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Upcoming Seminars

All seminars and working groups are open to researchers affiliated with MGH, MIT, Harvard or by invitation.

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. Please check each seminar for specific location and time.

February 7, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  T cell immunodominance and epitope entropy determine the rate of virus escape in acute HIV-1 infection
  Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, CHAVI Investigator in the T cell Immunology Discovery Team and Innate Immunity Discovery Team (University of Oxford, U.K)
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
February 21, 2012 - Ragon Symposium
 

Extra Neutralizing Antibody Activity
Speakers to be announced

Location: CNY 114 (114 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room D1-D2-D3 Map (pdf)
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00/4:30pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Symposium
 
February 28, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  Ken Mayer, PhD
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
March 2, 2012 - Ragon Symposium
  Imaging HIV-1: Animals to Atoms
Speakers to be announced
Location: Joseph M. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School Directions/Map
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
April 3, 2012 - Ragon Symposium
 

Reprogramming tumor immunity via dendritic cells
A. Karolina Palucka, MD, PhD, Investigator, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Ralph M. Steinman Center for Cancer Vaccines, Michael A. Ramsay Chair for Cancer Immunology Research

  Reverse Translation: Applying lessons learned from Provenge to the development of new immunotherapies for cancer
James B. Trager, Ph.D., Sr. Director, Research, Dendreon Corporation
  Systems Vaccinology
Bali Pulendran, Ph.D., Yerkes Researcher, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Director of the Innate Immunity Program, Emory Vaccine Center
  Vaccines that directly target dendritic cells
Sarah J. Schlesinger, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation, Clinical Director/Senior Attending Physician, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, The Rockefeller University
Location: Koch Institute, 500 Main Street (MIT building 76 room 158) Directions/Map
Time: 2:00am-4:30pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Symposium
 
April 10, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  Mike Betts, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
April 24, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  James Withney
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
May 8, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  John Wherry, Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
May 15, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  Donald Ronning, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry at the University of Toledo
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
May 22, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  Eric Long
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar
 
June 5, 2012 - Ragon Science Day
  Lecture topic and speakers to be announced
Location: tbd
Time: tbd
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Symposium
 
June 19, 2012 - Ragon Immunology Seminar Series
  Lecture topic to be announced
  Andrew McMichael
Location: CNY 149 (149 13th St. Charlestown MA), Room 2204. Map (pdf)
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Contact: If you have any questions, please email Ragon Seminar