New series and talks issued in The Biomedical and Life Sciences Collection of Henry Stewart talks.
Innate Immunity: Host recognition and response in health and disease
New talks added:
1. Phagocytosis in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
Dr. Lynda Stuart – Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
2. Macrophages and systems biology
Prof. David Hume – The Roslin Institute, UK
3. Leukocyte recruitment in vivo
Prof. Paul Kubes – Snyder Institute, University of Calgary Medical Centre, Canada
4. Chemokines and inflammation: a critical assessment of therapeutic targets
Dr. David Greaves – University of Oxford, UK
5. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: sensing nucleic acids in viral infection and autoimmunity
Prof. Yong-Jun Liu – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
6. Fc receptors: linking innate and acquired immunity
Prof. Ken Smith – Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK
7. Antigen processing and presentation: modulation by innate immune signals
Prof. Colin Watts – College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK
8. Cationic peptides in innate immunity
Dr. Dawn Bowdish – McMaster University, Canada
9. Innate recognition of viruses
Prof. Caetano Reis e Sousa – Cancer Research, London Research Institute, UK
10. Type I interferons in innate immunity to viral infections
Prof. Christine Biron – Brown University, USA
11. Manipulation of innate immune response: lessons from shigella
Prof. Philippe Sansonetti – The Pasteur Institute and INSERM, France
12. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Prof. David Russell – College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, USA
13. Innate immunity and malaria
Prof. Douglas Golenbock – University of Massachusetts, USA
14. NOD-like receptors in innate immunity and inflammatory disease
Prof. Gabriel Nunez – University of Michigan Medical School, USA
15. Innate immunity in the brain in health and disease
Prof. V. Hugh Perry – School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
16. The fate of monocytes in atherosclerosis
Prof. Gwendolyn Randolph – Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Cancer Therapy: Latest thinking in efficacy and toxicity
New talks added:
1. Cytotoxic chemotherapy
Dr. Michael Sawyer – University of Alberta, Canada
2. Small molecule inhibitors of receptor tyrosine kinases
Dr. Daniela Krause – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
3. Emerging trends in phase II trial design
Dr. Patricia Tang – Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Canada
The Cell Division Cycle: Controlling when and where cells divide and differentiate
New talks added:
1. Regulation of replication fork progression and stability
Dr. Luis Aragón – Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, UK
2. Drug discovery and target validation in the p53 pathway
Prof. Sir David Lane – University of Dundee, UK and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Pain and the Control of Pain: Pain transmission, regulation and management
New talks added:
1. Neuropathic pain: presentation, mechanisms and management
Dr. Chris Wells – Pain Relief Foundation, Liverpool, UK
2. Pain in children
Prof. Patricia McGrath – The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada
Microarrays: Their design and use
New talk added:
1. Cancer systems biology: dissection and analysis of context-specific molecular interaction networks
Prof. Andrea Califano – Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Red book online has now been updated to the 2009 edition, including new and updated chapters and over 200 additional images added to the Visual Library.
