joint epigenetics & immunology symposium
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Joint Epigenetics &Immunology Symposium
“Epigenetics of immunity: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities”
Jonathan Epstein, PhDUniversity of Pennsylvania
Ellen Rothenberg, PhDCaltech
Cornelis Murre, PhDUniversity of California, San Diego
Daniel De Carvalho, PhD University of Toronto
Alexander Rudensky, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center
DATE: February 27, 20209:00AM -5:30PM
LOCATION: RUBENSTEIN AUDITORIUM, SMILOW CENTER FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, 3400 CIVIC CENTER BLVD., PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
Funding for the Symposium has been provided by: The Penn Institute for Immunology, The Penn
Epigenetics Institute & the Immunobiology of Normal and Neoplastic Lymphocytes Training Grant
Featured Keynotes:
There will be a Panel Discussion immediately following with scientific editors from
Immunity, Cell, and Nature Immunology….
SPEA
KERS
Illus
trat
ion
of a
func
tiona
l T c
ell (
back
grou
nd)
and
an e
xhau
sted
T c
ell (
fore
grou
nd).
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n re
spon
ding
to c
hron
ic in
fect
ion
or c
ance
r, T
cells
be
com
e ex
haus
ted
and
lose
man
y of
thei
r cor
e fu
nctio
ns. T
his p
roce
ss in
volv
es a
fund
amen
tal
“rew
iring
” of
the
cellu
lar r
egul
atio
n of
gen
e ex
pres
sion.
Thu
s, e
xhau
sted
T c
ells
likel
y re
pres
ent a
dist
inct
cel
l lin
eage
. See
pag
es 1
104,
11
60, a
nd 1
165.
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