Please join us in congratulating Tessa Chou in the Marsden Lab, who has been awarded a 3-year NIH Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31) grant to support her graduate work studying HIV latency reversal agents. In other news, Tessa also recently received an ARCS (Advancing Science in America) Foundation Scholar Award, and was the…
LOS ANGELES—Michelson Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) is proud to announce the eighth cohort of recipients of its 2026 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, naming five early-career scientists whose research is advancing the future of human immunology. The program is supporting its largest cohort to date, awarding five early-career scientists $150,000 each to accelerate innovative work…
The 24th Annual UC Irvine Immunology Fair 2026 will be held on Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th. This year’s fair will feature three keynote speakers who are leaders in the field of immune tolerance: Fred Ramsdell, PhD Recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Founder and Scientific Advisor Sonoma Bio Daniel…
In October 2025, Lisa Wagar, PhD was invited to give a talk at the Scandinavian Society for Immunology annual meeting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Wagar also gave a presentation at the student workshop. Congratulations Dr. Wagar!
Please join us in congratulating Nishad Maggirwar who was just awarded a 3-year NIH F31 fellowship!
Scientists at the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine report that they have developed a powerful new tool, called Phollow, that lets scientists watch viral activity in the gut microbiome of living animals with unprecedented precision—down to a single viral particle. Led by Travis Wiles, PhD, assistant professor, the study … offers…
Oral Presentation:First Place – Angie Lackner (McNulty Lab)Second Place – Zach Wagoner (Wagar Lab)Third Place – Claire Murat (Marangoni Lab)Top Five Posters: Philip Farahat (Villalta Lab)Julia Cabral (McNulty Lab)Shannon Geels (Marangoni Lab)Takeya Masubuchi (Hui Lab, UCSD)Jibin Zhang (Hui Lab, UCSD)Honorable Mention Posters:Elise Nguyen (Othy Lab)Mahina Mitul (Wagar Lab)Mari Soto (Othy Lab)Rachel Sousa (Marangoni Lab)Olivia Yanes…