UMD Advanced Immunology Course

The graduate program’s Advanced Immunology course begins this week. The course is directed by Martin Flajnik and he invites a stellar cast of friends to guest lecture in the series. This year’s faculty include Polly Matzinger, Paul Love, Avinash Bhandoola, […]

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Farewell to Rachel @ Blue Agave !

Rachel Bour left the lab to start her Ph.D thesis at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville – on tissue engineering. Rachel was the first summer intern to join our lab back in 2014 and then came back during her break […]

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Advice to Grad Students – From Dr. Iris Lindberg

This is a Powerpoint presentation from Prof. Lindberg in the Department of Neurobiology here on how to be successful in Grad School : [Click here to view the page through the Lindberg Lab website].

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Welcome to John Reiser – Molecular Medicine Graduate Student.

John Reiser transfers to our lab to complete his thesis project on Tbet and Eomes in T cells – in the context of anti-tumor responses. John is a fourth year graduate student in the Molecular Medicine program of GPILS.

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We welcome Winny Sun for her Graduate Lab Rotation !

Winny Sun joins our lab for the summer as a 1st year graduate student in the GPILS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program at the UMDSOM.

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We welcome Emily Smith for her Graduate Lab Rotation !

Emily Smith joins the lab for her rotation. Emily is a first year PhD student in the GPILS – Microbiology and Molecular Immunology program here at the UMSOM. She plans to work on Microbial pathogenesis and Vaccines for her thesis […]

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Congrats Allie on her AAI travel award… (plus birthday lunch pictures)

Allie’s abstract for the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) annual meeting in May was chosen for a block symposium Oral presentation and won a travel award from the AAI ! Congrats Allie !!! And here are some pictures from the […]

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Welcome, David Langan for his Graduate Rotation !

David Langan joins the lab for his Graduate laboratory rotation as part of the SOM’s graduate program (GPILS). David is a graduate of Hood College and conducted research at the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Frederick MD) […]

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New Funding for HIV relevant research

Together with Prof. Zvi Grossman (Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University), we just got funding from the Office of AIDS Research of the NIAID to study how basic mechanisms of Memory T cell homeostasis may be exploited to enhance […]

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Farewell to Ross !

Ross is leaving the lab, to pursue a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins. … and although he is just going to be across town, we will miss him in the lab. Ross is an avid   “ F […]

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The Invisible Gorilla: Reading for our summer book club

This months reading for our lab “summer book club” is the Chalbis & Simon book – The Invisible Gorilla. We will update this post with comments – post discussion… Lab members can view/download the ebook & audiobook versions of the […]

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Welcome (back) to the Lab, Allie !!

Allison Gerber joins the Lab for her Thesis work !! Allie is a graduate from the University of North Carolina and majored in Biochemistry. She joined the UMDSOM Graduate program (GPILS) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in June 2015. She […]

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We welcome Kenny for his Lab Rotation.

Kenneth Rosenberg joins the lab for his graduate rotation. Kenny is an MD/PhD student in the UMDSOM Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). Previous to joining the medical school here, he was an undergrad at the UMD campus in College Park, […]

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We welcome Ava for her Lab Rotation.

Ava Zapf joins the lab for her graduate rotation. Ava is a graduate student in the GPILS Molecular Medicine program at the UMDSOM. She worked at the Johns Hopkins University prior to coming to UMD – so as you can […]

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Welcome (back) to the Lab, Courtney !!

Courtney A. Matson joins the Lab as our first Thesis Student !! Courtney is a graduate from the James Madison University and majored in Biotechnology. She joined the UMDSOM Graduate program (GPILS) in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) in June […]

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