Lymphocyte integration of complement system cues

Date: 

Friday, November 16, 2018, 9:00am

Location: 

Center for life Sciences building, 3 Blackfan St., Boston MA 02115. - 9th floor, conference Room 921

The complement system is a complex network of more than 50 proteins whose function has been considered until now part of the innate immunity. In the last 20 years, complement receptors and regulators have been characterized to be expressed in immune cells, and specifically, complement regulation of lymphoid cell function has evolved humongously since new signaling pathways and complement protein synthesis have been identified. Here, we are going to overview the main points of integration of complement system cues in lymphocytes.

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Speaker: Ana V. Marin, PhD candidate at the Department of Immunology at School of Medicine in Complutense University (UCM) and Fellow at the Department of Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.

Sponsors: RCC; Rheumatology Department Lab Meeting, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School.