Past Seminars

ImmuNet Seminar Series

MMI Seminars

Li Ka Shing Seminar Series Speakers

and

iNetWORK "Work-In-Progress" Discussion Series

Page last updated: May 4, 2012

April 19, 2012  ***** NEW DATE *****

ImmuNet Council Meeting

TUESDAY, April 17, 2012 - 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

April 12, 2012 - 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"

March 29, 2012 - 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

March 22, 2012 - 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

March 15, 2012 - 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

March 13, 2012 - 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:  Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speaker Fund

*  Dr. Michalak is the external examiner for the PhD Thesis Defense of Li Zhao

March 1, 2012 - iNetWORK "Research- in-Progress" Seminar

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

Title:  "Caspase-independent cell death in thymic negative selection"

February 16, 2012 - 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

February 9, 2012 - 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

January 12, 2012 - 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"

January 26, 2012 - 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

January 19, 2012 - 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

January 12, 2012 - iNetWORK "Research- in-Progress" Seminar

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

Title:  "RTK Control of Intestinal Homeostasis"

January 10, 2012 - 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

December 15, 2011 - 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"

December 14, 2011 - 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

December 8, 2011 - 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

November 24, 2011 - 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

November 17, 2011 - 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

November 3, 2011 - 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"

October 27, 2011 - 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

October 20, 2011 -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"

October 13, 2011 - 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"

October 6, 2011 - iNetWORK "Research-in-Progress" Seminar

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

Title:  "Investigating LIR-1 Receptor-Ligand Interactions"

September 29, 2011 - 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"

September 14 -2011 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

Hosts: Graduate Students, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology

June 20, 2011 - 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"

April 14, 2011 - "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"

March 31, 2011  - 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

March 24 , 2011 - 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

March 17, 2011 - 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

March 10, 2011 - 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

February 24, 2011 - 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

February 17, 2011 - 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

FRIDAY, February 11, 2011 - 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

February 10 2011 -"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"

February 3, 2011  - 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

January 27, 2011 -"Work In Progress" Discussion Series

Speaker:  Raju Thangavelue

WEDNESDAY - January 26, 2011

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

January 20, 2011 - 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

December 2, 2010 - 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

November 18, 2010 - 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

November 4, 2010 - 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.

October 28, 2010 - 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

October 21, 2010 - 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

October 14, 2010 - 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

October 7, 2010 - 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

September 30, 2010 - 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

September 27, 2010 - 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

September 20, 2010 -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

September 16, 2010 - 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

September 13, 2010 - 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

September 1, 2010 - 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

August 19, 2010 - 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

August 15, 2010 - 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

August 6, 2010 - 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

August 5, 2010 - 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

August 4, 2010 - 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

July 21, 2010 - Li Ka Shing Seminar Series

Speaker:  Dr. Chris Richardson, Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1, Department of Microbiology & Immunology & Pediatrics, Dalhousie University
Title:  "Hepatitis C and Measles Virus: Host Cell Interactions"
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

July 13, 2010 - 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

March 11, 2010 - 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

April 22,  2010 - 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

March 11, 2010 - 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"

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

February 11, 2010- 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

February 4, 2010 - 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

January 14,  2010 - 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

December 10, 2009 -  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

December 3, 2009 - 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

MONDAY,  November 30, 2009  - 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

November 19, 2009 - 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"

November 12, 2009 - 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

October 29, 2009 - 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"

October 22, 2009 - 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

October 1, 2009 - 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

September 24, 2009 - 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

September 17, 2009 - 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

September 10, 2009 - 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 

July 30, 2009  - 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 

June 11, 2009 - 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 

June 4, 2009 - 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 

May 19, 2009  -  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

May 7, 2009 - 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

April 23, 2009 - 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

April 8, 2009 - 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 

April 2, 2009 - 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 

March 12, 2009 - 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 

February 26, 2009 - 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

February 12, 2009 - 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

January 22, 2009 - 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 

January 15, 2009 - 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

December 11, 2008 - 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

December 4, 2008 - 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

November 27, 2008  - 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

November 13, 2008  - 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

November 4, 2008 - 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

October 23, 2008 - 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

October 22, 2008 - 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

October 9, 2008 - 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

September 18, 2008 - 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

September 10, 2008  - 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

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 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 

Thursday, June 19, 2008
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 

Thursday, May 22, 2008
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 

Thursday, May 1, 2008
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

Thursday, April 24, 2008
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

Thursday,  April 17, 2008

Dr. 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

Thursday, April 10, 2008
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

Thursday, March 27, 2008
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

Thursday, March 20, 2008
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

Thursday, March 6, 2008
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

Thursday, February 14, 2007
Fifth Annual Tyrrell Lectureship in Infection and Immunity
 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

Thursday, January 7, 2008
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

Thursday, December 13, 2007  
 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

Thursday, November 29,  2007
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

Thursday, November 15, 2007
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

Thursday, October 25, 2007
 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

Thursday, October 18, 2007
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

October 11, 2007
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

September 20, 2007
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

May 31, 2007

Speaker:  Dr. Bill Ridgeway, University of Pittsburgh
Title:  'Defining the immunogenetics of a new NOD mouse model of primary biliary cirrhosis'
Host:  Dr.Andrew Mason,Gastroenterology
Sponsor: AHFMR, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis

May 24, 2007
Speaker : Dr.David Hockenbery, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title: ‘Inhibitors of BCL-2 anti-apoptotic proteins: Drug Discovery in an academic Setting’
Host: Dr. Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology
Sponsor: AHFMR, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis

April 25, 2007 - Distinguished Immunologist
Speaker : Dr. Alan Aderem, Director, Institute for Systems Biology, University of Cape Town
Title: "A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunity"
Host: Dr. Edan Foley & ImmuNet Students
Sponsor: AHFMR, Roche, Novartis, Fujisawa Healthcare Inc.

April 19, 2007 

Speaker : Dr. Conrad Liles, Professor/Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto
Title: "Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Multiple Organ Dysfunction"
Hosts: Dr. George Zahariadis, Medical Virologist, Provincial Lab/Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Dr. David Evans, Professor/Chair, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Sponsor: AHFMR  

April 12, 2007 

Speaker : J. Lee Nelson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & Rheumatology, University of Washington
Title: 'The chimeric self: an investigative frontier in human health and disease'
Host: Dr. Colin Anderson, Surgery / Medical Microbioloy & Immunology
Sponsor: AHFMR  

March 22, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Jim Stone, Professor, Biochemistry
Title: 'Regulation of Ras in Lymphocytes - Get a GRP'
Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Sponsor: ImmuNet

February 13, 2007
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

February 7, 2007  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

January 24, 2007
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

January 11, 2007
Speaker : Dr.Chris Bleackley, Biochemistry, University of Alberta
Title: 'Confessions of a Thanatologist'
Host: Dr. Michele Barry, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Sponsor: ImmuNet

January 4, 2007
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

December 7, 2006
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

November 30, 2006 
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

November 20, 2006
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

November 7, 2006
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

October 26, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Christine Biron, Brown University
Title: TBA
Hosts: Drs. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Andrew Mason, Gastroenterology
Sponsor: AHFMR

October 12, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Miguel Valvano
Title: ‘Burkholderia cenocepacia: an opportunistic bacterium that fools macrophages’
Hosts: Drs. Tracey Hunt and Tom Hobman, Department of Cell Biology
Sponsor: AHFMR

October 5, 2006
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

August 23, 2006

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

August 4, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Hans Ochs, University of Washington in Seattle
Title: ‘ Immune Dysregulation and AutoImmune Disease ’
Host: Dr. Bruce Ritchie, Clinical Hematology
Sponsor: AHFMR

April 27, 2006
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

April 21, 2006
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

April 20, 2006

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

March 31, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Noel Rose
Title: ‘Autoimmune Myocarditis: Paradigms and Paradoxes?’
Host: Dr. John Elliott, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Sponsor: AHFMR

March 9, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Jack Gauldie, McMaster University
Title: "TGFbeta and Smad3 link inflammation and tissue remodeling"
Host: Dr. Dean Befus
Sponsor: AHFMR

