Department of Immunology
Third Annual Retreat
September 16, 2005


 

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

 

8:30 - 9:10 AM
 

"State-of-the-Department"
 

Olja Finn, Professor and Chair
 

9:10 - 9:50 AM

"WASP as the Transcriptional regulator in T and NK Cells"

Yatin Vyas, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Immunology
 

9:50 – 10:30 AM

"HSV-1 Specific Immunity: Fighting A War to Keep the Peace"

Kartik Prabhakaran, MD/PhD Student, Bob Hendricks lab

 

10:30 - 11:00 AM
 

Coffee Break
 

 

11:00 - 11:40 AM
 

"Immunological Challenges of Aging"
 

Abbe Vallejo, Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Immunology

 

11:40 AM - 12:20 PM
 

TBA
 

Guest: Martha E. Tiani, President, Arthritis Foundation, Pittsburgh Chapter

 

12:30 - 2:00 PM
 

Lunch
 

Buca di Beppo, Station Square
 

2:00 - 3:00 PM
 

TBA
 

Guest lecture: Angela Gronenborn, Founding Chair, Department of Structural Biology
 

3:00 – 3:40 PM

"Regulated Compartmentalization of Programmed Cell Death-1 (PD-1) Discriminates CD4+CD25+ Resting Regulatory T Cells from Activated T Cells"

 

Giorgio Raimondi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Angus Thomson lab

3:40 – 4:20 PM

"Tuberculosis in the non-human primate model: What can we learn?"

 

Philana Ling Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, JoAnn Flynn lab

4:20-5:00 PM

 

"CD161:Clr Interactions in NK Cell:Dendritic Cell Co-activation"

 

Bill Chambers, Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology

5:30-6:30 PM
 

Just Ducky Tour
 

 

 

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