UIowa Immunology Graduate Program

04/30/2025

Join us for the last Immunology seminar for Spring 2025. Jon Houtman, PhD will be presenting on the "Impact of glycerol monolaurate on human immune cell function."

1pm in 283 EMRB

04/08/2025

Join us tomorrow for a seminar by our very own Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD. His seminar, "The MS Gut Symphony: Diet, Microbes, and the Immune Orchestra (Sometimes Out of Tune)" will begin at 1:00pm in 283 EMRB.

04/01/2025

Join us tomorrow for our last visiting speaker of the semester. AAI President, Stephen Jameson, PhD will be presenting a seminar on "Regulating memory T cell trafficking and survival."

02/26/2025

We are excited to host today's seminar speaker - Anthony Vella, PhD, Professor and Chair of Immunology at the University of Connecticut. Please join us for his seminar, "Costimulated T cells work to splice their way out of trouble."

02/19/2025

Join us this afternoon for a seminar by Dr. Scott Lieberman on the "Complex role of TYK2 in a mouse model of Sjögren disease".

01/21/2025

Join us tomorrow for the first Immunology Seminar of the Spring Semester. Nikhil Joshi, PhD will be presenting his seminar "Investing T cell immunobiology using genetically engineered models" at 1pm in 283 EMRB.

12/10/2024

Join us tomorrow for the last Immunology Seminar of the semester. Jeremiah Johnson, PhD will be presenting his seminar, "I'm the problem, it's me: unusual bacterial effectors promote innate immune responses and damage in the gastrointestinal tract." Seminar will begin at 1pm in 283 EMRB. Light snacks provided.

12/02/2024

Join us tomorrow during the Department of Microbiology and Immunology's weekly seminar series for our cosponsored speaker - Dr. Keith Reeves from Duke University. His seminar, "A translational atlas of adaptive natural killer cell immunobiology against viruses" with be held in BSB Aud III at 3:00pm. We hope to see you there!

11/21/2024

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Taylen Nappi, on the publication of his review article!

This review outlines the current understanding of immunometabolism in the context of plasmodium infection and serves as a backdrop for his thesis work. He hopes this article inspires others to appreciate the complexity in metabolic regulation within immune cell subsets and how disease states experienced in malaria is linked to a dynamic resource struggle between the host and parasite, leading to altered efficacy in immune protection.

Plasmodium spp. have an ancient history with humans, having been described in ancient texts dating back 3500 years ago, which has led to an evolutionary arms race between Plasmodium and humans with Plasmodium successfully subverting durable, sterilizing host immunity. Mechanisms of immune evasion in...

11/19/2024

Tomorrow's seminar is present by Karen Haas, PhD Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Wake Forest University. Her seminar is titled, "Regulation of glycan-specific B cell responses to infections and cancer," and will begin at 1pm in 283 EMRB.

11/12/2024

Join us tomorrow for a seminar by visiting speaker, Dr. Jenny Ting from the University of North Carolina. Her seminar, "Innate immune receptors in innate and adaptive immunity" will be at 1pm in 283 EMRB. Light snacks provided.

Dr. Ting is hosted by Drs Gail Bishop and Prajwal Gurung and cosponsored by the Inflammation Program

11/05/2024

Congratulations Ivy Debreceni on the successful defense of your thesis!

Ivy Debreceni (Lieberman Lab) defended her thesis, “Two sides of the same coin: the role of IL-27 in driving pathogenic T cells in a mouse model of Sjögren’s disease” on Nov 1st, 2024.

Pictured: Dr. Ivy Debreceni (right) and her mentor Dr. Scott Lieberman (left)