Meets on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Conference Center B
| Sept. 2 | NO SEMINAR – OMRF HOLIDAY |
| Sept. 9 | NO SEMINAR |
| Sept. 16 | Farhat Husain, M.D. “Cognitive Testing In Autoimmune Disorders And Other Work in Progress” |
| Sept. 23 | He Li “Go beyond the IFN signature — association of OAS1 with Sjögren’s syndrome” |
| Sept. 30 | Carol Webb, Ph.D. “Association of Numbers of ARID3a+ Hematopoietic Cells with Increased Disease Activity in Lupus” |
| Oct. 7 | Melissa Munroe, M.D., Ph.D. “Altered Soluble Mediators of Inflammation in Blood Relatives of SLE Patients Who Subsequently Develop Incomplete Lupus or Transition to SLE” |
| Oct. 14 | David Kern, M.D. George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Medicine, Regents’ Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and the Heart Rhythm Institute, OUHSC “Autoimmune Basis for Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)” |
| Oct. 21 | NO SEMINAR – ASHG IN BOSTON, MA |
| Oct. 28 | NO SEMINAR – ACR IN SAN DIEGO, CA |
| Nov. 4 | CANCELLED |
| Nov. 11 | Marta Alarcon-Riquelme, M.D., Ph.D. “The Developing Story of BANK1 and Lupus” |
| Nov. 18 | Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D. “New insights into lupus via a genetic study of viral response and early autoimmunity” |
| Nov. 25 | Judith James, M.D., Ph.D. “BOLD: Biomarkers of Lupus Disease Example of a Productive Clinical/Basic Science Collaboration” |
| Dec. 2 | Fang (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D. “Over-activity of NK Cells in Relapse Patients of ADAMTS13-Deficient Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)” |
| Dec. 9 | CANCELLED |
| Dec. 16 | Lori Garman “Correlates of the Safety and Efficacy of Anthrax Vaccination” |
| Dec. 23 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Dec. 30 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Jan. 6 | Bob Axtel, Ph.D. “Potential Utility of Biomarkers to track prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis” |
| Jan. 13 | CANCELLED |
| Jan. 20 | NO MEETING |
| Jan. 27 | Zygmunt S. Derewenda, Ph.D.; Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine “An unusual mechanism of kinase inhibition: lessons for drug design“ |
| Feb. 3 | Chris Lessard, Ph.D. “Dissecting the Genetics and Genomics of Autoimmunity” |
| Feb. 10 | Samantha Webb, Ph.D. “Influenza Infection in Lupus-Prone Mice” |
| Feb. 17 | J. Donald Capra, M.D. “The Gut Microbiome and Autoimmunity” |
| Feb. 24 | Umesh Deshmukh, Ph.D. “To TRIM or NOT to TRIM in SLE and Sjögren’s Syndrome” |
| Mar. 3 | Eric Dumas “Characterization of the Humoral Immune Response to Anthrax Infection and Vaccination” |
| Mar. 10 | Ying-Yu Wu, Ph.D. “The Presence of IgG Autoantibodies against dsDNA and Specific B1a or B1-like B Cells in Lupus Nephritis Kidneys Depends on Expression-Associated Genotypes of BLK In Mouse and Human” |
| Mar. 17 | Ken Smith, Ph.D. “Human antibodies to S. pneumoniae: From vaccine response to novel anti-infectives” |
| Mar. 24 | RESCHEDULED |
| Mar. 31 | Peter C. Scacheri, Ph.D. (in the Wileman Auditorium) “Mining the genomic dark matter: Epigenomic enhancer profiling defines signatures of cancer and common diseases” |
| Apr. 7 | Indra Adrianto, Ph.D. “HLA Effects on Autoantibody and Epitope Production in SLE Patients” |
| Apr. 14 | Susan Kovats, Ph.D. “IRF4 regulates lung dendritic cells during influenza infection” |
| Apr. 21 | Yang Hu, Ph.D.
“Role of B cells in Th1 and Th17 mediated experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis” |
| Apr. 28 | Shu Man Fu, M.D.; Professor, University of Virginia (in the Wileman Auditorium) “Rational approach to the treatments and clinical trials of lupus proliferative glomerulonephritis” |
| May 5 | NO SEMINAR – AAI |
| May 12 | Hal Scofield, M.D. “X Chromosome Aneuploidies: The Last Installment” |
| May 19 | Julio Molineros, Ph.D. (in the Wileman Auditorium) |
| May 26 | NO SEMINAR – OMRF HOLIDAY |
