Celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin with the Baltimore Coalition of Reason! Join us for pizza and a lecture on evolution of the immune system by Dr. Helen Dooley of the University of Maryland. The talk description is below.
When: Tuesday, February 12, 6:30 pm pizza, 7:00 pm lecture
Where: Village Learning Place, 2521 Saint Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/bmorethical/events/258367707/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/766991143677291/
We will order pizza for dinner at a suggested cost of $6 per person. Please RSVP if you would like to eat so we can order enough pizza. You can join the Meetup event, or contact us by email at BmoreCoR@gmail.com, or call us at 443-267-8585.
Childcare
Childcare will be provided on request. Please let us know by February 5 if you will be bringing children and we will arrange for a childcare provider. The lecture will be done by roughly 8:00 pm so reasonable weeknight bedtime is still possible.
Directions and Parking
There is ample parking on Saint Paul St. with additional spaces in the lot directly across the street from the Village Learning Place at 2510 Saint Paul St. Directions are at
https://www.villagelearningplace.org/our-story/directions/
Title: What sharks are teaching us about the evolution of the immune system
Description: The aim of my work is to understand how the highly complex immune system found in humans came into being. Essential to this understanding are our studies on the immune system of sharks and their relatives, the skates, rays, and chimera. As the most evolutionary distant species to have a ‘human-like’ immune system, these provide important comparators. In this talk I’ll describe our work and what we are learning about the evolution of immune protection.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Helen Dooley is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) and serves on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. in Antibody Engineering at the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2001. She is an immunologist and educator, heading a research team studying immune evolution.
Links:
Dr. Helen Dooley’s pages:
http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Dooley-Helen/
https://imet.usmd.edu/directory/helen-dooley
Baltimore Coalition of Reason
http://BaltimoreCoR.org/