Seminar Series
IMMUN 573 seminars are held during the academic year on Tuesdays from 9:30-10:30 am PT unless noted otherwise. In-person seminars are presented at Orin Smith Auditorium at 850 Republican Street on the UW Medicine South Lake Union campus in Seattle. All seminars are streamed online via zoom.
The Department of Immunology gratefully acknowledges generous contributions in support of this seminar series from the Allen Institute for Immunology, Benaroya Research Institute and Weiser Education Fund.
2024-25 IMMUN 573 Seminar Series
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Stacy M. Horner, PhD
Seminar Title: RNA modifications at the virus-host interface
Postdoc host: Nandan Gokhale, PhD
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Jacob Yount, PhD
Seminar Title: Innate immune mechanisms controlling the emergence and severity of pandemic virus infections
Faculty host: Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Haydn Kissick, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Shivani Srivastava, PhD
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Meghan Koch, PhD
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Lalit Beura, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Peter Morawski, PhD
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Frances Lund, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Jess Hamerman, PhD
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Irene Salinas, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD)
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Mark Headley, PhD
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Juliet Morrison, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Christina Stallings, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Andrew Oberst, PhD
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Ali Ellebedy, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Kate Fitzgerald, PhD
2024-25 Russell S. and Rae Weiser Endowed Speaker
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Peter Savage, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Kevin Urdahl, PhD
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Kevin Barry, PhD
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Ivan Zanoni, PhD
Seminar Title TBD
Faculty host: Andrew Oberst, PhD
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
2024-25 Completed Seminars:
Gretchen Diehl, PhD
Seminar Title: Microbiota and intestinal immune development and function
Faculty host: Jarrod Dudakov, PhD
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Dr. Andreas Bergthaler
Seminar Title: How antiviral immune responses turn host metabolism upside down
Faculty host: Martin Prlic, PhD
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kastenmüller
Seminar Title: Affinity selection phase during CD8 T cell priming
Faculty host: Naeha Subramanian, PhD
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Franklin Zhong, PhD
Seminar Title: From the ribosome to the inflammasome, and back
Faculty host: Patrick Mitchell, PhD
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Nicholas Arpaia, PhD
Seminar Title: Probiotic neoantigen delivery vectors for precision cancer immunotherapy
Faculty host: Jakob von Moltke, PhD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD
Seminar Title: Early Life Immune-Microbe Crosstalk in Skin
Faculty host: Elia Tait Wojno, PhD
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
2023-24 Completed Seminars:
Dr. Jen Gommerman
Seminar Title: Understanding the role of B cells in CNS inflammation
Faculty host Meghan Koch, PhD
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 3-4 pm
Patrick S. Mitchell, PhD
Seminar Title: Recognizing and responding to pathogens via effector-triggered immunity
Faculty host Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Edward A. Miao, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: An innate granuloma eradicates an environmental pathogen using Gsdmd and Nos2
Faculty host Andrew Oberst, PhD
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Chandrashekhar Pasare, DVM, PhD
Seminar Title: Memory T cell induced innate inflammation: Mechanisms and consequences
Faculty host Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Angelina Bilate, PhD
Seminar Title: How microbial recognition by T lymphocytes can contribute to intestinal homeostasis
Faculty host Jakob von Moltke, PhD
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Tiffany A. Reese, PhD
Seminar Title: Viral and Parasitic Manipulation of the Host
Faculty host Meghan Koch, PhD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Susanne Nylén, PhD
Seminar Title: Implications of worm infection on immune responses to co-infections
Faculty host Jakob von Moltke, PhD
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 8:30-9:30 am
Ananda Goldrath, PhD
Seminar Title: Tissue resident memory T cell differentiation in space and time
Faculty host Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 9:30-10:30 am
Gabriel D. Victora, PhD
Hosted with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Benaroya Research Institute
Seminar Title: The germinal center as evolution machine
Faculty host Meghan Koch, PhD
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, Noon-1 pm, Pelton Auditorium at Fred Hutch
Amanda Lund, PhD
Seminar Title: Lymphatic Vessels and the Compartmentalization of the Adaptive Immune Response
Faculty host Shivani Srivastava, PhD
Tuesday, January 9, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Sarah Stanley, PhD
Seminar Title: Aldehydes as novel immune effectors for control of bacterial infection
Faculty host Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: Indolent infection/colonization promotes inflammatory bowel disease phenotypes
Faculty host Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Kellie Ann Jurado, PhD
Russell S. and Rae Weiser Endowed Trainee-Selected Lecturer
Seminar Title: Learning immunity from emerging viruses
Hosted by the Department of Immunology T32 Trainees
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Laura Su, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: Human T cell dynamics to vaccination
Hosted by Jaime Chao, PhD
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Michael Angelo, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: Spatial programs for immune tolerance in human health and disease
Faculty host Michael Gerner, PhD
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Jude E. Uzonna, PhD, DVM
Seminar Title: Immunologic memory to a parasitic protozoa may need constant reminding
Faculty host Elia Tait Wojno, PhD
Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Shruti Naik, PhD
Seminar Title: Immune mediated mechanisms of tissue adaptation and maladaptation
Faculty host Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Nan Yan, PhD
Seminar Title: Homeostatic Functions of Innate Immunity
Faculty host Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Boris Reizis, PhD
Seminar Title: Dendritic cells – from transcriptional regulation to function
Faculty host Jess Hamerman, PhD
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Marc Jenkins, PhD
2023 Russell S. and Rae Weiser Endowed Speaker
Seminar Title: A bistable switch controls helper T cell differentiation
Faculty host Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Christina Zielinski, MD
Seminar Title: Regulation of human T cell functions by ionic signals from the microenvironment
Faculty host Martin Prlic, PhD
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Roxane Tussiwand, PhD
Seminar Title: The thin line between plasmacytoid and conventional dendritic cells
Faculty host Mark Headley, PhD
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
Isabella Rauch, PhD
Seminar Title: New roles for eicosanoid signaling following inflammasome activation at the intestinal barrier
Faculty host Peter Morawski, PhD
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 9:30-10:30 am
