SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Speaker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Emanuela I Sega, Janet Kalesnikoff, Mareike Florek, Stephen J. Galli, and Robert S. Negrin. Mast Cells Reduce GVHD Severity In Allogeneic Transplantation by Reducing the Proliferation of Conventional T Cells. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov, 2010; in press.
Adrianne E. Vasey, Jeanette B. Baker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, and Robert S. Negrin, MD. Similarities in the Initial Events of Murine GVHD Development in a Minor, as Compared to a Major, Mismatch Model of Transplantation. (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov, 2010; in press.
Emanuela I. Sega, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Vu H. Nguyen and Robert S. Negrin. Ex-vivo expanded and freshly isolated CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells suppress murine acute GVHD with different potency. ASBMT 2010 BMT Tandem Meetings. Abstract #24.
Invited Speaker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Janelle Olson, Emanuela I Sega, Jeanette Baker, Robert Zeiser, and Robert Negrin. GVHD Severity Is Regulated by the Adoptive Transfer Low Numbers of NKT Cells by a Mechanism Distinct From CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2009; 114: 229
Ho-Jin Shin, Jeanette Baker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Emanuela I Sega, and Robert Negrin. Rapamycin and IL-2 Prevents Lethal Acute Graft-Versus Host Disease by Expansion of Donor Type CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2009; 114: 1334.
Invited Speaker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Janelle A Olson, Emanuela I Sega, Jeanette Baker, Robert Zeiser, and Robert Negrin. Adoptive transfer of NKT cells reduces GVHD severity via an IFN-g and IL-4 dependent mechanism. ASBMT 2009 BMT Tandem Meetings. Abstract #28
Invited Speaker, Dennis B Leveson-Gower “Visualizing Immune Cells in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation” Small Animal Imaging Workshop at Stanford University, November, 2008.
Janelle A Olson, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Jeanette Baker, Andreas Beilhack, and Robert Negrin. NK Cells Suppress GVHD by Directly Inhibiting Activated Alloreactive T Cells through An NKG2D-Mediated Mechanism. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2008; 112: 61.
Emanuela I Sega, Dennis B Leveson-Gower, Vu H. Nguyen, and Robert Negrin. Functional Comparison of Freshly Isolated and Ex-Vivo Expanded CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells in Suppressing Murine Acute GVHD. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2008; 112: 812.
Robert Zeiser, Elizabeth A. Zambricki, Dennis B. Leveson-Gower, Andreas Beilhack, Neeraja Kambham, and Robert S. Negrin. Differential Impact of Host Derived Interleukin-18 on Regulatory and Conventional T Cell Expansion Following Murine Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 3262.
Invited Speaker, Dennis B. Leveson-Gower, Janelle A. Olson, Jeanette Baker, Robert Zeiser, Andreas Beilhack, and Robert Negrin. NKT Cells Are Potent Regulators of GVHD Following Adoptive Transfer in Allogeneic BMT. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 353.
Janelle A. Olson, Dennis B. Leveson-Gower, Andreas Beilhack, and Robert S. Negrin. NK Cells Induce Alloreactive Donor T Cell Apoptosis and Decrease Proliferation in GVHD Induction. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 2162.
Invited Speaker, Robert Zeiser, Dennis B. Leveson-Gower, Elizabeth A. Zambricki, Jing-Zhou Hou, and Robert Negrin. Impact of mTOR Inhibition on FoxP3+ Regulatory T Cells as Compared to Conventional T Cells after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2006; 108: 448.
Andreas Beilhack, Robert Zeiser, Stephan Schulz, Janelle A. Olson, Ryosei Nishimura, Dennis B. Leveson-Gower, and Robert S. Negrin. Predictive Markers for Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease in the Peripheral Blood - Surface Receptor Profile Defines Alloreactive T Cells In Vivo. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2006; 108: 622.
Dennis Leveson-Gower and Victor Ling.
Identifying Interactions Between Half ABC Transporters Using an IN VIVO Method. Poster at the: British Columbia Cancer Agency Annual Cancer Conference 2003
Invited Speaker, Dennis Leveson-Gower and Victor Ling.
An In Vivo approach for Identifying Partners of Half ABC Transporters. Short Talk at the: 4th FEBS Advanced Lecture Course. ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Proteins:
From Multidrug Resistance to Genetic Disease. Gosau, Austria, 2003, page 90