Excellence in Immunology Seminar Series

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Excellence in Immunology Lecture Series

ND5.218

Wednesday, 12:00 PM

2024-2025 Schedule

DateSpeakerTitleHost

9/18/2024

Golnaz Vahedi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Genetics

Deputy Director, Institute for Immunology

Co-Director, Epigenetics Institute

Perelman of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

“Genome Organization in T Lymphocytes”

Chen Yao Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

9/25/2024

Chengcheng Jin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Cancer Biology

Assistant Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research

Institute Member, Institute for Immunology

University of Pennsylvania

“Dissecting the role of myeloid cells in cancer immunity”

Shuang Liang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

10/9/2024

Tim F. Greten, M.D.

Senior Investigator- Thoracic and GI

Malignancies Branch

NIH

NCI/CCR

“The immune tumor microenvironment in liver cancer

Zhenyu Zhong Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

10/23/2024

Andrew Mehle

Professor

Medical Microbiology & Immunology

University of Wisconsin

TBA

Robert Orchard, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

10/30/2024

Kodi Ravichandran, BVSc, PhD

Robert L. Kroc Professor

Pathology and Immunology

Division Chief, Immunobiology

TBA

Zhenyu Zhong Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

11/6/2024

Victor H. Engelhard

Professor

Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology

University of Virginia

TBA

Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

11/13/2024

Theodoros Kelesidis, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Internal Medicine- Immunology

UT Southwestern Medical

Internal

TBA

Yuki Obata

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

11/20/2024

John Karijolich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology

Vanderbilt University

TBA

Dustin Hancks, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

12/4/2024

 

TBA

 

12/11/2024

Mark Sundrud, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine

TBA

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.

Chair/ Professor

Department of Immunology

12/18/2024

Arlene Sharpe

Professor/Chair

Department of Immunology

Harvard Medical School

Overcoming Resistance to PD1 Checkpoint Blockade for Cancer Immunotherapy

Graduate Students

1/8/2025

P’ng Loke, Ph.D.

Chief

Type 2 Immunity Section

NIH

TBA

Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Immunology

1/22/2025

Lai Guan Ng, Ph.D.

Professor

Innate Immune Cell Trafficking

National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University

Garvan Institute of Medical Research

TBA

Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

 

1/29/2025

 

 

 

2/12/2025

Sing Sing Way, MD, PhD

Pauline and Lawson Reed Chair

Division of Infectious Diseases

Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

TBA

Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

2/26/2025

 

 

 

3/5/2025

Maziar Divangahi, Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine

McGill University

TBA

Chen Yao

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

3/12/2025

Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D.

Member, St. Jude

Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds

Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

TBA

Dustin Hancks Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

3/19/2025

 

 

 

3/26/2025

Ruth Franklin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Harvard University

TBA

Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Immunology

4/9/2025

Xiaofang Jiang, Ph.D.

Tenue-Tracker Investigator

NIH

TBA

Chen Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

 

4/16/2025

Terry Fry, Ph.D.

Professor

Pediatrics, Hematology and Immunology

Co-Director, Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Initiative

Director, Cancer Immunotherapy

University of Colorado School of Medicine

TBA

Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

4/30/2025

 

 

 

5/7/2025

 

 

 

5/14/2025

 

 

 

5/21/2025

Nikhil Joshi, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FASNC

General & Interventional Cardiologist

Signet Heart Group

TBA

Chen Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology

5/28/2025

Sanghyun Lee

Assistant Professor

Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Brown University

TBA

Robert Orchard

Assistant Professor

Department of Immunology