His lecture, titled "Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Innate Immunity During Infection," will take place March 24, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA's main campus.
Dr. Mizgerd's research focuses on several special areas including acute lower respiratory tract infection, cytokines, innate immunity, neutrophil recruitment and activation, pneumonia, and transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
He received a B.A. from Amherst College and a Sc.D. in physiology and cell biology from Harvard School of Public Health, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pulmonary pathophysiology.
For more information on Dr. Mizgerd's research, visit http://www.bumc.bu.edu/pulmonary/people/faculty/josephmizgerd/
For additional information on the lecture, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.
