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New Research Sheds Light on a Protein that Shapes the T Cell Response to Viral Infections

A recent study published in the Journal of Virology by a team from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry that includes Assistant Professor Roberto Tinoco, graduate student Julia DeRogatis and co-authors from the Tinoco lab, and Assistant Professor Dequina Nicholas has revealed a new discovery about how T cells respond to viral infections. The…

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Seminars in Immunology

Matthew E. Griffin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, will present a seminar on “Sensing a Pattern: Modulating Host Function via Microbial Glycans”

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Please join us in congratulating the Immunology Fair oral and poster competition prize winners!

Oral Presentation:
First Place – Boyoung Shin (Rothenberg Lab Caltech)
Second Place – Emily Neubert (Tinoco Lab UCI)
Third Place – Adiza Abass (Heung Lab Cedars-Sinai)
Poster Presentation:
First Place – Shannon Geels (Marangoni Lab UCI)
Second Place – Zach Wagoner (Wagar Lab UCI)
Third Place – Jake Coast/Cristina Velasquez (Jameson Lab CSUSM)

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Phil Felgner named Fellow by National Academy of Inventors

Phil Felgner, Professor in Residence, Physiology and Biophysics, is being honored for a series of discoveries based on biophysics principles and the structure and hydrodynamic properties of bilayer membranes.

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Please join us in Congratulating Alex Moshensky!

Congratulations to Alex Moshensky (Marangoni lab) on being awarded a T32 training grant slot from the Skin Diseases Research Center.

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Symposium on Inborn Errors of Immunity

Symposium on Inborn Errors of Immunity
Balboa Bay Resort, Newport Beach, California
October 28-29, 2022
Keynote speakers include:
Mark DAVIS (Stanford): New approaches to study immunity in humans
Luigi Notarangelo (NIH)- Multi-omics analysis of RAG deficiency immunopathology
Jean-Laurent Casanova: From inborn errors of immunity to common determinants of infectious diseases
Filmomeen Haerynck (Belgium)- A novel player in viral sensing by transcribing host-derived RIG-I ligands

Breakfast and lunch included, registration is:
Students $100
Post-doc $200
Faculty $250

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Please join us in congratulating UCI Professor Philip Felgner who is a 2022 recipient of the prestigious Robert Koch Prize. This award is in recognition of Dr. Felgner’s groundbreaking research on the development of mRNA vaccines.

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Please Congratulate Rachel Sousa on her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Rachel won a Graduate Research Fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation, a major nationwide academic achievement. Her proposal is entitled “The development of a spatiotemporal mathematical model of tumor-immune dynamics to investigate the mechanisms of tumor escape and control” and is one of only six project in Mathematical Biology funded this year in the US. Rachel…

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