2023 - 2024 Seminars | Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology - Graduate College

Date	Presenter
3/27/2024	Martin Prlic, PhD Associate Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Affiliate Associate Professor, Immunology University of Washington Seminar Title: "T Cell function in healthy and inflamed human tissue"
3/19/2024	Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD Department of Microbiology and Director of the Global health and Emerging Pathogens Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York Seminar Title: "Role of ORF6 of SARS-CoV-2 as an interferon antagonist"
3/6/2024	Scott Canna, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Attending Physician in the Division of Rheumatology and Immune Dysregulation Program Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Seminar Title; "Untangling Immunopathology through timbromania"
2/28/2024	Matthew Bettini, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of Utah Seminar Title: Thymic development of a self-tolerant T-cell repertoire"
2/20/2024	Vera Tarkanova, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Medical College of Wisconsin Seminar Title: "The gammaherpesvirus-host love/hate relationship"
02/7/2024	Nitin Karandikar, MD, PhD Professor of Pathology, Chair and Department Executive Officer, Pathology, Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology University of Iowa Seminar Title: "Effector-Regulator interactions during Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease"
1/24/2024	Josalyn Cho, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine University of Iowa Seminar Title: "Pathogenic Th2 Cellis in Allergic Asthma"
01/17/2024	Michael Gale, PhD, Professor, Immunology, Microbiology & Global Health, Member of FHCRC/UW, Cancer Consortium: Affiliate Investigator, Clinical Research Div & Virus and Infectious Disease Div, FHCRC: Director, Center for Innate Immunity & Immune Disease University of Washington Seminar Title: " Innate Immunity in RNA Virus Infection"
12/6/2023	Marc Jenkins, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota "A cytokine-driven ensures simultaneous production of helper T cells for cellular and humoral immunity"
11/15/2023	Vladimir Badovinac, PhD, Professor Department of Pathology University of Iowa "Sepsis-induced alterations in T cell immunity"
11/8/2023	Julia Klesney-Tait, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Internal Medicine University of Iowa "Role of TREM-1 in allergic airway inflammation"
11/1/2023	Miles Pufall, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Immunology University of Iowa "How glucocorticoids kills B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemi cells"
10/25/2023	Markus Kuehn, PhD, Professor Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences University of Iowa "Contribution of adaptive immune responses to neurodegeneration in glaucoma"
10/18/2023	Tracey Lamb, PhD, Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Utah School of Medicine "innate immune mechanisms mediating asymptomatic Malaria"
10/11/2023	Ai Ling Lim, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University "Maternal Infection-driven immune education"
10/4/2023	Sokol Haxhinasto, PhD, Director of Immunology and Inflammation Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
9/27/2023	Balaji Manicassamy, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa "Regulation of Cell Intrinsic Immunity During Respiratory Viral Infections"
9/13/2023	Daniella Schwartz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology University of Pittsburgh "Human-Centered Approaches Uncover Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of IL-9 Inflammatory Diseases"