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Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

MI 707 - CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Schedule - 2006

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Jan 11
First Day of class for UK
Jan 16
Holiday - Martin Luther King Day
Jan 23

Introduction - PU1 and stem cells

Lymphocyte Development Curr Opin Immunol Kincade 2005
Cytokines Transc factors lineage committment Oncogene 2002 Zhu
Transcription Lineage specific Boessays 2004 Kluger

 

Jan 30

Notch Overview from Non Lymphoid systems

Louise Lines Paper 1 Zhou et al
Notch EBNA Hsieh Hayward Science 1995
Notch Review Int J Hematology 2005 Radtke
Notch signaling cell fate DEVELOPMENT 2004 Lai

Feb 6 Notch T vs B Commitment

Notch Immune system Immunity 2003 Maillard
Siva-paper 1-notch T Vs B
Siva-paper 2-notch vdj
Siva-paper 3-Pax5

Feb 13 CD4 vs CD8 lineage decision and Th Pok transcription factor

CD4 CD8 commitment Curr Opin Immunol 2005 BJ Fowlkes
CD4 CD8 commitment Nature 2005 Robey
CD4 CD8 commitment Nature immunol 2005 Kappes
CD4 CD8 commitmentTh-POK nature 2005 Kappes
Epigenetic silencing of CD4 in T cells

Feb 14 Dr. Paul Kincade’s departmental seminar on stem cells
Feb 20 & 21 Dr. David Chaplin
University of Alabama
LT (Lymphotoxin) Peyers Patch/LN development

Chaplin-Hashi PP Compartment JI 2001
Chaplin-Nishikawa Organogen ImmRev 2003
Chaplin-Cupedo CellsLNDev JImm 2005
Chaplin-Adachi PP 3 steps IntImm 1997
Ehaplin-Cupedo LN Immunity 2004

Feb 27 Chemokines/Lymphoid Tissue development

Chemokine driven positive feedback loop
Organogenesis of Lymphoid Tissues
Overlapping Roles of CXCL13 IL7R and CCR7
Presumptive LN Organizers are Differentially Represented

Mar 6 LT - Peyers patch/LN development - alternate NfkB signaling

Blood Feb 2006
Immunol Rev 2003
Paper MI707

Mar 13 Spring Break no classes
Mid term exam To be scheduled
Mar 20 t-bet Th1 Gata-3 Th1/Th2 commitment & DNA methylation

Cutting Edge A Critical Role for Gene Silencing in Preventing - Excessive Type 1 Immunity
DNA methylation and T cell commitment
Epigenetic control in the immune response
Epigenetic regulation of Th1 and Th2 cell development
Gene Silencing Quantitatively Controls the Function of a Developmental trans-Activator

Mar 27 EBF, Pax-5 B cell development
Apr 3 & 4 Dr. Harinder Singh, University of Chicago
Transcription factors & lineage commitment
Apr 10 Chemokine, Notch GC, MZ, B-1

mz b cell review
Notch2 Haploinsufficiency Results in Diminished B1 B Cells...
Regulation of Marginal Zone B Cell Development ...
Tucker - Identification of a B1 B cell-specified progenitor

Apr 17 Micro RNA in immune cells development

miRNA primer
Micro RNA Lineage Science 2004 Chen
Micro RNA dicer KO JEM 2005 Cobb
Amy - Nature microRNA oncogene

Apr 24 Notch in leukemeogenesis

Notch tumorogenesis Nat Rev Cancer 2003 Radtke
Notch tumorogenesis BLOOD 2005 Leong
Notch1 Activating Mutations in human TALL Science 2004 Weng
Notch 3 pre-TCR crosstalk-BLOOD 2006 Screpanti

May 1 Final Exam Week
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