Follow a curation of discoveries and updates in immunology focusing on immune responses to infectious disease, structure and function, and developments in the defense against infection by watching and engaging in these webinars.
Cancer cells can acquire immune resistance resulting in a loss of immunosurveillance. Tumor cells can upregulate PDL-1 which binds to PD-1. This complex inhibits CD8 Tumor Infiltrating cells...
Cancer initiation and virulence depends on mechanisms to evade host immunosurveillance and suppression of early invasion and growth. Distinct phenotypes of the immune infiltrates in and arou...
Dr. Koenitzer will present an overview of her current research in immune suppression. After a brief introduction to the MILLIPLEX® multiplex immunoassay portfolio, Dr. Koenitzer will dis...
Immune checkpoint therapies targeting the CTLA-4 and PD-(L)1 pathways have been largely clinically disappointing for patients with prostate cancer. This can be attributed to the highly immun...
NCI estimates that cancer will be the leading cause of death in 2030, worldwide. Checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive cell therapies (ACTs) cost up to ~$2 million/patient and have shown durabl...
Learning Objectives: 1. Define applications of approved and experimental (multiplexing IF) biomarker assessment in Immuno-Oncology 2. Define bottlenecks and areas of improvement to current t...
Platinum-based chemotherapy has been the cornerstone for treating metastatic urothelial cancer, which compromises the majority of bladder cancer. While urothelial cancer is chemosensitive, p...
1. Identify 3 barriers to immune cell response to cancer 2. List 3 approaches to overcome immunosuppressive barriers to bolster the immune response to cancer 3. Explain how fusion proteins c...
Programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibits T and B cell function upon ligand binding. PD-1 blockade revolutionized cancer treatment, and while numerous patients respond, some develop autoimmune-like...
One of the main challenges in cancer immunotherapy is the resistance to I-O therapies. Primary resistance can occur before treatment and acquired resistance can occur in patients who respond...
B cells have recently come into vogue as important contributors to the anti-tumor immune response in cancer patients. Specifically, B cells and the immune structures in which they reside (te...
DATE: June 1, 2020 TIME: 11:00am PDT, 2:00pm EDT This webinar will provide an overview of the host response to bacterial and viral infections. The rationale for the use of procalcitonin in a...
DATE: May 28, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Cardiac allograft rejection is a serious concern in transplant medicine, conferring an increased risk of acute graft failure and adverse patient...
DATE: May 28, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT High-resolution imaging of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) is gaining significance to specify staging and to determine patients requiring adjuvant treatment. C...
DATE: May 27, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT Analysis of antigen- and virus-specific T cells is essential to the understanding of fundamental immunological processes in the contexts of e.g. infectious...
Provide education on COVID-19 disease and SARS-CoV-2. Review the types of tests used for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Discuss approaches to serologic test development. Review the ki...
DATE: May 13, 2020 TIME: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CEST Stem cells represent an important tool in a wide range of applications, including basic research, disease modeling, drug discovery, and reg...
DATE: May 8, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT, 11:00am MT, 1:00pm ET The application of next generation sequencing to interrogate immune repertoires and methods in which these highly complex dataset...
DATE: May 7, 2020 TIME: 11:00am PT, 02:00pm ET, 2 :00pm BST, 3:00pm CEST El Control de Calidad Estadístico ya está bien establecido como una técnica importante de asegur...
DATE: May 7, 2020 TIME: 8:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDT With the recent explosion of cell therapy, we know more about conditions affecting cell growth than ever before. Your CO2 incubator should not...
DATE: May 5, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT Flow cytometry provides an important bioanalysis method that is utilized in the development and evaluation of immunologic therapies. Characterization of th...
Date: April 29, 2020 Time: 8:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDT Single cell genomics and other next generation sequencing applications depend strongly on adequate upstream sample preparation. Results can...
DATE: April 27, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) is a small (25-nm) virus that is composed of a protein shell called a capsid and a single-stranded...
DATE: April 16, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET There is an increasing need to evaluate and understand unique phenotypes and mechanisms of action within the tumor microenvironment. Existing...
DATE: April 15, 2020 TIME: 4:00pm CEST, 07:00am PT, 010:00am ET The assessment of cell health and cellular responses after experimental manipulation continue to be a very important aspect of...
DATE: April 7, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET This webinar sets out to establish why quality control is key to robust, reliable, reproducible science. We will look at best practice criteri...
BGI group has been at the forefront in the fight against covid-19. Starting from building a lab in Wuhan, sequencing first 2019-nCoV virus genome and offering RT-PCR and sequencing based det...