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Upcoming Seminars

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held at the Charlestown Navy Yard in either Building 149 or 114. Directions and information about building access and parking can be found here. A map of the area is available here.

All lectures and working groups are open to researchers affiliated with MGH, MIT, Harvard or by invitation. If you have any questions, please contact Ragon Meetings.

September 7, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
12:00pm Lecture: Cellular Factors Influencing HIV-host Cell Interplay
 

Mario Stevenson, Ph.D. Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Medical School

  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2214. Map (pdf)
 
September 9, 2010 - Center for Global Health Seminar Series
10:30am Lecture: The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): Politics and Policy
  Dr. Shannon Smith, Senior Professional Staff Member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  Location: MGH Ether Dome, MGH Bullfinch Building Map (pdf)
 
September 14, 2010 - Joint Ragon Seminar
2:00pm Lecture: Exploiting TLRs and RLRs in Vaccine Development
  Robert Seder M.D., Chief, Cellular Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, DHHS
3:00pm Discussion
  Location: CNY 114 (114 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D3. Map (pdf)
 
September 23, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
12:00pm Lecture: topic to be announced
 

Deborah Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stanford University

  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
 
October 5, 2010 - Joint Ragon Seminar
2:00pm

Lecture: Role of TIM-3 in T-cell exhaustion

  Vijay Kuchroo, DVM, Ph.D., Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
tbd Lecture: The role of Tim3 and Gal9 in immunity to tuberculosis: evidence for activation of antimicrobial effector functions
  Samuel M. Behar, M.D., Ph.D., Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital
tbd Discussion
  Location: CNY 114 (114 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D3. Map (pdf)
 
October 14, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
12:00pm Lecture: topic to be announced
 

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University

  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
 
October 26, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
12:00pm Lecture: "T cells and the regulation of HIV and opportunistic pathogen infections"
  Dr. Rick Koup, MD, Chief, Immunology Laboratory Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
 
November 2, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
12:00pm Lecture: topic to be announced
  Sarah Rowland-Jones, Ph.D. Professor of Immunology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
 
November 16, 2010 - Joint Ragon Seminar
2:00pm Lecture: topic to be announced
  Location: CNY 114 (114 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D3. Map (pdf)
 

November 30, 2010 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series

12:00 Lecture: topic to be announced
  Kai Wucherpfennig, Ph.D. Professor of Neurology, Department of Cancer Immunology & AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  Location: CNY 149 (149 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
 
December 6, 2010 - Joint Ragon Seminar
2:00pm Topic: HLA B57 Symposium
  Location: CNY 114 (114 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D3. Map (pdf)
 
January 28, 2011 - Joint Ragon Seminar
2:00pm Lecture: topic to be announced
  Location: CNY 114 (114 16th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D3. Map (pdf)