Budhaditya Chatterjee joins the lab
Welcome Budhaditya to the lab ! Budha is a computational Immunologist with a Ph.D. in Systems Biology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi). He comes to us from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore) where he completed […]
Maxine Atuheirwe Joins the lab !
We welcome Maxine to the lab ! Maxine Atuheirwe joins us as a Research Fellow. Maxine completed her Masters in Immunology from Makerere University in Uganda and was part of training fellowships from NIH (Fogarty International Center) and the London […]
MEMSEAL is a go ! DARPA systems vaccinology initiative.
The Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) selected us as one of the teams leading an ambitious effort to predict the formation of long term immunological memory soon after a vaccination, under the auspices of the Assessing Immune Memory (AIM) […]
CONGRATS to Dr. Gideon Wolf on his paper !!!
Gideon’s paper on the alteration of T cell dynamics in vivo after FLT3L treatment is out : https://rdcu.be/cZBR8 . This was a long journey 🙂 Congrats to Gideon, Allie, Kenny and Zach – for sticking with it through the revisions […]
Welcome Crystal Stinson to the lab !!
Crystal Stinson Crystal joins the lab as a Laboratory assistant after completing her training with the BioTechnical Institute (BTI)‘s BioStart program.
Fundamental Immunology is published !
Since 1984, Fundamental Immunology has been THE definitive texbook for graduate/post-graduate level Immunology and the go-to reference for the state of the field. Until 2015, it was edited by the late Dr. William E. Paul. Typically, the book compiles chapters […]
CONGRATS to Gideon Wolf on defending his Ph.D thesis !!
Dr. Gideon Wolf !!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!! Gideon defends his thesis in front of the UMSOM audience – an in-person defense after a long series of virtual thesis seminars.
2022 Goidl Lecturer: Dr. Rafi Ahmed
The GOIDL talk at UMSOM is an endowed lecture (named after Prof. Edmond Goidl) presented annually by a renowned contemporary Immunologist, selected by departmental faculty. This year’s speaker was Dr. Rafi Ahmed from Emory University. Here are some of our […]
Congratulations Dr. Kenny !!
Congratulations to Kenny – our first MD/PhD student as he gets the first of his two “Dr.s”. Covid Rules Apply. So we get to go to Fed Hill Park for a socially distant celebration. At this point, this is the […]
The Ken Rosenberg Defense !!
Kenneth Rosenberg defended his thesis (virtually) via Zoom on the 19th of August ! CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Rosenberg !!! . He now goes off to do some clinical clerkships – to get his 2nd Dr. (the MD part). The Life of […]
Congratulations Courtney – Review in Press !!!
Courtney Matson’s review article titled “Manipulating the TCR signaling network for cellular immunotherapy: Challenges & opportunities” is now in press in Molecular Immunology. Aaaay !! Congrats Courtney !!
The Virtual World : for Micro & Immuno students
Ever since the implementation of social distancing in responce to Covid19 (that started March 9th), the closing of all in-person seminars/lectures (March 23) and finally the shutdown of non-essential research … the Microbiology & Immunology program as a whole (in […]
New Publication in TI
Our collaboration with Zvi Grossman on a theoretical model for flushing out latently infected T cells in HIV patients is accepted to Trends in Immunology. Congrats to Zvi & all the authors ! ‘Rinse-and-Replace’: Boosting T-Cell Turnover to reduce HIV-1 […]
Aaay Courtney ! Very SPARKy !!
Courtney is the winner for the Departmental SPARK awards for Feb 2020 !
The John Migration
Dr. John Reiser Ph.D (Molecular Medicine) … leaves us for his new life as a Scientist at Fate Therapeutics in San Diego, CA. John is interested in Tumor Immunotherapy and got himself great options – with postdoc offers from the […]