Meets on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Conference Center B
| Sept. 3 | NO SEMINAR |
| Sept. 10 | Hal Scofield, M.D. “Raynaud’s as an autoimmune disease” |
| Sept. 17 | Umesh S. Deshmukh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, University of Virginia “Microbial Triggers for Autoimmune Responses in Sjogrens Syndrome and Lupus”. |
| Sept. 24 | Judith James, M.D., Ph.D. “Lessons learned in lupus from the DoD Serum Respository” |
| Oct. 1 | A. Darise Farris, Ph.D. “A golgi ion transporter that may associate with anti-La antibodies impacts UVB-induced apoptotic keratinocyte load” |
| Oct. 8 | Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D. - CHANGE OF VENUE TO THE WILEMAN “Sarcoidosis: the disease, the genes and related disorders” |
| Oct. 15 | Mikhail Dozmorov, Ph.D. “An Epigenetic Signature Enriched in the Promoters of Autoimmunity Susceptibility Genes” |
| Oct. 22 | Marta Alarcon-Riquelme, M.D., Ph.D. “The role of BANK1 in CpG-induced signaling”Ying-Yu Wu, Ph.D. “A Novel Function of Blk in B Cells” |
| Oct. 29 | Amit Maiti, Ph.D.”Lupus-associated ITGAM coding variant rs1143679 acts at both nucleic acid and protein levels” |
| Nov. 5 | NO SEMINAR – AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS MEETING |
| Nov. 12 | NO SEMINAR – ACR/ARHP MEETING IN WASHINGTON, DC – NOV 10-14 |
| Nov. 19 | Gerard Zurawski, Ph.D., Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, TX “Development of DC-targeting Vaccines” – CHANGE OF VENUE TO THE WILEMAN |
| Nov. 26 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS! |
| Dec. 3 | Betsy J. Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistryand Molecular Biology, UMDNJ NJMS-UH Cancer Center, Newark, NJ “Insights into SLE Pathogenesis: A Key Role for IRF5″ |
| Dec. 10 | Susan Kovats, Ph.D., Mikhail Dozmorov, Ph.D., “Genome-Wide Profiling of ERalpha-Bound Chromatin in Differentiating Myeloid Progenitors” |
| Dec. 17 | Eliza Chakravarty, M.D., “Herpes Zoster Reactivation and Vaccination in Autoimmune Diseases” |
| Dec. 24 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Dec. 31 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Jan. 7 | Scott Zamvil, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Faculty Member, Program in Immunology, UCSF - “Cooperation Between T Cells and B Cells: Lessons from Neuromyelitis Optica and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis” |
| Jan. 14 | Sandra Bajana, M.D., Ph.D., “Regulation of Lung Dendritic Cell Development by the Transcriptional Factors IRF4 aqnd IRF8″ |
| Jan. 21 | NO SEMINAR |
| Jan. 28 | Umesh S. Deshmukh, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, University of Virginia, “Autoimmunity in SLE & Sjogren’s Syndrome, So Similar Yet So Distinct” |
| Feb. 4 | Vasileios C. Kyttaris, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, “Calcium Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in SLE” |
| Feb. 11 | Narcis Popescu, Ph.D. “The prothrombotic potential of protein disulfide isomerase autoantibodies in lupus” |
| Feb. 18 | Astrid Rasmussen, Ph.D. “New classification criteria for autoimmune diseases: their impact on established research cohorts” |
| Feb. 25 | Harini Bagavant, MBBS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine, University of Virginia “Glomerular Injury in Lupus and Hyperlipidemia” |
| Mar. 4 | Eric Dumas “Stochastic Humoral Immunity to Bacillus anthracis Protective Antigen” |
| Mar. 11 | Indra Adrianto, Ph.D. “Dissection of the HLA Association with Sarcoidosis” |
| Mar. 18 | NO SEMINAR |
| Mar. 25 | Shaofeng Wang, M.D., Ph.D. “A remote cis-regulatory enhancer element harboring variants associated with systemic lupus erythematosus engages the TNFAIP3 promoter to influence A20 expression” |
| Apr. 1 | J. Donald Capra, M.D. “Trends in Human Antibody Therapeutics” |
| Apr. 8 | Robert C. Axtell, M.S., Ph.D.; Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, CA “Understanding Type 1 Interferon in Multiple Sclerosis: Lessons from Mice and Other Human Diseases” |
| Apr. 15 | Erik Peterson, M.D. Assistant Professor, Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota |
| Apr. 22 | Jim Warner “A New Functional Mechanism fo IRF5″ |
| Apr. 29 | VISITING SPEAKER – CANCELLED |
| May 6 | NO SEMINAR – AAI |
| May 13 | Chris Lessard, Ph.D. “Identification of multiple genetic variants associated with Sjögren’s syndrome involved in both the innate and adaptive immune responses” |
| May 20 | CANCELLED |
| May 27 | NO SEMINAR – OMRF HOLIDAY |
| June 3 | Tracy McGaha, Ph.D. Associate Member, Cancer Immunology, Inflammation, and Tolerance Program, GHSU Cancer Center, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, GA |
