr.Jens Walter, Associate Professor & CAIP Chair, Agric, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Title: The role of the gut microbiota in the health effects of dietary fiber

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2015-09-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr.Marc Ouellette, Scientific Director, Institute of Infection and Immunity, Canada Research Chair in Antimicrobial resistance, CHU at Universite Laval

Title: Gene copy number variation and antimicrobial resistance

Host: Dr. Lori West, Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery and Immunology Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cardiac Transplantation

Sponsor: Alberta Transplant Institute

2015-09-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Mark A. Wainberg, Head of the HIV/AIDS research axis, Lady Davis Institute, Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre, Professor,, Medicine, and Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University

Title: What if Drug Resistance against a Novel Inhibitor of HIV Integrase Could Never Occur in First-Line Therapy?

Host: Dr. Matthias Götte, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-08-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr.Christopher Mody, Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology& Immunology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary

Title: Granule trafficking in NK cell microbial killing

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-08-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Camilli, Professor, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Title: Study of the Vibrio cholera Life Cycle and Ways to Prevent Infection

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-06-01

10th Annual D. Lorne Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Charles Rice, Rockefeller University

Title: Hepatitis C: Where we were, where we are, and what's next

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-04-30

 

Speaker: Dr. JingXin Cao, Adjunct Professor, Dept of Microbiology, University of Manitoba and Section Head (Poxvirus Section) Division of Viral Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory

Title: Towards understanding teh mechanism of biological functions of a key poxvirus host range protein, E3

Host: Dr. Robert J. Ingham, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology Dr. Cao also served as the external examiner for PhD Candidate Bettina Bareiss

2015-04-23

 

Speaker: Dr. Edan Foley, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Blood, guts and drugs in the Foley lab. What flies can teach us about intestinal inflammation

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-04-16

 

Speaker: Dr. Peter Bretscher, Department Head & Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan

Title: An integrated perspective on immune class regulation and implications for medical intervention

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Department of Surgery, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta

2015-04-02

 

Speaker: Dr. Sam Kung, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba

Title: Navigating natural killer cells a way or away

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta Dr. Kung served as the external examiner for PhD Candidate Elsa Marquez

2015-03-26

 

Speaker: Dr. Eytan Wine, Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, University of Alberta

Title: Barrier Disruption, Bacterial Penetration, and Immune Stimulation in Pediatric IBD

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2015-03-05

Frontiers in Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Amanda Scott, graduate student, Ostergaard Lab, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Paper: Inflammation-induced disruption of SCS macrophages impairs B cell responses to secondary infection' Mauro Gaya Angelo Castello, Beatriz Montaner, Neil Rogers, Caetano Reis e Sousa, Andreas Bruckbauer, Facundo D. Batista Science 6 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6222 pp. 667-672 Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6222/667.full

2015-02-26

Immunet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Luis G. Hidalgo, Associate Director - HLA Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology

Title: Characterization of Immune effector cells in allograft rejection

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2015-02-19

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ken S Ng, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary

Title: Crystallographic studies of Norovirus polymerase and Clostridium difficile toxins: laying the foundation for novel therapeutics

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2015-02-12

mmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Karen Madsen, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Fecal microbial transplantation: A new treatment for inflmmatory bowel disease?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2015-02-05

Frontiers in Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Dr. Deanna Santer, PDF Houghton Lab Group

Paper: TLR7 induces anergy in human CD4(+) T cells Dominguez-Villar M, Gautron AS, de Marcken M, Keller MJ, Hafler DA. Nat Immunol. 2015 Jan;16(1):118-28. doi: 10.1038/ni.3036

2015-01-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Good, Research Leader, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia

Title: Developing a vaccine to prevent an autoimmune condition - rheumatic heart disease

Host: Dr. Stephanie Yanow

2015-01-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Sylvie Lesage, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Montreal

Title: Using naked T cells to prevent diabetes

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2015-01-15

Frontiers in Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Dr. Sabrina Kohli, PDF in the Baldwin Lab

Paper: Antimicrobial peptide resistance mediates resilience of prominent gut commensals during inflammation' T.W. Cullen, W.B. Schofield, N.A. Barry, E.E. Putnam, E.A. Rundell, M.S. Trent, P.H. Degnan, C.J. Booth, H.Yu, A.L. Goodman Science 9 January 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6218 pp. 170-175 DOI: 10.1126/science.1260580

2014-12-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Aimee Shen, Assistant Professor. Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont

Title: Spore formation and germination by Clostridium difficile

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2014-12-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Tony J.C. Harris, Associate Professor. Department of Cell and systems Biology, University of Toronto

Title: An endocytic pathway for membrane cytoskeleton control and tissue development

Host: Dr. Edan Foley, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2014-12-04

Frontiers in Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Dominic Golec, – Baldwin Lab, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Paper: Resident memory CD8 T cells trigger protective innate and adaptive immune responses Jason M. Schenkel, Kathryn A. Fraser, Lalit K. Beura, Kristen E. Pauken, Vaiva Vezys, David Masopust Science 346, 98 (2014); DOI: 10.1126/science.1254536

2014-11-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. James Stafford, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Examination of LITR-mediated phagocytosis provides insights into a unique ITAM-independent target acquisition pathway

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-11-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Georgia Perona-Wright, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: Space, time and cytokine signaling in the gut

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2014-11-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Colin Anderson, Professor, Surgery, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta

Title: Learning the peripheral self: the challenge created by lymphopenia

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-11-06

Frontiers in Immunology & Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Chelsea Davidson, Graduate Student, Burshtyn Lab, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Paper: CellVolume 159, Issue 1, 25 September 2014, Pages 94–107 'The RAG Recombinase Dictates Functional Heterogeneity and Cellular Fitness in Natural Killer Cells

2014-10-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lynne Postovit, Associate Professor, Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: Targeting tumor cell plasticity: it's all in the niche

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2014-10-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Vibrio cholerae's tricks to beat the competition

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-10-16

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bennett, PDF, Götte Lab, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Assessment of inhibitors of Herpesviridae DNA polymerases in Bacteria using Bacteriophage RB69

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-10-02

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Ashleigh Griffin, Royal Society Research Fellow, University Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Title: The behavioural ecology of bacteria causing infection: a case study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the cystic fibrosis lung

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki and the student organizing committee

Sponsor: in part Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Funding, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

2014-09-12

DISTINGUISHED IMMUNOLOGIST SEMINAR

Speaker: Dr. Ellen Robey, Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Visualizing T cell Selection in the Thymus

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin and the student DI committee

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Sarstedt, sartorius, affymetrix - eBioscience, VWR, PeproTech, Stemcell Technologies

2014-09-05

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Christopher D Richardson, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics, Dalhousie University

Title: Targeting Cancer Using the Cellular Receptors for Measles Virus

Host: Dr. Luis Schang, Biochemistry

Sponsor: Visit funded in part by the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry **Dr. Richardson was the external examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Che Colpitts

2014-08-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan C. Choy, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University

Title: Inflammation and allogeneic immune responses

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: FGSR ** Dr. Choy was the external examiner for MMI PhD Candidate Ana Clementin

2014-06-16

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Roger Lippé, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Université de Montréal

Title: Herpesvirus virion assembly and egress

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2014-05-21

Ninth Annual D. Lorne Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Professor of Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale School of Medicine

Title: Antiviral immunity at mucosal surfaces

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology Sponsored in part by: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Funding

2014-05-15

MMI Special Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Maria Febbraio, Professor, School of Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: The Role of CD36 in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease' Dr. Febbraio is a potential cross-appointee for the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2014-05-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lori West, Professor of Pediatrics & Surgery and Immunology, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Cardiac Transplantation, AIHS Senior Scholar, Research Director, Alberta Transplant Institute, Director, Canadian National Transplant Research Program

Title: ABO-immunobiology in transplantation: investigation of tolerance and immunity through glyconanotechnology

Host: Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-04-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kristin Hogquist, Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota

Title: Self recognition in T cell development and activation

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2014-04-03

 

Paper: FoxA1 directs the lineage and immunosuppressive properties of a novel regulatory T cell population in EAE and MS' Yawei Liu, Robert Carlsson, Manuel Comabella, JunYang Wang, Michael Kosicki, Belinda Carrion, Maruf Hasan, Xudong Wu, Xavier Montalban, Morten Hanefeld Dziegiel, Finn Sellebjerg, Per Soelberg Sørensen, Kristian Helin & Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas Nature Medicine 20, 272–282 (2014) doi:10.1038/nm.3485 http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v20/n3/full/nm.3485.html This should make for an interesting discussion and we hope to see you there in room 6-52 HMRC on Thursday, April 3 at 4pm!

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn and Kristofer Ellestad

2014-03-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Marchant, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: A Transcriptional Role for Macrophage Elastase during Antiviral Immunity - It isn't All about Cleavage' Location:Classroom F (2J4.02 WMC)

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-03-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Brad Magor, Associate Professor,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: The evolution of the Ig gene mutator, Aicda. In like a lamb?' Location:Classroom F (2J4.02 WMC)

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-02-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Holme, Manager Flow Core Facilities, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Why Cytometry?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-02-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mason, Professor, Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

Title: Next generation sequencing for virus discovery? Follow the SINEs!

