2018-2019 Immunology Invited Speakers
Each year the Center for Immunology invites outstanding speakers to present their work in immunology. The seminar series is a wonderful opportunity for all members of the Center for Immunology and the University to have a chance to meet and discuss science with other members of the science community from around the globe.
2018-2019 Immunology Invited MICaB Seminar Series
Fall 2018 | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Talk | Sponsored in part by: |
9/10/2018 | Todd Brusko, PhD | Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL | Brian Fife | Heterogeneity in Type 1 Diabetes; Lessons from Pancreatic Organ Donors | |
9/24/2018 | Andrea Schietinger, PhD | Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY | Steve Jameson | Molecular programs defining tumor-specific T cell differentiation and dysfunction | |
10/8/2018 | Ananda Goldrath, PhD | Molecular Biology Section in the Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, CA | Steve Jameson | Making and maintaining T cell immunity | |
10/22/2018 | John Harty, PhD | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA | Marc Jenkins | Immunity to Liver-Stage Malaria | |
11/5/2018 | Megan Levings, PhD | Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia | Brian Fife | Engineering Tregs for tolerance induction | BioLegend |
11/26/2018 | Andy Luster, MD, PhD | Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases and Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA | Vaiva Vezys | Chemokines in checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy and Treg function | |
12/10/2018 | Martin Prlic, PhD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Steve Jameson | A Single-Cell Analysis Pipeline to Define Immune Responses in Human Mucosal Tissues | |
Spring 2019 | |||||
2/4/2019 | Carla Rothlin, PhD | Department of Immunobiology and of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT | Bryce Binstadt | Resolution of inflammation | BioLegend |
2/18/2019 | David Underhill, PhD | Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA | Tanya Freedman | Commensal Fungi in Intestinal Inflammation | |
3/4/2019 | Maria Bettini, PhD | Department of Pediatrics-Diabetes and Endocrinology, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | Bryce Binstadt | Finding self: TCR determinants of tolerance and autoimmunity | BioLegend |
3/25/2019 | Hubert Tse, PhD | Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham | Brian Fife | Oxidative Stress, Antiviral Responses in Type 1 Diabetes and Islet Transplantation | |
4/8/2019 | Julie Magarian Blander, PhD | Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine , Cornell University , New York , NY | Kris Hogquist | Pathways of antigen cross-presentation | BioLegend |
4/22/2019 | Hongbo Chi, PhD | Department of Immunology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN | Bruce Blazar | Systems immunology and mTORC1 signaling in metabolic control of adaptive immunity | |
5/6/2019 | Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD | Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, IL | Immunology Student Invited Speaker | BioLegend |