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SPEAKER
PAPER
September 17
Maureen Cox
Moon JJ, Chu HH, Pepper M, McSorley SJ, Jameson SC, Kedl RM, Jenkins MK. Naive CD4(+) T cell frequency varies for different epitopes and predicts repertoire diversity and response magnitude. Immunity. 2007 Aug;27(2):203-13.
September 24
Olusimidele Akinsiku
Sabouri AH, Usuku K, Hayashi D, Izumo S, Ohara Y, Osame M, Saito M. Impaired function of human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1)-specific CD8+ T cells in HTLV-1-associated neurologic disease. Blood. 2008 Sep 15;112(6):2411-20.
October 1
Preston Bratcher
Klein M, Obermaier B, Angele B, Pfister HW, Wagner H, Koedel U, Kirschning CJ. Innate Immunity to Pneumococcal Infection of the Central Nervous System Depends on Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4. J Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1;198(7):1028-36.
October 8
Juan Calix
Lu YJ, Gross J, Bogaert D, Finn A, Bagrade L, Zhang Q, Kolls JK, Srivastava A, Lundgren A, Forte S, Thompson CM, Harney KF, Anderson PW, Lipsitch M, Malley R. Interleukin-17A mediates acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization. PLoS Pathog. 2008 Sep 19;4(9):e1000159.
October 15
Yao Chen

Weller S, Mamani-Matsuda M, Picard C, Cordier C, Lecoeuche D, Gauthier F, Weill JC, Reynaud CA. Somatic diversification in the absence of antigen-driven responses is the hallmark of the IgM+ IgD+ CD27+ B cell repertoire in infants. J Exp Med. 2008 Jun 9;205(6):1331-42.

Commentary: Tarlinton D. Sheepish B cells: evidence for antigen-independent antibody diversification in humans and mice. J Exp Med. 2008 Jun 9;205(6):1251-4.

October 22
Joseph Daft
Rongvaux A, Galli M, Denanglaire S, Van Gool F, Drèze PL, Szpirer C, Bureau F, Andris F, Leo O. Nicotinamide phosphoribosyl transferase/pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor/visfatin is required for lymphocyte development and cellular resistance to genotoxic stress. J Immunol. 2008 Oct 1;181(7):4685-95.
October 29
Brian Dizon
Wen L, Ley RE, Volchkov PY, Stranges PB, Avanesyan L, Stonebraker AC, Hu C, Wong FS, Szot GL, Bluestone JA, Gordon JI, Chervonsky AV. Innate immunity and intestinal microbiota in the development of Type 1 diabetes. Nature. 2008 Oct 23;455(7216):1109-13.
November 5
Robert Flynn
Goyama S, Yamamoto G, Shimabe M, Sato T, Ichikawa M, Ogawa S, Chiba S, Kurokawa M. Evi-1 is a critical regulator for hematopoietic stem cells and transformed leukemic cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2008 Aug 7;3(2):207-20.
November 12
Jeremy Foote
Kim SJ, Caton M, Wang C, Khalil M, Zhou ZJ, Hardin J, Diamond B. Increased IL-12 inhibits B cells' differentiation to germinal center cells and promotes differentiation to short-lived plasmablasts. J Exp Med. 2008 Sep 29;205(10):2437-48
November 19
Dalia Gaddis
Kagan JC, Su T, Horng T, Chow A, Akira S, Medzhitov R. TRAM couples endocytosis of Toll-like receptor 4 to the induction of interferon-beta. Nat Immunol. 2008 Apr;9(4):361-8 Supplemental Information
November 26
No Journal Club
Thanksgiving
December 3
Matthew Halpert
Neeli I, Khan SN, Radic M. Histone deimination as a response to inflammatory stimuli in neutrophils. J Immunol. 2008 Feb 1;180(3):1895-902.
December 10
Mohamed Khass
 
December 17
Kyoko Kojima
 
January 7
Jen-Feng Lai
 
January 14
Yun Kyung Lee
 
January 21
Karon Lewis
 
January 28
Xinrui Li
 
February 4
Mark Lisanby
 
February 11
Tamer Mahmoud
 
February 18
Riley Meyers
 
February 25
Saeyoung Park
 
March 4
Daniel Schreeder
 
March 11
Kim Thomas
 
March 10
Rebekah Wharton
 
March 18
Latonya Williams
 
March 24
Wen-I Yeh
 
April 1
John Yi
 
April 8
Yuying You
 
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