Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conference Speakers – 2018-2019
Meets on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Conference Center B
| Sept. 3 | NO SEMINAR – LABOR DAY |
| Sept. 10 | ACI CELEBRATION |
| Sept. 17 | Cancelled |
| Sept. 24 | Cancelled |
| Oct. 1 | Carol F. Webb, PhD ARID3a: New Roles in Low Density Neutrophils and Erythropoiesis |
| Oct. 8 | Agnieshka Agasing Interferon-β Induces IL-6 to Promote TH17-mediated Neuro-inflammation |
| Oct. 15 | Miranda Qian, PhD Novel Function of E protein Transcription Factors during Lymphopoiesis: Suppression of Group 2 innate lymphoid cell Differentiation |
| Oct. 22 | ACR ANNUAL MEETING – Chicago, IL |
| Oct. 29 | Hongliang Li, MD, PhD Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor Autoantibodies in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) |
| Nov. 5 | Hannah Berrett, MD Sustained E Protein Activity During ILC Development Selectively Inhibits ILC2 Development |
| Nov. 12 | Ashley Hoover Understanding the immunomodulatory mechanism of glycated Chitosan, a novel adjuvant that drives a systemic antitumor immunity when combined with photothermal therapy |
| Nov. 19 | Lori Garman, PhD Transcriptomic Profiling Via RNA-sequencing of Peripheral Blood Single-Cells and Granulomas Reveals Immunosuppression in Sarcoidosis |
| Nov. 26 | Matlock A. Jeffries, MD Epigenetic and Microbiome Associations in Osteoarthritis |
| Dec. 3 | Melissa Munroe, MD, PhD SCF: Potential Pro-Inflammatory Mediator in SLE |
| Dec. 10 | Julio Molineros, PhD / Bhupinder Singh, PhD Mechanistic characterization of RASGRP1 variants identifies an hnRNP K-regulated transcriptional enhancer contributing to SLE susceptibility |
| Dec. 17 | Kristi Koelsch, PhD Non-Sjogren’s Sicca – What are we Missing? |
| Dec. 24 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Dec. 31 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Jan. 7 | Courtney Montgomery, PhD Toward Understanding Granuloma Formation and Chronicity in Sarcoidosis |
| Jan. 14 | Invited Speaker Brian T. Edelson, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (hosted by Bob Axtell, PhD) Regulation of Immunity and Autoimmunity by the Transcription Factor Bhlhe40 |
| Jan. 21 | ACI Faculty Recruit Dongwon Lee, PhD, NYU School of Medicine Sequence-based machine-learning methods for studying genetic regulatory control of complex traits and diseases WILEMAN LEARNING CENTER |
| Jan. 28 | Invited Speaker Jacob E. “Jed” Friedman, PhD, Director, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center at OU Medicine (hosted by Susan Kovats, PhD) Developmental Programming in Myeloid Cells in Mouse, Monkey, and Man – You are what your mother ate… |
| Feb. 4 | R. Hal Scofield, MD Off the Usual Track in my Research Career |
| Feb. 11 | ACI Faculty Recruit Invited Speaker Jacqueline Gorman, PhD, Seattle Children’s Research Institute (hosted by Judith James, MD, PhD) Understanding the interplay between autoimmune variants, viruses, and the interferon program WILEMAN LEARNING CENTER |
| Feb. 18 | Ibrahim Hatipoglu, PhD Solving the Puzzle of Lung DC Subset Function in Influenza Infection |
| Feb. 25 | Invited Speaker Alex Kuo, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine (hosted by Judith James, MD, PhD) Single-Cell Epigenetics – Studying Histone Modifications One Cell at A Time WILEMAN LEARNING CENTER |
| Mar. 4 | Invited Speaker Shannon Dunn, University of Toronto (hosted by Bob Axtell, PhD) Modelling the Effects of MS Risk Factors in Mice: A Story of Obesity and Autoimmunity WILEMAN LEARNING CENTER |
| Mar. 11 | James Quinn The Th17-TFH-B Cell Axis Driving Neuro-Inflammation |
| Mar. 18 | Patrick Gaffney, MD Chromatin Accessibility in Human Lupus at Single Cell Resolution |
| Mar. 25 | A. Darise Farris, PhD Bacillus anthracis-mediated Inhibition of Macrophage Efferocytosis: Mechanisms and Proposed Consequences |
| Apr. 1 | Ken Smith, PhD Antibody light chains: Is humoral immunity dependent on having two possibilities? |
| Apr. 8 | Umesh Deshmukh, PhD Diet-Associated Gut Microbiome Changes and Salivary Gland Dysfunction |
| Apr. 15 | Swapan Nath, PhD Post-GWAS Functional Dissection of SLE Regulatory Variants: Work In Progress |
| Apr. 22 | Sapana Kadel Female ILC2s are preferentially suppressed during influenza virus infection |
| Apr. 29 | Mark Coggeshall, PhD Human Basophils Respond to Bacterial Peptidoglycan |
| May. 6 | Biji Kurien, PhD Pilot studies on oxidative damage and mitochondrial dysfunction in Sjögren’s syndrome |
| May. 13 | AAI MEETING – San Diego, CA |
| May. 20 | Anna Bakowska E Proteins in ILC2 Development |
| May. 27 | NO SEMINAR – MEMORIAL DAY |
The Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conferences coincides with the academic year (September through May). Please contact Louise Williamson at (405) 271-2277 or Louise-Williamson@omrf.org for information on the 2018-2019 seminar schedule.
