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 Date   Speaker  Institution  Seminar Title
 09/11/2025  Research in Progress Daniel Minassian(Orihuela Lab)/Courtney Swain(Shevde-Samant Lab) Characterizing the Role of Inflammation in Heart Failure following Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection(Minassian)/Hedgehog activity modulates CD8+ T cell effector differentiation in breast cancer(Swain) 
 09/18/2025  Harinder Singh, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Center for Systems Immunology, The University of Pittsburgh The Origins and Fates of B Cells, A Molecular to Systems Framework 
 09/25/2025  Iliyan D. Iliev, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology, Co-director of the Microbiome core laboratory, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University Immunity, inflammation and cancer from the prism of the gut mycobiome 
 10/02/2025  Luk Van Kaer, Ph.D. Elizabeth and John Shapiro Chair, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center What happens when immune cells are unable to make a meal of themselves? 
 10/09/2025  Andrea Reboldi, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology, Graduate Program in Immunology and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical  School Immunometabolic regulation of intestinal IgA response 
 10/16/2025  Haydn Kissick, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine The T cell response to Cancer: Exhaustion, Dysfunction, Tolerance 
 10/23/2025  Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine Vaccines in a time of Global Boiling, Megacities, and Anti-science 
 10/23/2025  Mariana Xavier Byndloss, DVM, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Uncovering intestinal epithelium-microbiota metabolic interactions during early life 
 10/23/2025  Jacob Kohlmeier, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine Protective mechanisms of tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells in the respiratory tract 
 10/30/2025  Maxim Artyomov, Ph.D. Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Understanding immune aging 
 11/06/2025  Helen Dooley, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine How sharks are helping the fight against human disease 
 11/13/2025  Maureen Cox, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center  Neuronal control of immune responses 
 11/20/2025  John S. Tsang, Ph.D., Mmath Professor of Immunobiology and Biomedical Engineering, Director, Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI), Yale University School of Medicine Systems Human Immunology: Immune Setpoint and Immune Health 
 11/27/2025 Thanksgiving Holiday     
 12/04/2025  Jake Chen, Ph.D. Founding Director, Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC) Triton Endowed Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Adjunct Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering Director, NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystems (CFDE) Integration and Coordination Center, UAB Translational Medicine at the Speed of AI
 12/11/2025  Research in Progress UAB  
 12/18/2025 Christmas Holiday   
 12/25/2025 Christmas Holiday   
 01/01/2026 New Year Holiday   
 01/08/2026  Frances Lund, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology, Endowed Chair in Immunology and Director, Heersink School of Medicine Immunology Institute, UAB  
 01/15/2026  Justin Turner, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology, UAB  
 01/22/2026  Tony Merriman, Ph.D.  Professor of Medicine - Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, UAB  
 01/29/2026  John Volanakis Immunology Lecture-Miriam Merad, M.D, Ph.D.  
Dean, Translational Research and Therapeutic Innovation
Chair, Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy (DII)
Director, Precision Immunology Institute (PrIISM)
Director, Human Immune Monitoring Center (HIMC)
Professor of Oncological Sciences and Medicine (Hem/Onc)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
 
 02/05/2026  Brian Sheridan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Infectious Diseases, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University  
 02/12/2026  Brian S Kim, M.D., MTR Sol and Clara Kest Professor of the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  
 02/19/2026  Satwik Acharyya, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UAB  
 02/26/2026  Joshua Koenig, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada  
 03/05/2026  Georgia Tomaras, Ph.D. Professor of Surgery, Duke University  
 03/12/2026  Chaoran Li, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine  
 03/19/2026  Research in Progress UAB  
 04/02/2026   Rebecca Pompano, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia  
 04/09/2026  Rakesh Patel, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology, UAB  
 04/16/2026  AAI Immunology 2026  
 04/23/2026  Manuela Raffatellu, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics-Host-Microbe Systems and Therapeutics, University of California, San Diego  
 04/30/2026  Juhi Samal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UAB  
 05/07/2026  Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar Susana Cheetham (Randall Lab) and Opeyemi Iwalope (Osuka Lab)  Susana Cheetham - Influenza-specific lung-resident memory B cells assist CD4 recall responses during challenge infections //Opeyemi Iwaloye - Tumor-collagen binding IL-12 Immunotherapy for recurrent Glioblastoma following irradiation therapy
 05/14/2026  Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University  
 05/21/2026  Gurkan Mollaoglu, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Microbiology, UAB