February 9, 2006     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

January 31, 2006

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

January 26, 2006
Speaker : Dr. Catherine Field, Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Science
Title: ‘The influence of early nutrition on the development of the immune system’

December 8, 2005
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”

December 1, 2005 
Speaker: Dr. Roy Duncan, Professor, Dalhousie University
Title: “FAST proteins: Minimal protein-mediated membrane fusion machines and an intracellular delivery platform”
Hosts: Drs. Jennifer Corcoran and David Evans, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

November 24, 2005 
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”

November 17, 2005 
Speaker: Dr. Chris Power, Professor, Neurology
Title: “Molecular Mechanisms of Neuroinflammation in Neuro-AIDS and Multiple Sclerosis”

August 3, 2005 
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

March 17, 2005 
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

March 10, 2005 
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

March 3, 2005 
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

February 24, 2005 
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

November 18, 2004 
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

October 21, 2004 
Speaker: Dr. Edan Foley, Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Title: “A Preemptive Innate Immune Strike”

September 30, 2004 
Speaker: Dr. Redwan Moqbel, Professor, Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta
Title: “The Eosinophil, Tryptophan and Th2 responses; a good IDO!”

September 14, 2004 
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”
Hosts: Drs. Babita Agrawal, Surgery and Judith Hugh, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

June 24, 2004 
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

April 22, 2004 
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

April 15, 2004 
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

April 1, 2004
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Kane, Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Title: CD1d Regulation of a Natural Killer Cell Subset”

February 11, 2004 - 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

January 14, 2004
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

February 12, 2004
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

January 8, 2004
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

December 11, 2003
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

November 13, 2003
Speaker: Dr. Dean Befus , Professor, Pulmonary Medicine
Title: “Allergen Sensitized, But Not Symptomatic! Lessons for Immunotherapy?”

October 16, 2003
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

October 2, 2003
Speaker: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Title: “Dynamic studies of KIR at the effector/target cell interface”

May 29, 2003
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

May 21, 2003
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

May 21, 2003
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

May 15, 2003
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

May 8, 2003
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

April 24, 2003
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

April 17, 2003
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

April 3, 2003
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

April 1, 2003
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

March 20, 2003
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

February 20, 2003
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

February 6, 2003
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

January 16, 2003
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

January 9, 2003
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

December 12, 2002
Speaker: Katherine Magor, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
Title: “Duck hunting for flu clues”
Host: Dr. Deborah Burshtyn, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

November 20, 2002 - 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

November 21, 2002
Speaker: Dr. Charles Sentman, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Title: “Biology of natural killer cell receptors”
Host: Dr. Kevin Kane, Medical Microbiology & Immunology

November 13, 2002
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

October 28, 2002 - 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

October 17, 2002
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

July 25, 2002
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

June 6, 2002
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

May 15, 2002
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

May 1, 2002
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

April 17, 2002
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

April 11, 2002
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

April 9, 2002
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

March 27, 2002
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

March 14, 2002
Speaker: Dr. Hanne Ostergaard, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Title: Sugar and splice: CD45 interactions during T cell development

February 21, 2002
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

January 16, 2002
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

November 26, 2001
Dr. Jorma Ilonen (Department of Virology, University of Turku, Finland)
Title: “Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Project in Finland”
Host: John Elliott

November 15, 2001
Speaker: Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker (University of Toronto)
Title: "Lymphocyte development: doing it in a petri dish”
Host: Deborah Burshtyn

October 25, 2001
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

October 18, 2001
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
Speaker: Stephen Galli (Stanford University)
Topic: New perspectives in Asthma Research
Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A.

Summer/2001 - Distinguished Immunologist Seminar
Speaker: Michael Dustin (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)
Title: "The immunological synapse"
Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A.

