Immunology Seminar Series 2023-24

Previous Immunology Seminar Series

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 PDT in LKSC LK130

Recordings may be available up to 7 days post event with SUNet ID log in.

Download Immunology Seminar Series Autumn 2023 Flyer here

September 26, 2023 Christoph A. Thaiss, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, "Body-brain communication: A new frontier in biomedicine"
Faculty host: Michael Howitt, PhD

Due to presentation of unpublished data, recording is not available.
October 3, 2023 Jesse Bloom, PhD, Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Research, "Interpreting the evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
Faculty host: Christopher Barnes, PhD

Due to presentation of unpublished data, recording is not available.
October 10, 2023 James Moon, PhD, J. G. Searle Professor, University of Michigan, "Engineering strategies to modulate the gut microbiome and immune system
Faculty host: Tobias Lanz, MD

Due to presentation of unpublished data, recording is not available.
October 17, 2023 Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD, Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF, "A TCR-induced molecular complex inhibits T cell responses in an acidic environment"
Faculty host: Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD

Recording no longer available.
October 24, 2023 Kai Wucherpfennig, MD, PhD, Professor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, "Immunology Cancer immunotherapies that engage T cells and NK cells"
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD

Recording no longer available.
October 31, 2023 Anne Sperling, PhD, Professor, Medicine: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia
Faculty host: Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD

Recording no longer available.
November 7, 2023 Democracy Day - No Seminar
November 14, 2023 Hernandez Moura Silva, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Decoding immune mediated circuits supporting tissue homeostasis"
Faculty host: Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD
November 21, 2022 Thanksgiving Week - No Seminar
November 28, 2024 Alumni career panel

Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and of Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine at Stanford
Sean Bendall, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology at Stanford
Debopam Ghosh, PhD, Scientist and Project Lead at Dren Bio
Berenice Mbiribindi, MSc, PhD, Principal Scientific Researcher, Translational Oncology Department at Genentech
Cornelia Rinderknecht Eller, PhD, Senior Scientific Researcher at Genentech
Moderator: Betsy Mellins, MD, Professor of Pediatrics - Human Gene Therapy at Stanford

Recording no longer available.
December 5, 2024 Shane Crotty, PhD, Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), "Factors impacting germinal centers and development of B cell memory to vaccines and infections"
Faculty host: Mark Davis, PhD

Recording no longer available.

Download Immunology Seminar Series Winter 2024 Flyer here

January 9, 2024 Abby Overacre, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, "Dietary and microbial factors controlling anti-tumor immunity"
Faculty host: Trung Pham, MD, PhD

No recording available
January 16, 2024 Aaron Ring, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Fred Hutch, "Autoantibodies as alleles"
Faculty host: Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, PhD

Recording no longer available.
January 23, 2024 Marc Jenkins, PhD Regents and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota, "Helper T cell subset diversification for cellular and humoral immune responses"
Faculty host: Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD

Recording no longer available.
January 30, 2024 Daniel Mucida, PhD, Professor of Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology and Head of the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology The Rockefeller University, "Neuro-Immune interactions in the gut"
Faculty host: Michael Howitt, PhD

Recording no longer available.
February 6, 2024 Dequina Nicholas, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, UC Irvine, "Why recognize protein when fats taste so good"
Faculty host: Sean Bendall, PhD

Recording no longer available.
February 13, 2024 Nik Joshi, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale, "Investigating T cell immunobiology using genetically engineered models"
Faculty host: Eric Meffre, PhD

Recording no longer available.
February 20, 2024 Stephen Waggoner, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, "Re-making a murderer: non-canonical contributions of natural killer cells to immunity and disease"
Faculty host: Pras Jagannathan, MD

Recording no longer available.
February 27, 2024 Stefani Spranger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Not all T cell responses are equal: tissue-site matters" in Munzer Auditorium
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD

Recording no longer available.
March 5, 2024 Julie Overbaugh, PhD, Professor, Human Biology and Public Health Sciences Division, Endowed Chair of Graduate Studies, Fred Hutch, "Identification of novel host cell restriction factors that impact HIV replication in CD4+T cells"
Faculty host: Catherine Blish, MD, PhD

Recording no longer available.
March 12, 2024 Michael Birnbaum, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Decoding and reprogramming T cells" in Clark S360
Faculty host: Michael Fischbach, PhD

No recording available.

April 2, 2024 Ai Ing Lim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, "Maternal-offspring immune partnership"
Faculty host: Jennifer Bando, PhD
Due to unpublished data, recording is not available.

April 9, 2024 Amanda Lund, PhD, Assistant Professor, NYU Langone, "Lymphatic transport: regulating the flow of the immune response"
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD
Recording no longer available.

April 16, 2024 Christopher Gardner, PhD, Professor (Research), Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center, ""Cardiometabolic effects of omnivorous vs vegan diets in identical twins: A randomized clinical trial and Netflix top 10"
Recording no longer available.

April 23, 2024 Lieping Chen, MD, PhD, UTC Professor in Cancer Research, Professor of Immunobiology, Medicine (Medical Oncology) & Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine
Faculty host: tbd
Recording no longer available.

April 30, 2024 Ali Ellebedy, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, "Germinal center B cell response to vaccination: Lessons from the pandemic"
Faculty host: Eric Meffre, PhD
Recording no longer available.

May 7, 2024 Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, "Neuroimmune circuits driving allergic immunity"
Faculty host: Hawa Racine Thiam, PhD
Recording no longer available.

May 14, 2024 Colleen Lau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, "Epigenetic control of innate and adaptive immune memory"
Faculty host: Jennifer Bando, PhD
Recording no longer available..

May 21, 2024 Hans Schreiber, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago, "Properties of TCRs that are cancer-specific and therapeutic"
Faculty host: Nate Reticker-Flynn, PhD
Due to unpublished data, recording is not available.

May 28, 2024 Lili Yang, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA, "Advancing cancer immunotherapy through stem cell engineering: Harnessing unconventional T cells for ‘off-the-shelf’ cell therapy"
Faculty host: Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD and Markus Covert, PhD
Recording no longer available.

June 4, 2024 Keke Fairfax, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Utah, "To protect a host: unwinding pathogen modulation of immunity"
Faculty host: Pras Jagannathan, MD, PhD
Recording no longer available.