Symposium in celebration of Jack L. Strominger's 90th birthday

Date: 

Friday, September 18, 2015, 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA

Special program of the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Event concludes with a cocktail reception, in Jack's honor, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

This program is offered free of charge, but registration is required.  Click here to visit the event webpage and to register.  Testimonials and photos are also being accepted.

Organizers:  Douglas Melton, David Scadden and Hidde Ploegh

Guest speakers:
Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research | UK) | "The immunological synapse in 4D"
Daniel Kahne (Harvard | Chemistry and Chemical Biology) | "From Penicillin to the PEZ Machine"
Richard Losick (Harvard | Molecular and Cellular Biology) | "Chance and Necessity in the Life of a Bacterium"
Timothy Springer (Harvard | Boston Children's Hospital) | "Adhesion Receptors of the Immune System:  Biology and Therapeutics"
Arlene Sharpe (Harvard | Harvard Medical School) | "Multifaceted Functions of Coinhibitory Pathways"
Dario Vignali (University of Pittsburgh) | "Targeting Tregs in Tumors"

Moderator:  Hidde Ploegh (Whitehead Institute | MIT)

This program is made possible, in part, due to the generous support
of the following individuals: 
Robert J. Carpenter | Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Chubb | Richard Roberts

and the following organizations:
         

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