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.
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 Emphasizing recently published and unpublished data, the talk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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