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-02-19

MMI Vision Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: MMI>Σ' Dr. Ostergaard is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-18

MMI Research Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Killer Cells: Choose your Weapon' Dr. Ostergaard is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-14

MMI Vision Seminar

Speaker: Dr. John Paul Pezacki, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

Title: Excellence, strategic partnerships and new directions: A vision for medical microbiology and immunology at the U of A' Dr. Pezacki is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-13

Frontiers in Immunology & Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Kristofer Ellestad, graduate student, Anderson Lab, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Paper: Zhou, P., Shaffer, D. R., Arias, D. A. A., Nakazaki, Y., Pos, W., Torres, A. J., et al. (2014). In vivo discovery of immunotherapy targets in the tumour microenvironment. Nature, 506(7486), 52–57. doi:10.1038/nature12988 Here is a link to the article: www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7486/full/nature12988.html

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn and Kristofer Ellestad

2014-02-13

MMI Research Seminar

Speaker: Dr. John Paul Pezacki, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

Title: Probing hepatic lipid pathways of novel host-pathogen interactions and therapeutic targets against the hepatitis C virus' Dr. Pezacki is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-12

MMI Vision Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Götte, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University

Title: MMI 2020: Visions in Research, Teaching and Faculty Support' Dr. Gotte is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-11

MMI Research Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Götte, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, McGill University

Title: Discovery of Antiviral Drugs: The Role of Mechanism-Driven Approaches in Academia' Dr. Gotte is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-07

MMI Vision Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Tom Hobman, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: MMI, the next 5 years: Opportunites and Challengesl' Dr. Hobman is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-02-06

MMI Research Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Tom Hobman, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta

Title: RNA virus-host interactions: Battles at the cellular level' Dr. Hobman is a candidate for Chair of the Department of MMI

2014-01-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Shokrollah Elahi, Assistant Professor, Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: Why neonates Suck? The immune pathogenesis of prenatal infection: Relevant to Digestive Health

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2014-01-16

Frontiers in Immunology & Immunotherapy Journal Club

Speaker: Colin Anderson

Paper: Baseline tumor growth and immune control in laboratory mice are significantly influenced by subthermoneutral housing temperature' Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 10;110(50):20176-81. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304291110. Epub 2013 Nov 18. Here's a link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/12/1304291110.abstract

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn and Kristofer Ellestad

2013-12-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Paola Marignani, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Title: Novel therapeutic pre-clinical strategies for the treatment of metabolically active cancers

Host: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Department of Medial Microbiology & Immunology Co-host: Department of Oncology

2013-12-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Savraj S. Grewal, Associate Professor, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Insitute, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary

Title: Nutrient and insulin/TOR kinase-dependent control of growth in Drosophila

Host: Dr. Edan Foley, Department of Medial Microbiology & Immunology

2013-11-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Linda Matsuuchi, Professor, Associate Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia

Title: B Lymphocytes Find the Gap & Rearrange their Cytoskeleton

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-11-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Houghton, Professor, CERC, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Viral Hepatitis: Lost in Translation

Host: Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2013-11-19

Fourth Annual Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Fortune, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health

Title: Determinants of disease outcome in tuberculosis infections: a bacterial perspective

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki and the Graduate Student organizing committee, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: the Diane Taylor Endowment Fund and the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

2013-11-14

The Snyder Institute, AIHS & Gairdner Symposium on Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Libin Lecture Theatre, Health Sciences Centre University of Calgary For more information visit the Gairdner site

2013-11-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Martin Prlic, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, WA

Title: When Memory CD8 T Cells Go Innate

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-10-31

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Mario Feldman, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Title: Bacterial membrane vesicles: fact of artifact?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-10-21

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

Speaker: Dr. Tyler Reddy, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemisty, Oxford University

Title: Biophysical characterization of full-scale influenza virions, dengue virions, and class III viral fusion proteins

Host: Dr. David Evans, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2013-10-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Reuben Harris, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, University of Minnesota

Title: Integral roles for enzymatic DNA cytosine deamination in both antiviral innate immunity and cancer mutagenesis

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology

Sponsor: Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Funding

2013-10-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Dissecting the roles of Bim and Nur77 in T cell tolerance

Host: ImmuNet

2013-09-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John H. Connor, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Boston University

Title: A Pox on no one's house: Quelling poxvirus replication with small molecules and innate host defenses

Host: Dr. David Evans, Medical Microbiology & Immunology *Dr. Connor is the external examiner for the PhD Thesis defense ofChad Irwin in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-08-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David H. Margulies, Chief, Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Title: Structural Evolution of NKG2D Ligands and Cytomegalovirus Immunoevasins

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology *Dr. Margulisies the external examiner for the PhD Thesis defense of Li Fu in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-08-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Makrigiannis, Professor, Molecular Immunology, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa

Title: Role of class I MHC receptors in Natural Killer Cell Immunosurveillance: Missing 'missing-self' responses in Ly49-deficient mice

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology *Dr. Makrigiannis is the external examiner for the PhD Thesis defense of Nicholas Li in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-07-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ken Beagley, Professor of Immunology and Deputy Director, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia

Title: Vaccine-induced antibody: Enhancement or neutralization of chlamydial infection

Host: Dr. Leo Dieleman, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Div. of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

2013-07-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth W. Harder, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: Tyrosine Kinase Control of Systemic and Intestinal Innate Immune Responses

Host: Dr. Robert J. Ingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology University of Alberta

Sponsor: Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry *** Dr. Harder is acting as External Examiner for the PhD thesis defense of Joel Pearson

2013-06-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Robert A. Screaton, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa

Title: Using Functional Genomics to Delineate Mitochondrial Signaling Pathways: From Beta Cells to Brains

Host: Dr. Edan Foley, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-06-18

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. James Di Santo, Professor, Institut Pasteur, France

Title: Innate Lymphoid Cells: New Players in Immunity and Tissue Remodeling

Host: Students of the University of Alberta Immunology Network

Sponsor: Funded in part by Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2013-05-29

MMI Guest Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, Program Leader, Research & Development Lab - Prov Lab, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Title: Molecular and immunological characterization of malaria in pregnant women from Colombia

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-05-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Megan S. Lim , Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Hematopathology, Director Hematopathology Fellowship, University of Michigan

Title: Emerging role of anaplastic lymphoma kinase in human cancer: New insights from phosphoproteomics

Host: Dr. Robert J. Ingham, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-05-16

Special Presentation - Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Director and Dr. Michael Houghton, Professor, Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute: Translating research to the patient

2013-05-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Michael Good, Research Leader, Institute of Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia

Title: The long road to a malaria vaccine

Host: Dr. Stephanie Yanow, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

2013-04-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Robert J. Ingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The function and regulation of the JunB transcription factor in lymphoma

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2013-04-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Natural Killer Cell Receptors: From KIR to LIR and Back Again

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2013-05-02

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Rast, Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics and Department of Immunology

Title: IL17 in a gut without T-cells: characterizing regulatory networks that underpin response in the sea urchin immune system

Host: Dr. Edan Foley, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-03-14

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Gordon Nish, Marchant Lab

Title: Dynamics of nucleolin availability during RSV infection

2013-03-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Shawn Lewenza, Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Title: The role extracellular DNA in biofilm survival strategies and as an innate immune effector

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2013-02-21

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Kristofor K. Ellestad, Anderson Lab

Title: PD-1 controls T effectors but not the generation or function of natural or induced regulatory T cells

2013-02-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. James Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Modulation of host cell functions by herpes simplex virus proteins

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2013-01-31

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Harissios Vliagoftis, Professor and Division Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Protease-Activated Receptor-2:a new therapeutic target in allergic inflamation?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2013-01-24

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Daniel Kerage, Hemmings Lab

Title: A novel mechanism for generation of vascular tone through increased arterial endothelial permeability

2013-01-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Edan Foley, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Identification of Ubiquitin Modifiers of NF-kB

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-12-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Bhagirath Singh, FRSC, FCAHS, Professor & Acting Chair, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Centre for Human Immunology; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

Title: Role of IL-17 producing Th17 cells in Autoimmunity and Tissue Regeneration

Host: Dr. Babita Agrawal, Department of Surgery * Dr. Singh is the external examiner for PhD thesis defense of candidate Eric Loo in the Department of Surgery

2012-12-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Reovirus Oncolysis: Getting to thet Inside Story' Location: Classroom F (2J4.02 WMC)

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-12-06

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Vibrio cholerae beats the competition: implications for virulence and transmission

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-12-03

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Russell Vance, Assistant Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis, University of California - Berkeley

Title: Innate immune detection of intracellular bacterial pathogens

Host: Graduate Student Committee of the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: WMVSF

2012-11-29

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Kinola Williams, Burshtyn Lab

Title: HCV Modulation of Class I Human Leukocyte Antigens

2012-11-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ninan Abraham, Associate Professor, Co-Leader, Infection, Inflammation and Immunity (I3) Research Group, University of British Columbia

Title: Immune Regulation by the IL-7-related cytokines

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology ** Dr. Abraham is the external examiner for the PhD thesis defense of Deanna Hockley

Sponsor: WMVSF and FGSR

2012-11-15

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Elsa Marquez, Kane Lab , Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Probing the role of MHC bound peptide in Ly49 NK cell receptor recognition

2012-11-05

8th Annual Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Jonathan W. Yewdell, M.D., PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Title: Adventures in Immunology: Translating DRiPs

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: WMVSF

2012-11-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Katherine Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Title: Innate antiviral responses to influenze in the natural host, the duck

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-10-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Amir Landi, Houghton Lab

Title: Novel serological biomarkers for differential diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-10-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. James Shapiro, Professor of Surgery/Director Clinical Islet Transplant Program, University of Alberta

Title: Islet Transplantation and the Edmonton Protocol - 13 Years On: What Next?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-10-11

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Baksh Lab - Marilyn Gordon, PhD Student

Title: A Novel Role for the Tumor Supressor RASSFIA in Intestinal Inflammation

2012-10-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Ogg, Manager Cell Imaging Facility, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Everything You Need to Know to Use the Faculty's Core Microscopy Facility

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator

2012-09-27

iNetWORK - 'Work-in-Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Lian Willetts, Lacy Lab

2012-08-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jørgen Leisner, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Title: Potential roles of bacterial and human chitinases in disease

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2012-07-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Pauline Johnson, Professor, Life Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia

Title: The effect of innate cell CD45 on homeostatic T cell proliferation and gut inflammation

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology * Dr. Johnson also acted as the external examiner for Joëlle St. Pierre's PhD Thesis Defense

Sponsor: WMVSF and FGSR

2012-07-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dominik Filipp, Head, Department of Immunobiology, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic

Title: Mechanisms governing the involvement of Lck in the initiation of TCR signaling

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2012-04-17

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, Senior Investigator, Immune Disease Institute and prgram in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Title: Disruption of mRNA Processing During Apoptosis

Host: Graduate Students of the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: WMVSF

2012-04-12

iNetWORK 'Research- in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: Ben Montgomery / Herman Cortes, (Stafford Lab), Dept of Biological Sciences

Title: Channel catfish leukocyte immune-type receptors; modulators of innate immune cell responses

2012-03-29

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Mary Hitt, Department of Oncology

Title: Now you see it, now you don't: Imaging tumors and viruses in laboratory models for cancer

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2012-03-22

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Chet Tailor

Title: Receptor-mediated feline leukemia virus induced diseases provide new insight into the infant diseases Diamond Blackfan Anemia and Fowler Syndrome

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, University of Alberta

Sponsor: WMVSF

2012-03-15

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Mark Anderson, UCSF

Title: Control of immune tolerance by Aire

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: WMVSF

2012-03-13

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Michalak, Professor of Molecular Virology and Medicine (Hepatology), Senior (Tier 1) Canada Research Chair in Viral Hepatitis/Immunology, Memorial University

Title: Hepatitis C Virus Lymphotropism and Persistence

Host: Dr. D. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunolgy, Professor and CIHR/GSK Chair in Virology, Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

Sponsor: WMVSF and FGSR

2012-03-01

iNetWORK 'Research- in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: Nancy Hu, (Baldwin Lab), Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Caspase-independent cell death in thymic negative selection

2012-02-16

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hanington, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Title: Characterization of FREPs, somatically diversified immune molecules in gastropod molluscs

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2012-02-09

Immunet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Mayhem, death and destruction: killer cells in host defense against pathogens and cancer

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2012-01-12

iNetWORK 'Research- in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: Samuel Cheung, (Ostergaard Lab), Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Pyk2 regulates cytotoxic T lymphocyte migration directionality and cytotoxicity

2012-01-26

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Power, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Neurological Infection and Immunity, AI-HS Senior Scholar, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Medical Microbiology & Immunity, and Psychiatry, University of Alberta

Title: Convergence of immunity and infection in the brain: lessons from multiple sclerosis, NeuroAIDS and the microbiome

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2012-01-19

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Christine Szymanski, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Alberta Innovates Technology Scholar, University of Alberta

Title: Dendritic cells as adjuvants for vaccines - it's all in the packaging

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2012-01-12

iNetWORK 'Research- in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: David Bond, (Foley Lab), Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: RTK Control of Intestinal Homeostasis

2012-01-10

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Coscoy, Associate Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Interaction between herpesviruses and the immune sytem of their hosts

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta Dr. Coscoy was the external examiner for the PhD Thesis Defense of Nicholas Van Buuren

Sponsor: WMVSF

2011-12-15

Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar

Speaker: Logan Mardhani-Bayne, Health Technology Assessment International

Title: Networking Workshop - How to network and maintain the contacts you already have

2011-12-14

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Klaus Fruh, Professor, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Sciences University

Title: Harnessing the Unique Biology of Cytomegalovirus for Vaccine Development

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta Dr. Fruh was the external examiner for the PhD Thesis Defense of Stephanie Campbell

Sponsor: WMVSF and FGSR

2011-12-08

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Colin Anderson, Associate Professor, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta

Title: Adaptive immunity/tolerance: Just how specific is it?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-11-24

ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Paige Lacy, Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: Understanding the role of Rho GTPases in inflammation and lung injury

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-11-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Controlling Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Seminar Coordinator, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-11-03

iNetWORK 'Research- in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Deanna Santer, (Houghton Lab), Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: B cell activation in hepatitis C virus infection and cryoblobulinemia

2011-10-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Linda Wicker, Professor, Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge

Title: Immunogenetics of Diabetes

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

2011-10-20

Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar

Title: Don't wait to get your foot in the door! Perspectives on career planning for students at all stages

2011-10-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Luis Schang, Associate Professor, Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: FAFIs, Broad Spectrum Inhibitors of the Infectivity of Enveloped Viruses with Novel Targets and Mechanisms of Action

2011-10-06

iNetWORK 'Research-in-Progress' Seminar

Speaker: Nick Li (Burshtyn Lab), Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Investigating LIR-1 Receptor-Ligand Interactions

2011-09-29

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Troy A. Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Ras Regulation during T cell development: role of RASGRPs

2011-09-14

Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Jorge Galan, Lucille P. Markey Professor of microbial pathogenesis and Professor of Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University

Host: Graduate Students, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2011-06-20

Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Chris Walker, The Wilby S. Cowan Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research, College of Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Director, Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio

Title: Immune Control of persistent HCV infection

2011-04-14

'Work In Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Leslie Robertson and Joelle St. Pierre - Ostergaard Lab

Title: The regulation of paxillin in T-cells and macrophages: Localization, phosphorylation and degradation

2011-03-31

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Touret, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: How does the pattern recognition receptor dectin-1 trigger anti-fungal immunity

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-03-24

Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection & Immunity

Speaker: Dr. David Woodland, President & Director of the Trudeau Institute, Sarnac Lake, NY, USA

Title: Regulation of T cell immunity to respiratory virus infections

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, and Graduate Students in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-03-17

Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Judy A Mikovits, Director of Research, Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease

Title: Strategies for Detecting XMRV infection in Clinical samples

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology

2011-03-10

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Carl Ware, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology Director, Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Stanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Title: Regulating Cellular Environments via the Lymphotoxin/TNF SuperFamily of Cytokines

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2011-02-24

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Gina Rayat, Associate Professor, Dept of Surgery, University of Alberta

Title: Islet Xenotransplantation: from bench side to the clinic?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-02-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrey Shaw, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Title: Function of the 'scaffold' protein KSR in T cell activation and MEK/ERK activation

Host: Dr. Robert J. Ingham, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2011-02-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Subash Sad, Research Officer, Project Leader, Immunomodulation, NRC Institute for Biological Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario

Title: How pathogens induce a chronic infection

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2011-02-10

'Work In Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Deanna Hockley

Title: Exploring the use of artificial antigen presentation in the generation of CD8+ T cell effector responses

2011-02-03

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Heather Wilson, VIDO, University of Saskatchewan

Title: Innate immunity in small and large animal species: Instructing the adaptive immune system and beyond

Host: Dr. Christopher Power, Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

2011-01-27

'Work In Progress' Discussion Series

Speaker: Raju Thangavelue

2011-01-26

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ralph M. Steinman, Christopher H. Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases, The Rockefellar University

Title: Vaccines that target dendritic cells

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, and Graduate Students in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2011-01-20

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Joanna Shisler, Associate Professor, The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Vaccinia virus manipulation of PKR primitive pattern recognition receptor

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2010-12-02

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Guido van Marle, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary

Title: HIV-1 in the gut

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

2010-11-18

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Philip F. Halloran, MD, PhD, Director, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta

Title: New Insights in Transplant Immunology

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator

2010-11-04

Department of Dentistry - Brown Bag Lunch Hour Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Massimo Costalonga, DMD, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Peridontology, Dept of Developmental and Surgical Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry

Title: Oral colonization with Porphyromonas gingivalis and pregnancy outcomes in a murine model of periodontal bone loss' Special Info: Dr. Costalonga is a Periodontist with research interests in the fields of mucosal immunology, microbial ecology/pathogenesis and pregnancy. He is a candidate for a faculty position in the Division of Periodontics

2010-10-28

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Sam K.P. Kung, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba

Title: On the CD40 regulation of DC functions and beyond

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor and Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2010-10-21

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nevil J. Singh, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Title: T cell crowd control: A clonal regulator limits pathology from self-reactive lymphocytes

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

Sponsor: AHFMR

2010-10-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: Studying poxvirus replication and recombination for fun (and profit)

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-10-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Qutayba Hamid, McGill University, MD, PhD, MRCP (UK), FRCP, FRC Path, James McGill Professor, Strauss Chair in Respiratory Medicine, Depts of Medicine & Pathology, McGill University

Title: “Role of IL-17 in severe asthma”

Host: Dr. Harissios Vliagofits MD, Director, Pulmonary Research Group, Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine, University of Alberta

2010-09-30

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series (Potential MMI Faculty Recruit)

Speaker: Dr. Gary Chan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Molecular & Tumor Virology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centre, Shreveport, LA

Title: Human cytomegalovirus reprograms monocytes to function as vehicles of viral disemmination

Host: Dr. James Smiley, Professor & Search Committee Chair, Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-09-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Steven J. Burakoff, Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Lillian & Henry M. Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Title: Controlling T Cell Activation: Potential Mechanism for Tumor Escape

Host: Dr. Shairaz Baksh, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2010-09-20

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series (Potential MMI Faculty Recruit)

Speaker: Dr. Marianne Stanford, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON

Title: A pox on this cancer! Poxviruses and oncolytic virotherapy

Host: Dr. James Smiley, Professor & Search Committee Chair, Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-09-16

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series (Dr. Rice is the external examiner for Melany Wagner's thesis defense)

Speaker: Dr. Steve A Rice, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

Title: Post-transcriptional stabilization of viral lytic and latent mRNAs by the HSV-1 ICP27 protein

Host: Dr. James Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-09-13

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series (Potential MMI Faculty Recruit)

Speaker: Dr. John Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas Medical Center

Title: Dissecting the Roles of HTLV-1 Accessory Proteins in Virus Replication and Transmission' Time & Location: 10:00 am, Classroom F (2J2.04 WMC)

