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2007-2008
Arthritis and Immunology Program
RESEARCH CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

All seminars are on Monday at 4:00pm in the
OMRF Conference Center (Room B) unless noted otherwise


August 6 SPECIAL SEMINAR
Luay Nakhleh, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Houston, TX
"Graph-theoretic modeling and reasoning about signaling networks"
 
September 3 NO SEMINAR - OMRF HOLIDAY
 
10

Hal Scofield, M.D.
"Lupus in Men"
 

17

Juan-Manuel Anaya, M.D.
Corporacion para Investigaciones Biologicas
Unidad de Biologia Celular e Immunogenetica
"The common origin for autoimmune diseases"
 

24

Zijian Pan
"Anti-dsDNA and anti-histone antibodies induced by syngeneic late apoptotic cells depend on MyD88 but not TLR9"
 

October 1 CANCELLED
 
8 CANCELLED
 
15 J. Donald Capra, M.D. (CHANGE OF VENUE TO WILEMAN)
"Human B Cell Subsets"
 
22 NO SEMINAR - HUMAN GENETICS MEETING IN SAN DIEGO, CA
 
29 Amr Sawalha, M.D.
"A genetic perspective for epigenetic aberrancy in SLE"
 
November 5 NO SEMINAR - ACR IN BOSTON, MA
 
12 NO SEMINAR - ACR IN BOSTON, MA
 
16 SPECIAL FRIDAY SEMINAR (IN THE WILEMAN AUDITORIUM)
Tom Gordon, M.D., Ph.D, FRACP
Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
"A B cell "apotope" of Ro60 that distinguishes lupus from primary Sjogren's syndrome"
 
19 Patrick M. Gaffney, M.D.
"New candidates for genetic susceptibility to lupus"
 
26 NO SEMINAR DUE TO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
 
December 3 Joel Guthridge, Ph.D.
"B Cell Activation and SLE: Genetic and Genomic Analysis of a Molecular Pathway Associated with Disease"
 
10 NO SEMINAR
 
17 Swapan Nath, Ph.D.
"Positional Cloning of a Lupus Susceptibility Gene"
 
24 NO SEMINAR - OMRF HOLIDAY
 
 31 NO SEMINAR DUE TO NEW YEARS DAY HOLIDAY
 
January 7 Michael Centola, Ph.D.
"In search of clinically-relevant biomarkers in rheumatoid arthritis"
 
14 Sherry Crowe, Ph.D.
"Monitoring anti-viral immunity and autoimmune disease in lupus-prone mice following influenza infection"
 
21 NO SEMINAR - MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
 
28 Julia F. Simard, MPH, ABD
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
"Early life factors and autoimmune disease in women"
 
February 4 Timothy Niewold, M.D. (CHANGE OF VENUE TO THE WILEMAN AUDITORIUM)
The University of Chicago, The Division of the Biological Sciences and The Pritzker School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section
"Serum Interferon Alpha as a Heritable Risk Factor for SLE"
 
11 CANCELLED
 
18 Mary Beth Humphrey, Ph.D.
"Negative Regulation of DAP12 ITAM Signals by the lipid phosphatase SHIP1"
 
25 Susan Kovats, Ph.D.
"How do hormones influence immunity: Estrogen receptors regulate dendritic cells in vivo during inflammation"
 
March 3 CANCELLED
 
10 NO SEMINAR 
 
17 NO SEMINAR - Spring Break
 
24 NO SEMINAR - COBRE External Advisory Committee
 
31

CANCELLED
 

April 7 NO SEMINAR - AAI Meeting in San Diego, CA
 
14 Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, M.D., PhD.
2008 Greenberg Scholar, OMRF, Associate Professor in Medical Genetics
Researcher for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
"The Role of BANK1 in SLE...and a bit more"
 
21 J. Donald Capra, M.D.
"The Ancient History of Autoimmunity (2000BC to 1970): The zeitgeist of a field"
 
28 Ling Guo
"Identify novel SLE susceptibility genes by microarray and candidate gene association study"
 
May 5 CANCELLED
 
12 Hemant Agrawal, Ph.D.
 
19 Wei Zhang, M.D.
"A possible link between infection and lupus"
 
26 NO SEMINAR - OMRF HOLIDAY
 
June 2 CANCELLED
 
June 9 Ester Carreras-Margalef, Ph.D.
"Estrogen regulates Interferon Regulatory Factor-4 expression during dendritic cell development"
 

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