New Season of I3T Seminars: In Person

The I3T Seminar Series 2023-24 is back in person this year with an outstanding lineup of speakers. We have already confirmed dates with the speakers below. All our seminars start at noon and conclude at 1pm. Don't hesitate to contact us at I3T@mednet.ucla.edu for any questions. 

2023 - 2024 Seminars 


October

Lukas Jeker

Speaker: Lukas Jeker, MD, PhD
Title: Professor, Experimental Transplantation Immunology & Nephrology
Institution: University of Basel
Date: Tuesday, Oct 3, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 53-105

Talk Title: "Molecular Cell Shielding - A Therapeutic Platform Approach for Hematologic Diseases"

 

 

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Speaker: Chintan Parekh, MD, MBBS
Title: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Institution: CHLA, USC
Date: Tuesday, Oct 10, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "BCL11B, a master regulator of human T-cell development"

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Speaker: Sujan Shresta, PhD
Title: Professor, Center for Vaccine Innovation
Institution: La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Date: Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Flavivirus-Dendritic Cell Interactions"

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Speaker: Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD
Title: Professor of Microbiology
Institution: Mount Sinai
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "Modulation of innate immunity by dengue viruses"

 


November

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Speaker: Josh Beck, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Institution: Iowa State University
Date: Tuesday, Nov 7, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Mechanism of malaria parasite effector protein export to hijack the vertebrate host cell"

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Speaker: Tom Taghon, PhD
Title: Professor, Medicine and Health Sciences
Institution: Ghent University
Date: Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Unravelling human T cell development"

 


December

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Speaker: Kartik Chandran, PhD
Title: Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Date: Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Dissecting and disabling the spike proteins of emerging enveloped viruses”

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Speakers: Johnny Ji (O'Sullivan Lab) & Pablo Alvarez (Li Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Examining the role of ER stress response gene Hspa5 as a key regulator of NK cell persistence during viral infection" & "Unraveling alphavirus neuroinvasion: Molecular insights from a stem cell based blood-brain barrier model"

 


January

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Speaker: Sai Li, PhD
Title: Associate Professor, Life Sciences
Institution: Tsinghua University
Date: Tuesday, Jan 16, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Cryo-ET of SARS-CoV-2 provided insights into its assembly, fusion and neutralization"

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Speaker: Troy Torgerson, MD, PhD
Title: Director, Experimental Immunology
Institution: Allen Institute for Immunology
Date: Tuesday, Jan 23, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Systems approaches to understand human immune disorders"

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Speaker: Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
Title: Professor of Pathology & Immunology
Institution: Washington University
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "The many mechanistic layers of CNS immune uniqueness"

 


February

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Speakers: Tam To (Agak Lab) & Rajesh Parmar (Reed Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Feb 13, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Skin Symphony: The Dynamic Dance of NET-TET Antimicrobial Host Responses Conducted by the Microbiota" & "Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses in SARS-CoV-2 Viral Infection"

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Speaker: De'Broski Herbert, PhD
Title: Professor of Pathobiology and Immunology
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, Feb 20, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Hookworms adapt to host Type 2 immunity"

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Speakers: Kavit Raval (Tudzarova Lab) & Julia Gensheimer (Crooks Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Feb 27, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles“Transcriptional Profiling of “Loser” ß-Cell Trajectory in Diabetes” & “Effects of hematopoietic stem cell aging on T cell development”

 


March

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Speaker: Xunrong Luo, MD, PhD
Title: Professor of Medicine, Integrative Immunology, Pathology, & Surgery
Institution: Duke University
Date: Tuesday, Mar 5, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Monocyte and Macrophage Functional Evolution in Kidney Transplantation"

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Speaker: George O'Toole, PhD
Title: Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Institution: Dartmouth College
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, Mar 12, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "To Build A Biofilm"

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Speakers: Hailey Lee (Radu Lab) & Patricia Mendez (Hallem Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Signaling requirements for optimized CD8 T cell responses in mRNA cancer vaccine immunotherapy" & "The Neural and Molecular Underpinnings of Salt Chemosensation in the Human Parasite Strongyloides stercoralis." 

 


April

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Speaker: Reuben Harris, PhD
Title: Professor, Biochemistry & Structural Biology
Institution: University of Texas Health, San Antonio
Date: Tuesday, Apr 2, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "A Life and Death Battle – Molecular Arms Race Between Herpesviruses and the Cellular Antiviral Enzyme APOBEC3B"

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Speaker: Catherine Blish, MD, PhD
Title: Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Institution: Stanford University
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, Apr 9, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Mapping communication networks to understand host-pathogen interactions"

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Speakers: Karly Nisson (Fregoso Lab) & Angela Sun (Reed Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: “Uncovering a novel role for the lentiviral accessory gene Vpr in nucleolar stress” & “Single-cell transcriptomes reveal unique CD8 T cell atlas induced by Cytomegalovirus viremia in kidney transplant recipients”

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Speaker: Heth Turnquist, PhD
Title: Associate Professor, Surgery & Immunology
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Date: Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Targetable Repair Mechanisms in Transplantation"

 


May

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Speakers: Alex Yoo (Crooks Lab) & Zhenlan Yao (Li Lab) 
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Engineering Developmental Cues to Generate iPSC-derived, TCR-null CAR T cells for Immunotherapy" & "Evolutionary arms race between chikungunya virus glycoprotein and host factors drive efficient virion production in macrophages."

 


JUNE

Janet Markle

Speaker: Janet Markle, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, & Immunology
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Learning about mechanisms of immunity and inflammation through the study of patients with rare monogenic diseases"

Series Leadership

Gay Crooks, MD
Director

Robert M. Prins, PhD
Co-Director

Anthony Covarrubias, PhD
Co-Director

Timothy O'Sullivan, PhD
Co-Director

For more information, please contact i3t@mednet.ucla.edu.

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