Past Lectures

Prof. Tyler Jacks

December 28, 2015

Modeling Cancer in the Mouse

Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prof. Michael Katze

October 26, 2015

Systems Biology of infection and Immunity-Deadly Virus Infections in the 21st Century: Successes, Challenges, Ebola, and Networks to Nowhere?

Associate Director, Washington National Primate Research Center

Department of Microbiology,

University of Washington, USA

Prof. Hans Clevers

October 12, 2015

Lgr5 stem cell organoids and disease

Director Research of the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Hubrecht Institue, The Netherlands

Prof. Bruce Beutler, 2011 Nobel Prize recipient

September 7, 2015

Real-time identification of mutations that affect mammalian immunity

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense

Dallas, Texas, USA

Prof. Stephen Quake

June 15, 2015

Single Cell Genomics

Departments of Applied Physics and Bioengineering

Stanford University adn Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stanford, USA

Prof. Philippa Marrach, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

An unexpected population of B cells that links infection and autoimmunity

National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado

Prof. John Kappler, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

Breaking through immunological tolerance

Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

Prof. Linda Saif, Winner of Wolf Prize in Agriculture - 2015

June 1, 2015

Gut reactions to human rotavirus in a germfree piglet model: Novel use of probiotics to immunomodulate rotavirus diarrhea and vaccine efficacy in infants

The Ohio State University, USA

Prof. Jeffrey Ravetch, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

How antibodies diversify their effector functions: structural and functional heterogeneity of the Fc domain

Prof. Jeffrey Ravetch, Rockefeller University, New York 

Prof. Matthias Hentze

May 11, 2015

RNA-binding proteins, metabolism and a new function for the genome?

Co-Director of the EMBL/Heidelberg University

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit

Heidelberg, Germany

Prof. Dan Littman

March 16, 2015

Shaping of the host immune response by the commensal microbiota

Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
New York University School of Medicine\Howard Hughes Medical Int.

Prof. Ian Baldwin

January 19, 2015

Timing is everything in Ecology

Department of Molecular Ecology

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology