[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, February 6th @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr. Jon Laman - Brain Inflammation and the Periphery: Antigen Drainage, Bacteria and Dealing with Lipid

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Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, February 6th @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr.
Jon Laman


KILLAM LECTURE

 

 

Speaker:       Jon Laman, Ph.D.
                    Department of Immunology
                    University Medical Center
                    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 
Title:            Brain Inflammation and the Periphery:  Antigen
Drainage, Bacteria and Dealing with Lipid

 
Place:           de Grandpre Communications Centre

 
Date:            Tuesday, February 6, 2007

 
Time:            4:00 pm

                       
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Jon Lamon is an MD, PhD who is currently a professor in the Department
of Immunology at the University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.  He is internationally recognized for his studies of how
the central nervous system micro-environment contributes to regulating
immune responses within the CNS.  His studies include the role of
toll-like receptor mediated control of glial cells and how tissue
breakdown products interact with antigen presenting cells within the
CNS.  He has further demonstrated the importance of transport of
antigens released within the CNS back to regional lymph nodes and how
this process contributes to recurrence of immune responses directed at
the CNS.  His studies involve both basic experimental models and direct
application to human disease materials, particularly those involving
cases of multiple sclerosis.

 
Jack Antel