Special Lecture
Monday, March 9, 2015
4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Gabriel Victora, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator,
Whitehead Fellow,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Darwin in Miniature: Antibody Evolution in Germinal Centers
Recommended Readings
Empirical Articles
Schwickert, T. a, Victora, G. D., Fooksman, D. R., Kamphorst, A. O., Mugnier, M. R., Gitlin, A. D., … Nussenzweig, M. C. (2011). A dynamic T cell-limited checkpoint regulates affinity-dependent B cell entry into the germinal center. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 208(6), 1243–1252. doi:10.1084/jem.20102477
Shulman, Z., Gitlin, A. D., Targ, S., Jankovic, M., Pasqual, G., Nussenzweig, M. C., & Victora, G. D. (2013). T follicular helper cell dynamics in germinal centers. Science, 341(6146), 673–677. doi:10.1126/science.1241680
Victora, G. D., Dominguez-sola, D., Holmes, A. B., Deroubaix, S., Dalla-favera, R., & Nussenzweig, M. C. (2012). Identification of human germinal center light and dark zone cells and their relationship to human B-cell lymphomas. Blood, 120(11), 2240–2248. doi:10.1182/blood-2012-03-415380.
Victora, G. D., Schwickert, T. a., Fooksman, D. R., Kamphorst, A. O., Meyer-Hermann, M., Dustin, M. L., & Nussenzweig, M. C. (2010). Germinal center dynamics revealed by multiphoton microscopy with a photoactivatable fluorescent reporter. Cell, 143(4), 592–605. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.10.032
Review Papers
Victora, G. D., & Mesin, L. (2014). Clonal and cellular dynamics in germinal centers. Current Opinion in Immunology, 28, 90-96. doi:10.1016/j.coi.2014.02.010
Victora, G. D., & Nussenzweig, M. C. (2012). Germinal Centers. Annual Review of Immunology, 30, 429-457. doi:10.1146/annurev-immunol-020711-075032