Events / 2008

January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
08
Tuesday
2008

"Th17 vs. Th1 effector responses in autoimmunity: more than one way to skin a cat"

Dr. Rachel R. Caspi
Head, Immunoregulation Section, National Eye Institute, NIH.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
15
Tuesday
2008

"Cytokine communication networks - a systems approach"

Dr. Nir Friedman
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
15
Tuesday
2008

"Cytokine communication networks - a systems approach"

Dr. Nir Friedman
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
12
Tuesday
2008

Mechanisms of action of IVIg in autoimmunity and inflammation: more than a mere transfer of antibodies

Dr. Srini V. Kaveri
Director INSERM UMRS 872 Laboratory of Immunopathology and therapeutic immunointervention Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers PARIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
03
Monday
2008

"Histocompatibility, CTL and the rest"

Prof. Gideon Berke
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
10
Monday
2008

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy: From T cell Tolerance to Antibody Engineering

Prof. Yoram Reiter
Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
20
Thursday
2008

Preclinical strategies for effective clinical translation of antiangiogenic drug-metronomic chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer

Robert S. Kerbel
Professor, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center Toronto, Canada
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
March
20
Thursday
2008

The strategic landscape of the Middle East

Shai Fedlman
Professor, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, USA
Martha,Bram,Michael and Phillipe Laub International Science Youth Village
March
24
Monday
2008

The molecular mechanisms controlling homing and survival of B cells

Prof. Idit Shachar
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
31
Monday
2008

Cellular migration in the immune system: new insights based on live imaging Approaches

Dr. Guy Shakhar
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
07
Monday
2008

"Endocytic function in dendritic cells and antigen cross presentation"

Dr. Sebastian Amigorena
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Immunité et Cancer, Pavillon Pasteur, Institut Curie,Paris
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
08
Tuesday
2008

Dynamic cell-cell interactions in anti-tumor immune responses

Dr. Sebastian Amigorena
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Immunité et Cancer, Pavillon Pasteur, Institut Curie, France
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
14
Monday
2008

Immune defense against bacterial and fungal pathogens

Dr. Eric G. Pamer
Infectious Diseases Service, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York,USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
15
Tuesday
2008

"In vivo innate immune defense against Listeria monocytogenes infection"

Dr. Eric G. Pamer
Infectious Diseases Service, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
28
Monday
2008

Mechanisms of Antigen Processing

Dr. Peter Cresswell
Department of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
29
Tuesday
2008

Antigen Cross-Presentation by MHC Class I - How do External Proteins Get in?

Prof. Peter Cresswell
Department of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
29
Tuesday
2008

"Antigen Cross-Presentation by MHC Class I - How Do External Proteins Get In?"

Dr. Peter Cresswell
Department of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
05
Monday
2008

Regulation of Natural Killer cell activity

Prof. Ofer Mandelboim
The Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
12
Monday
2008

"Hematopoietic Stem Cells 101"

Prof. Norman Iscove
The Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
13
Tuesday
2008

"Specification of Self-renewal in Hematopoietic Stem Cells"

Prof. Norman Iscove
The Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
19
Monday
2008

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Glucocorticoid- Induced Immunomodulation

Prof. Carlo Riccardi
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Pharmacology Section, Perugia University, Medical School,Perugia, Italy
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
20
Tuesday
2008

"Role of GITR-GITRL System in Immune/Inflammatory Response"

Prof. Carlo Riccardi
Dept. of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Pharmacology, University of Perugia
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
26
Monday
2008

The thymus: From biological obscurity to clinical relevance

Prof. George Hollander
Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
27
Tuesday
2008

"The thymus: How to make it - how to break it"

Prof. George Hollander
Pediatric Immunology, Center for Biomedicine and the University Children's Hospital of Basel
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
02
Monday
2008

The Complement System in Health and Disease: Old and New Looks

Prof. Zvi Fishelson
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University,Israel
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
16
Monday
2008

"Allelic exclusion in the immune system"

Prof. Yehudit Bergman
Department of Experimental Medicine, The Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
24
Tuesday
2008

CXCL12- dual role in the intestinal immune system

Dr. Iris Dotan
Department of Gastroenterology, Sourasky Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
24
Tuesday
2008

CXCL12- dual role in the intestinal immune system

Dr. Iris Dotan
Department of Gastroenterology, Sourasky Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
26
Thursday
2008

The life style of epidermal Langerhans cells, from cell migration to antigen presentation

Prof. Jean Davoust
INSERM, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
01
Tuesday
2008

Dissecting the mechanism of diret reprogramming

Prof. Alexander Meissner
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
August
31
Sunday
2008

Platelets modulate cancer metastasis by involvement of GPIIb integrin

Dr. Christian Schulz
TU Munich
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
September
16
Tuesday
2008

Vav1 controls the development of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells

Dr. Abdelhadi Saoudi
Auto-immunity and Immunoregulation team, CHU purpan, Toulouse, France
The balance between Foxp3 regulatory T cells (Treg) and conventional T cells is crucial to maintain self-tolerance. To date, the genetic factors controlling this equilibrium remain unknown. In this study, we identified a major locus on rat chromosome 9 lo
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
11
Tuesday
2008

The bone marrow immune niche

Anita Sapoznikov
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
12
Wednesday
2008

In Vivo Imaging - Focus on the Qdots."

Russell Thompson, Ph.D
Cellular analysis technical specialist, Invitrogen US
Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
November
16
Sunday
2008

Neuralization of human Embryonic stem cells

Dr. Alexey Terskikh
Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
18
Tuesday
2008

"Dendritic Cells, Antigen Presentation and Immunotherapy"

Prof. Dr. Diana Dudziak
University Hospital of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
18
Tuesday
2008

'Dendritic Cells, Antigen Presentation and Immunotherapy'

Prof. Dr. Diana Dudziak
University Hospital of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
25
Tuesday
2008

"The immunogenicity of mesenchymal stem cell"

Lior Zangi
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
09
Tuesday
2008

"Molecular checkpoints in IL-13-associated mucosal inflammation"

Dr. Ariel Munitz
Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
09
Tuesday
2008

Molecular checkpoints in IL-13-associated mucosal inflammation

Dr. Ariel Munitz
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
12
Friday
2008

In Vivo Imaging - Focus on the Qdots."

Russell Thompson, Ph.D
Cellular analysis technical specialist, Invitrogen US
Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
December
14
Sunday
2008

Annual Symposium in Immunology in Honor of Prof. Michael Sela

Ruslan Medzhitov
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
December
14
Sunday
2008

Annual Symposium in Honor of Prof. Michael Sela

Takashi Nagasawa
Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences Kyoto University, Japan
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
December
23
Tuesday
2008

"Stem cells-mediated regeneration, development and chimerism: lessons from a protochordate"

Dr. Ayelet Voskoboynik
Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research