#  Symposium in celebration of Jack L. Strominger's 90th birthday 

 



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 **September 18, 2015** 

 12:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

Special program of the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Event concludes with a cocktail reception, in Jack's honor, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.

This program is offered free of charge, but registration is required. [Click here](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/jack-strominger-90th-birthday-celebration) to visit the event webpage and to register. Testimonials and photos are also being accepted.

**Organizers: *Douglas Melton, David Scadden and Hidde Ploegh***

**Guest speakers:**  
***Gillian Griffiths*** (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research | UK) | *"The immunological synapse in 4D"*  
***Daniel Kahne*** (Harvard | Chemistry and Chemical Biology) | *"From Penicillin to the PEZ Machine"*  
***Richard Losick*** (Harvard | Molecular and Cellular Biology) | *"Chance and Necessity in the Life of a Bacterium"*  
***Timothy Springer*** (Harvard | Boston Children's Hospital) | *"Adhesion Receptors of the Immune System: Biology and Therapeutics"*  
***Arlene Sharpe*** (Harvard | Harvard Medical School) | *"Multifaceted Functions of Coinhibitory Pathways"*  
***Dario Vignali*** (University of Pittsburgh) | *"Targeting Tregs in Tumors"*  
  
**Moderator:** ***Hidde Ploegh*** (Whitehead Institute | MIT)

This program is made possible, in part, due to the generous support   
of the following individuals:   
**Robert J. Carpenter** | **Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Chubb** | **Richard Roberts**

and the following organizations:

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