The medical school will welcome Lisa Borghesi, PhD, in March as the latest speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Borghesi will present “B Lymphocyte Development: Mouse, Man and Computational Modeling” from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
A free lunch will be available from 11:45 a.m. to noon and Dr. Borghesi’s presentation will begin promptly at noon. The event is free and open to the public and CE and MEDU credit is available.
If you’re interested in attending the event, please register here: https://bit.ly/2AQVHAi
Dr. Borghesi is an associate professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is also Director of the Unified Flow Cytometry Core. Dr. Borghesi received her PhD in cell biology at the University of Connecticut with a focus on B lymphocytes. Her interest in upstream hematopoietic progenitors was spurred during postdoctoral studies at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she studied the initiation of V(D)J recombination in uncommitted bone marrow precursors.
Dr. Borghesi’s research has furthered the understanding of hematopoiesis in health and disease. She has identified a number of transcriptional pathways that control stem cell self-renewal and B lymphoid lineage potential. Dr. Borghesi was among the first investigators to use a lineage tracing approach to track the fate of multipotent precursors to the B lymphocyte lineage in vivo. This characterization revealed unexpected developmental plasticity, including re-direction of B lineage precursors to other lineage fate options as a consequence of pathogen exposure. Most recently, Dr. Borghesi has explored the role of pathogen sensors including toll-like receptors on stem cells. For this work she exploits both the mouse model and humanized mice, a pre-clinical setting relevant to human physiology.
Dr. Borghesi is part of an impressive slate of speakers for Seminars in Investigative Medicine for the 2018-2019 academic year.
In February, David W. Scott, PhD, visited WMed for Seminars in Investigative Medicine and presented “Engineering Specific Regulatory T cells: Fighting Fire with Police CARs.” In April, the medical school will welcome Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
In support of improving patient care, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Number of credits subject to change.