Events / 2009
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January 22 Thursday 2009 Cellular heterogeneity and cooperativity shape decision-making in the immune systemDr. Ofer Feinerman
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center
Cellular diversity, flexibility and robustness are crucial features of a reliable immune system, in particular in the case of T lymphocytes enforcing antigen discrimination. We combined computational modeling and experimental measurements at the single ce
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January 27 Tuesday 2009 "Inflammation meets Immunology: Insights into Type 1 Diabetes and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation"Dr. Eli Lewis
Department of Clinical Biochemistry,
Ben-Gurion University
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February 17 Tuesday 2009 "A word-processor for DNA"Prof. Ehud Shapiro
Department of Computer science and applied Mathematics and Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute.
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March 17 Tuesday 2009 "B cell tolerance in lupus: Receptor editing and anergy in NZB/NZW mice"Prof. Dan Eilat
Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem
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March 24 Tuesday 2009 "Cytoskeletal regulation of immune synapse formation and signaling"Dr. Tal Ilani
Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics
Cornell university
Ithaca NY
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March 31 Tuesday 2009 "B cell survival - When MET meets CD74..." Maya Gordin
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April 07 Tuesday 2009 "Cytoskeletal regulation of integrins involved in lymphocyte-endothelial adhesions"Jenia Manevich
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May 05 Tuesday 2009 The context dependent fate of monocytesChen Varol
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May 19 Tuesday 2009 "The Polycomb group proteins positively regulate the expression of cytokine genes in T helper cells"Dr. Orly Avni
Department of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion
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May 26 Tuesday 2009 "ICAM-1 distribution in the microcirculation: functional consequences for inflammatory responses"Dr. Ronen Sumagin
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Rochester
Medical Center, NY
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June 02 Tuesday 2009 Redirecting Effector Lymphocytes for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma TherapyAmit Maliar
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June 04 Thursday 2009 "Alarmins can be alarming"Prof. Joost Oppenheim
Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for
Cancer Research,
National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA.
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June 09 Tuesday 2009 "insights from imaging dendritic cell mobilization from the skin"Orna Tal
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June 14 Sunday 2009 "Multilineage differentiation of small Oct-4+ cells isolated from adult tissues²"Dr. Mariusz Ratajczak
Professor of Medicine, Director of Stem Cell Institute at James Graham Brown Cancer Center University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
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June 16 Tuesday 2009 “The decisive impact of innate upon adaptive immunity”Dr. Terry B. Strom
Professor of Medicine and Surgery from Harvard Medical School, USA
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June 23 Tuesday 2009 "Signaling pathways involved in rapid lymphocyte integrin activation by endothelial signals"Ronit Pasvolsky
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June 30 Tuesday 2009 " Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem/Progenitor Cells Mobilization by MT1-MMPand its Inhibitor RECK"Yaron Vagima
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July 07 Tuesday 2009 "Mapping the landscape of host-pathogen co-evolution: HLA class I-peptide interactions correlate with conservation in human and viral proteins"Tomer Hertz
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Fred Hutchinson
cancer research center, Seattle
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July 14 Tuesday 2009 "Role of dietary proteins in the maturation of the immune system in mice"Ana Faria
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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August 18 Tuesday 2009 "How do immune cells support cognitive function?"Prof. Jonathan Kipnis
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia
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August 25 Tuesday 2009 The Immunogenetics of Severe Bacterial Infection (and how to survive anthrax)Prof. Daniel M. Altmann
Division of Investigative Science
Imperial College, London
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October 27 Tuesday 2009 "Interplay Between Bacterial Molecules And Host Innate Immunity"Prof. Richard Ulevitch
The Scripps Research Institute
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November 10 Tuesday 2009 “Targeting dendritic cells”Prof. Benny Chain
UCL
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November 17 Tuesday 2009 "The Paradoxical Role of Type I IFNs in CD8+ T Cell Priming and Subsequent Homing to Inflammatory Tissue"Prof. Matthew Albert
Pasteur Institute
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December 01 Tuesday 2009 "Predicting and controlling the reactivity of immune cell populations against cancer"Eran Eden
Department of Molecular Cell Biology (Uri Alon's lab)
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December 03 Thursday 2009 "The involvement of Toll like receptors in CNS plasticity"Dr. Eitan Okun
National Institute of Aging, NIH
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December 08 Tuesday 2009 "Towards an in-silico Lymph Node: A Realistic Approach to Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Lymphocytes"Naama Bloch
Irun Cohen's and David Harel's lab
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December 08 Tuesday 2009 "Development of novel genetic cancer vaccines encoding dendritic cell activation receptors"Gal Cafri
Lea Eisenbach's lab
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December 16 Wednesday 2009 "Detection of Genomic Aberrations Significant for the Management of B Cell Lymphoma”Dr. Itai Kela
Division of Oncology, Stanford University
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December 17 Thursday 2009 Unbiased reconstruction of a mammalian transcriptional network mediating the differential response to pathogensDr. Ido Amit
HMS / Broad Institute
The abstract: Models of mammalian regulatory networks controlling gene expression have been inferred from genomic data, yet have largely not been validated. We present an unbiased strategy to systematically perturb candidate regulators and monitor cellula
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December 20 Sunday 2009 "Tumor stroma: An essential target for T cells to eradicate solid malignancies "Prof. Hans Schreiber
University of Chicago
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December 20 Sunday 2009 “Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Immunotherapy: New Insights and Opportunities”Prof. James P. Allison
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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December 24 Thursday 2009 “Aire’s partners in the molecular control of immunological tolerance”Dr. Jakub Abramson
Harvard Medical School
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December 27 Sunday 2009 "Functional SDF-1 Secretion from Bone Marrow Stromal Cells is a Cell Contact-Dependent Event Mediated by Cx43 and Cx45 Gap-Junctions via Calcium and cAMP signaling"Amir Schajnovitz
Tzvee Lapidot's lab
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December 29 Tuesday 2009 “PATTERNS OF PATHOGENESIS :HOW THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM DISTINGUISHES PATHOGENIC FROM NON-PATHOGENIC MICROBES”Prof. Daniel Portnoy,
Berkeley
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