Host: Dr. James Smiley, Professor & Search Committee Chair, Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-09-01

The Diane Taylor Lectureship in Microbiology

Speaker: Dr. Stuart B. Levy, M.D., Professor, Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA USA

Title: Circumventing Resistance: A New Generation of Tetracyclines

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-08-19

MMI Seminar (Potential MMI Post-Doctoral Fellow)

Speaker: Verena Bachmann, University of Konstanz

Title: Receptor-Mediated Uptake of Bacterial Pathogens: Lessons from Gonococci

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-08-15

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series (Potential MMI Faculty Recruit)

Speaker: Dr. Maya Shmulevitz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Title: Why Reovirus Prefers Cancer Cells: Molecular Mechanisms

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-08-06

Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Yiming Shao, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief Expert on AIDS, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Director of the Department of the Research on Virology and Immunology, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Title: The challenges and opportunities for AIDS research in China

Host: Dr. Michael Y. Li, Professor & Director Information Research Lab, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences and Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2010-08-05

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker: Heather E. Eaton, Environmental and Life Sciences, Graduate Program, PhD Candidate, Trent University, Peterborough, ON (potential MMI Postdoctoral Fellow)

Title: Virus-host interactions of the family Iridoviridae

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-08-04

MMI Seminar - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nikos Vasilakis, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Title: The Great Hunt: Searching for Animal Models for Dengue Pathogenesis and Emergence

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta and Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2010-07-21

Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Chris Richardson, Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1, Department of Microbiology & Immunology & Pediatrics, Dalhousie University

Host: Dr. D Lorne Tyrrell, Professor & CHIR/GSK Chair in Virology, Founding Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-07-13

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deanna Santer, Post-doctoral fellow, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Title: Regulation of IFN-alpha production by plasmacytoid dendritic cells in lupus

Host: Dr. Michael Houghton, CERC, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-05-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David M. Raskin, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Cockrell Foundation Scholar in Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX

Title: Regulation of Vibrio cholerae virulence by environmental factors

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-03-11

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Marc Ouellette, Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Infection & Immunity (III), Professor, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University

Title: Genomics of antimicrobial resistance

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-05-17

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Karl Y. Hostetler, VMR Research Scientist, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA

Title: Novel Lipid Acyclic Nucleoside Phosphonate Antivirals for HCV, HIV and Orthoposviruses

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-04-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Richard F. Lamb, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

Title: mTOR and nutrient control in health and disease

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-04-08

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jude Uzonna, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba

Title: Generation, maintenance and loss of established immunity: lessons from an intracellular protozoan infection

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-03-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. John R. Gordon, Co-chair, Immunology Research Group, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan

Title: Regulatory dendritic cells as a treatment for allergic and autoimmune disease

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-03-30

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Pinkoski, Programme Leader, MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Leicester, UK

Title: Life & Death in the Peripheral Immune System

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-03-25

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Shairaz Baksh, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor, Oncology & Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Negative Regulation of NFkappaB-dependent Inflammation

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-03-11

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Aviad Levin, PhD Candidate, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Title: Regulation of Activity and Nuclear Import of HIV-1 Integrase Protein

Host: Drs. David Evans, Lorne Tyrrell, Michele Barry, James Smiley, Luis Schang and Katherine Magor

2010-03-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Human Innate Immune Receptors for MHC-I: of KIRs and SHPs and sealing-wax, of tyrosines and rings

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-02-11

iNetWORK - Research 'In Progress'

Speaker: Dr. Bianca Dauber, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology studying in the lab of Dr. Jim Smiley

Title: The HSV-1 virion host shutoff (vhs) protein – an RNase that boosts translation of viral mRNAs' 'Work-In-Progress' Discussion Series

2010-02-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lisa McNeil, Principal Research Scientist I, Immunobiology Vaccine Research, Pfizer Inc

Title: LPD2086: Development of a Bivalent Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B Vaccine

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2010-01-14

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The Role of the Mouse Model in the Studies of Viral Hepatitis

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2009-12-10

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Richard C. Condit, Professor, Dept of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida * External Examiner for Gammon thesis defense

Title: Post-Initiation Events in Poxvirus Late Gene Transcription

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AIVI and Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2009-12-03

iNetWORK - Research 'In Progress'

Speaker: Li Fu, Graduate student, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology studying in the lab of Dr. Deborah Burshtyn

Title: Work-In-Progress' Discussion Series

2009-11-30

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Vikram Misra, Professor & Head, Dept of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Associate member, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan * External Examiner for Meaghan Hancock's thesis defense

Title: Is Zhangfei a regulator of herpes simplex virus latency, neuronal differentiation and tumor growth

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AIVI, Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2009-11-19

iNetWORK - Research 'In Progress'

Speaker: Nancy Hu, Graduate student, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology studying in the lab of Dr. Troy Baldwin

Title: Work-In-Progress Discussion Series

2009-11-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. James Stafford, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Stimulatory and Inhibitory innate immune receptors in ectothermic vertebrates

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2009-10-29

iNetWORK - Research 'In Progress'

Speaker: Joelle St. Pierre & Samuel Cheung, Graduate students, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology studying in the lab of Dr. Hanne Ostergaard

Title: Work-In-Progress Discussion Series

2009-10-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Hermann Ziltener, Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia

Title: Getting around! Staying Alive! T cells need the molecular velcro PSGL-1

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-10-01

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Cameron, Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine

Title: Genetic Variation in CRTh2 Influences Th2 Immunity

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor & ImmuNet Seminar Coordinator, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

2009-09-24

Joint PRG & ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Soman Ninan Abraham, Professor of Pathology, Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Pathology, Duke University

Title: Targeted Activation of Mast Cells to Boost Immunity

Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta

2009-09-17

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Michael Houghton, CSO, Epiphany Biosciences Inc., San Francisco, CA

Title: Toward the control of the hepatitis C virus

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AIVI, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry & Office of the Vice President of Research

2009-09-10

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Lynn Enquist, Henry L. Hillman Professor & Chair, Dept of Molecular Biology, Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Title: Monitoring alpha herpesvirus infection of peripheral nervous system neurons

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-07-30

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Matthias Gõtte, Associate Professor, Biochemical Virology, McGill University, Montreal, QC

Title: Novel strategies to inhibit HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase

Host: Dr. David Evans, Professor & Chair, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-06-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Wootton, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph

Title: Cellular transformation by ovine betaretroviruses: Insights into the basis for tissue-specific tumor formation

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-06-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Tania Watts, Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto

Title: Role of 4-1BB in immunological memory and protection from severe viral infections

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-05-19

Distinguished Immunologist

Speaker: Dr. Mitchell Kronenberg, President & Scientific Director, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

Title: Innate-like recognition of diverse microbes by natural killer T cells

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, and Graduate students Deanna Hockley & Joelle St. Pierre, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR Click Here to see the poster

2009-05-07

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. David Traver, Assistant Professor, Section of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California

Title: Ontogeny and function of Zebrafish antigen presenting cells

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-04-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Dee N. Dao, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Immune system: Identification of Bacterial Cell Wall Components that Suppress Macrophage Production of Interleukin-12

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2009-04-08

Sixth Annual Tyrrell Lectureship

Speaker: Dr. Michael Gale Jr., Associate Professor, Immunology, Adjunct Associate Professor, Microbiology, Affiliate Investigator, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, University of Washington

Title: Viral triggering and control of innate immunity during hepatitis C virus infection

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-04-02

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Marc Sitbon, Professor, Universite Paris 7 (France)

Title: HTLV and MLV etrovirus envelopes and receptors, the metabolic connection

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-03-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Nathalie Labrecque, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Montreal

Title: What do you need to generate and maintain memory CD8+ T cells?

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-02-26

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. James Carlyle, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Research Institute

Title: Innate selflessness: Evolution of MHC-dependent and MHC-independent systems for NK cell recognition of target cells

Host: Dr. James Stafford, Department of Biological Sciences

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-02-12

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Larry Guilbert, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Placental barrier function to maternal infections. Back to the basics of defining a cellular model of the placenta

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - ImmuNet Seminar Series Coordinator

2009-01-22

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Gommerman, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto

Title: Lymphotoxin Receptor singaling induces dendritic cell licensing to provoke cytotoxic T cell responses

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2009-01-15

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Bradley Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Does pathology recapitulate phylogeny? Germinal centres in auto-immunity and 'primitive' verttebrates

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, ImmuNet Seminar Series Chair

2008-12-11

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mason, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

Title: Is the NOD mouse an infectious disease model? Retroviruses and autoimmunity

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - ImmuNet Seminar Series Coordinator

2008-12-04

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Molecular mapping of thymic negative selection

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences - ImmuNet Seminar Series Coordinator

2008-11-27

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Alberto Martin, Canadian Research Chair in Antibody Diversification, Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto

Title: The AID enzyme in antibody diversification: Mutational mechanisms and lymphomagenesis

Host: ImmuNet

2008-11-13

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Kathy Magor, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Viral detectors in the duck, the natural host of influenza

Host: ImmuNet

2008-11-04

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Marc Kvansakul, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, The Walter And Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne Australia

Title: Structural studies on virus mediated inhibition of apoptosis

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-10-23

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ronald Gill, Scientific Director, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: The role of cellular cytotoxicity in transplant tolerance and rejection

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-10-22

AIVI Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Rodney S. Russell, Assistant Professor, BioMedical Sciences, memorial University of Newfoundland

Title: Determinants of Hepatitis C Virus Production

Host: Dr. Michael Joyce, Research Associate, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-10-09

ImmuNet Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Denise Hemmings, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Alberta

Title: Cytomegalovirus, sphingosine 1-phosphate and maternal adaptations to pregnancy

