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Monday 25 July 2016

CID Weekly Seminar: Tuesday 26 July 2016

CID Weekly Seminar: Tuesday 26 July 2016
12:00 - 1:00pm
Seminar Room 1, Level 2, TRF Building


Tuesday 26 July - Dr Tin Kyaw
Senior Research Fellow, Vascular Biology and Atherosclerosis Laboratory


A light lunch is served prior to the seminar at 11:45am in the seminar room foyer, level 2, TRF Building.

Further information available from CID Weekly Seminar Series website [http://www.med.monash.edu.au/scs/medicine/cid/seminar-series.html


Future CID Weekly Seminars:

Tuesday 2 August
Dr Greg Tesch, Research Group Head - Chronic Kidney Disease and Transplantation Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases

Tuesday 9 August 
Prof Branch Moody
Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Seminar title: “CD1-Reactive T cells Mediate Human Response to Tuberculosis Infection"

After more than two decades of focus on T cell recognition of MHC-peptide, immunologists were surprised to learn that T cell receptors recognize lipid antigens bound to CD1 proteins.  Emphasizing recently published and unpublished data, the talk explains that many lipids are displayed by cellular CD1 proteins and describes ex vivo T cell responses detected by CD1 tetramers in tuberculosis patients.  These studies provide several further surprises and a broader view of T cell function that includes response to cellular lipids.  

Originally from Irving, Texas, Dr. Moody is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves as physician and immunologist at Harvard Medical School.  His laboratory focuses on basic and applied research on how human T cells and macrophages respond to infection in human tuberculosis disease. This work is supported by the NIH Tuberculosis Research Unit Network, the Pew Foundation, the Burroughs Welcome Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.


Further information is available from the CID Weekly Seminar Series website [http://www.med.monash.edu.au/scs/medicine/cid/seminar-series.html]



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