CIIT Seminar Series 2020-2021
NOTICE: Seminars will be held via Webex until further notice and will normally occur on Fridays at 12 noon.
Physicians may claim Category 2 CME for attending this event.
Seminar Schedule
January 22, 2021
Presentation 12–1 p.m.; Q&A 1–1:30 p.m.
Functional regulation of mast cell development in human type 2 immunity
Joshua Boyce, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine in the Field of Allergic Disease
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Director, Jeff and Penny Vinik Center for Allergic Disease Research, Inflammation and Allergic Disease Research Section
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Webex information:
- Join Webex meeting
- Meeting number (access code): 177 402 1762
- Meeting password: 2448
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February 26, 2021
Presentation 12–1 p.m.; Q&A 1–1:30 p.m.
Prenatal Therapies for Hemophilia A
Professor of Regenerative Medicine; Director, Fetal Research and Therapy Program
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology; Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
March 26, 2021
Presentation 12–1 p.m.; Q&A 1–1:30 p.m.
RAG Deficiency: New Insights Into Phenotypic Heterogeneity, Immune Dysregulation and Thymic Defects
Luigi D. Notarangelo, MD
Immune Deficiency Genetics Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland
April 23, 2021
Presentation 12–1 p.m.; Q&A 1–1:30 p.m.
Inborn errors of immunity involving the CARD11-BCL10-MALT1 complex (tentative)
Andrew L. Snow, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Molecular Therapeutics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
May 21, 2021
Presentation 12–1 p.m.; Q&A 1–1:30 p.m.
Informing vaccine design by defining the rules of antibody responses
Facundo Batista, PhD
Associate Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Resources
2020 Seminars
June 26, 2020
Guest Speaker: Jesse Bloom, PhD
Associate Member, Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
View presentation: Antibodies to Sars-6V-2 and the potential for evolution in the trial RBD (Video, 1:09:23)
September 18, 2020
Guest speaker: Michiko Oyoshi, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Division of Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston
View presentation: Maternal regulation of neonatal food tolerance (Video, 40:29)
December 18, 2020
Guest speaker: Qizhi Tang, PhD
Professor, Surgery, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
View presentation: CIIT Visiting Scientist Seminar Series with Dr. Qizhi Tang (Video, 1:09:23)