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Research Focus Areas
HOST DEFENSE & VACCINE DEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING COVID-19)
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IMMUNOLOGY & IMMUNOTHERAPY
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE & MICROGLIA BIOLOGY
AUTOIMMUNITY
AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
SYNTHETIC IMMUNOLOGY & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
News
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 […]
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)
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.
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.
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
