Stanford Immunology Seminar Series 2026-2027

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 Li Ka Shing Center, LK130.


  • September 29, 2026: Sophia Liu, PhD, Early Independence Fellow and core faculty member at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard, and Associate Faculty at the Broad Institute. "Evolution of adaptive immunity in tissues."

    Faculty host: Zinaida Good, PhD 
  • October 6, 2026: Michela Locci, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Co-Chair IGG Program Admission at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

    Faculty host: Alma Cepika, MD PhD
  • October 13, 2026: Katherine, King, MD PhD, Professor of Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases and Co-Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine. 

    Faculty host: Trung Pham, MD PhD
  • October 20, 2026: Alexander Hoffmann, PhD, Director of the Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, Distinguished Professor and Thomas M. Asher Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA. 

    Faculty host: Mark Davis, PhD
  • October 27, 2026: Caleb Lareau, PhD, Principal Investigator and Assistant Member of the Computational and Systems Biology Program at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

    Faculty host: Theo Roth, MD PhD
  • November 3, 2026: NO CLASS (Democracy Day)
  • November 10, 2026: Daniel Kaplan, MD PhD, Professor of Dermatology and Immunology and Director of the Cutaneous Biology Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. 

    Faculty host: Alma Cepika, PhD
  • November 17, 2026: NO CLASS (Week after retreat)
  • November 24, 2026: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Recess)
  • December 1, 2026: NO CLASS (Week of Holiday Party)
  • November 30 - December 6: Dead Week
  • December 7 - 11: Finals Week