IFI Annual Symposium
2025 Immunology Fair Registration - registration deadline is November 5, 2025
2025 Abstract Submission - abstract deadline is October 20, 2025
23rd Annual UCI Immunology Fair
Student Center Pacific Ballrooms A, B, C and D
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Student Presentations
Postdocs/Graduate Students Oral Presentations
(10 minute talk and 5 min Q/A - selected from abstracts)
Chairs: Drs. Lisa Wagar, Francesco Marangoni, and Roberto Tinoco
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM - Check-in/Lunch Buffet
12:00 - 1:15 PM - SESSION A
1:15 AM – 2:30 PM - SESSION B
2:30 – 2:45 PM - Coffee Break/Visit Sponsor Tables
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM - SESSION C
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM - POSTER SESSION/VISIT SPONSOR TABLES/CATERED RECEPTION
5:45 PM - Armando Villalta
"Awards for the Top Three Oral Presentations, Top Five Posters & Five Honorable Mention Posters"
Sponsor Gift Card Opportunity Drawing
6:00 PM - Adjourn
NOVEMBER 21, 2025 9:00 AM - 5:15 PM Keynote Lectures
9:00 AM Check in / Continental Breakfast
9:10 AM Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Professor of Ophthalmology
Director, UC Irvine Institute for Immunology
"Welcome"
9:20 AM Albert Zlotnik, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Physiology & Biophysics
UC Irvine
"Introduction"
9:30 AM Michael Cahalan, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
UC Irvine
"Ion Channels in T Cells"
10:30 AM Richard Lewis, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Emeritus
Stanford University
“CRACking the Mystery of Calcium Signaling in T Cell Activation”
11:30 AM Coffee Break/Visit Sponsor Tables and receive opportunity drawing tickets
11:45 AM Mark J. Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
“Purinergic Signaling Mediates the Acute Immune Response to Bacterial Infection”
12:45 PM Lunch Buffet/Visit Sponsor Tables and receive opportunity drawing tickets
1:45 PM Michael Dustin, Ph.D.
Professor, Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford
Director of Research, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
“The Immunological Synapse”
2:45 PM Heike Wulff, Ph.D., M.S. Pharm
Professor of Pharmacology
University of California, Davis
"Structure-Based Drug Design for Potassium Channels"
3:45 PM Coffee Break/Visit Sponsor Tables and receive opportunity drawing tickets
4:00 PM Paul Negulescu, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
"Cystic Fibrosis Therapies"
5:00 PM Sponsor Gift Card Opportunity Drawing
5:15 PM Adjourn
2024 Immunology Fair Registration has closed. We look forward to seeing everyone who registered next week!
Thank you to everyone who submitted their abstracts - best of luck to you all!
22nd Annual UCI Immunology Fair
Student Center Pacific Ballrooms A, B, C and D
DECEMBER 5, 2024 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Student Presentations
Postdocs/Graduate Students Oral Presentations
(10 minute talk and 5 min Q/A - selected from abstracts)
Chairs: Drs. Roberto Tinoco, Lisa Wagar, Francesco Marangoni, and Matt Marsden
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM - Check-in/Lunch Buffet
12:00 - 1:15 PM - SESSION A
1:15 AM – 2:30 PM - SESSION B
2:30 – 2:45 PM - Coffee Break/Visit Sponsor Tables
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM - SESSION C
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM - POSTER SESSION/VISIT SPONSOR TABLES/CATERED RECEPTION
5:45 PM - Armando Villalta
"Awards for the Top Three Posters & Top Three Oral Presentations"
Sponsor Gift Card Opportunity Drawing
6:00 PM - Adjourn
DECEMBER 6, 2024 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Keynote Lectures
9:30 AM Check in / Continental Breakfast
10:00 A.M. Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics, Professor of Ophthalmology
Director, UC Irvine Institute for Immunology
"Welcome and Introduction"
10:15 A.M. Bruce R. Blazar, MD
Regents Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Blood & Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy; Childrens’ Cancer Research Fund Land Grant Chair in Pediatric Oncology; Associate Vice President, Office of Academic and Clinical Affairs; Director, Center for Translational Medicine; Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota
“Immune Regulation in Recipients of Allogeneic Donor Hematopoietic Cells”
11:30 A.M. Lunch Buffet/Visit Sponsor Tables and receive opportunity drawing tickets
1:00 P.M. Robyn S. Klein, M.D., Ph.D.
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurovirology & Neuroimmunology
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
Western University
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
“Learning from Viruses: Innate Immunity and Memory Impairment”
2:15 P.M. Coffee Break
2:30 P.M. Sing Sing Y. Way, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Inflammation and Tolerance; Director, March of Dimes Ohio Collaborative; Lawson Reed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
“Immunology Learned from Mothers and Babies”
3:45 P.M. Sponsor Gift Card Opportunity Drawing
4:00 P.M. Adjourn
21st Annual UCI Immunology Fair
Student Center Pacific Ballrooms C and D
November 30, 2023 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Student Presentations
DECEMBER 1, 2023 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM Keynote Lectures
Keynote Speakers
- Erika L. Pearce, Ph.D., Co-Director, Cancer Immunology Program; Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
- Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D., Underwood-Prescott Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering; Associate Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Andres Hidalgo, Ph.D., Professor of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Registration has closed
Abstract submission closed on Nov. 1st
20th Annual UCI Immunology Fair
Student Center Pacific Ballrooms C and D
DECEMBER 1, 2022 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM Student Presentations
DECEMBER 2, 2022 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM Keynote Lectures
Keynote Speakers
- Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., Director, NIAID, Microbiome Program, Co-Director NIH Center for Human Immunology, NIAID, NIH
"Microbiome Control of Host Immunity" - Jason Cyster, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Investigator, Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UC San Francisco
"Deciphering the Guidance of Cue Code for Immunity" - Diane Mathis, Ph.D., Professor of Immunology, Morton Grove-Rasmussen Chair of Immunohematology, Harvard Medical School
"A Gut-Muscle Treg Axis Required for Effective Muscle Regeneration?”
View the agenda and register here
Abstract submission has closed
19th Annual UCI Immunology Fair
Keynote Speakers
- Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, Chief, Immuno-Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Estelle Bettelli, PhD, Principal Investigator, Associate Member, Benaroya Research Institute
- Florian Krammer, PhD, Professor of Vaccinology, Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Jennifer Wargo, MD, Professor, Department of Genomic Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center