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 Date   Speaker  Institution  Seminar Title
 09/12/2024 Research in Progress - Charles Kuhlmann and Jessica Lane UAB JNK Signaling Contributes to CAR-T cell activation/Natural-acquired antibody against Streptococcus pneumoniae among healthy adults is primarily to biofilm-exclusive antigens
 09/19/2024 Michela Locci, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Regulation of T follicular helper and T follicular regulatory cell differentiation
 09/26/2024 Wendy Garrett, M.D., Ph.D./Zoom Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University The Gut Microbiota, Three Taxa, and Immunity in Health and Disease
 10/03/2024 Vaccine Lecture and Symposium - Matthew B. Laurens, MD, MPH, FAAP Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Pathology; Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship; Director, International Clinical Trials Unit, Malaria Research Program, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD), University of Maryland School of Medicine Malaria vaccines: progress, challenges, and future prospects
 10/10/2024 Megan Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine Discovery of inborn errors of immunity, one child at a time
 10/17/2024 Roberta Pelanda, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Bone marrow B cell selection by the CD19-PI3K pathway: a potential target for autoimmunity
 10/31/2024 Angela Wahl, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, UAB Of Mice and Men: Humanized Mouse Models for Human Infectious Diseases and Immunity 
 11/07/2024 Amit Gaggar, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medicine - Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, UAB Research in the TIme of COVID: Into the Unknown 
 11/14/2024 Alice O. Kamphorst, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Departments of Immunology & Immunotherapy and Oncological Sciences, Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Costimulation beyond priming regulates sustained CD8 T cell responses in chronic infection and cancer
 11/21/2024 Benjamin M. Larimer, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiology - Advanced Medical Imaging Research, UAB Non-Invasive PET imaging of Immune Activation in Cancer and Beyond 
 11/28/2024 Thanksgiving Holiday     
 12/12/2024 Research in Progress - Lance N. Benson, Ph.D. and Kevin Maroney UAB Sex Differences in Immune Cell Migration (Benson)//
CD8 T cell clonotypes cross-restricted by HLA-B*57 and HLA-E*01 recognize HIV gag with different functional profiles (Maroney)
 12/19/2024 Christmas Holiday   
 12/26/2024 Christmas Holiday   
 01/02/2025 New Year Holiday   
 01/09/2025 Frances Lund, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology, Endowed Chair in Immunology & Director, Immunology Institute, UAB  
 01/16/2025 Aishwarya Ravindran, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology – Laboratory Medicine, UAB  
 01/23/2025 Claudia Kemper, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Immunology Center
Chief, Complement and Inflammation Research Section
DIR, NHLBI, NIH
Location matters: Intracellular complement and cell physiology
 01/30/2025 Bernadette Marquez-Nostra, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, UAB Antibody probes for noninvasive imaging of macrophages  
 02/06/2025 Brian Laidlaw, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Transcriptional regulation of memory B cell development 
 02/13/2025 Hongbo Chi, Ph.D. Member, St. Jude Faculty; Robert G. Webster Endowed Chair in Immunology Functional genomics in mapping the metabolic basis of cancer and tissue immunity
 02/20/2025 Helen Dooley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine How sharks are helping the fight against human disease
 02/27/2025  Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School  
03/06/2025 Research in Progress -  Krishna C. Chinta and Susana Cheetham  UAB  
 03/13/2025 Spring Break   
 03/20/2025 Tullia C. Bruno, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh  
 03/27/2025 Shruti Naik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine  
 04/03/2025  Dario A. Vitturi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology – Molecular and Cellular Pathology, UAB  
 04/10/2025 Shinichi Kano, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, UAB  
04/17/2025 Anna Sorace, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
Division Director, Advanced Medical Imaging Research Division
Director, Small Animal Imaging Shared Facility, UAB
 
 04/24/2025 James Kobie, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine - Infectious Diseases, UAB  
05/01/2025 Robert Stroud Advanced Immunology Trainee Seminar    
 05/08/2025 AAI Immunology 2025
 05/15/2025 Isidoro Cobo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine - Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, UAB  
 05/22/2025 John Volanakis Immunology Lecture - Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Director, Center for Human Immunobiology; Chief, Allergy & Immunology (Medicine); Professor, Department of Pathology