Emory IMP Seminars: Fall 2004

October 5th, 2004

Kyle McKenna, PhD

Dept. of Opthamology

"Immune Evasion by Tumors Developing Within the Eye"

October 12th, 2004

Jim Zimring, MD, PhD

Dept of Pathology

“Veto Cell Based Strategies of Allotolerance Induction”

October 19th, 2004

Amer Beg, PhD

Columbia University

“NF-kB function in APCs and T cells”

October 26th, 2004

Richard Flavell, PhD

Yale University School of Medicine

"Regulation of Immunity and Autoimmunity by cytokines and cells"

November 2nd, 2004 Joint Seminar with Department of Pathology

Lewis Lanier, PhD

University of California-San Francisco

“NK cell receptors in immune defense”

November 9th, 2004 Joint Seminar with MMG

Michael Whitt,PhD

University of Tennessee-Memphis

"Manipulating Virus Assembly and Cytopathogenesis for the Development of VSV-Based Cytolytic and Gene Delivery Vectors"

November 16th, 2004 Joint Seminar with Department of Pathology

Rodney Newberry, MD

Washington University School of Medicine

"Isolated Lymphoid Follicle Formation and Function"

November 30th, 2004

Barbara Rehermann,MD

NIDDK, NIH

"Immunology of Hepatitis C Virus Infection".

December 7th, 2004

Jorg J. Goronzy, M.D. Ph.D.

Dept of Medicine, Center for Human Immunology

“Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors in human autoimmune disease”

December 14th, 2004

Arash Grakoui, PhD

Dept of Medicine

“Hepatitis C virus infection: Immune evasion and viral persistence”