2002 September-October

Date Presenter

Journal

29 October, 2002 Masafumi Takiguchi
(Professor)

Veronika Groh, Jennifer Wu, Cassian Yee & Thomas Spies.  Tumour-derived soluble MIC ligands impair expressoin of NKG2D and T-cell activation.  Nature. 419(6908):734-738, 2002.

22 October, 2002 Kawamura
(Undergraduate student 3rd grader) 

Kimberly S. Schluns, William C Kiper, Stephen C. Jameson and Leo Lefrancois: Interleukin-7 mediates the homeostasis of naive and memory CD8 T cells in vivo. Nature Immunol. 1(5):426-432, 2000.

8 October, 2002 Hiroko Tomiyama
(Assistant Professor)
Mary E. Keir, Cheryl A. Stoddart, Valerie Linquist-Stepps, Mary E. Moreno, and Joseph M. McCune.  IFN-alpha Secretion by Type 2 Predendritic Cells Up-Regulates MHC Class I in the HIV-1-Infected Thymus. J Immunol. 168(1):325-331, 2002.
1 October, 2002 Takamasa Ueno
(Assistant Professor)
Kithiganahalli N. Balaji, Norbert Schaschke, Werner Machleidt, Marta Catalfamo, and pierre A. Henkart.  Surface Cathepsin B Protexcts Cytotoxic Lymphocytes from Self-destruction after Degranulation.  J. Exp. Med. 196(4):493-503, 2002.
17 September, 2002 Manami Satoh
(Guraduate student
Master Course
1st grader)
David R. Plas, Jeffrey C. Rathmell and Craig B. Thompson: Homeostatic control of lymphocyte survival: potential origins and implications.  Nature Immunol. 3(6):515-521, 2002.
10 September, 2002 Mamoru Fujiwara
(Guraduate student
Master Course
1st grader)
Ann M. Sheehy, Nathan C. Gaddis, Jonathan D. Chol & Michael H. Mallm.  Isolation of human gene that inhibits HIV-1 infection and is suppressed by the viral Vif protein.  Nature. 418(6898):646-50.
3 September, 2002 Hiroshi Takata
(Guraduate student
Master Course
1st grader)
Lisa J. Matthias, Patricia T. W. Yam, Xing-Mai Jiang, Nick Vandegraaff, et al.  Disulfide exchange in domain 2 of CD4 is required for entry of HIV-1.  Nature Immunol. 3(8):727-732, 2002.