IFI Annual Symposium
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