Host: Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-09-18

Alberta Institute for Viral Immunology - Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Ganes C. Sen, Chairman and Thomas Lord Endowed Chair, Dept of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Title: Cellular and physiological functions of double-stranded RNA and its binding proteins

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2008-09-10

Alberta Institute for Viral Immunology - Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Eric Cohen, Canada Research Chair in Microbiology Research & Professor, Insitut de Recherches Clinques de Montreal

Title: HIV Modulation of the Host Ubiquitin Machinery

Host: Dr. Christopher Power, Professor, Neurology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2008-06-24

Distinguished Immunologist

Speaker: Dr. Diane Mathis, Immunology & Immunogenetics, Mathis/Benoist Lab, Joslin Diabetes Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Title: Molecular Control of Immunological Tolerance

Host: Melany Wagner, Graduate Student, Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2008-06-19

 

Speaker: Dr. André G. Buret, Professor, Zoology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary

Title: C. jejuni: Microbial host epithelial interactions

Host: Dr. Markus Stein, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2008-05-22

 

Speaker: Dr. Eric Samuel Loker, Regent's Professor and Chair of Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico Title ''Trematodes and Snails - From Macroevolution to Immunology ... and Back again

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor & Patrick Hanington, Biological Sciences

Sponsor: AHFMR

2008-05-01

 

Speaker: Dr. David C. Johnson, Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Oregon Health & Science University

Title: How two herpesviruses get out of cells, and then back in

Host: Dr. James Smiley, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-04-24

 

Speaker: Dr. John H. Brumell, Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario

Title: Interactions of Salmonella and Listeria with autophagy system of host cells

Host: Dr. Markus Stein, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-04-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Barreda, Assistant Professor, Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta

Title: Integrating innate and adaptive immunity through macrophage phagocytosis

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2008-04-10

 

Speaker: Dr. Rebekah DeVinney, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary

Title: S*** Happens: Vibrio parachaemolyticus interactions with epithelial cells

Host: Dr. Markus Stein, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-03-27

 

Speaker: Dr. Lori West, Director Heart Transplant Research, Pediatrics, University of Alberta

Title: The immunobiology of crossing the ABO barrier in organ transplantation

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2008-03-20

 

Speaker: Dr. Yoji Shimizu, University of Minnesota Medical School

Title: Regulation of integrin function and T cell activation by adapter proteins

Host: Dr. Troy Baldwin, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2008-03-06

 

Speaker: Dr. Rachel Horton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medical Mirobiology, University of Manitoba

Title: The role of IgA in prevention of infection by two distinct mucosal pathogens: Neisseria meningitidis and HIV-1

Host: Dr. Stefan Pukatzki, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2007-02-14

Fifth Annual Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Erik De Clercq, Professor Emeritus, Rega Institute for Medical Research, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Title: New perspectives for the treatment of virus (i.e. HIV, HBV and HCV) infections

Host: Dr. Luis Schang, Biochemistry, University of Alberta and Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Sponsor: AHFMR, UHF, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta

2008-01-07

 

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Cairo, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Exporing cell surface interactions: Lateral mobility, conformational change, and allosteric inhibition of LFA-1

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2007-12-13

 

Speaker: Dr. Christopher H. Mody, University of Calgary

Title: Direct Killing of Microbes by Cytotoxic Lymphocytes

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2007-11-29

 

Speaker: Dr.Colin Anderson, Surgery, Surgical Medical Research Institute, University of Alberta

Title: Transplantation tolerance and immunologic theory, a match or a mismatch?

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2007-11-15

 

Speaker: Dr. Mario Feldman, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Glycoengineering in bacteria: a novel technology for the synthesis of glycan-based therapeutics

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2007-10-25

 

Speaker: Dr. Dan McVicar, National Cancer Institute

Title: Differential Adaptor Use by DAP12 in NK Cells and Macrophages

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2007-10-18

 

Speaker: Dr. Janvier Marcelo Di Noia, Institut de Rechereches cliniques de Montreal

Title: Antibody Diversity through somatic mutagenesis and subverted DNA repair

Host: Dr. James Stafford, Department of Biological Sciences

Sponsor: AHFMR

2007-10-11

 

Speaker: Dr. Marc Jenkins, Distinguished McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Center for Immunology, Dept of Microbiology

Title: Tracking the activation of polyclonal naive helper T cells during the immune response

Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Pulmonary Medicine

Sponsor: AHFMR

2007-09-20

 

Speaker: Dr. Edan Foley, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: My DREDDful life as a fly JuNKie - Immune signalling in Drosophilia

Host: Dr. Bradley Magor, Seminar Coordinator

2007-05-31

 

Speaker: Dr. Jim Stone, Professor, Biochemistry

Title: Regulation of Ras in Lymphocytes - Get a GRP

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2007-02-13

 

Speaker: Dr. Joseph R. Slupsky, Professor, Department of Haematology, The University of Liverpool

Title: ‘The role of protein kinase C in Chronic Lymphocytic and Hairy-Cell Leukaemias’

Host: Dr. Andrew Shaw, Department of Oncology

Sponsor: N/A

2007-02-07

Fourth Annual Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection & Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, Institute of Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Zurich

Title: ‘On antiviral antibody responses’

Host: Drs. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology & Linda Pilarski, Cross Cancer Institute

Sponsor: ImmuNet and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

2007-01-24

 

Speaker: Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis, Director, Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM)

Title: ‘Self-Recognition Mechanisms in Natural Killer and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells’

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2007-01-11

 

Speaker: Dr.Chris Bleackley, Biochemistry, University of Alberta

Title: Confessions of a Thanatologist

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2007-01-04

 

Speaker: Dr. Silvia Vidal, Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Human Genetics

Title: “ Genetic and functional interactions between NK cell receptors and major histocompatibility class I molecules determine innate resistance against mouse cytomegalovirus infection”

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-12-07

 

Speaker: Dr. James Stafford, Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Title: Channel catfish leukocyte immune-type receptors (LITRs) are related to molecules encoded within the leukocyte receptor complex (LRC) and contain a putative MHC class I binding site

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2006-11-30

 

Speaker: Dr. Dean Befus, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: ‘ Spit happens: Neuroendocrine regulation of inflammatory reactions’

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2006-11-20

 

Speaker: Dr. Andreas Ziegler, Institut für Immungenetik Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Title: ‘Female reproductive choice, MHC antigens, and interacting receptors’

Host: Dr. Kathy Magor, Biological Sciences

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-11-07

 

Speaker: Dr. Mike Gold, Professor, University of British Columbia

Title: The Rap1 GTPase coordinates cell morphology, migration, adhesion and polarity in B lymphocytes and B16 melanoma cells

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-10-26

 

Speaker: Dr. Christine Biron, Brown University

Title: TBA

Host: Drs. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-10-12

 

Speaker: Dr. Miguel Valvano

Title: ‘Burkholderia cenocepacia: an opportunistic bacterium that fools macrophages’

Host: Drs. Tracey Hunt and Tom Hobman, Department of Cell Biology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-10-05

 

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Title: Independent regulations of cytotoxic T lymphocyte lytic mechanisms

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: ImmuNet

2006-08-23

 

Speaker: Dr. Susheela Tridandapani, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University of Internal Medicine

Title: ‘Homeostatic Control of Fc Receptor-Mediated Macrophage Function’

Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Pulmonary Research Group

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-08-04

 

Speaker: Dr. Hans Ochs, University of Washington in Seattle

Title: ‘ Immune Dysregulation and AutoImmune Disease ’

Host: Dr. Bruce Ritchie, Clinical Hematology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-04-27

 

Speaker: Dr. Laurie Frappier, University of Toronto

Title: ‘Cellular Protein Interactions of the Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA1 Protein: Insights into EBV Persistence and Cell Immortalization’

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-04-21

 

Speaker: Dr. Byron Caughey, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories

Title: ‘TSE/prion infectivity, neurotoxicity and chemotherapeutics’

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-04-20

Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity

Speaker: Dr. Byron Caughey, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories

Title: Life and death with prions: Mad cows, wasting elk, and cannibals

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Alberta Prion Research Institute and AHFMR

2006-03-31

 

Speaker: Dr. Noel Rose

Title: ‘Autoimmune Myocarditis: Paradigms and Paradoxes?’

Host: Dr. John Elliott, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-03-09

 

Speaker: Dr. Jack Gauldie, McMaster University

Title: TGFbeta and Smad3 link inflammation and tissue remodeling

Host: Dr. Dean Befus

Sponsor: AHFMR

2006-02-09

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Max Cooper, University of Alabama

Title: ‘Somatic diversification of variable lymphocyte receptors in the agnathan sea lamprey ’

Host: ImmuNet Students

2006-01-31

 

Speaker: Dr. Greg Downey, Director of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Toronto

Title: ‘Role of tyrosine phosphatases in regulation of innate and adaptive immunity’

Host: Dr. Harissios Vliagoftis, Pulmonary Medicine

2006-01-26

 

Speaker: Dr. Catherine Field, Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science

Title: ‘The influence of early nutrition on the development of the immune system’

2005-12-08

 

Speaker: Dr. Robert Campbell, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Title: “New tools in the toolbox: improved blue and cyan fluorescent proteins for use in live cell imaging”

2005-12-01

 

Speaker: Dr. Roy Duncan, Professor, Dalhousie University

Title: “FAST proteins: Minimal protein-mediated membrane fusion machines and an intracellular delivery platform”

Host: Drs. Jennifer Corcoran and David Evans, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2005-11-24

 

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Cameron, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Medicine

Title: “Functional Evidence for Association between the Polymorphism IL13-1112CT in the Human IL13 Promoter and Allergic Inflammation”

2005-11-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Chris Power, Professor, Neurology

Title: “Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation in Neuro-AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis”

2005-08-03

 

Speaker: Dr. Eileen White, Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Piscataway, NJ

Title: “Role of Cell Death Pathways in the Regulation of Tumorigenesis”

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2005-03-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Carrie Miceli, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Molecular Organizers of T Cell Synapse and Signal Transduction”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2005-03-10

 

Speaker: Dr. Mitch Kronenberg, Scientific Director & President, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology

Title: Innate like immune cell recognition of bacteria by NKT cells”

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2005-03-03

 

Speaker: Dr. Yong-Hui Zheng, Department of Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco

Title: “Innate immune response to HIV: novel host factors preventing viral replication”

Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology

2005-02-24

 

Speaker: Dr. Scott Gray-Owen, Department of Medical Genetics & Microbiology, University of Toronto

Title: Immunity to neisserial infection: Who’s in charge here?”

