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Securing your Zoom meeting

As a result of the increased use of Zoom meetings globally, they have become a target for meeting hijackers. Read about how to Secure Your Zoom Meeting before it occurs, while you are meeting, and after it is over. You can also watch a short demonstration of In-Meeting Tools to Secure your Zoom Meetings.

Congratulations!!

Dr. Harry Orr earned the 2020 Carole J. Bland Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. The award honors faculty who serve as role models for each other, promote the professional development of others and creates a supportive, positive working environment.  Bland was a long-time faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.  The full announcement is here.

Congratulations to Oscar Salgado Barrero!! Oscar was named one of the UMN 2020-2021 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows!! The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished PhD candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year. Oscar will continue his work on "Understanding mechanisms of immune tolerance" in the Hogquist lab.

Drs. Xavier Revelo and Haiguang Wang have been awarded an American Association of Immunologists 2020 Careers in Immunology Fellowship. The AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship Program supports the career development of young scientists by providing eligible PIs with one year of salary support for a trainee in their lab.  Postdoctoral trainee, Dr. Wang will receive salary support for his work in the Revelo lab beginning in August. Congratulations to both Drs. Revelo and Wang. For more information on the work being done in Dr. Revelo's lab click here.  We would also like to welcome Haiguang back to Minnesota! He originally trained in Kris Hogquist's lab before doing his first post doc in Dario Vignali's lab at the University of Pittsburgh, PA.

CFI would like to Congratulate Dr. David Masopust and Dr. Ryan Langlois on their recent awards and honors.  Dr. David Masopust, was named as one of the 2020 Distinguished McKnight University Professors. The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who have recently achieved full professor status, especially those who have made significant advances in their careers at the University of Minnesota, whose work and reputation are identified with the University, and whose accomplishments have brought renown and prestige to Minnesota and to their scholarly fields. Dr. Ryan Langlois has been named a 2020 McKnight Presidential Fellow. The McKnight Presidential Fellows Program is a three-year award given to exceptional faculty who have just achieved tenure and promotion to associate professor, to recognize their accomplishments and support their ongoing research and scholarship.  It recognizes recipients who are recommended by their college dean and chosen at the discretion of the executive vice president and provost based on excellence in research and scholarship, leadership, potential to build top-tier programs, and ability to advance University of Minnesota priorities.

Ben Brian is the winner of 2 Medical school awards, he won the 2020 the Veneziale-Steer Award, which recognizes outstanding basic scientific research by a graduate student or a medical student in the field of cellular growth regulation.  Ben also was one of the recipients of the  2020 J. Jacob Kaplan award for his work in immunology in diagnosis and treatment of cancer .  This award is presented annually for the most meritorious student papers on either clinical or basic medical research. The awards are intended to encourage and recognize scholarly achievement in medical research by young investigators at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Ben is a Pharmacology Graduate Student in the lab of Tanya Freedman. 

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Krueger, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Marc Jenkins lab and Dr. April Huseby Kelcher, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Marco Pravetoni's lab.  Peter and April have been named to the tenth class of Public Policy Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists!   The program engages postdoctoral fellows in public policy and legislative activities of AAI that impact biomedical research. Congratulations to both of you!!

Dr. Rachel Johnson earned the 2020 UMN Morris Alumni Association Teaching Award! The University of Minnesota, Morris Alumni Association established the UMMAA Teaching Award to honor individual faculty members for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Johnson, an Immunologist, stands out among peers for her commitment to undergraduate teaching and learning.

CFI would also like to recognize and congratulate our colleague and former @CFI_UMN member Lalit Beura, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology @BrownUniversity. He was chosen to be a 2020 Searle Scholar for his adaptation of resident memory CD8 T lymphocytes in the reproductive mucosa.  The Searle Scholar program is a career development award made annually to 15 US faculty in the first or second year of their first tenure-track assistant professor position in biomedical research, medicine, chemistry, and the biological sciences. The award recognizes faculty who are considered most promising and have made "important, innovative research" contributions and who have the potential for making continuing significant contributions.

Congratulations to all the recipients!! 

AAI bestows their highest honor the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Marc Jenkins

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) has bestowed their highest honor on Dr. Marc Jenkins.  The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a deserving AAI member for a career of scientific achievement and for contributions to AAI and fellow immunologists and to the field of immunology.   For more information on all of Dr. Jenkins's achievements go here.  CFI would like to extend our congratulations and thank Dr. Jenkins for his guidance and leadership as well as the inspiration he inspires as a teacher, mentor, and scientist to those not only at our University but worldwide.

The Center for Immunology proudly hosted its first-ever Alumni Celebration

On Thursday, April 18, 2019, the Center for Immunology hosted its first Alumni Celebration. The event welcomed over 100 current faculty and students, alumni, professors and more. We were especially happy to welcome Drs. David Brown, Gus Dalmasso, Paul Quie and John Crosson who made special trips to campus just for the occasion of the reunion. At the event, the Robert A. Good Door was presented (see photos) and will be hung at the Center for Immunology.  Drs. Marc Jenkins and Matt Mescher also announced the creation of a new fund to enhance the student experience within the Center. The Mescher Trainee Enhancement fund, an endowed fund, will live in perpetuity at the University of Minnesota and will be available to the Center for Immunology's students. The fund will help with costs like conference registration and travel, equipment and technology, emergency needs and other expenses which can make all the difference in training the next generation of scientists.  To date, $60,000 has been raised with a goal of $100,000. If you were interested in making a gift, and have not done so yet - or were unable to attend the event but still want to support the CFI while honoring Dr. Mescher -visit the fund here. You may also contact Sarah Barsness at the University of Minnesota Foundation if you'd like to make a gift using your IRA, estate plans, donor-advised fund, or other means of charitable giving. Sarah's contact information is 612-625-5976 or sbarsnes@umn.edu. Please click here to see all the great pictures taken

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