Lectures that provide introduction to Small Group Sessions
Lecture: Innate Immunity
This lecture relates to the Small Group: Innate Immunity.
For the Small Group consider the role of immune cell populations in host defense.
Lecture: Major
Histocompatibility
Lecture: Antigen Presentation and the MHC
For the Small Group consider the diversity of MHC molecules and the role of MHC in microbial antigen presentation.
Lecture: T Cell
Immunity I + II
Lecture: Cellular
Basis of Immune Tolerance
This lecture relates
to the Small Group: Lymphocyte Cytotoxicity.
Lecture: Complement
For the Small Group consider how immune complex mediated complement activation results in inflammation and disease, e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus.
Lecture: Immune
Complex Disease
Lecture: IgE Immunology
Lecture: Fetal Transplantation Immunology
This lecture relates to the Small Group: Lymphocyte Cytotoxicity.
For the Small Group consider the role of the immune system in allograft rejection.
Lecture: Perturbations in the Super System
Lecture:
Immune Deficiency
The lecture relates to the Small Group: B and T Cell Deficiency.
For the Small Group consider the immune deficiency diseases;
X-linked agammaglobulinemia, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, and Common
Variable Immunodeficiency.
Lecture: The Big Picture
This lecture relates to the Small Group: Autoimmune Diseases.
For the Small Group consider the role of the immune system in; Graves' Disease, Diabetes, Myasthenia Gravis, Celiac Sprue and Rheumatoid Arthritis.