July 12, 2001
Speaker: Helene Conjeaud (Cochin Inst. for Molec. Genetics, U. of Paris)
Topic: Tetraspanins
Host: Andrew Shaw, Oncology

June 8 th, 2001
Joint Nephrology Days/ImmuNet Seminar |
Speaker: Angus Thomson
Title: "Designer dendritic cells for transplant tolerance-guided not misguided missiles?"
Host: Phil Halloran, Nephrology/MMI

June 4, 2001
Speaker: Barbara Bierer (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst., NIH)
Title: "Calcineurin-dependent substrates targeted by immunosuppressive agents"
Host: Phil Halloran, Nephrology/MMI

May 24, 2001
Speaker: Stephan Bischoff (Hannover, Germany)
Host: Dean Befus

May 17, 2001
Speaker: Charlie Hao (Lab. Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta)
Title: "TRAIL-induced apoptosis in malignant gliomas: Signaling transduction and therapeutic potential"
Host: Immunology Network

April 26, 2001
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

April 19, 2001 - Distinguished Immunologist Seminar
Speaker: Michael Dustin (Skirball Institute, NYU Medical Center)
Title: "The immunological synapse"
Host: ImmuNet Graduate Students, U. of A.

March 22, 2001
Speaker: Pere Santamaria (Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, U. of C.)
Title: "Autoreactive T-lymphocytes in autoimmunity: survival of the fittest"
Host: John Elliott, MMI

March 13, 2001
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

March 12, 2001
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

February 6, 2001
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)

January 23, 2001
Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress' / ImmuNet Seminar
Speaker: Mike Ellison (Biochemistry, University of Alberta)
Title: "Proteomics and Genomics"
Host: Dept. of Medicine

January 18, 2001
Speaker: James Stone (Biochemistry, University of Alberta)
Title: "Ras signaling in thymocytes and T cells: Get a GRP"
Host/Sponsor: Immunology Network

December 6, 2000
Speaker: Trevor Owens (McGill University, Montreal)
Title: "Immune-glial interactions in CNS inflammatory disease"
Host: John Elliott

November 6, 2000
Joint ImmuNet and Epithelial Cell Club Seminar
Speaker: Peter Kvietys (University of Western Ontario)*
Title: "PMN Transendothelial Migration: Role of Elastaset"
Host: Allan Murray

October 3, 2000 - 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.

September 27, 2000
Speaker: Paul Kubes (University of Calgary)
Title: “The molecular mechanisms of leucocyte recruitment in vivo"
Host: Linda Pilarski

July 13, 2000
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

June 22, 2000
Speaker: Cory Hogaboam (University of Michigan)
Title: “Novel Roles for Chemokines during Allergic Airway Remodeling”
Host: Dean Befus

June 15, 2000
Speaker: John Elliott (Medical Microbiology & Immunology, U. of A.)
Title: : “New murine models for autoimmunity: Diabetes, Myocarditis, and M.S.”

May 24, 2000
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

May 11, 2000
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

March 22, 2000
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

March 21, 2000
Speaker: Michael A. (Tony) Hollingsworth
Title: "Molecular Studies on MUC1: Immunogenicity, Post-translational Modification, Function”
Host: Kevin Kane

March 2, 2000 - 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

February 17, 2000
Speaker: John Wilkins (University of Manitoba)
Title: "Approaches to understanding the regulation cell adhesion and integrin activity".
Host: Allan Murray

February 10, 2000
Speaker: Larry Guilbert (Medical Microbiology & Immunology, U. of A.)
Title: Villous trophoblast roles in placental infections, inflammation, repair and remodelling”

February 3, 2000
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

January 25, 2000
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”

December 16, 1999
Speaker: Nadir Hirji (Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta)
Title: “The expression and function of the novel CD8 molecule on macrophages and mast cells”

December 16, 1999
Speaker: Rick Miller (University of Toronto)
Title: “Natural Killer cell recognition structures”
Host: Dean Befus

December 15, 1999
Speaker: Elyse Bissonnette (Laval Hôpital, Ste-Foy, Quebec)
Title: “Modulation of the Cytokine Network by Histamine”

December 8, 1999
Speaker: Louis Du Pasquier (Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland)
Title: “The fate of duplicated MHC genes in polyploid XENOPUS”
Host: Kenneth Roy

November 23, 1999
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”

October 19, 1999
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

October 12, 1999
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

September 21, 1999 - Distinguished Immunologist Seminar
Speaker: Marc Jenkins (University of Minnesota)
Title: “Visualizing the activation of antigen-specific CD4 T cells in the body”

July 29, 1999
Speaker: Xin Lin (Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco)
Title: "Protein Kinases Involved in T cell Activation"
Host: Jim Smiley

June 29, 1999
Speaker: Jordan Pober (Yale)
Title: "T cell-mediated endothelial injury in vitro and in vivo"
Host: Allan Murray

June 15, 1998
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"

May 18, 1999
Speaker: Andrew Shaw (Oncology, U. of A.)
Title: "Tetraspans and Lipid Rafts—Partners in MHC Trafficking?"

May 6, 1999
Speaker: Pauline Johnson (University of British Columbia)
Title: "Regulation of the Cell Adhesion Molecule, CD44: A Role for Sulfation"
Host: Hanne Ostergaard

April 13, 1999
Speaker: Kamala Patel (University of Calgary)
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms for Leukocyte Adhesion and Activation"
Host: Redwan Moqbel

April 6, 1999
Speaker: Norman Neumann (Biological Sciences, U. of A.)
Title: "Sequential Induction of Macrophage Antimicrobial Responses"

March 25 1999
Speaker: Claude Bernard (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Title: "The Molecular Basis for Autoimmune Demyelination"
Host: John Elliott

March 11, 1999
Speaker: Dr. Allan Kirk, (Bethesda Naval Institute)
Title: "Immunosuppression without Immunosuppression: How to be a tolerant individual in a dangerous world"
Host: James Shapiro

March 1, 1999
Speaker: Dr. Bill Boyle (Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA)
Title: "OPGL: The link between bone metabolism and immune response!?"
Host: Linda Pilarski

February 2, 1999
Speaker: Babita Agrawal (Biomira, Edmonton)
Title: "Regulation of T cell responses: Lessons learned from tumors"
Host: Larry Guilbert

December 15, 1998
Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar
Speaker: Walter Maksymowych (Rheumatology, U. of A.)
Title: "HLA-B27 – An Auto-antigen?"

December 1, 1998
Speaker: Phil Halloran (Nephrology, U. of A.)
Title: "IFN-g: Defender of the Endothelium"

November 20, 1998
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"

November 17, 1998
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"

November 10, 1998
Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar
Speaker: Allan Murray (Nephrology, U. of A.)
Title: "Micro Vessel Injury in Transplantation"

November 3, 1998
Speaker: Stephen T Holgate (Univ. of Southampton, England)
Title: "Mucosal control over airway inflammation in asthma"
Host: Redwan Moqbel

October 29, 1998
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

October 15, 1998 - 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

October 8, 1998
Speaker: Peter Henson (Denver)
Title: "Mechanisms and Consequences of Apoptopic Cell Removal in Pulmonary Inflammation"
Host: Dean Befus

October 1, 1998
Speaker: Robert Lechler, (Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK)
Title: "Cognate and Non-cognate Mechanisms of Immunoregulation"
Host: Phil Halloran

September 15, 1998
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?"

August 20, 1998
Speaker: Fred Finkelman, Div. Of Immunology, U. of Cincinnati)
Title: "Cytokine Regulation of Host Defense Against Gastrointestinal Nematode Infection"
Host: Tim Mosmann

June 23, 1998
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"

June 23, 1998
Speaker: Ken Anderson (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard)
Title: "Novel Immune Therapies of Myeloma"
Host: Linda Pilarski

June 9, 1998
Speaker: Matt Mescher (Kimmelman Chair in Immunology, U. of Minnesota)
Title: "Requirements for CTL Activation In Vitro and In Vivo"
Host: Hanne Ostergaard

June 4. 1998
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"

May 21, 1998
Speaker: Jim Collawn (U. of Alabama, Birmingham)
Title: "Analysis of the Structural Requirements for Lysomal Membrane Targeting Using Transferrin Receptor Chimeras"
Host: Hanne Ostergaard

May 11, 1998
Speaker: Bhagi Singh (Microbiology and Immunology, U. of Western Ontario)
Title: "Multiple pathways to autoimmunity and its regulation through antigen presentation"
Host: Kevin Kane

April 28, 1998
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

April 14, 1998
Speaker: Paul Kubes (Immunology Research Group, University of Calgary)
Title: "Leukocyte recruitment in acute and chronic inflammation"
Host: Allan Murray

March 31 1998
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

March 30 1998
Speaker: Linda Maatsuuchi (Dept. of Zoology, U. B.C.)
Title: "Intracellular trafficking and signaling by the B cell antigen receptor"
Host: Hanne Ostergaard

March 10, 1998
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

February 24, 1998
Speaker: Anne O'Rourke (Res. Institute at Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA)
Title: "Aspects of T cell Adhesion and Activation"
Host: Kevin Kane

February 2, 1998
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

January 27, 1998
Joint Dept. of Medicine 'Research in Progress'/Immunology Network Seminar
Speaker: Elyse Bissonnette (Pulmonary Research Group, U of A)
Title: "Viral Infections in Asthma"

January 20, 1998
Speaker: Paolo Renzi (University of Montreal and Notre Dame Hospital)
Title: "Evidence for Immune Regulation of Asthmatic Response"
Host: Redwan Moqbel

December 9, 1997
Speaker: Dean Befus (Pulmonary Medicine/Asthma Centre, U of A)
Title: "CD8 in Funny Places Doing Interesting Things!"

November 25, 1997
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"

November 24, 1997
Speaker: Deborah Burshtyn (NAID Res. Facility, NIH)
Title: Inhibition Through Inhibitory Receptors: Lessons from Natural Killer Cells”
Host: Jim Smiley

November 19, 1997 - 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

October 21, 1997
Speaker: Phil Halloran (Nephrology, U of A)
Title: "The Action of Immunosuppresive Drugs: Implications for Immunology"

October 14, 1997
Speaker: Gil Castro (Dept. of Physiology, U. of Texas, Houston)
Title: "Immune Regulation of Epithelial Cell Function in the Gut"
Host: Mike Belosevic

September 25, 1997 - 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

August 19, 1997
Speaker: Alexandra Livingstone (Imperial College of Science,Technology and Medicine, London)
Title: "Mechanisms for Maintaining CD8 + T cell Memory"
Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, MMI

August 18, 1997
Speaker: Paul Wordsworth (Oxford Univ. and Oxford Radcliffe Hospital)
Title: "The Genetics of Inflammatory Joint Disease"
Host: Dr. Walter Maksymowych, Rheumatology

August 11, 1997
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

July 24, 1997
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

July 10, 1997
Speaker: Reinhard Pabst (Centre of Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
Title: "Compartmentalization and Dynamics of Lymphocytes in the Lung"
Host: Dean Befus

July 8, 1997
Speaker: Harissios Vliagoftis, Post-doctoral Fellow
Title: "Mast Cells Express Connexins and Communicate in Vitro with Fibroblasts Through Gap Junctions"
Host: Dean Befus

June 19, 1997
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

May 22, 1997 - Distinguished Immunologist Seminar
Speaker: Paul Allen (Washington U., St. Louis)
Title: "Close Encounters with the T-cell Receptor"

May 15, 1997 - 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

May 8, 1997
Speaker: Alan D. Schrieber (U. of Pennsylvania)
Title: "The Immunobiology of Fc Receptors"
Host: Dr. Dean Befus, Pulmonary Medicine

April 18, 1997
Speaker: Stephen Anderson (National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD)
Title: "Regulation of Natural Killer Cell Function"
Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Chair--MMI

April 10, 1997
Speaker: Eric Prossnitz (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla)
Title: "Mechanisms of Receptor-Mediated Leukocyte Activation and Chemotaxis" Host: Dr. Jim Smiley, Chair--MMI

February 27, 1997
Speaker: Linda Pilarski, University of Alberta

February 13, 1997
Speaker: Brian van Ness, University of Minnesota
Host: Dr. Linda Pilarski

January 23, 1997
Speaker: Brad Jones, University of Iowa
Host: Dr. Walter Maksymowych

January 9, 1997  -  Distinguished Immunologist
Speaker: Pere Santamaria, University of Calgary
Host: Dr. John Elliott

October 17, 1996
Speaker: Judah Denburg, McMaster University
Host: Dr. Dean Befus