Seminars & Events
Nationally and internationally recognized speakers present research seminars to the Stanford Immunology community. Graduate students participate in extending invitations to speakers and in hosting speakers. It also functions as a class called IMMUNOL 311.
Seminars are on Tuesdays at 4:30 - 5:30 PM PST in:
Autumn: Li Ka Shing Center, LK130
Winter: Alway Building, M106
Spring: Li Ka Shing Center, LK130
Recordings may be available with SUNet ID log in.
- January 6, 2026 E. John Wherry, PhD, Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor at University of Pennsylvania, "Molecular mechanisms of CD8 T-cell exhaustion"
Faculty host: Theo Roth, MD, PhD
View recording - available until March 20, 2026 - January 13, 2026 Judith Agudo, PhD, Associate Professor Cancer Immunology and Virology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "The dark side of cancer immune evasion, and how the Jedi shed light one cell at a time"
Faculty host: Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, PhD
No recording available - January 20, 2026 Richard Flavell, PhD, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University, "Immune sensing of cancer"
Faculty host: Eric Meffre, PhD
No recording available - January 27, 2026 Jason M. Schenkel, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, Division of Pathology/Lab Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, "Winding back the clock OR defining leukocyte dynamics in cancer and inflammation"
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD - February 3, 2026 Michel DuPage, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis at UC Berkeley, "Rethinking bacteria as an anticancer agent"
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD - February 10, 2026 CANCELLED: John Tsang, PhD, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Immunobiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University
Faculty host: Holden Maecker, PhD
- February 17, 2026 James Gardner, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplant Surgery at UCSF, "The emerging identity and role of RORgt-lineage antigen presenting cells"
Faculty host: Glaivy Batsuli, MD
- February 24, 2026 Montserrat C. Anguera, PhD, Associate Professor of Epigenetics in the department of Biomedical Sciences at University of Pennsylvania, "Understanding the female bias of lupus: mechanisms of X-chromosome inactivation in immune cells"
Faculty host: Jinwoo Lee, MD, PhD - March 3, 2026 Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor, Chair, Department of Immunology and Vice Director, Gene Lay Institute at Harvard University
Faculty host: Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD
- March 10, 2026 Alex Shalek, PhD Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and the Department of Chemistry at MIT, "Identifying & Counteracting The Impact Of Environment Stress On Tissue Dysfunction"
Faculty host: Guolan Lu, PhD