Susan K. Pierce, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
EDUCATION
The University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. Degree in Immunology, June 1976
Yale University M.S. Degree in Microbiology, June 1974
The PennsylvaniaState University B.S. Degree in Microbiology, December 1971
PROFESSIONAL RECORD
Chief, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, December 1999 to present.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 1987 to December, 1999.
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 1983 to August 1987.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 1977 to August 1983.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the laboratory of Dr. Norman Klinman, July 1976 to September 1977.
Title: Acquisition of malaria immunity: The liability of controlling inflammation
Malaria is an infectious disease that claims the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone and one for which we have no vaccine. Antibodies have been shown to confer protection from malaria, but antibody-mediated protection is acquired only after years of repeated infections, leaving children in endemic areas vulnerable to severe malaria and death. In my presentation I will describe what we are learning about human B cell biology in Plasmodium falciparum infections and suggest that the life-saving control of inflammation during malaria infections may be to the detriment of acquiring protective antibody responses.
Venue: Room143, New Biology Building, THU
Time: June 18 (Tuesday), 2013; 9:00am-10:30am
Host: Prof. Wanli Liu
