November 29, 2007
Rudensky to speak on immune responses
Dr.Alexander Rudensky, professor of immunology and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will give the next Science in Medicine Lecture at 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5, in Hogness Auditorium at the Health Sciences Center. This lecture will not be simulcast to additional locations.
His topic is Cellular Mechanism of Immune Homeostasis. Rudensky has been studying the development of T lymphocytes, their function, and their roles in regulation of immune responses to infection and prevention of autoimmunity. His work includes investigation of the control of immune homeostasis by regulatory CD4 T cells, and investigation of the molecular mechanisms that determine the role of specialized T cells.
Rudensky, who joined the UW faculty in 1992, earned his Ph.D. in immunology from the Gabrichevsky Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow and then was a research fellow at the Institute of Genetics of Microorganisms in Moscow and Yale Medical School.
The January Science in Medicine Lecture will be Nervous Breakdown: Depression in Neurological Conditions, by Drs. Charles Bombardier and Jesse Fann at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 16, in Hogness Auditorium.
