Current Seminars

Fall seminars will be held every Wednesday at 1:00 pm in 283 EMRB - See below unless otherwise specified.

Fall 2026 Schedule (PDF)

Date	Speaker Name
2-Sep	Adam Mailloux, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa Seminar Title: Hypoxia Induces a State of Immunogenic Dormancy in Cancer Cells
9-Sep	Nick Lukacs, PhD Stobbe Professor of Pathology, Director, Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center University of Michigan Seminar Title: Early life viral infection alters innate immunity and Lung disease Host: Kevin Legge & Jennifer Bermick Co-sponsor: Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine
16-Sep	TBD
23-Sep	Michal Kidacki, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology University of Iowa
30-Sep	TBD
7-Oct MERF 2117	Rich DiPaolo, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Saint Louis University School of Medicine Seminar Title: Engineering Immune Tolerance Through Precision Cytokine Signaling Host: Kevin Legge Co-sponsor: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
14-Oct	Weiguo Cui, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology Northwestern University Seminar Title: Transcriptional regulation of T cell exhaustion Host: Vlad Badovinac Co-sponsor: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
21-Oct	Andrew Monteith, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology University of Tennessee – Knoxville Seminar Title: Fueling the Fire: Metabolic Stress Rewires Neutrophil Defense During Infection Host: Aimee Potter Co-sponsors: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
28-Oct	Catherine A. Blish, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine Seminar Title: NK cell regulation of antibody responses Host: Amanda Dudek Co-sponsors: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4-Nov	Bing Li, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology University of Iowa
11-Nov	Noah Butler, PhD Roy J. Carver Chair in Biosciences Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics University of Iowa Seminar Title: Cellular metabolism shapes immunity against malaria
18-Nov	IDGP-Immno Academic Careers Job Search Panel Host: Kevin Legge
25-Nov	No Seminar - Fall Break
2-Dec	Daniel Hawiger, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Saint Louis University Seminar Title: Igniters and Accelerants: Concerted functions of dendritic cells and stem like T cells Host: Ashutosh Mangalam Co-sponsor: Department of Pathology
9-Dec	Ryan Zander, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa Seminar Title: Molecular Regulation of Effector versus Exhausted CD8 T cell bifurcation
16-Dec	Mary Wilson, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology University of Iowa
20-Jan	TBD
27-Jan	Mark Anderson, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology University of California San Francisco Host: Priya Issuree Co-sponsor: Inflammation Program
3-Feb	Philip Mudd, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Wash U St. Louis Host: Karen Cyndari Co-sponsor: Emergency Medicine
10-Feb	Dario Vignali, PhD Professor, Department of Immunology University of Pittsburgh Host: Markus Kuehn Co-sponsor: HCCC
17-Feb	Timothy Hand, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Immunology University of Pittsburg Host: Shailesh Shaji Co-sponsor: Inflammation Program
24-Feb	Matthew Vesely, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology Yale University Host: Christina Cho Co-sponsor: Department of Dermatology
3-Mar	Howard Xue, MD, PhD Professor, Center for Discovery and Innovation Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Host: Vlad Badovinac Co-sponsor: Micro & Center for Immunology
10-Mar	Kevin Legge, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology University of Iowa
17-Mar	Spring Break
24-Mar	Center for Immuno pilot awards Host: Josalyn Cho
31-Mar	Michael Silverman, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Infections Disease University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Host: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Co-sponsor: FOEDRC and the Center for Immunology
7-Apr	IDGP-Immuno Industry Careers Panel Host: Kevin Legge
14-Apr	Mary Beth Humphery, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Medicine University of Oklahoma Host: Karen Cyndari & Mitchell Coleman Co-sponsor: SSCI, Orthopedics, Immunology
21-Apr	Alexander Hoffmann, PhD Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics University of California, LA (UCLA) Host: Ify Ezeilo Co-sponsor: Center for Immunology
28-Apr	TBD
5-May	TBD
12-May	TBD

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