Stanford Immunology Seminar Series 2017-2018
Nationally and internationally recognized speakers present research seminars to the Stanford Immunology community. Graduate students participate in extending invitations to speakers and in hosting speakers. The seminar is free and open to the public. It also functions as a class called IMMUNOL 311.
Autumn Quarter 2017 in Alway M106:
09/26/17 Ron Germain, M.D., Ph.D. - NIAID/NIH
Imaging Immunity – Developing a High Resolution, Spatiotemporal Understanding of Host Defense
10/03/17 Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. - Stanford University
Targeting the sialic acid axis of immune modulation for cancer immunotherapy
10/10/17 Jonathan Kagan, Ph.D. - Harvard Medical School
Mechanisms of Inflammation
10/17/17 Alexander Hoffmann, Ph.D. - University of California Los Angeles
Specificity and Noise in Immune Response Signaling
10/24/17 Eric Long, Ph.D. - NIAID/NIH
Antibody-dependent inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum growth by NK cells
10/31/17 David Baker, Ph.D., - University of Washington
The coming of age of de novo protein design
11/07/17 Jeffrey Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D. - The Rockefeller University
Antibody diversification through selective Fc receptor engagement
11/14/17 Frederic Geissman, M.D.,Ph.D. - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Somatic mosaicism in the resident macrophage lineage, inflammation and neurodegeneration
11/28/17 Owen Witte, M.D. - University of California Los Angeles
Finding Immune Targets for Aggressive Prostate Cancers
12/05/17 CANCELLED Charles Rice, Ph.D. - The Rockefeller University
12/08/17 **Diana Bianchi, M.D. - NIH/NICHD **
** Special Immunology Seminar held in Clark Center Auditorium from 12:30-1:30 pm **
Winter Quarter 2018 in LKSC 130:
01/19/18 Stephen Smale, Ph.D. - University of California Los Angeles
Mechanistic logic controlling inflammatory gene transcription
01/16/18 Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. - La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Crosstalk: how a TNF super family receptor influences intestinal tissue, the microbiome and mucosal immunity
01/23/18 Rahul Satija, Ph.D. - New York Genome Center, NYU
Integrated analysis of single cell data across modalities, technologies, and species
01/30/18 Taia Wang, M.D., Ph.D. - Stanford University
IIgG Fc domain repertoires: structural and functional diversity in humans
02/06/18 Megan Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. - Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Fueling a killer: metabolic regulation of NK cell activation
02/13/18 ** Eli Gilboa, Ph.D. - University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine**
**Special Immunology Seminar held in Alway M114 from 3:00 - 4:00 pm**
Vaccination against neoantigens induced in future tumors for patients in remission and individuals at risk of developing cancer
02/13/18 Audray Harris, Ph.D. - NIAID/DIR
Vaccine nanoparticle analysis by cryo-EM with hybrid approaches
02/20/18 Jeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D. - University of California San Francisco
Manipulating Tregs to control tolerance in autoimmunity and cancer
02/27/18 Andrew Gentles, Ph.D. - Stanford University
Clinically relevant interaction networks in the tumor microenvironment
03/06/18 Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D. - University of California San Francisco
Mechanisms of maternal immune tolerance towards the allogeneic fetus
03/13/18 ** Hergen Spits, Ph.D. - Academic Center of the University of Amsterdam**
Title TBA **Special Seminar Time and location TBD **
03/13/18 Prasanna Jagannathan, M.D., Ph.D. - Stanford University
Title TBA
Spring Quarter 2018 in LKSC 130:
04/03/18 Sarah Fortune, M.D. - Harvard University
Enhancing macrophage clearance of M. tuberculosis using insights from single cell genomics
04/10/18 Patrick Wilson, Ph.D. - The University of Chicago
B cell immunity to influenza in context
04/17/18 Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D. - NCI/NIH
Cancer, inflammation and the microbiota
04/24/18 Chris Goodnow, Ph.D. - Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Denisovan, human and mouse mutations adjusting the trade-off between tolerance and immunity
05/01/18 Marco Colonna, M.D. - Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis
Innate lymphoid cells in immunity
05/08/18 Susan Kaech, Ph.D. - Salk Institute
Anti-tumor T cells: you are what you eat
05/15/18 Shane Crotty, Ph.D. - La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
T follicular helper (Tfh) CD4 T cells, germinal centers, immunodominance, and the generation of memory to vaccines
05/22/18 Sonia Sharma, Ph.D. - La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Metabolic-epigenetic priming of cell-intrinsic innate immunity uncovered in a disease of systemic inflammation
**Replacement for cancelled Herzenberg lecturer, Rachel Gerstein**
05/29/189 Michal Tal, Ph.D. - Stanford University
The yin and yang of CD47-SIRPa as an immunomodulatory axis of immune clearance
06/05/18 Darrell Irvine, Ph.D. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering new approaches to vaccines and cancer immunotherapyEngineering new approaches to vaccines and cancer immunotherapy