Monday, May 9, 2011

The Immunological Slot Machine: How Your Body Builds Defenses By Remodeling its Genes

FREE May 10 at 7:00-8:30pm at the Abingdon Library, 2510 S. Tollgate Road, Bel Air, MD 21015

Presented by Dr. Stephen Desiderio, Director of the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Desiderio will discuss how development of the immune system is like playing a slot machine: genes are shuffled and remodeled to allow immune cells to recognize an enormous number of pathogens, just as the registers of a one-armed bandit can be aligned in many different combinations. Read more...

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