CIIT Seminar Series 2021-2022

Notice: Seminars will be held via Webex until further notice.
Physicians may claim Category 2 CME for attending this event.
Day: Fridays
Time: Presentations from 12 to 1 p.m. and Q&A from 1 to 1:30 p.m.

Schedule

October 19, 2021

Pejman Mohammadi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research, La Jolla, California
Presentation: Quantitative models of genetic variation in cis-regulation (no video available)

November 19, 2021

John Ray, PhD
Assistant Member, Systems Immunology
Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
View presentation: Mapping the immunological mechanisms of non-coding autoimmune-associated genetic variants

December 7, 2021

Caroline Kuo, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy Immunology, and Rheumatology
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Health Center, Los Angeles, California
View presentation: Site-Specific Gene Editing of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells for the Treatment of Primary Immunodeficiencies

December 17, 2021

Andrew McGuire, PhD
Assistant Professor, Immunology and Vaccine Development
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
View presentation: Novel approaches to vaccine design for HIV-1 and EBV

February 18, 2022

James Dahlman, PhD
Associate Professor, McCamish Foundation Early Career Professor
Emory Medical School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
View presentation: Delivering RNA outside the liver by testing thousands of LNPs in vivo

March 11, 2022

Peter Nigrovic, MD
Chief, Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Adults With Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI), Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Director, Joint Biology Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts
View presentation: Megakaryocytes as immune cells

March 25, 2022

Neil King, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute for Protein Design
University of Washington, NanoES
View presentation: Computational Design of Nanoparticle Vaccines for Influenza Viruses, Coronaviruses, and Beyond

April 22, 2022

Bruce Bochner, MD
Samuel M. Feinberg Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Chicago, Illinois
View presentation: Siglec receptors on eosinophils and mast cells: function, glycobiology and therapeutic targeting

May 27, 2022

Sialic Acid: Master Regulator of Antibody Function
Robert M. Anthony, PhD
Frisbie Family MGH Research Scholar 2021–26
Associate Professor of Medicine, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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June 24, 2022

Maturation programs of human Long-lived plasma cells in the bone marrow
Frances Eun-Hyung Lee, MD
Associate Professor, Director, Emory Asthma, Allergy, Immunology Program
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia