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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., FRS, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and chair, department of immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

The Flavell laboratory uses mouse reverse genetics to study innate and adaptive immunity, T cell tolerance, apoptosis and autoimmunity, and the regulation of T cell differentiation. Its recent studies include the NLR family of innate sensors and their role in anti-infective responses and inflammatory disease. It has recently established a connection between inflammasomes, microbial homeostasis and chronic diseases. It has also shown that dysbiosis of the microbiota leads to inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic syndromes including obesity, fatty liver disease and Type 2 diabetes.

 

Dr. Flavell obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Hull and carried out postdoctoral training at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Zurich. He was a faculty member at the University of Amsterdam and was chief scientific officer of Biogen, and joined Yale in 1988. Dr. Flavell has received the FEBS Anniversary Prize, the Colworth Medal, the Darwin Trust Prize, the Rabbi Shai Sachnai Memorial Prize in Immunology and Cancer Research, the AAI Invitrogen Meritorious Career Award, the Andrew Lazarovitz Award, the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immuology and the Vilcek Award.  He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and is the first President of the newly formed International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS).

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Alena Powell

Phone

(212) 327-7745

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745
apowell@rockefeller.edu