Excellence in Immunology Seminar Series

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Excellence in Immunology Lecture Series
Room NA7.206
Wednesdays, noon

2022-2023

DateSpeakerHost
Sept. 7, 2022

Rudolfo ( Rudy) Urbano
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
Yale University
rodolfo.urbano@yale.edu

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Department of Immunology

Sept. 14, 2022

Elizabeth Johnson Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
elj54@cornell.edu

Robert Orchard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Sept. 28, 2022

Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Tuoqi.Wu@UTSouthwestern.edu

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Department of Immunology
Oct. 5, 2022

Chen Yao Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Chen.Yao@UTSouthwestern.edu

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Department of Immunology
Oct. 18, 2022

Matthew Daugherty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
UC San Diego
mddaugherty@ucsd.edu

Andrew Sandstrom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Oct. 26, 2022

Sabra L. Klein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
sklein2@jhu.edu                         

Graduate Students
Nov. 2, 2022

Michael Farrar, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota
farra005@umn.edu

Chen Yao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Nov. 16, 2022

Kevin Forsberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kevin.Forsberg@UTSouthwestern.edu

Robert Orchard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Nov. 30, 2022

Steve Finkbeiner M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
steven.finkbeiner@ucsf.edu

Nan Yan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology

Dec. 14, 2022

Phillip West, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology
Texas A&M College of Medicine
awest@tamu.edu

Nan Yan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology
Jan. 18, 2023

Wanjun Chen
Senior Investigator
Chief, Mucosal Immunology Section
NIDCR/NIH
wchen@mail.nih.gov

Chen Yao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Jan. 25, 2023

Theresa Alenghat, VMD Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children’s
theresa.alenghat@cchmc.org

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Department of Immunology
Feb. 1, 2023

David Olagnier Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedicine
Aarhus University
olagnier@biomed.au.dk

Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Feb. 8, 2023

lliyan D. lliev Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology in Medicine, Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
smf2001@med.cornell.edu

Lora Hooper, Ph.D.
Chair/Professor
Department of Immunology
Mar. 1, 2023

"Emerging complexity of giant viruses in the biosphere"
Frank Alyward Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Virginia Tech
faylward@vt.edu

Dustin Hancks
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Mar. 14, 2023

Sunny Shin
Associate Professor
Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania
sunshin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Andrew Sandstrom
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Mar. 15, 2023

"Autophagy controls mucus secretion from intestinal goblet cells by alleviating ER stress"
Shai Bel, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Bar-llan University
Shai.Bel@biu.ac.il

Lora Hooper, Ph.D
Chair/ Professor
Department of Immunology

Mar. 22, 2023

Daniel Mucida, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Immunology, Virology and Microbiology
The Rockefeller University
Daniel.Mucida@Rockefeller.edu

Yuki Obata, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Mar. 29, 2023

Keke Fairfax
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Utah
keke.fairfax@path.utah.edu

Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Apr. 5, 2023

“Systemic effects of oxalate exposure mitigated through an extended, functionally redundant microbial network”
Aaron W. Miller
Assistant Staff
Lerner Research Institute
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Millera25@ccf.org

Dustin Hancks
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Apr. 12, 2023

Brian S. Kim, M.D.
Professor
Dermatology
Mount Sinai
brian.kim3@mountsinai.org

Yuki Obata Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Apr. 19, 2023

Elina Zuniga
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
UC San Diego
eizuniga@ucsd.edu

Tuoqi Wu
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

Apr. 26, 2023

Lingyin Li
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford
lingyinl@stanford.edu

Nan Yan
Professor
Department of Immunology

May 3, 2023

Jonathan Abraham M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
Harvard Medical School
abraham@crystal.harvard.edu

Robert Orchard
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

May 10, 2023

Peter Savage, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Chicago
psavage@bsd.uchicago.edu

Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology

May 17, 2023

Sabra L. Klein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Graduate Students

May 31, 2023

Gerald S. Shadel, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science
Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
gshadel@salk.edu

Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology