June 19, 2021
As we commemorate Juneteenth this year, its 156th anniversary is an especially monumental moment with the federal passage of the
Kudos to Brandon on his recently published Frontiers review article, " Targeting Neuroinflammation in Brain Cancer: Uncovering Mechanisms, Pharmacological Targets, and Neuropharmaceutical Developments ." Well done, Brandon!
The Moore Lab's new paper , "Stem cell transplantation uncovers TDO-AHR regulation of lung dendritic cells in herpesvirus-induced pathology," finds that alterations in the production of AHR ligands in response to respiratory pathogens following BMT results in a pro-Th17
Dr. Cascalho's new work , "IgV somatic mutation of human anti–SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies governs neutralization and breadth of reactivity," shows infection with SARS-CoV-2 evokes high-affinity B cell responses, some products of which are broadly neutralizing and others highly
Congrats to Henry Gong (Deng Lab), Brandon McClellan (Castro Lab), Dawit Mengistu (Freeman Lab), Gabby Huizinga (Moore/Singer Labs), Elena Levi-D'Ancona (Soleimanpour), Emma Lauder (Reddy Lab), QingYang Liu (Kim Lab), Mitra Maz (Kahlenberg Lab), and Enze Xing (Gudjonsson Lab) on passing their prelim exams and subsequent advancement to candidacy
We are pleased to announce the award recipients from our first-ever virtual poster retreat session showcase. The virtual event was housed on Gather.Town lists and among its impressive awardees:
1st place - Helen Rich, PhD (Moore Lab) and Emily Yarosz (Chang Lab)
2nd place - Judy Chen (Goldstein Lab), Fang Fe, PhD (Grigorova Lab
Congratulations to the awardees of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards: Mike Haggadone (Peters-Golden Lab) and Eli Olson (Raghavan Lab), Outstanding Graduate Service Awards: Emily Yarosz (Chang Lab) and Gabby Huizinga (B. Moore & Singer Labs), and Outstanding Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awards: Francisco Gomez-Rivera (
The Graduate Program in Immunology is pleased to announce and welcome new Immunology Students from PIBS: Sean Hannifin, Belle Henry, Padma Kadiyala, Jacob Martens, and Ashley Mello to the Immunology Graduate Program. Please refer to the rising 2nd years’ webpages for further information and join us in officially welcoming the new graduate
Congratulations to graduate students, Elena Levi-D'Ancona (Soleimanpour Lab) and Brandon McClellan (Castro-Lowenstein Labs), for both recently receiving $1500 in pre-candidate Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant funds to help defray the costs of conducting
A hearty congrats to the lab of Dr. Weiping Zou on their Nature paper which discusses their "findings in human cells and animal models which suggests potential approaches to improve immunotherapy treatment against
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Katherine Gallagher for her well-deserved promotion! Dr. Gallagher is now a full Professor with tenure. The Regents voted their approval for the promotion to take place September 1st.
Congratulations to Francisco Gomez-Rivera, MSc (Collins Lab) on his University of Michigan SACNAS Financial Chair executive board election! This is an important service role, one that we are so proud Francisco has undertaken. We look forward to supporting your progress. SACNAS is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of
The Graduate Program in Immunology in care of the Graduate Student Affairs Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's Immunology awards.
The Herman & Dorothy Miller Award for Innovative Immunology Research is a philanthropically endowed fund at the University of Michigan Medical School dedicated to the support of
Congrats to Gabby on her review! Her Endocrinology paper, The Collision of Meta-Inflammation and SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Infection, was chosen for the Endocrine Society Thematic Issue on Immune-Endocrinology 2021 and has
Judy Chen's (Goldstein Lab) article, " Role of Aging and the Immune Response to Respiratory Viral Infections: Potential Implications for COVID-19 " acknowledged amongst the 20 Most-Read Journal of Immunology
Congrats to Amnah on her co-authored paper, " Thermoneutrality Alters Gastrointestinal Antigen Passage Patterning and Predisposes to Oral Antigen Sensitization in Mice !" Make some time to
