Seminars & Lectures
Looking for a seminar related to immunology? Here's your gateway to what's happening when.
Blumenthal Lectureship Series
The Center for Immunology presents outstanding speakers in the field of allergy and immunology.
MICAB Kickoff and Poster Session
MICaB Kickoff is a yearly luncheon sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in which faculty and graduate students come together to welcome new graduate students and new faculty members. The luncheon also includes a poster session that highlights the work of current graduate students in the program.
Tea Time
Come and enjoy Tea, Coffee,Treats and Immunology Talk in an informal setting.
Every Monday and Thursday
2:30 p.m. 2-163 WMBB
Immunology Journal Club and Super Group
- Immunology Journal Club- is a weekly gathering of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to evaluate recent immunological articles with an interactive discussion. To view presenter schedule and links for papers click here
Every Monday at 10:30 a.m. in
2-115 CCRB. - Immunology Super Group- is a weekly meeting in which graduate students and postdocs from CFI laboratories present their research work in progress to the entire CFI community.
Every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in
1-125 CCRB
Immunology related seminars
- BMBB Seminars
- BMT Conference Schedule
- Cancer Biology Research Club
- Infection and Immunity Research Conference (formerly "CIDMTR" conference)
- Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation Seminar Calendar
- Larson Lectureship Series
- Masonic Cancer Center Seminar Series
- MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar Series
- Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology & Genetics Student Seminar
- MICaB Student Seminar Series
- Stem Cell Institute Weekly Research Conference
- Department of Surgery Events Calendar
To schedule time with a speaker, please contact his or her host.
2018-2019 Immunology MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar
12:00–1:15 p.m., locations listed with session
Jointly sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Center for Immunology.
These are the immunology-focused sessions; the full seminar schedule is posted by the Microbiology Immunology and Cancer Biology program (MICaB).
September 10: 1-125 CCRB
Todd Brusko, PhD
“Heterogeneity in Type 1 Diabetes; Lessons from Pancreatic Organ Donors”
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
Host: Brian Fife (612) 624-2417
September 24: 1-125 CCRB
Andrea Schietinger, PhD
"Molecular programs defining tumor-specific T cell differentiation and dysfunction"
Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Host: Steve Jameson (612) 625-1496
October 8: 1-125 CCRB
Ananda Goldrath, PhD
"Making and maintaining T cell immunity"
Molecular Biology Section in the Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, CA
Host: Steve Jameson (612) 625-1496
October 22: 1-125 CCRB
John Harty, PhD
"Immunity to Liver-Stage Malaria"
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Host: Marc Jenkins (612) 626-2715
November 5: 1-125 CCRB
Megan Levings, PhD
"Engineering Tregs for tolerance induction"
Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia
Host: Brian Fife (612) 624-2417
Sponsored in part by 
November 26: 1-125 CCRB
Andy Luster, MD, PhD
"Chemokines in checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy and Treg function"
Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases and Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Host: Vaiva Vezys (612) 625-4650
December 10: 1-125 CCRB
Martin Prlic, PhD
"A Single-Cell Analysis Pipeline to Define Immune Responses in Human Mucosal Tissues"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA
Host: Steve Jameson (612) 625-1496
February 4: 1-125 CCRB
Carla Rothlin, PhD
"Resolution of Inflammation"
Department of Immunobiology and of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Host: Bryce Binstadt (612) 626-4598
Sponsored in part by
February 18: 1-125 CCRB
David Underhill, PhD
"Commensal Fungi in Intestinal Inflammation"
Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA
Host: Tanya Freedman (612) 301-8313
March 4: 1-125 CCRB
Maria Bettini, PhD
"Finding self: TCR determinants of tolerance and autoimmunity”
Department of Pediatrics-Diabetes and Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX
Host: Bryce Binstadt (612) 626-4598
Sponsored in part by
March 25: 1-125 CCRB
Hubert Tse, PhD
"Oxidative Stress, Antiviral Responses in Type 1 Diabetes and Islet Transplantation"
Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Host: Brian Fife (612) 624-2417
April 8: 1-125 CCRB
Julie Magarian Blander, PhD
"Pathways of antigen cross-presentation"
Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY
Host: Kris Hogquist (612) 625-1616
Sponsored in part by
April 22: 1-125 CCRB
Hongbo Chi, PhD
"Systems Immunology and mTORC1 signaling in metabolic control of adaptive immunity"
Department of Immunology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Host: Bruce Blazer (612) 626-2734
May 6: 1-125 CCRB
Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, IL
Host: Immunology Student Invited Speaker
Sponsored in part by