Host: Dr. Markus Stein, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-11-18

 

Speaker: Dr. Mary Dinauer, Professor/Director, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Title: “Superoxide production by phagocytes: NADPH oxidase and regulation by the Rho GTPase Rac2”

Host: Dr. Paige Lacy, Pulmonary Medicine

2004-10-21

 

Speaker: Dr. Edan Foley, Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: “A Preemptive Innate Immune Strike”

2004-09-30

 

Speaker: Dr. Redwan Moqbel, Professor, Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta

Title: “The Eosinophil, Tryptophan and Th2 responses; a good IDO!”

2004-09-14

With the Department of Oncology Grand Rounds

Speaker: Dr. Sandra Gendler, Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Tumor Biology Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Scottsdale Arizona

Title: “The Role of MUC1 in Cancer”

Host: Drs. Babita Agrawal, Surgery and Judith Hugh, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

2004-06-24

With the Pulmonary Research Group (Recruitment Candidate)

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Cameron, University of Arizona

Title: “IL13/-1112T, a single nucleotide polymorphism in the promoter of Il13, enhances transcription in Th2 cells”

Host: Pulmonary Research Group

2004-04-22

 

Speaker: Dr. Xian Chang Li, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Title: “Graft rejection vs. acceptance: the role of OX40”

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Surgery/Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-04-15

 

Speaker: Dr. Klaus Früh, Associate Scientist, Vaccine and Genetherapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

Title: Immune Evasion Strategies Utilized by Herpes Viruses and Poxviruses”

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-04-01

 

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: CD1d Regulation of a Natural Killer Cell Subset”

2004-02-11

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Richard Flavell, Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine

Title: “Molecular Genetics of the Immune Response”

Host: Juliet Emamaullee, Graduate Student & Dr. John Elliott, Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-01-14

With the Department of Chemistry

Speaker: Dr. Steven Porcelli, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Title: “Modulation of Immune Responses by CD1-Presented Lipids”

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-02-12

 

Speaker: Dr. Philip Sherman, Professor, University of Toronto

Title: “Epithelial Cell Stat-1 Signalling Responses in Gastrointestinal Pathogens”

Host: Dr. Diane E. Taylor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2004-01-08

 

Speaker: Dr. Joshua Boyce, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology

Title: “Cysteinyl leukotrienes and nucleotides; a system for extracellular signalling in mast cells”

Host: Dr. Dean Befus , Pulmonary Medicine

2003-12-11

 

Speaker: Dr. Gerald Nepom, Director, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle

Title: “Tetramer analysis of human autoreactive CD4 + T cells”

Host: Dr. John Elliott, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-11-13

 

Speaker: Dr. Dean Befus , Professor, Pulmonary Medicine

Title: “Allergen Sensitized, But Not Symptomatic! Lessons for Immunotherapy?”

2003-10-16

 

Speaker: Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

Title: The role of dendritic cells in immune responses against genital herpes infection”

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-10-02

 

Speaker: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Title: “Dynamic studies of KIR at the effector/target cell interface”

2003-05-29

 

Speaker: Dr. Paige Lacy, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Research Group, University of Alberta

Title: “Rho-related GTPases and their role in mediating inflammatory responses in granulocytes”

Host: Sheryl Kirwan, Graduate Student, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-05-21

 

Speaker: Dr. Tak Mak, Director, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics Advanced Medical Discovery Institute, University of Toronto

Title: “Molecular Pathogenesis of Hodgkin’s and MALT Lymphomas”

Host: Dr. Dean Befus . Pulmonary Medicine

2003-05-21

 

Speaker: Dr. Christopher Paige, The Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital

Title: “Rites of Passage: the preB to B transition”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-05-15

 

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Shaw, Professor, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta

Title: “Unraveling the tetraspanin web: sorting and semaphore at the immune synapse”

Host: Leah Standeven, Graduate Student, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-05-08

 

Speaker: Dr. William Wold, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center

Title: “Oncolytic Adenovirus Vectors for Cancer Gene Therapy”

Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-04-24

 

Speaker: Dr. Bart Roep, Associate Professor in Medicine, Immunology of Diabetetes, Netherlands

Title: “T-cell reactivity against islets and islet allografts in type 1 diabetes – A view to a kill”

Host: Dr. John Elliott, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-04-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Mason, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta

Title: Retroviral Induction of Autoimmune Liver Disease: Revisiting Koch’s Postulates”

Host: Mohammed Osman, Graduate Student, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-04-03

 

Speaker: Dr. John Gordon, Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan

Title: “Protection against inflammation induced pathology by ELR-CXC chemokine blockade”

Host: Dr. Dean Befus , Pulmonary Medicine

2003-04-01

 

Speaker: Dr. Wei-Ping Min, Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario

Title: “In vitro generated tolerogeneic dendritic cells for immune modulation and tolerance induction”

Host: Dr. John Elliott, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-03-20

 

Speaker: Dr. Chris Bleackley, Professor, Biochemistry [Medicine], University of Alberta

Title: “What’s a Chemist doing in Biochemistry studying Immunology”

Host: Shawn Wasilenko, Graduate Student, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-02-20

 

Speaker: Dr. Teresa Compton, Associate Professor, McArdle Laboratory of Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin

Title: “Human Cytomegalovirus Activates Innate Immune Responses via Toll-like Receptor 2”

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-02-06

 

Speaker: Dr. Tanya Watts, Professor, Department of Medical Immunology, University of Toronto

Title: “Costimulation of T cell activation: role of CD28 versus 4-1BB”

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-01-16

 

Speaker: Dr. Wilfred Jefferies, University of British Columbia, Biotechnology Research Group

Title: “Tumour-immunotherapy with TAP’s resurrects both antigen processing in tumours and immune surveillance mechanisms”

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2003-01-09

With Transplantation Rounds

Speaker: Dr. Paul Robertson, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Washington; Scientific Director, Pacific Northwest Research Institute, Seattle Washington

Title: Pancreas and Islet Transplantation: A Diabetologist’s Point of View”

Host: Dr. A.M. James Shapiro, Islet Transplantation Program

2002-12-12

 

Speaker: Katherine Magor, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Title: “Duck hunting for flu clues”

Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-11-20

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Galli, Chair, Department of Pathology, Stanford University

Title: Mast cell as effector and amplifiers of asthma and other innate and acquired immune responses”

Host: Derrick Gibbings, Graduate Student, Department of Medicine

2002-11-21

 

Speaker: Dr. Charles Sentman, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Title: “Biology of natural killer cell receptors”

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-11-13

 

Speaker: Dr. Mike Gold, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: “The role of the Rap GTPases in B cell adhesion and migration”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-10-28

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Lewis Lanier, University of California San Francisco

Title: “Natural killer cell recognition of viruses

Host: Brian Ma, Graduate Student, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-10-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Powell, Johns Hopkins University

Title: A critical role for the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in determining TCR induced tolerance vs activation”

Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Medical Microbiology & Immunology/Surgical Medical Research Institute

2002-07-25

 

Speaker: Dr. Pauline Johnson, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia

Title: “CD45: opposing roles in T cell adhesion and activation”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-06-06

 

Speaker: Dr. Julie Deans, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary

Title: “Lipid Rafts in B lymphocytes: Riding the Wave”

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

2002-05-15

 

Speaker: Dr. Philip Calder, Southampton University, UK

Title: N-3 Fatty Acids and Inflammation: From Cell Biology to the Clinic

Host: Dr. Catherine Field, MMI

2002-05-01

 

Speaker: Dr. Brad Undem

Title: Mechanisms of Vagal Afferent Nerve Activation in Airways

Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Medicine and Dr. David Proud, University of Calgary

2002-04-17

 

Speaker: Dr. Cory Hogaboam, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan

Title: Where is the Redundancy in Chemokine and Chemokine Receptor Actions During Fungal-induced Asthma

Host: Dr. Redwan Moqbel, Pulmonary Medicine

2002-04-11

In Conjunction with Transplantation Rounds

Speaker: Dr. David White, Novartis/Stiller Professor of Xenotransplantation Robarts Research Institute University of Western Ontario Siebens Drake Centre, London Ontario

Title: Pig to Man Islet Xenotransplantation – The Future of Islet Transplantation?

