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 | BioLegend | |
| 3/25/2019 | Hubert Tse, PhD | Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama-Birmingham | |||
| 4/8/2019 | Julie Magarian Blander, PhD | Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine , Cornell University , New York , NY | Kris Hogquist | BioLegend | |
| 4/22/2019 | Hongbo Chi, PhD | Department of Immunology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN | Bruce Blazar | ||
| 5/6/2019 | Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD | Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, IL | Immunology Student Invited Speaker | BioLegend |
The Center for Immunology would like to thank the following sponsors for their support and participation in this year's seminars.
