Meets on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Conference Center B
| Sept. 6 | NO SEMINAR – OMRF HOLIDAY – LABOR DAY |
| Sept. 13 | Judith James, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Sept. 20 | Patrick Gaffney, M.D. / Igor Dozmorov, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Sept. 27 | Jonathan D. Wren, Ph.D. / |
| Oct. 4 | Michael Centola, Ph.D. / Susan Kovats, Ph.D. |
| Oct. 11 | NO SEMINAR – ANTHRAX SYMPOSIUM |
| Oct. 18 | David Mittelman, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine “Large and small molecule technologies for therapeutically manipulating genomes” (hosted by Dr. Wren & Dr. Pezza) |
| Oct. 25 | Swapan K. Nath, Ph.D. / (Change of venue to Wileman Auditorium) |
| Nov. 1 | Courtney Gray Montgomery, Ph.D. / A. Darise Farris, Ph.D. |
| Nov. 8 | NO SEMINAR – ACR IN ATLANTA, GA |
| Nov. 15 | Courtney Gray-Montgomery, Ph.D. / Marta E. Alarcon-Riquelme, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Nov. 22 | Sylvia Gografe, D.V.M., Ph.D., Director of Comparative Medicine and Attending Veterinarian, Comparative Medicine (LARC) |
| Nov. 29 — Jan. 10 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS! |
| Jan. 17 | MaryBeth Humphrey, M.D., Ph.D. “Negative Regulation of Toll-like Receptor Signaling in Macrophages” |
| Jan. 24 | NO SEMINAR |
| Jan. 31 | Rheal Towner, Ph.D. “In vivo Immuno-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (IMRI) of Tumor Biomarkers” |
| Feb. 7 | J. Donald Capra, M.D. “Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to (mainly) Influenza and HIV” |
| Feb. 14 | Joel Guthridge, Ph.D. “Genetic and Functional Genomic Association of the C8orf13/BLK Locus with Lupus” |
| Feb. 21 | Marta Alarcon-Riquelme, M.D., Ph.D. “Ongoing studies on BANK1 and BANK1 interacting genes” |
| Feb. 28 | Contessa Edgar, Ph.D. “Type I IFN and other pathways in TTP: clues from the peripheral blood” |
| Mar. 7 | NO SEMINAR |
| Mar. 14 | NO SEMINAR – SPRING BREAK |
| Mar. 21 | Dr. Megan Clowse, Assistant Professor Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Duke University Medical Center “The Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy Registry: the first 3 years” |
| Mar. 28 | Mikhail Dozmorov, Ph.D. “MECP2 role in SLE: variants that make the difference” (Change of venue to the Wileman Auditorium) |
| Apr. 4 | Lauren Ritterhouse “A unique serum cytokine profile in ANA-positive healthy individuals” (Change of venue to Wileman Auditorium) |
| Apr. 11 | NO MEETING |
| Apr. 18 | Ying-Yu Wu, Ph.D. “Novel Human B-Cell Interactions Involving BANK1, BLK and SYK and Their Roles in Integrin-Mediated Adhesion” |
| Apr. 25 | Sandra Bajana, M.D., Ph.D. “IRF4 regulates DC migration from the skin during homeostasis and inflammation” |
| May 2 | NO MEETING |
| May 9 | Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Immunology Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, OSU Center for Health Sciences “Estrogen and Estrogen Receptor Regulated Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis” |
| May 16 | NO SEMINAR – AAI 2011 |
| May 23 | Ken Smith, Ph.D. “Deciphering Autoimmunity one antibody at a time” |
| May 30 | NO SEMINAR – OMRF HOLIDAY – MEMORIAL DAY |
| Jun. 6 | Indra Adranto, Ph.D. “Genome-wide Association study of African Americans Implicates Multiple Lung and Inflammatory Disease-Associated loci in Sarcoidosis Susceptibility” |
| Jun. 13 | Anna Chockalingam, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, Cornell Univ, Microbiology & Immunology “Nucleic acid recognition by toll-like receptor 9: from cell biology to dichotomy in signaling” |
| Jun. 20 | NO SEMINAR |
| Jun. 27 | David Powell, Ph.D., Univ of Louisville, Dept of Medicine/Nephrology “Disruption of an inhibitory mechanism of NF-κB activity in the development of lupus-like autoimmunity and lupus nephritis” |
| Aug. 22 | Carol Webb, Ph.D. “ARID3a/Bright “Linkage” to Lupus: Divide and Conquer?” |
The Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Conferences coincide with the academic year (September through May). Please contact Kathy Bryant at (405) 271-7786 or bryantk@omrf.org for information on the 2010-2011 seminar schedule.
