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Next Seminar: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Next Seminar: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
Seminars:
Seminars:
"Type 2 diabetes, adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic macrophage activation"
"Type 2 diabetes, adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic macrophage activation"
Led by:
Led by:
Jan Ackermann, PhD, Carpenter Lab
Jan Ackermann, PhD, Carpenter Lab
MCDB, UCSC
MCDB, UCSC
and
and
"The ‘butterfly effect’ and how fine tuning of TCR signaling via CD8ab may determine the fate of autoreactive thymocytes during negative selection"
"The ‘butterfly effect’ and how fine tuning of TCR signaling via CD8ab may determine the fate of autoreactive thymocytes during negative selection"
Led by:
Led by:
Martha Zuñiga, PhD, Zuñiga Lab
Martha Zuñiga, PhD, Zuñiga Lab
MCDB, UCSC
MCDB, UCSC
12-1 pm
12-1 pm
Location: Biomed 300
Location: Biomed 300
Contact
Contact
Dr. David Boyd
Summer Jordan (MCD Biology, Boyd Lab)
Christy Montano (MCD Biology, Carpenter Lab)
Keen to present your work? Looking for an opportunity to develop your public speaking skills? Enjoy talking about immunology?
Keen to present your work? Looking for an opportunity to develop your public speaking skills? Enjoy talking about immunology?
Contact Summer or Christy to book your place on the schedule.
We strongly encourage graduate students and post-docs to present their work or a paper of significance to the general immunology community. Another idea that we are encouraging is to have a PI and trainee present together, with the PI giving a broader overview of the research program and the trainee giving a presentation on their focused project
Unsure what to present? A list of recent publications of significance can be found below.
Special thanks to our alumni who have helped out over the years:
Cristina Yang
Andrew McShan
Kevin Johnson
Sarah Overall
Schedule
Schedule
~ * Upcoming Schedule * ~
~ * Upcoming Schedule * ~
October 1st, 2025
Seminars:
"Type 2 diabetes, adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic macrophage activation"
Jan Ackermann, PhD (MCDB, Carpenter Lab, UCSC)
"The ‘butterfly effect’ and how fine tuning of TCR signaling via CD8ab may determine the fate of autoreactive thymocytes during negative selection"
Martha Zuñiga, PhD (MCDB, Zuñiga Lab, UCSC)
~ * Previous Talks * ~
~ * Previous Talks * ~
May 7th, 2025
Seminar: "Save the piggies! Porcine Astrovirus 4 is a novel respiratory virus in pigs"
Dr. Rebecca DuBois, Danielle Haley (Jr Specialist), and Aurora Hofkin (Undergrad) (BME, DuBois Lab, UCSC)
April 2nd, 2025
Seminar: "Utilizing iPSC derived macrophages for immunological research"
Samira Yitiz (MCDB, Carpenter Lab, UCSC)
March 5th, 2025
Seminar: "Uncovering the roles of the DNA damage response in lentiviral replication and innate immunity"
Oliver Fregoso (MCDB, Fregoso Lab, UCSC)
February 5th, 2025
Seminar: "A new in vitro model to study human astrovirus infection of goblet cells"
Melanie Kirkpatrick (MCDB, Cortez Lab, UCSC)
January 8th, 2025
Winter Break- No meeting
December 4th, 2024
Seminar: "Immune Modulation by Dietary Plant Glycans"
Fatima Rizvi (METX, Patnode Lab, UCSC)
October 2nd, 2024
Seminar: "Age-dependent lung fibroblast responses to infection and their role in immunity"
Nikhil Marudai (MCDB, Boyd Lab, UCSC)
June 5th, 2024
Seminar: "RSV vaccines - where are they now, and where could they go?"
Dr. Rebecca DuBois (BME, DuBois Lab, UCSC)
May 1st, 2024
*Canceled*
April 3rd, 2024
Seminar: "The IscR Regulator Orchestrates Bacterial Virulence in Response to Host Iron and Oxidative Stress"
Mané Ohanyan (METX, Auerbach Stone Lab, UCSC)
March 6th, 2024
Seminar: "Do early childhood enteric infections disrupt oral tolerance to dietary antigens?"
Jacob Gulman (MCDB, Cortez Lab, UCSC)
February 7th, 2024
Seminar: "Capturing the adaptive immune receptor repertoire with third-generation sequencing"
Dori Deng (MCDB, Vollmer Lab, UCSC)
*Sponsored by: Axion Biosystems
January 3rd, 2024
NO MEETING!
