
Seminars in Investigative Medicine, which began in 2017, is a monthly seminar series at WMed that attracts speakers representing a veritable who’s who in the field of immunology.
The series, which is held from October to May each academic year at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus, serves as a gathering point for the medical school’s community of investigators, as well as investigators beyond WMed. The event was developed by Dr. Thomas L. Rothstein, assistant dean for Investigative Medicine and director of the Center for Immunobiology, as a way to promote collaboration and new discoveries that help patients.
The event is open to the public and all members of the WMed community, and the speaker series serves to highlight the best and brightest in the field of investigative medicine.
Upcoming Speakers
Presenter | Date |
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Robert Balderas, PhD | Tuesday, September 21, 2021 |
Daniel Goldstein, MD | Thursday, October 14, 2021 |
Liz Leadbetter, PhD | Wednesday, November 10, 2021 |
Robert Binder, PhD | Wednesday, December 8, 2021 |
Laurence Morel, PhD | Wednesday, January 12, 2022 |
Lorenzo Puri, MD, PhD | Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
Jeffrey Rothstein, MD | Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
Harry Schroeder, MD, PhD | Wednesday, April 13, 2022 |
Previous Speakers
- January 2021
Meinrad Busslinger, PhD
Senior Scientist and Scientific Deputy Director
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
“The role of chromatin loop extrusion in generating a diverse antibody repertoire” - January 2020
Eugene Oltz, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
“Chromatin-Based Regulation of Gene Expression Programs in the Immune System” - December 2019
Karen Haas, PhD
Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Wake Forest School of Medicine
“Harnessing the Protective Capacity of Innate B Cells for Anti-Tumor Responses” - November 2019
Grace Chen, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Michigan
“Host-Microbial Interactions in the Development of Inflammation and Tumors in the Colon” - May 2019
Michael McHeyzer-Williams, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Scripps Research Institute
“ReProgramming B Cell Memory: One Cell at a Time” - April 2019
Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Nucleic Acid Sensors at the Interface of Autoimmunity and Autoinflammation” - March 2019
Lisa Borghesi, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology
Scientific Director, Unified Flow Core
University of Pittsburgh
“B Lymphocyte Development: Mouse, Man and Computational Modeling” - February 2019
David Scott, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
“Engineering Specific Regulatory T cells: Fighting Fire with Police CARs” - January 2019
Patrick C. Wilson, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine-Section of Rheumatology
University of Chicago
“Influenza Immunity in Context” - December 2018
Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
Chair, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
“Immune Pore-forming Proteins: The New Bug Exterminators.” - October 2018
Bonnie Blomberg, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
“Contributors to Vaccine Response: Aging, Obesity, and Inflammation” - May 2018
Coleen McNamara, MD
Frances Myers Ball Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division
University of Virginia
“The Role of B Lymphocytes in Atherosclerosis” - April 2018
Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD
Professor of Immunology
University of California, Davis
“Innate-Like B Cells: The Inbetweeners – What They Do and How They Do It” - March 2018
Garnett Kelsoe, DSc
James B. Duke Professor of Immunology
Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Duke University
“New biology for the germinal center reaction”David Allman, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Cell Separation Facility, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Associate Director, Abramson Cancer Center Flow Cytometry Core Facility
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
“How Serum Antibody Titers are Maintained” - February 2018
Gregg Silverman, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Associate Director, Division of Rheumatology
Director, Laboratory of B-cell Immunobiology
NYU School of Medicine
“Lupus, Autoimmunity and the Microbiome” - January 2018
Barbara Lynne Kee, PhD
Professor of Pathology
University of Chicago
“Transcriptional Repression in Lymphocyte Cell Fate” - December 2017
Roberta Pelanda, PhD
Professor of Immunology & Microbiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
“Bridging Studies of B Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity from Mice to Humans” - November 2017
Michael Paul Cancro, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
“New Subsets, New Checkpoints: Expanding Roles for Tbet+ B Cells in Health and Disease” - October 2017
Mark Jay Shlomchik, MD, PhD
Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“How Autoimmunity Gets Started and How it Causes Damage”