The Toronto Human Immunology Network presents:

New Immunotherapies for Cancer -have they arrived?

with Drs. Marcus Butler and Naoto Hirano
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

hosted by Dr. Tania Watts
University of Toronto

a public discussion held in conjunction with the International Day of Immunology

Monday, April 29, 2013
7-9pm
Fox and Fiddle Pub
280 Bloor Street West, Toronto

All welcome

To help us predict numbers please register (free) at:
http://cafescientific.eventbrite.ca/#

Sponsored by CIHR Human Immunology Network

(2013 Human Immunology symposium Poster with Program)

Immunobiology of chronic viral infection
with keynote lecturers

Rafick Sékaly and Barbara Rehermann

June 4, 2013  8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Center Auditorium
209 Victoria Street Toronto

Cochaired by Gary Levy and Tania Watts

Free registration
http://humanimmunologysymposium.eventbrite.ca/
(registration deadline – May 24)

 Sponsored by the CIHR Human Immunology Network (CHIN)  and The University of Toronto Transplantation Institute

Panel Discussions in Human Immunology
with Luigi D. (Gigi) Notarangelo, MD

Director, Research and Molecular Diagnosis Program
Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology,
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

(Host: Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker)

Topic: “Patient-derived iPS cells for modeling and correction of inborn errors of immunity. Where do we stand?”

Monday, May 13, 2013
All welcome
5:00 – 6:00p.m.
Room 7231, MSB

Panel Discussions in Human Immunology
with Professor Jorge Kalil

Professor of Medicine,
head of clinical Immunology and Allergy,
Director Laboratory of Immunology Heart Institute, School of Medicine,
University of Sao Paulo and Director of Instituto Butantan
Sao Paulo, Brazil

(Host:  Dr. Michelle Letarte)

Topic: “Autoimmunity, vaccine, molecular mechanisms.”

Monday, January 21, 2013
All welcome
5:00 – 6:00p.m.
Room 7231, MSB

Panel Discussions in Human Immunology
with Richard M. Ransohoff, MD

Director, Neuroinflammation Research Center
Staff Neurologist, Mellen Center for MS Treatment and Research
Professor of Molecular Medicine,
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland Ohio

Topic:   “Targeting innate inflammation in MS.”

Panelists: Dr. Ann Yeh, Dr. Eleanor Fish, Dr. Richard Ransohoff, and Dr. Paul O’Connor

Monday, January 14, 2013
All welcome 5:00 – 6:00p.m.
Room 7231, MSB

Panel Discussions in Human Immunology
with Dr. Diane Mathis

Division of Immunology,
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

(Host:  Immunology Graduate Students)

Topic:  Exploiting Tregs and their products to modulate immunological and non-immunological diseases

Monday,  November 5,  2012
All welcome
5:00 – 6:00p.m.
Room 7231, MSB

The Toronto Human Immunology Network

 presents:

 Decoding the influence of the microbiota on health and disease

 Wednesday May 30, 2012
1-5PM
Room 3153 , Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
 
Co-Chairs: Dana Philpott and Ken Croitoru 

1:00             Welcome and introductions (Co-chairs)

1:10              Keynote Speaker: David Relman, Stanford University
                     “Unrest at home: the human microbiome in health and disease”

2:00             Michael Surette, McMaster University
                     “Lower respiratory tract microbiomes across airway diseases.”

2:30-3:00      Nutrition break – Medical Alumni Lounge

3:00             Alberto Martin, University of Toronto
                     “The Gut Microbiota and Colon Cancer”

3:30             David Guttman, University of Toronto
                     “Microbiome dynamics in the cystic fibrosis lung”

4:00             Jayne Danska, Hospital for Sick Children
                     “Sex, genes and bacteria in Type 1 diabetes”

4:30- 5:00     Phil Sherman, Hospital for Sick Children
                       Discussion and wrap up

Keynote speaker costs deferred by an educational grant from Danone

Free Registration is required, go to: http://microbiotasymposium.eventbrite.ca/

 2011 Annual Day in Transplantation

(Host:  Dr. Rupert Kaul)

“Microbial translocation and disease progression in hiv/siv infections.”

Monday, April 2, 2012 
All welcome   
5:00 – 6:00p.m.          
Room 7231, MSB

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

http://www.stanford.edu/group/davislab/

(Host:  Dr. Tania Watts)

“How to reboot human immunology”

Monday,  February 27, 2012
All welcome   
5:00 – 6:00p.m.          
Room 7231, MSB