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.
2025-26 IMMUN 573 Seminar Series – Coming Soon!
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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
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: Patrick Mitchell, PhD
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Haydn Kissick, PhD
Seminar Title: The T cell Response to Cancer: Exhaustion, Dysfunction or Tolerance
Faculty host: Shivani Srivastava, PhD
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD
Seminar Title: Epithelial regulation of the host-microbiota relationship
Faculty hosts: Meghan Koch, PhD, and Elia Tait Wojno, PhD
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Lalit K. Beura, PhD
Seminar Title: Memory CD8 T cell residency in the female reproductive mucosa
Faculty host: Peter Morawski, PhD
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Frances Lund, PhD
Seminar Title: What do memory B cells “see” when responding to alloantigens? HLA landscape and topography in the eye of a B cell
Faculty host: Jess Hamerman, PhD
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Irene Salinas Remiro, PhD
Seminar Title: Self-inflicted skin inflammation is the basis for water-land transition in vertebrate evolution
Faculty host: Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Juliet Morrison, PhD
Seminar Title: The emerging role of pleural macrophages in influenza
Faculty host: Ram Savan, PhD
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Josh Veatch, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: Targeting the tumor microenvironment of solid tumors with CD4 T cells
Faculty host: Andrew Oberst, PhD
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Lee Hood, MD, PhD
Seminar Title: A Discussion of Two AI-Driven Healthcare Paradigm Changes and their Integration: Data-Driven Personalized Health and Information-Based Peptide Drugs
Faculty host: Joan Goverman, PhD
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Christina L. Stallings, PhD
Seminar Title: Effects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on pulmonary homeostasis
Faculty host: Michael Gerner, PhD
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Ali Ellebedy, PhD
Seminar Title: Regulation of the germinal center B cell response to vaccination
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: Initiation and Regulation of Innate Immunity
Faculty host: Marion Pepper, PhD
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Peter A. Savage, PhD
Seminar Title: Self-nonself discrimination conferred by regulatory T cell specificity
Faculty host: Kevin Urdahl, PhD
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Marco Pravetoni, PhD
Seminar Title: Development of vaccines and antibody-based strategies for substance use disorders, drug overdose, and … beyond
Faculty host: Dan Campbell, PhD
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 9:30-10:30 am
Ivan Zanoni, PhD
Seminar Title: Cellular and molecular regulation of inflammation
Faculty host: Andrew Oberst, PhD
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 9:30-10:30 a
