| Date | Speaker | Institution | Seminar Title |
| 09/14/2023 | Robin Hatton, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, UAB | Transcriptional regulators of Th17 development and function |
| 09/21/2023 | Periasamy Selvaraj, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Emory University School of Medicine |
Membrane-anchored cytokine adjuvantated particulate vaccines for infectious disease and cancer |
| 09/28/2023 | Frances Lund, Ph.D. | Director, Immunology Institute & Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, UAB | Building Platforms to Enhance Immunology Research at UAB |
| 10/05/2023 | Research in Progress | Ph.D. candidates: Nicole Arroyo-Diaz and Millie Perez | Nicole: IFN-γ production by Tfh cells is required for CXCR3+ pre-memory B cell differentiation and subsequent lung-resident memory B cell responses Millie: CD151+ T Cell Frequencies as an Immunological Clock that Identifies Premature Immunological Aging in People With HIV |
| 10/11/2023 | Sabra Klein, Ph.D./Vaccine Lecture | Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | SeXX differences in vaccine outcomes |
| 10/19/2023 | Steven Jameson, Ph.D. /remote | Professor and Chairman's Fund Professorship in Experimental Pathology, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School | Knowing when to leave: Regulation of T cell recirculation and residency |
| 10/26/2023 | Shane Crotty, Ph.D. | Professor, Incoming Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)/La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) Director, LJI Center for Vaccine Innovation |
Germinal centers, TFH cells, and immunodominance in vaccine immunology |
| 11/02/2023 | Ali Ellebedy, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | B Cell Responses to Vaccination: Lessons from the Pandemic |
| 11/09/2023 | Sara Hamilton Hart, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School | Unique Features of Effector Memory CD8+ T cells |
| 11/16/2023 | Melody Zeng, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Immunology in Pediatrics Drukier Institute for Children’s Health Department of Pediatrics Weill Cornell Medicine |
Immune regulation by the gut microbiome in early development |
| 11/23/2023 | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| 11/30/2023 | CFAR World AIDS | ||
| 12/07/2023 | Milena Bogunovic, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology, UMass Chan Medical School | Studying Intestinal Macrophages in Distinct Microanatomical Compartments |
| 12/14/2023 | Renee Heffron, Ph.D., MPH | Professor, DOM-Infectious Diseases, UAB | The path ahead for HIV prevention: delivering what we have while forging ahead with new product development |
| 12/21/2023 | Christmas Holiday | ||
| 12/28/2023 | Christmas Holiday | ||
| 01/04/2024 | New Year Holiday | ||
| 01/11/2024 | James A. Lederer, M.S., Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Surgery, Harvard Medical School | Harnessing Trained Immunity Concepts to Gain Insights into Immune System Responses to Traumatic Injuries, Cancer, and Natural Immune (Dirty) Mice |
| 01/18/2024 | Katharine J. Bar, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine | The impact of early ART initiation on autologous neutralizing antibody responses to HIV-1 |
| 01/25/2024 | Paige Porrett, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept of Surgery, UAB | Transcriptional Programming of Uterine Natural Killer Cell Tissue Residency |
| 02/08/2024 | Ashley Harms, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology, UAB | The role of the immune system in alpha-synucleinopathies |
| 02/15/2024 | Katerina Akassoglou, Ph.D./remote | Director, Center for Neurovascular Brain Immunology and Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco | Neurovascular Interactions: Mechanisms, Imaging, Therapeutics |
| 02/22/2024 | Maria Curotto De Lafaille, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine | Type 2 IgG memory B cells poised to switch to IgE in persistent food allergy |
| 02/29/2024 | Donna Farber, Ph.D. | George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences (in Surgery), Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology | Tissue and age-dependent features of the human immune system |
| 03/07/2024 | Marco Colonna, M.D. | Robert Rock Belliveau Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | TREM2 in Neurodegeneration and Cancer |
| 03/14/2024 | Spring Break | ||
| 03/21/2024 | Gretchen Diehl, Ph.D. | Catherine and Frederick R. Adler Chair for Junior Faculty, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Sloan Kettering Institute | Getting along in the gut: microbiota and immune development and function |
| 03/28/2024 | Keke C. Fairfax, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah | To Protect a host unwinding pathogen modulation of immunity |
| 04/04/2024 | Camilla Margaroli Bell, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, UAB | Neutrophil plasticity in the lung: friend or foe? |
| 04/11/2024 | Heather Jaspan, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Research Institute | The multifaceted effects of contraceptives on the mucosal environment of African cisgender women |
| 04/18/2024 | Research in Progress | Nestor Prieto-Dominguez, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of Microbiology Erin Yepsen Earnhardt, Ph.D. candidate. GBS-Microbiology |
Ptp1b Inhibition Rescues Innate Immune Response to DAMPs During Chemotherapy. Influenza A virus alters host defense in the airway epithelium via induced cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction. |
| 04/25/2024 | Jeremy Foote, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, UAB | Evaluating the impact of pan-RAS inhibitors on the tumor immune microenvironment in pancreatic cancer |
| 05/16/2024 | Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar | Eddie Williams Owiredu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Microbiology Melissa Jennings, M.D., Ph.D. student, NIH MSTP |
The effect of IRF1 on B cell dynamics and autoimmunity Diversity of gut commensal flagellins results in distinct intestinal epithelial cell responses |
| 05/23/2024 | John Volanakis Immunology Lecture/Marion Pepper, Ph.D. | Professor and Chair, Dept. of Immunology, University of Washington | Understanding memory responses in the tissues |
| 06/27/2024 | Research in Progress | Garrett Wilson Matthew D. Cheung | MD/PhD Graduate Trainee NIH Medical Scientist (MD-PhD) Training Program |
A novel subset of colonocytes targeted by Citrobacter rodentium elicits epithelial MHCII-restricted help from CD4 T cells. Assessment of the immune response, microchimerism, and viral transmission during pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation |