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Annual Symposium
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM | May 21, 2015
2015 Annual LSI Symposium
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
Audience
This is a public event.
Defense Mechanisms in Life: From Bacteria to the Human Body
Speakers
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Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture: Homeostasis, Inflammation and Disease
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Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Generation of a Memory of Infection During CRISPR-Cas Immunity
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Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mechanisms and Functions of RNA Silencing Pathway
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Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Role of the Microbiota in Infection Control and Sequelae
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Gregory F. Sonnenberg, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Immune Regulation of Intestinal Health and Disease
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Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tissue Control of Macrophage Homeostasis and Function
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Marco Colonna, M.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
Innate Lymphoid Cells in Immunity