The SFB is organizing a "Seminars in Immunology" lecture series, and our next seminar will be:

"Histone H3 variant assembly by the
ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler CHD1"

Alxandra LUSSER, PhD
Division of Molecular Biology,
Innsbruck Medical University

15. April 2009
14:00 Uhr
Vienna Competence Center
Seminar Room, 1st Floor
Lazarettgasse 19, 1090 Wien

Host: Wilfried Ellmeier

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Future Seminars (details will follow):

 

Previous Seminars:

2009

16-03-2006 Albert Bendelac (University of Chicago): "Development of innate-like NKT cells".

13-03-2009 Gerard Eberl (Institut Pasteur): "Commensals, inflammation and the development of lymphoid tissues"

2008

18-09-2008 Ester C. de Jong (University of Amsterdam): "Development of human Th17 cells".

20-06-2008 Dimitris Kioussis (MRC London):"Common Regulatory Mechanisms in enteric lymphoid and neuronal organogenesis"

03-06-2008 Andreas Villunger (Innsbruck Medical University): "Regulation of tissue homeostasis by BH3-only proteins"

14-05-2008 Kanaga Sabapathy (National Cancer Centre, Singapore): "p73: Really a tumour-suppressor?"

06-03-2008 Antje Habicht, MD( Medizinische Hochschule Hannover): "The role of the inhibitory costimulation pathway PD-1 in transplantation tolerance"

31-01-2008 Sabine Werner (Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zurich): "Cytoprotective signalling pathways in tissue repair and cancer"

29-01-2008 Roland Lang (Technical University Munich): "Balancing macrophage activation: From IL-10 to DUSP1"

2007

04-12-2007 C.I. Edvard Smith (Department of Laboratory Medicine Karolinska Institutet at Novum): "The biology of the Btk tyrosine kinase"

03-12-2007 Patrizia Stoitzner (Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Medical University of Innsbruck): "The Langerhans cell controversy: Revisiting the role of Langerhans cells in skin immunity"

09-11-2007 Christoffer Gebhardt (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg): "The S100-RAGE axis links inflammation and cancer"

07-08-2007 Martin Oft (Schering-Plough BioPharma, Palo Alto, USA): "IL-23 turns immune surveillance into tumor promoting inflammation"

06-08-2007 Janko Nikolich-Zugich (Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute,
Oregon Health & Science University, USA): "Age-related changes in CD8 T-cell homeostasis and maintenance in response to a persistent virus: heavy maintenance fees?"

10-07-2007 Tobias Junt (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Vienna): "Subcapsular sinus macrophagescapture lymph-borne virus particles for presentation to B cells"

29-06-2007 Ranjeny Thomas (University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia): "Development of a therapeutic vaccine for rheumatoid arthritis"

28-06-2007 Thomas Fehr (University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland): "The role of indirect antigen presentation for allograft rejection and tolerance"

04-05-2007 SFB Student Symposium: “Dendritic cells and T cells at the interface of innate and adaptive immunity”

26-03-2007 Jochen Hühn (Charite, Berlin, Germany): "Functional properties of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells"

12-03-2007 Thomas Brocker (LMU Munich, Germany): "Dendritic Cell - CD8 T cell interactions in vivo"

26-02-2007 Steffen Jung (Weizman Institute, Rehovot, Israel): "Probing Origins and Functions of Dendritic cells"

13-02-2007 Ari Waisman (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany): "Studying the immunological tolerance in a mouse model for multiple sclerosis" 13. Februar, 2007, 17:00 Uhr, Vienna Competence Center, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Lazarettgasse 19, 1090 Wien

07-02-2007 Jens Schröder (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany): "Antimicrobial Peptides: Local Host Response Elements"

25-01-2007 Sem Saeland, PhD (INSERM U503 Lyon, France): "Positioning Langerhans cells among the antigen-presenting cells of the skin"

2006

30-11-2006 Jean-Paul Soulillou (INSERM U643, Nantes, France): "What can we learn from natural occurrence of immune tolerance following immunosuppressive interruption in humans? From the clinic to the bench!"

10-10-2006 Brian Foxwell (Kennedy Institue, London, UK): "Role of Tec Family Kinases in Inflammatory Cytokine Production”

22-09-2006 Ichiro Taniuchi (RCAI, RIKEN, Japan): "Role of Runx Transcription Factors in CD4/CD8 Lineage Choice".

07-08-2006 Martin Larsen (University of Southern Denmark): "Present Technologies in Large Scale Phosphoproteomics"

12-07-2006 Douglas Hanahan (UCSF, USA): "Functional and therapeutic targeting of the cell types constituting the tumor microenvironment "

19-06-2006 Dietmar Fuchs (Innsbruck Medical University): "Immune response and IDO (indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase)".

08-05-2006 Caetano Reis e Sousa (Cancer Research UK): “Innate regulation of dendritic cell activation”.

03-05-2006 Martin Thurnher (University of Innsbruck): "Dendritic cell biology: basic investigations and clinical applications".

19-04-2006 Ed Palmer (University Hospital Basel). Central tolerance: a question of affinity"

31-01-2006 Gottfried Baier (Innsbruck Medical University): "The PKC gene family and its T cell functions"

2005

14-12-2005 Kathryn Wood (University of Oxford, England, UK): "T regulatory cells in transplantation tolerance"

22-06-2005 Steffen Jung (Weizman Institute, Rehovot, Israel): "In Vivo Origins and Functions of Mononuclear Phagocytes"