Host: Dr. A.M. James Shapiro, Islet Transplantation Program

2002-04-09

MMI Chair Candidate

Speaker: Dr. Ken Rosenthal, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University

Title: Mobilizing Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Prevent Sexually Transmitted Virus Infections

Host: Dr. John Elliott

2002-03-27

MMI Chair Candidate

Speaker: Dr. John Hiscott, Terry Fox Molecular Oncology Group, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University

Title: Hostile Takeover: Viral Appropriation of Cytokine Pathways

Host: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, MMI

2002-03-14

 

Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Title: Sugar and splice: CD45 interactions during T cell development

2002-02-21

In Conjunction with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Mitchell, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit

Title: MG50: a possible universal immunogen and marker for human cancers

Host: Dr. John Samuel, Faculty of Pharmacy

2002-01-16

A Joint Presentation with the Department of Medicine and Pulmonary Research Group

Speaker: Dr. Xi Yang, Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba

Title: Hygiene hypothesis: What the experimental studies say

Host: Dr. Redwin Maqbel, Director, Pulmonary Research Group

2001-11-26

 

Speaker: Dr. Jorma Ilonen (Department of Virology, University of Turku, Finland)

Title: “Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Project in Finland”

Host: John Elliott

2001-11-15

 

Speaker: Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker (University of Toronto)

Title: Lymphocyte development: doing it in a petri dish”

Host: Deborah Burshtyn

2001-10-25

 

Speaker: John Hiscott (McGill University /Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology/Lady Davis Institute)

Title: “Activation of antiviral cascades by the NF-kB and IRF transcription factors following viral infection”

Host: James Smiley

2001-10-18

 

Speaker: Rusung Tan (University of British Columbia)

Title: “XLP gene dysfunction in natural killer cells”

Host: John Elliott

Fall/2001

 

Speaker: Julie Deans (University of Calgary)

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

Fall/2001 Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Stephen Galli (Stanford University) Topic: New perspectives in Asthma Research

Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A

Summer/2001 Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Michael Dustin (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)

Title: The immunological synapse

Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A

2001-07-12

 

Speaker: Helene Conjeaud (Cochin Inst. for Molec. Genetics, U. of Paris) Topic: Tetraspanins

Host: Andrew Shaw, Oncology

2001-06-21

 

Speaker: Malcolm Mitchell (Wayne State Univ. School of Med., Detroit)

Title: MG50: a possible universal immunogen and marker for human cancers

Host: John Samuel, Pharmacy

2001-06-08

Joint Nephrology Days/ImmuNet Seminar |

Speaker: Angus Thomson

Title: Designer dendritic cells for transplant tolerance-guided not misguided missiles?

Host: Phil Halloran, Nephrology/MMI

2001-06-04

 

Speaker: Barbara Bierer (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., NIH)

Title: Calcineurin-dependent substrates targeted by immunosuppressive agents

Host: Phil Halloran, Nephrology/MMI

2001-05-24

 

Speaker: Stephan Bischoff (Hannover, Germany)

Host: Dean Befus

2001-05-17

 

Speaker: Charlie Hao (Lab. Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta)

Title: TRAIL-induced apoptosis in malignant gliomas: Signaling transduction and therapeutic potential

Host: Immunology Network

2001-04-26

 

Speaker: Chris Arendt (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)

Title: Identification of novel signaling pathways in T cells using a retroviral-based promoter activity screen

Host: Hanne Ostergaard, MMI

2001-04-19

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Michael Dustin (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)

Title: The immunological synapse

Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A

2001-03-22

 

Speaker: Pere Santamaria (Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, U. of C.)

Title: Autoreactive T-lymphocytes in autoimmunity: survival of the fittest

Host: John Elliott, MMI

2001-03-13

 

Speaker: Friedemann Kiefer (Max Planck Research Institute, Germany)

Title: Signalling cascades in hematopoietic and endothelial cells: Crucial function of the adapter molecule Shc in polyomavirus mediated transformation of early endothelial cells

Host: John Elliott, MMI

2001-03-12

 

Speaker: Chris Norbury (Lab of Viral Diseases NIAD/NIH)

Title: Antigen Processing Pathways Used in Induction of an Anti-Viral Response - What Really Happens In Vivo?

Host: Walter Maksymowych, Rheumatology

2001-02-06

 

Speaker: Colin Anderson (Lab. of Cell. & Molec. Immunology, NIAD/NIH)

Title: The Role of Time, 'Danger', and Microchimerism in Immunity vs. Tolerance to Grafts

Host: James Shapiro, Surgical-Medical Research Institute (SMRI)

2001-01-23

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress' / ImmuNet Seminar

Speaker: Mike Ellison (Biochemistry, University of Alberta)

Title: Proteomics and Genomics

Host: Dept. of Medicine

2001-01-18

 

Speaker: James Stone (Biochemistry, University of Alberta)

Title: Ras signaling in thymocytes and T cells: Get a GRP' Host/

Sponsor: Immunology Network

2000-12-06

 

Speaker: Trevor Owens (McGill University, Montreal)

Title: Immune-glial interactions in CNS inflammatory disease

Host: John Elliott

2000-11-06

Joint ImmuNet and Epithelial Cell Club Seminar

Speaker: Peter Kvietys (University of Western Ontario)*

Title: PMN Transendothelial Migration: Role of Elastaset

Host: Allan Murray

2000-10-03

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Stephen Hedrick (University of California, San Diego)

Title: “A basis for lineage commitment in T cell development”

Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A

2000-09-27

 

Speaker: Paul Kubes (University of Calgary)

Title: “The molecular mechanisms of leucocyte recruitment in vivo

Host: Linda Pilarski

2000-07-13

 

Speaker: Alan Schreiber (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)

Title: “The Biology of a Protean Receptor System (the Fc receptor family) and its Clinical Significance.”

Host: Dean Befus

2000-06-22

 

Speaker: Cory Hogaboam (University of Michigan)

Title: “Novel Roles for Chemokines during Allergic Airway Remodeling”

Host: Dean Befus

2000-06-15

 

Speaker: John Elliott (Medical Microbiology & Immunology, U. of A.)

Title: “New murine models for autoimmunity: Diabetes, Myocarditis, and M.S.”

2000-05-24

 

Speaker: John Schrader (Biomedical Research Centre, University of B.C.)

Title: The expanding Ras family and friends: paradoxical roles in inflammation and oncogenesis

Host: Phil Halloran

2000-05-11

 

Speaker: Cliff Bellone (Dept. of Molec. Microbiology & Immunology,St. Louis Univ.)

Title: Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA): Can we learn something about the role of antigen presentation in the establishment of T cell phenotypes in disease?

Host: Linda Pilarski

2000-03-22

Joint “Nephrology Days”/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University, Dept. of Biochem., Montreal)

Title: Eukaryotic translational control via PI3 kinase signaling to initiation factors

Host: Phil Halloran

2000-03-21

 

Speaker: Michael A. (Tony) Hollingsworth

Title: Molecular Studies on MUC1: Immunogenicity, Post-translational Modification, Function”

Host: Kevin Kane

2000-03-02

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Dan Littman (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NY)

Title: Towards a molecular understanding of HIV pathogenesis

Host: Immunet Graduate Students, U of A

2000-02-17

 

Speaker: John Wilkins (University of Manitoba)

Title: Approaches to understanding the regulation cell adhesion and integrin activity

Host: Allan Murray

2000-02-10

 

Speaker: Larry Guilbert (Medical Microbiology & Immunology, U. of A.)

Title: Villous trophoblast roles in placental infections, inflammation, repair and remodelling”

2000-02-03

 

Speaker: Christian Jobin, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Title: Physiological role of NF-kB-inducing kinase (NIK) and MEK kinase (MEKK1) in cytokine signaling through the NF-kB system: Relevance for therapeutical intervention.”

Host: Jim Smiley

2000-01-25

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Anna Janowska-Wieczorek, (Clinical Hematology, U. of A.)

Title: Matrix metalloproteinases in hematological disorders”

1999-12-16

 

Speaker: Nadir Hirji (Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta)

Title: “The expression and function of the novel CD8 molecule on macrophages and mast cells”

1999-12-16

 

Speaker: Rick Miller (University of Toronto)

Title: “Natural Killer cell recognition structures”

Host: Dean Befus

1999-12-15

 

Speaker: Elyse Bissonnette (Laval Hôpital, Ste-Foy, Quebec)

Title: “Modulation of the Cytokine Network by Histamine”

1999-12-08

 

Speaker: Louis Du Pasquier (Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland)

Title: “The fate of duplicated MHC genes in polyploid XENOPUS”

Host: Kenneth Roy

1999-11-23

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Wilma Suarez-Pinzon (Diabetes Immunobiology Lab, U. of A.)

Title: Testicular Sertoli cell factors: A novel approach to preventing pancreatic islet ß-cell destruction in autoimmune diabetes”

1999-10-19

 

Speaker: David Kelvin, Scientist, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, John P. Robarts Research Inst., London, Ontario

Title: “IL-8 Receptors from Cell Biology to Transplantation Injury”

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1999-10-12

 

Speaker: Cheryl Helgason, Cancer Research Centre (Terry Fox Lab) University of British Columbia

Title: Targeted disruption of SHIP: Numerous consequences for hematopoiesis and immune function

Host: Jim Smiley

1999-09-21

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Marc Jenkins (University of Minnesota)

Title: “Visualizing the activation of antigen-specific CD4 T cells in the body”

1999-07-29

 

Speaker: Xin Lin (Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco)

Title: Protein Kinases Involved in T cell Activation

Host: Jim Smiley

1999-06-29

 

Speaker: Jordan Pober (Yale)

Title: T cell-mediated endothelial injury in vitro and in vivo

Host: Allan Murray

1998-06-15

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Redwan Moqbel (Pulmonary Medicine, U. of A.)|

Title: Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Eosinophil Activation in Asthma

1999-05-18

 

Speaker: Andrew Shaw (Oncology, U. of A.)

Title: Tetraspans and Lipid Rafts—Partners in MHC Trafficking?

1999-05-06

 

Speaker: Pauline Johnson (University of British Columbia)

Title: Regulation of the Cell Adhesion Molecule, CD44: A Role for Sulfation

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1999-04-13

 

Speaker: Kamala Patel (University of Calgary)

Title: Molecular Mechanisms for Leukocyte Adhesion and Activation

Host: Redwan Moqbel

1999-04-06

 

Speaker: Norman Neumann (Biological Sciences, U. of A.)

