Allergy-Immunology Research Conference Schedule 2013


January 18, 2013

Tina V. Hartert, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Asthma & Environmental Health Research
Director, Vanderbilt Environmental Health Science Scholars Program
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
"Host and Viral Determinants of Childhood Disease"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 2nd Floor Classroom K
12:00pm-1:00pm
 

January 25, 2013
 
NO ALLERGY-IMMUNOLOGY CONFERENCE

February 1, 2013
 
Akhil Maheshwari, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Director, Neonatology Fellowship Program
Director, Center for Neonatal and Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Gut Mucosal Inflammation in Neonatal Necrotizing Entercolitis:  Triggered Activation or Failed Suppression"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm
 

February 8, 2013 
 
Martin Moore, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
"Role of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Fusion (F) Protein in Pathogenesis"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 2nd Floor Classroom K
12:00pm-1:00pm

February 15, 2013
 
Deyu Fang, PhD
Associate Professor in Pathology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"How to Tolerize a Pathogenic T Cell?  Tighten the Brake and Shut Off its Gas Pedal"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

 February 22, 2013
 
NO ALLERGY-IMMUNOLOGY CONFERENCE
AAAAI Meeting San Antonio, TX

 March 1, 2013
 
Karen M Ridge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"The Puzzle of Inflammation and Pulmonary Fibrosis:  Is Vimentin the Missing Piece"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

March 8, 2013
 
Kathleen C. Barnes, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Mary Beryl Patch Turnbull Scholar
Director, Bayview Genetics Research Faculty
Director, The Lowe Family Genomics Core
Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology
Baltimore, MD
"The Hygiene Hypothesis and Vulnerability to Asthma"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 2nd Floor Classroom K
12:00pm-1:00pm

March 15, 2013
 
Neil Clipstone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Loyola University
Chicago, IL
"Molecular dissection of a calcineurin-dependent, IL-11 cytokine-mediated signaling pathway involved in the regulation of adipocyte differentiation"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

March 22, 2013
 
NO ALLERGY-IMMUNOLOGY CONFERENCE

March 29, 2013
 
Christian Stehlik, Ph.D.
John P. Gallagher Research Professor of Rheumatology
Assistant Professor
Department of Rheumatology
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"Novel Mechanisms of Inflammasome Regulation in Macrophages"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

April 5, 2013
 
Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Jaffe Food Allergy Institute
New York, NY
"FPIES:  Lessons from a Cohort Study"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 2nd Floor, Classroom K
12:00pm-1:00pm

April 12, 2013
 
Carole Ober, Ph.D.
Blum -Riese Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Human Genetics
The University of Chicago
"Finding the Missing Heritability in Asthma"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

 April 19, 2013
 
Guillermo Vazquez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
The University of Toledo
"Unraveling the Roles of Macrophages TRPC3 channels in Atherosclerotic Lesion Formation"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 3rd Floor Conference Room L North
12:00pm-1:00pm

April 26, 2013
 
Seema S. Aceves, MD., Ph.D.
Division of Allergy and Immunology
Associate Professor, Pediatric and Medicine
Director, Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Clinic
University of California, San Diego
"EoE and Remodeling:  Mechanisms and Implications"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 3rd Floor Conference Room L North
12:00pm-1:00pm

May 3, 2013
 
No Allergy-Immunology Conference
AAI Conference Honolulu, Hawaii

May 17, 2013
 
Andrew Wardlaw, Ph.D.
Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine
Director of the Institute for Lung Health
Director NIHR Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit
University of Leicester College of Medicine and Biological Sciences
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
"The Role of Eosinophils in Asthma"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 2nd Floor, Classroom K
12:00pm-1:00pm
 

May 24, 2013
 
A/Professor Vicki Clifton
Editor, Placenta
Board Directors, Asthma SA
Director Clinical Research Development LMH
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Robinson Institute
Lynell McEwin Hospital
Elizabeth Vale SA
"The Placental Glucocorticoid Receptor:  Its Role in Sex Specific Differences in Fetal Growth and Survival"
Prentice
250 East Superior, 3rd Floor, Conference Room L North
12:00pm-1:00pm

May 31, 2013
 
Anne H. Rowley, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology/Immunology
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
"Identifying the Molecular Pathogenesis of Kawasaki Disease"
Arkes
676 North St. Clair, 14th Floor Conference Room
12:00pm-1:00pm

June 7, 2013
 
No Allergry-Immunology Conference
FOCIS Seminar