2008 October-December

Date Presenter

Journal

10 December, 2008 Hayato Murakoshi
(Postdoctoral Fellow)
Miura T, et al., HLA Associated Alterations in Replication Capacity of Chimeric NL4-3 Viruses encoding Gag-Protease From HIV-1 Elite Controllers, J. Virol., 2008 Oct 29
18 November, 2008 Zheng Nan
(Guraduate student
Doctoral Course
4th grader)
Joseph P. Casazza, et al. Acquisition of direct antiviral effector functions by CMV-specific CD4+ T lymphocytes with cellular maturation The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. 203, No. 13, 2865-2877
12 November, 2008 Hirokazu Koizumi
(Guraduate student
Doctoral Course
4th grader)
Denis R. Chopera, et al. Transmission of HIV-1 CTL Escape Variants Provides HLA-Mismatched Recipients with a Survival Advantage, PLoS Pathogens 2008 4 e1000033
12 November, 2008 Naoki Kobayashi
(Assistant Professor)
Matthias wolfl, et al, Hepatitis C Virus Immune Escape via Exploitation of a Hoke in the T Cell Repertoire, J. Immunol. 181: 6435-6446, 2008
21 Ocober, 2008 Masao Hashimoto
(Postdoctoral Fellow)
Immune reconstitution in the sigmoid colon after long-term HIV therapy. P M Sheth, D Chege, L Y Y Shin, S Huibner, F-Y Yue, M Loutfy, R Halpenny, D Persad, C Kovacs, T-W Chun, G Kandel, M Ostrowski and R Kaul Mucosal Immunol. 1: 382-388; advance online publication, July 2, 2008; doi:10.1038/mi.2008.23
14 Ocober, 2008 Chihiro Motozono
(Guraduate student
Doctoral Course
3rd grader)
Brenna C. Simons, Despite Biased TRBV Gene Usage against a Dominant HLA B57-Restricted Epitope, TCR Diversity Can Provide Recognition of Circulating Epitope
Variants.The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 5137-5146
7 Ocober, 2008 Kazutaka Honda
(Guraduate student
Doctoral Course
2nd grader)
Mathias Lichterfeld et al., Telomerase activity of HIV-1-specific CD8+ T cells: Constitutive upregulation in controllers and selective increase by blockade of PD ligand 1 in progressors, Blood First Edition Paper, prepublished online August 26, 2008