An alternative theory of immune system response will be proposed when the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Polly Matzinger speaks on "An Innate Sense of Danger," Saturday, Sept. 29, in Lecture Hall I of the Veterinary Education Center.
Matzinger is the keynote speaker at the inaugural Immunology Meeting for Graduate Students (IMGS) of the Northeast region, Sept. 28-30, at Cornell. The Matzinger lecture and weekend meeting are open to the public. More information is available from Becky Tallmadge at rlt8@cornell.edu , phone 256-5618, and at the meeting web site: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/public/microbiology/imgs/index.html.
The IMGS keynote speaker is the head of the T Cell Tolerance and Memory Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In her theory of immune system response, the triggering factor comes from the "sense of danger" originated during damage to body tissues, rather than from the classical recognition of foreign antigens. Her theory has been applied to the study of transplantation rejection and pregnancy autoimmune diseases.
The first-time meeting was convened by its principal sponsor, the Dorothy Russell Havemeyer Foundation, and has been coordinated by graduate researchers at the Baker Institute for Animal Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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