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Research Focus Areas

HOST DEFENSE & VACCINE DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING COVID-19)

CANCER
IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE & MICROGLIA BIOLOGY

AUTOIMMUNITY
AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

SYNTHETIC IMMUNOLOGY & NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Congratulations to Liz Ortiz and Travis Wiles!

April 22, 2025

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 […]

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

January 10, 2025

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

July 8, 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!

July 1, 2024

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

June 17, 2024

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!

June 7, 2024

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.

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