2026 Immunology Seminar Schedule
Mondays, 4:00-5:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, FLTC
| Date | Speaker | Host |
| 1/12/26 | No Seminar | |
| 1/19/26 | No Seminar | |
| 1/26/26 | Elina Zuniga, PhD, University of California – San Diego | Eynav Klechevsky, PhD, and Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD |
| 2/2/26 | Brian Evavold, PhD, University of Utah *Time Change – Seminar to be held at 12 p.m | Gregory Wu, MD, PhD |
| 2/9/26 | Megan Baldridge, PhD, WashU Medicine, Molecular Microbiology | |
| 2/16/26 | Shruti Naik, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine | Ali Ellebedy, PhD |
| 2/26/26 | Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Infectious Diseases | |
| 3/2/26 | Sheila Stuart, PhD, WashU Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology | |
| 3/9/26 | Eugene Butcher, MD, Stanford | Russell Pachynski, MD, and Siyun Ding, PhD |
| 3/16/26 | Golnaz Vahedi, PhD, University of Pennsylvania | Claudia Han, PhD |
| 3/23/26 | Nevan Krogan, PhD, University of California – San Francisco | Laura Campisi, PhD |
| 3/30/26 | Amanda Lund, PhD, New York University | Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD |
| 4/6/26 | Erika Pearce, PhD, Johns Hopkins University | Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD |
| 4/13/26 | Laura Campisi, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 4/20/26 | Sana Karam, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Radiation Oncology | |
| 4/27/26 | Gordon Freeman, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lacy Lecture | Kodi Ravichandran, BVSc, PhD |
| 5/4/26 | Brian Crucian, PhD, NASA Immunology Student Invited Speaker | |
| 5/11/26 | Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 5/18/26 | Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, MD Anderson Cancer Center | Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD, and Nathan Singh, MD, MS |
2026 Immunology Student Journal Club
Wednesdays, 5 PM*, CSRB Room 7738
Event limited to DBBS graduate students
Food is provided
| Date | Faculty Host | Student Host | Speaker/Topic |
| 1/14/26 | Brian Laidlaw, PhD | Shawn Soares Lizzette Perez Birk Evavold | Pillars – B Cells |
| 1/21/26 | Kenneth Murphy, MD, PhD | Crystal Lovato | Elina Zuniga, PhD, University of California – San Diego |
| 1/28/26 | Gregory Wu, MD, PhD | Elizabeth Schmitz | Brian Evavold, PhD, University of Utah |
| 2/4/26 | Tarin Bigley, MD, PhD | LJosselyn Barahona Ilana Olin Rochelle Ellison | Pillars – Infections leading to chronic disease |
| 2/11/26 | Aayushi Uberoi, PhD | Shiqi Cao | Shruti Naik, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine |
| 2/18/26 | Steven Van Dyken, PhD | Wenxuan Cheng | Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Infectious Diseases |
| 2/25/26 | No Journal Club | ||
| 3/4/26 | Siyun Ding, PhD | Eva Kareus | Eugene Butcher, MD, