CIIT Seminar Series 2023-2024
- Location: McKinstry Auditorium, 1st Floor, Seattle Children’s Research Institute: Building Cure, 1920 Terry Ave., Seattle, WA 98101. (Seminars are also streamed via WebEx.)
- Day: Fridays
- Time: Presentations from 12 to 12:45 p.m. and Q&A from 12:45 to 1 p.m.
- Physicians may claim Category 2 CME for attending this event.
Schedule
September 15, 2023
Justin Eyquem, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, UCSF-Gladstone Institute for Genomic Immunology, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Presentation: Synthetic Immunology and Genome Editing to Advance T Cell Therapies (Video, 58:16)
November 17, 2023
Gay Crooks, MD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Immunology, Infection, Inflammation and Transplantation (I3T) program, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Presentation: Guiding T cell differentiation from pluripotent stem cells for immune therapy (no video available)
December 1, 2023
Scott Boyd, MD, PhD
Stanford Professor of Food Allergy and Immunology, and Professor of Pathology, Stanford University
Presentation: Analysis of virus-specific B cell memory with multiplexed antigen panels and machine learning (no video available)
December 15, 2023
Jason Cyster, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair, Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Investigator, University of California, San Francisco
Presentation: Deciphering the Guidance Cue Code for B Cell Immunity (Video, 1:02:47)
January 19, 2024
Nicholas Vitanza, MD
Principal Investigator, Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research; Associate Professor, Hematology/Oncology, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Brain Tumor Program, Seattle Children’s
Presentation: Single to Multi-Antigen Targeting CAR T Cells Against Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (no video available)
February 16, 2024
Claire Booth, MB BS, MSc, PhD, FRCPCH
Professor of Gene Therapy and Pediatric Immunology Infection, Immunity & Inflammation Department, University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Presentation: Evolution of gene therapies for inborn errors of immunity (Video, 1:07:58)
March 15, 2024
Jacob Appelbaum, MD, PhD
Acting Instructor, Division of Hematology, University of Washington School of Medicine; Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Seattle Children’s Therapeutics
Presentation: Adults learning from children: developing cellular therapy for AML (Video, 1:10:16)
April 19, 2024
Title of presentation TBA
Evan Newell, PhD
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
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- Meeting number (access code): 2631 650 9308
- Meeting password: m79xG96RZdC
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May 17, 2024
Regulation of mucosal tissue immunity in the context of virus infection
Jennifer Lund, PhD
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Global Health; Director, Interdisciplinary Pathobiology Program, University of Washington
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- Meeting number (access code): 2630 807 5047
- Meeting password: qjVuFnGU436
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June 14, 2024
Does cell state matter in cancer?
Alex Shalek, PhD
Principal Investigator, J. W. Kieckhefer Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Department of Chemistry; Extramural Member of The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Meeting number (access code): 2635 789 6299
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