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Congratulations to Liz Ortiz and Travis Wiles!
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…
Seminars in Immunology
Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD, UC Irvine will present a seminar on Apirl 10th on “Safe Pan-Cancer Immunotherapeutics by Velcro-Like Density-Dependent Targeting of Tumor-Associated Carbohydrate Antigens”
Please join us in congratulating the Immunology Fair oral and poster competition prize winners!
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…
Immunology Symposium on Primary Immunodeficiency, Newport Beach, November 8-9 2024
Speakers include: Kate Fitzgerald, Laurie Glimcher, Chris Garcia, George Stark, Warren Leonard. There are discounted rates for UC faculty, fellows and students. Furthermore, there will be 4-6 oral presentations based on abstracts. Details for registration, hotel accommodations, and asbstract submission may be found here.
Congratulations to Suhas and Shannon!
Please join us in congratulating Suhas Sureshchandra (Wagar Lab) who won best speaker (pictured second from left) and Shannon Geels (Marangoni Lab) who won best poster (pictured far right) at the Immunology LA Meeting in Los Angeles on June 28th – way to go Suhas and Shannon!
Congratulations to the Marangoni Lab
Please join us in congratulating the Marangoni lab on their newly published paper “Interruption of the intratumor CD8+ T cell:Treg crosstalk improves the efficacy of PD-1 immunotherapy” Link to paper
Congratulations to Travis Wiles!
Please join us in congratulating Travis Wiles, who was awarded a Hellman Fellowship last week. This fellowship is presented to promising Assistant Professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research across the ten UC campuses.