MIC 508 Advanced Topics in Immunology (3 credits)

Sample Course Schedule
Lectures: Grossberg Library
Tuesdays & Thursdays
9 - 10:20 am

Week	Topic	Lecturer
Week 1	Cells and Organs of the Immune System: Functional Embryology and Histology (Part II)	Hylander
Week 2	Lymphocyte homing, adhesion, recirculation	Evans
Week 3	Inflammation	Pauly
	The current state of anti-angiogenesis	Wong
Week 4	Angiogenesis in Cancer and Immune Regulation	Seon
	The innate immune system and Toll-Like Receptors, NK Cells	Gollnick
Week 5	Exam 1
Week 6	Antigen presentation in the Class II pathway	Thakur/Bangia
Week 7	T cell signaling and selection, Central and peripheral tolerance	Clements
	Cross-priming and CD8 T cell activation	Sood
Week 8	Transcriptional activation of MHC class II genes	Murphy
	B cell activation and lipid rafts	Ostberg
Week 9	Exam 2
Week 10	SPRING BREAK
Week 11	Idiotypic networks and antibody therapies	Ferrone
	Bone Marrow Transplantation	McCarthy
Week 12	Vaccines	Thanavala
	The heat shock protein system: chaperones and antigen processing	Subjeck
Week 13	Epigenetic regulation of immune genes	Tomasi
	Flow Cytometry	Wallace
Week 14	Immunodeficiencies and Leukemias/Lymphomas	Wetzler
	Innate and Adaptive cytokines and Tumor Immunity	Shrikant
Week 15	Tumor microenvironment and tumor therapy	Bankert
Week 16	Final Exam

Course Coordinator: Yasmin Thanavala, PhD