Stanford Immunology Seminar Series 2019-2020
** The Stanford Immunology Seminars Series is postponed through May 26, 2020 (Spring Quarter). **
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. The seminar is free and open to the public. It also functions as a class called IMMUNOL 311.
Tuesdays at 4:30 - 5:30 pm
in Li Ka Shing Center Room 130
Download the Immunology Seminar Series 2019-2020 Flyer here
Immunology Seminar Series 2019-2020 Photos
Katrin Andreasson, MD and Shane Liddelow, PhD
Pamela Bjorkman, PhD
Alice Bertaina, PhD and Stanford Gradudates/Postdocs
Lingyin Li, PhD and Dan Stetson, PhD
John Boothroyd, PhD and Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
Rosa Bacchetta, MD amd Michel DuPage, PhD
Crystal Mackall, MD and Nicholas Restifo, MD
Rachel Gerstein, PhD and Leonore Herzenberg, D.Sc
Irving Weissman, MD and Beth Stevens, PhD
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD and Katrin Andreasson, MD
Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD, Lucy Godley, MD, PhD, and Sidd Jaiswal, MD
Stanley Qi, PhD, Kole Roybal, PhD, and Jennifer Cochran, PhD
Juliana Idoyaga, PhD and Carl Nathan, MD
Ed Engleman, MD and Lawrence Fong, MD
AUTUMN QUARTER 2019:
Sep September 24 Tue 2019
Shane Liddelow, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Langone
What do reactive astrocytes (really) do?
Faculty host: Katrin Andreasson, MD
Oct October 01 Tue 2019
Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Stanford University
Single-cell genomics in cancer immunotherapy
Oct October 08 Tue 2019
Pamela Bjorkman, PhD
David Baltimore Professor of Biology, Caltech
A Molecular Arms Race: HIV versus the Immune
Faculty host: Peter Kim, PhD
Oct October 15 Tue 2019
Diana Bautista, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Neuroimmune interactions in itch and pain
Faculty host: David Lewis, MD
Oct October 22 Tue 2019
CANCELLED
Oct October 29 Tue 2019
Alice Bertaina, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University
Alpha/beta T-cell depleted haploidentical stem cell transplant in children: a new platform for immunotherapy
Nov November 05 Tue 2019
Dan Stetson, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology, University of Washington
Nucleic acid detection in host defense and autoimmunity
Faculty host: Lingyin Li, PhD
Nov November 12 Tue 2019
Joanne Engel, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, UCSF
The secret life of an intracellular pathogen
Faculty host: John Boothroyd, PhD
Nov November 19 Tue 2019
Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University
Human FOXP3 gene: from bed to bench-side...and back
WINTER QUARTER 2020:
Jan January 07 Tue 2020
Lawrence Fong, MD
Leader, Cancer Immunotherapy Program, Co-Leader, Cancer Immunology Program, UCSF
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Efim Guzik Distinguished Professor in Cancer Biology, UCSF
Mechanisms of resistant to cancer immunotherapy
Faculty host: Ed Engleman, MD
Jan January 14 Tue 2020
Michel DuPage, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis, UC Berkeley
Engineering precision cancer immunotherapy
Faculty host: Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Jan January 21 Tue 2020
Nicholas Restifo, MD
Executive Vice President for Research, Lyell Immunopharma, Inc.
Please don't kill me: how tumors actively and rapidly defend themselves from attack by T cells
Faculty host: Crystal Mackall, MD
Jan January 28 Tue 2020
Rachel Gerstein, PhD
Associate Professor University of Massachusetts Medical School
The Herzenberg Principle(s): Single cell analysis and antibodies from tools to therapies
Faculty host: Leonore Herzenberg, D.Sc
Feb February 04 Tue 2020
Beth Stevens, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology, HHMI Investigator, Harvard Medical School
Redefining microglia states in development and disease
Faculty host: Irving Weissman, MD
Feb February 11 Tue 2020
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Immune Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
Faculty host: Katrin Andreasson, MD
Feb February 18 Tue 2020
Lucy Godley, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology / Oncology University of Chicago Department of Medicine
How germline and somatic mutations regulate hematopoiesis through inflammation
Faculty host: Sidd Jaiswal, MD
Feb February 25 Tue 2020
Kole Roybal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF
Synthetic biology approaches to enhance engineered immune cell therapies for cancer
Faculty host: Jennifer Cochran, PhD
Mar March 03 Tue 2020
Carl Nathan, MD
R. A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology
Chairman, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Why the immune system needs us
Faculty host: Juliana Idoyaga, PhD
Due to the COVID-19 circumstance, the Stanford Immunology Seminar Series is postponed through Spring 2020.
SPRING QUARTER 2020:
Mar March 24 Tue 2020
Christophe Benoist, MD, PhD
Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology, Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Faculty host: Christopher Garcia, PhD
Mar March 31 Tue 2020
Marco Colonna, MD
Robert Rock Belliveau MD Professor of Pathology, WUSTL
Faculty host: Aida Habtezion, MD, MSc
Apr April 07 Tue 2020
Dan Kaplan, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Dermatology, and Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Cutaneous sensory afferents modulate innate immune responses
Faculty host: Juliana Idoyaga, PhD
Apr April 14 Tue 2020
Dana Pe'er, PhD
Chair, Computational and Systems Biology Program, SKI; Scientific Director, Metastasis & Tumor Ecosystems Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
A single cell lens into the dynamics of disease (tentative)
Faculty host: Parag Mallick, PhD
Apr April 21 Tue 2020
John Kuriyan, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, UC Berkeley
Mutational sensitivity of nucleotide-dependent switches and machines
Faculty host: Christopher Garcia, PhD
Apr April 28 Tue 2020
Andrea Schietinger, PhD
Assistant Member, Immunology Program, SKI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
T cell differentiation and dysfunction in tumors
Faculty host: Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
May May 05 Tue 2020
Brian D. Brown, PhD
Professor, Genetics & Genomic Sciences
Associate Director, Precision Immunology Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Faculty host: Michael Angelo, MD, PhD
May May 12 Tue 2020
Egle Cekanaviciute, PhD
Scientist, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Space Biosciences Research Branch of NASA Ames Research Center
Neuroimmune responses to space radiation
Faculty host: Marion Buckwalter, MD, PhD
May May 19 Tue 2020
Alex K. Shalek, PhD
Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor
Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Chemistry, and Koch Institute, MIT
Identifying and rationally modulating cellular drivers of enhanced immunity
Faculty host: Catherine Blish, MD, PhD
May May 26 Tue 2020
Katherine King, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Disease, Baylor College of Medicine
Effects of infection and inflammation on hematopoietic stem cells
Faculty host: Sidd Jaiswal, MD, PhD