Seminars

Benaroya Research Institute offers a variety of scientific seminars for the research and medical community. Please call 206-583-6525 for more information.

Dermot McGovern, MD, PhD, FRCP

Director, Translational Medicine, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Immunobiology Research Institute
Joshua L. and Lisa Z. Greer Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Genes, Genes Everywhere!

Tuesday, May 1
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Room: BRI Auditorium

The advent of genome-wide association scans has lead to very rapid advances in the identification of genetic loci associated with various traits and nowhere has this been more successful than in the inflammatory bowel diseases. More than 100 susceptibility loci have now been identified allowing considerable insight into disease pathogenesis including highlighting the role of autophagy and the Th17/IL23 pathway. In addition to 'gene' discovery in both caucasian and non-caucasian populations we are interested in working out the functional consequences of these genes and how understanding genetic variation may be translated through to clinical practice. Finally, we are interested in the interaction between host genetic variation and microbiomal composition.

Hosted by Dr. James Lord