Title: Sequential Induction of Macrophage Antimicrobial Responses

1999-03-25

 

Speaker: Claude Bernard (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

Title: The Molecular Basis for Autoimmune Demyelination

Host: John Elliott

1999-03-11

 

Speaker: Dr. Allan Kirk, (Bethesda Naval Institute)

Title: Immunosuppression without Immunosuppression: How to be a tolerant individual in a dangerous world

Host: James Shapiro

1999-03-01

 

Speaker: Dr. Bill Boyle (Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA)

Title: OPGL: The link between bone metabolism and immune response!?

Host: Linda Pilarski

1999-02-02

 

Speaker: Babita Agrawal (Biomira, Edmonton)

Title: Regulation of T cell responses: Lessons learned from tumors

Host: Larry Guilbert

1998-12-15

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Walter Maksymowych (Rheumatology, U. of A.)

Title: HLA-B27 – An Auto-antigen?

1998-12-01

 

Speaker: Phil Halloran (Nephrology, U. of A.)

Title: IFN-g: Defender of the Endothelium

1998-11-20

Joint Dept. of Med. Microbiology & Immunology/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Kevin Kane (Med. Microbiology & Immunology, U. of A.)

Title: Natural Killer Cell Receptor Interactions with Class I MHC Molecules

1998-11-17

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Bruce Yacyshyn (Gastroenterology, U. of A.)

Title: The Immunology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Some Implications on Therapy

1998-11-10

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Allan Murray (Nephrology, U. of A.)

Title: Micro Vessel Injury in Transplantation

1998-11-03

 

Speaker: Stephen T Holgate (Univ. of Southampton, England)

Title: Mucosal control over airway inflammation in asthma

Host: Redwan Moqbel

1998-10-29

 

Speaker: Don Evans (Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia)

Title: NCCRP-1: A Novel Bifunctional Receptor That Mediates Innate Cytotoxic Immunity In Teleosts

Host: Mike Belosevic

1998-10-15

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Michael Julius (Univ. of Toronto & Wellesley Hospital Res. Inst.)

Title: Functional Coupling of TCR and CD3 Signaling

Host: Immunet Graduate Students, U of A

1998-10-08

 

Speaker: Peter Henson (Denver)

Title: Mechanisms and Consequences of Apoptopic Cell Removal in Pulmonary Inflammation

Host: Dean Befus

1998-10-01

 

Speaker: Robert Lechler, (Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)

Title: Cognate and Non-cognate Mechanisms of Immunoregulation

Host: Phil Halloran

1998-09-15

 

Speaker: Hanne Ostergaard, (Med. Microbiology & Immunology, U of A)

Title: Regulation of CD45: Does it get turned off or is it excluded from the party?

1998-08-20

 

Speaker: Fred Finkelman, Div. Of Immunology, U. of Cincinnati)

Title: Cytokine Regulation of Host Defense Against Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection

Host: Tim Mosmann

1998-06-23

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Alex Rabinovitch, (Endocrinology/Muttart Diabetes Cntr., U of A)

Title: Mechanisms of Islet b-cell Destruction in Type 1 Diabetes: Mechanisms and Prevention

1998-06-23

 

Speaker: Ken Anderson (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard)

Title: Novel Immune Therapies of Myeloma

Host: Linda Pilarski

1998-06-09

 

Speaker: Matt Mescher (Kimmelman Chair in Immunology, U. of Minnesota)

Title: Requirements for CTL Activation In Vitro and In Vivo

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1998-06-04

 

Speaker: Michael Karin (U. of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA)

Title: Regulation of AP-1 and NF-kB activities by protein phosphorylation

Host: Phil Halloran cascades

1998-05-21

 

Speaker: Jim Collawn (U. of Alabama, Birmingham)

Title: Analysis of the Structural Requirements for Lysomal Membrane Targeting Using Transferrin Receptor Chimeras

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1998-05-11

 

Speaker: Bhagi Singh (Microbiology and Immunology, U. of Western Ontario)

Title: Multiple pathways to autoimmunity and its regulation through antigen presentation

Host: Kevin Kane

1998-04-28

 

Speaker: Avi Kupfer (National Jewish Center, Denver, CO)

Title: Co-localization and segregation of proteins at the T cell/antigen presenting cell interface

Host: Tim Mosmann

1998-04-14

 

Speaker: Paul Kubes (Immunology Research Group, University of Calgary)

Title: Leukocyte recruitment in acute and chronic inflammation

Host: Allan Murray

1998-03-31

 

Speaker: Mike Gold (Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, U. B.C.)

Title: A tale of two receptors: Signal transduction by the B cell antigen receptor and CD40

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1998-03-30

 

Speaker: Linda Maatsuuchi (Dept. of Zoology, U. B.C.)

Title: Intracellular trafficking and signaling by the B cell antigen receptor

Host: Hanne Ostergaard

1998-03-10

 

Speaker: Quim Madrenas (Microb. and Immunol., U. of Western Ontario)

Title: Dissociation of Intracellular Signalling Pathways after TCR Engagement with Partial Agonist Ligands

Host: Phil Halloran

1998-02-24

 

Speaker: Anne O'Rourke (Res. Institute at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA)

Title: Aspects of T cell Adhesion and Activation

Host: Kevin Kane

1998-02-02

 

Speaker: Klaus Erb (Centre for Infectious Dis., U. of Wurzburg, Germany)

Title: Cross-regulation of Th1 and Th2 Immune Responses in Vivo

Host: Redwan Moqbel

1998-01-27

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Elyse Bissonnette (Pulmonary Research Group, U of A)

Title: Viral Infections in Asthma

1998-01-20

 

Speaker: Paolo Renzi (University of Montreal and Notre Dame Hospital)

Title: Evidence for Immune Regulation of Asthmatic Response

Host: Redwan Moqbel

1997-12-09

 

Speaker: Dean Befus (Pulmonary Medicine/Asthma Centre, U of A)

Title: CD8 in Funny Places Doing Interesting Things!

1997-11-25

Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar

Speaker: Bruce Yacychyn (Dept. of Gastroenterology, U of A)

Title: Novel Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

1997-11-24

 

Speaker: Deborah Burshtyn (NAID Res. Facility, NIH)

Title: Inhibition Through Inhibitory Receptors: Lessons from Natural Killer Cells”

Host: Jim Smiley

1997-11-19

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Art Weiss (Rheumatology Division, Howard Hughes Med. Inst.)

Title: Signal Transduction by the T Cell Antigen Receptor

Host: Immunet Grad Students & Post-Docs, U of A

1997-10-21

 

Speaker: Phil Halloran (Nephrology, U of A)

Title: The Action of Immunosuppresive Drugs: Implications for Immunology

1997-10-14

 

Speaker: Gil Castro (Dept. of Physiology, U. of Texas, Houston)

Title: Immune Regulation of Epithelial Cell Function in the Gut

Host: Mike Belosevic

1997-09-25

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Philippa Marrack (U. of Colorado Health Sci. Center, Denver)

Title: T cell Specificity and Function

Host: Immunet Grad Students & Post-Docs, U of A

1997-08-19

 

Speaker: Alexandra Livingstone (Imperial College of Science,Technology and Medicine, London)

Title: Mechanisms for Maintaining CD8 + T cell Memory

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, MMI

1997-08-18

 

Speaker: Paul Wordsworth (Oxford Univ. and Oxford Radcliffe Hospital)

Title: The Genetics of Inflammatory Joint Disease

Host: Dr. Walter Maksymowych, Rheumatology

1997-08-11

 

Speaker: Ferenc Livak, Post-doc. (Div. of Immunobiology, Yale Med. Sch.)

Title: T cell Receptor Gene Rearrangement During Thymocyte Development

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, MMI

1997-07-24

 

Speaker: Michel Sadelain (Dept. of Human Genetics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York)

Title: Genetic Approaches for Controlling Immune Responses in Vivo

Host: Dr. John Elliott

1997-07-10

 

Speaker: Reinhard Pabst (Centre of Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)

Title: Compartmentalization and Dynamics of Lymphocytes in the Lung

Host: Dean Befus

1997-07-08

 

Speaker: Harissios Vliagoftis, Post-doctoral Fellow

Title: Mast Cells Express Connexins and Communicate in Vitro with Fibroblasts Through Gap Junctions

Host: Dean Befus

1997-06-19

 

Speaker: Russell Salter (U. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

Title: Role of N-glycans in Promoting Assembly and Peptide Binding of Class I MHC molecules

Host: Dr. Kevin Kane

1997-05-22

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Paul Allen (Washington U., St. Louis)

Title: Close Encounters with the T-cell Receptor

1997-05-15

Distinguished Immunologist Seminar

Speaker: Polly Matzinger (NIH)

Title: Tolerance and the Four Ds: Danger, Distress, Destruction and Death

Host: Immunet Graduate Students, U of A

1997-05-08

 

Speaker: Alan D. Schrieber (U. of Pennsylvania)

Title: The Immunobiology of Fc Receptors

Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Pulmonary Medicine

1997-04-18

 

Speaker: Stephen Anderson (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD)

Title: Regulation of Natural Killer Cell Function

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Chair--MMI

1997-04-10

 

Speaker: Eric Prossnitz (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla)

Title: Mechanisms of Receptor-Mediated Leukocyte Activation and Chemotaxis

Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Chair--MMI

1997-02-27

 

Speaker: Linda Pilarski, University of Alberta

1997-02-13

 

Speaker: Brian van Ness, University of Minnesota

Host: Dr. Linda Pilarski

1997-01-23

 

Speaker: Brad Jones, University of Iowa

Host: Dr. Walter Maksymowych

1997-01-09

Distinguished Immunologist

Speaker: Pere Santamaria, University of Calgary

Host: Dr. John Elliott

1996-10-17

 

Speaker: Judah Denburg, McMaster University

Host: Dr. Dean Befus