December 6th, 2023
Seminar: "Diet-induced antibodies that target plant glycans"
Giovanni Vega (METX, Patnode Lab, UCSC)
November 1st, 2023
Seminar: "Regulated cell death as a mechanism of balancing resistance and tolerance to severe respiratory viruses"
Dr. David Boyd and Summer Jordan (MCD Biology, Boyd Lab, UCSC)
October 4th, 2023
Seminar: "Modulating signal transduction: How developing autoreactive thymocytes evade the Grim Reaper"
Dr. Martha Zuñiga (MCD Biology, UCSC)
June 7th, 2023
Seminars:
Hosted by the DuBois and Cortez Labs
"Outsmarting the Host: Unveiling Rotavirus' Evasive Tactics against Antiviral Responses"
Dr. Susana López, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
"Human astrovirus: Neutralization antigenic domains"
Dr. Carlos F. Arias, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
May 3rd, 2023
Journal Club Discussion:
Chen et al. Cell 2021
"Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes"
Dr. Alice Devigne (CRISPR Core Director, Carpenter Lab, UCSC)
April 5th, 2023
Seminar: "Diet-dependent production of antibodies that target dietary fiber carbohydrates"
Gio Vega (Patnode Lab, METX, UCSC)
March 1st, 2023
Journal Club Discussion:
Liang et al. Nature Immunology 2023
"Intrathymic dendritic cell-biased precursors promote human T cell lineage specification through IRF8-driven transmembrane TNF"
Dr. Bryce Manso (Forsberg Lab, BME, UCSC)
February 1st, 2023
Seminar: "Intestinal goblet cells: From mucus-maker to virus-maker"
Natalie Pedicino (Cortez Lab, MCD Biology, UCSC)
December 7th, 2022
Journal Club Discussion: Tas et al Immunity 2022, "Antibodies from primary humoral responses modulate the recruitment of naive B cells during secondary responses"
Led by Sarah Lanning and Maria Juarez (Dubois Lab, BME, UCSC)
October 5th, 2022
Seminar: "A role for lung fibroblasts in compartmentalizing host defense strategies to viral infection "
Dr. David Boyd (MCD Biology, UCSC)
June 1st, 2022
June 1st, 2022
Seminar: "Learning endogenous T cell dynamics during cancer immunotherapy"
Dr. Vanessa Jonsson (Applied Mathematic, UCSC)
May 4th, 2022
May 4th, 2022
Seminar: "Bacterial induction of molecular time travel"
Dr. Jacqueline Kimmey (METX, UCSC)
April 6th 2022
April 6th 2022
Seminar: "High content screening of macrophage inflammatory effects of natural products"
Dr. Beverley Rabbitts (UCSC Chemical Screening Center, UCSC)
March 2nd, 2022
March 2nd, 2022
Journal Club Discussion: Lim et al Science 2021, "Prenatal maternal infection promotes tissue-specific immunity and inflammation in offspring"
Led by Dr. Valerie Cortez (MCD Biology, UCSC)
February 2nd, 2022
February 2nd, 2022
Seminar: "Regulated Cell Death as a Host Defense against Severe Influenza Virus Infections"
Dr. David Boyd (MCD Biology, UCSC)
April 1st, 2020
April 1st, 2020
Martha Zúñiga - Zúñiga Lab
May 6th, 2020
May 6th, 2020
Kate Schubert - Auerbuch Stone Lab
June 3rd, 2020
June 3rd, 2020
Jacqueline Kimmey - Kimmey Lab
March 4th, 2020
March 4th, 2020
Andrew McShan - Sgourakis lab
Title: "The Molecular Chaperone TAPBPR Promotes Loading of Cargo on MHC-I Molecules Using a Peptide Trap"
February 5th, 2020
February 5th, 2020
Hau Truong - Sgourakis lab
Paper Discussion: Crowther et al. Nature Immunology, 2020 "Genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screening reveals ubiquitous T cell cancer targeting via the monomorphic MHC class I-related protein MR1"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-019-0578-8
December 4th, 2019
December 4th, 2019
Atesh Worthington - Forsberg lab
"Innately lymphoid or myeloid? Development of the immune system"
November 6th, 2019
November 6th, 2019
Joint meeting with Stem Cell Club!
"Gene editing with a grain of salt”.
Dr. Niels Geijsen from the Hubrecht Institute (in the The Netherlands)
https://www.hubrecht.eu/research-groups/geijsen-group/
June 5th, 2019
June 5th, 2019
Ashley Byrne- Vollmers Lab
Paper Discussion: Hong et al. Science 2016. "Complement and microglia mediate early synapse loss in Alzheimer mouse models"
Paper link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094372/pdf/nihms-825491.pdf
Sara O'Rourke- Sgourakis Lab
"Expressing recombinant monoclonal antibodies in stable CHO lines"
Andrew McShan- Sgourakis Lab
"Finding Cinderella's Slipper: Molecular Chaperones Charm Antigens onto MHC-I"
Kevin Johnson- Ottemann Lab
Paper Discussion: Arnold et al. 2018. "Eosinophils suppress Th1 responses and restrict bacterially induced gastrointestinal inflammation."
Lena Meyer- DuBois Lab
"Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of Human Astrovirus Antibodies"
Sarah Overall- Sgourakis Lab
"The T-cell Receptor: From Structure to Repertoires"
Taylor McCann- Forsberg Lab
"Defining the developmental origin of asthma susceptibility"
Elektra Robinson- Carpenter Lab
"Genetic models reveal cis and trans immune-regulatory activities for lincRNA-Cox2"
Unsure of what to present?
Unsure of what to present?
Check out recent publications from these immunology journals of significance!
Check out recent publications from these immunology journals of significance!
Nature Immunology
Science Immunology
https://immunology.sciencemag.org/
Immunity
https://www.cell.com/immunity/home
Journal of Immunology
Frontiers in Immunology
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