October 14, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Cassidy Hagan!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Cassidy Hagan, Immunology graduate student in the Oberst lab, for the successful defense of her dissertation entitled “Apoptotic cells promote circulating tumor cell survival and metastasis.” Cassidy’s defense took place on October 11, 2024 at 2:00 pm in Orin Smith Auditorium in Seattle, Washington and via……
August 15, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Sigal Kofman!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Sigal Kofman, Immunology graduate student in the Oberst lab, for the successful defense of her dissertation entitled “Defining the necroptotic transcriptional signaling pathway.” Sigal’s defense took place on August 14, 2024 at 1:00 pm in Orin Smith Auditorium in Seattle, Washington and via zoom. Congratulations, Sigal!!…
August 8, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Rachel Van Gelder!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Rachel Van Gelder, Immunology graduate student in the Ram lab, for the successful defense of her dissertation entitled “Interleukin-2 mediated NF-kB-dependent mRNA splicing induces interferon gamma protein production.” Rachel’s defense took place on August 8, 2024 at 11:00 am in Orin Smith Auditorium in Seattle, Washington……
June 14, 2024
Tyler Billipp published in Immunity – Image on Cover!
Tyler Billipp’s paper “Tuft cell-derived acetylcholine promotes epithelial chloride secretion and intestinal helminth clearance” was published in the June 11, 2024 issue of Immunity. The Moltke lab image of a tuft cell was selected for the Immunity cover. Read more
June 10, 2024
Congratulations, Dr. Ragan Pitner!
The Department of Immunology is pleased to congratulate Dr. Ragan Pitner, Immunology graduate student in the Rawlings lab, for the successful defense of his dissertation entitled “Modulating antigen-specific humoral immunity with non-differentiating B cells.” Ragan’s defense took place on June 7, 2024 at 3:00 pm in McKinstry Auditorium in Seattle, Washington and via zoom. Congratulations,……
March 26, 2024
Check out a recent New York Times article featuring Dr. Marion Pepper!
Check out the recent New York Times article, “What’s Next for the Coronavirus?” that discusses the virus’s continuing evolution, and the body’s immune responses. Dr. Pepper comments in the article on the need to “understand immune responses in the tissues”. Read more
March 5, 2024
Autumn York published in Nature!
Congrats to Autumn York on her new paper published in Nature this month. This study supports the idea that fatty acid homeostasis in innate immune cells serves as a key regulatory node to control pathologic inflammation. It further suggests that metabolic correction of “very long chain fatty acid” homeostasis could be an important strategy to normalize dysregulated inflammation……
January 23, 2024
Welcome new Assistant Professor Autumn York!
We are very pleased to welcome our newest Assistant Professor, Autumn York, PhD! Autumn earned her PhD in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology from UCLA in 2016 under the supervision of Steven Bensinger, then went on to complete postdoctoral training in Richard Flavell’s lab at Yale. In 2017, she was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical……
January 11, 2024
Welcome new Adjunct Assistant Professor Patrick Mitchell!
We are very pleased to welcome our newest Adjunct Assistant Professor, Patrick Mitchell, PhD. Patrick earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology right here at UW in 2015, under the co-supervision of Harmit Malik, PhD, and Michael Emerman, PhD. He went on to complete his postdoc at UC Berkeley in the laboratory of Russell……
December 18, 2023
Congratulations, Gale lab!
Congratulations to the Gale lab, named on the 2023 annual Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate. This ranking places the Gale lab among the top 1% of all cited research teams in the world. The Gale lab is joined by more than 50 other research groups at the University of Washington as leaders in their……