Congrats to Liz : Talk at AAI 2022 & Trainee award !

ELizabeth Hill (2nd year student in the Lab) was selected by American Association of Immunologists (AAI) to give a talk at the Block Symposium during the 2022 Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. This is Liz’s first AAI meeting & she […]

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Polly Matzinger & the AI2016 finale.

The Graduate School’s 2016 Advanced Immunology class (organized by Dr. Martin Flajnik) featured several external lecturers this year, including John Tsang (NIAID, NIH), Avinash Bhandoola (NCI, NIH), Jonathan Powell (John’s Hopkins) – and finally Polly Matzinger (NIAID, NIH) last Friday. […]

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HBO’s John Oliver on News Reports of “Scientific Research”

Okay .. This may not have the most appropriate language to be cited here :-), but its an interesting piece on an issue that should concern us all – the cherry-picked reporting of “science” that comes out in the news […]

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The Polly Matzinger lectures on Danger

Dr. Polly Matzinger is running a lecture series on the “Danger model”, which is a great introduction to the concept, for new students of Immunology. Polly originally proposed the “Danger Model” in 1992 to explain how Immune responses are initiated […]

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Selected Online Resources For Learning Immunology

A selective list of some good audio-visual resources for learning basic immunology online. Trying to search for basic lessons in immunology on the web can be (unfortunately) excessively gratifying. For a new student, the challenge is to identify the genuinely […]

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Fun talks for the (budding) Immunologist

There are a lot of thought provoking popular science talks you can watch online .. and here are some we like. This is a new list we just started putting together – focusing on talks for a general audience (we […]

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