Call for presenters (Spring 2008)

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Updated: April 1, 2008
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Greetings Stanford Immunologists,

We're looking for volunteers to present for the upcoming Spring 2008 Postdoctoral Immunology Journal Club, continuing the wonderful slate of presentations we've all come to enjoy.

As usual our journal club will meet on Wednesdays, from Noon-1pm.

For this quarter we have the following dates:
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• Apr. 9 (open)
• ***Apr. 16 (tentative)
• ***Apr. 23 (tentative)
• Apr. 30 (open)
• May 7 (open)
• ***May 14 (filled)
• ***May 21 (filled)
• May 28 (open)
• Jun. 4 (open)
• Jun. 11 (open)
• Jun. 18 (open)
• Jun. 25 (open)

Please let me know if you would like to present at one of these dates.

Thanks,
Jack

Mar. 26th (Wed.)

On Wednesday, Mar. 26th, starting at Noon in CCSR 4105, Sara M. (faculty) will present:

A novel M cell–specific carbohydrate-targeted mucosal vaccine effectively induces antigen-specific immune responses

Tomonori Nochi, Yoshikazu Yuki, Akiko Matsumura, Mio Mejima, Kazutaka Terahara, Dong-Young Kim, Satoshi Fukuyama, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Tomoko Kohda, Shunji Kozaki, Osamu Igarashi, and Hiroshi Kiyono

J. Exp. Med. 2007 204: 2789-2796.

Link to article: click here

Mar. 19th (Wed.)

On Wednesday, Mar. 19th, starting at Noon in CCSR 4105, Rong L. will present:

RAG2 PHD finger couples histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation with V(D)J recombination

Adam G. W. Matthews, Alex J. Kuo, Santiago Ramón-Maiques, Sunmi Han, Karen S. Champagne, Dmitri Ivanov, Mercedes Gallardo, Dylan Carney, Peggie Cheung, David N. Ciccone, Kay L. Walter, Paul J. Utz, Yang Shi, Tatiana G. Kutateladze, Wei Yang, Or Gozani & Marjorie A. Oettinger

Nature 450, 1106-1110 (13 December 2007)

Link to article: click here

Mar. 12th (Wed.)

On Wednesday, Mar. 12th, starting at Noon in CCSR 4105, Aleksey Y. (Felsher Lab) will present:

NFAT Binding and Regulation of T Cell Activation by the Cytoplasmic Scaffolding Homer Proteins

Guo N. Huang, David L. Huso, Samuel Bouyain, Jianchen Tu, Kelly A. McCorkell, Michael J. May, Yuwen Zhu, Michael Lutz, Samuel Collins, Marlin Dehoff, Shin Kang, Katharine Whartenby, Jonathan Powell, Daniel Leahy, and Paul F. Worley

Science 25 January 2008: Vol. 319. no. 5862, pp. 476 - 481

Link to article: click here

Mar. 5th (Wed.)

On Wednesday, Mar. 5th, starting at Noon in CCSR 4105, Jason P. (Nolan Lab) will present:

CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells induce cytokine
deprivation–mediated apoptosis of effector CD4+ T cells

Pushpa Pandiyan, Lixin Zheng, Satoru Ishihara, Jennifer Reed & Michael J Lenardo.

Nature Immunology 8, 1353 - 1362 (2007).

Link to article: click here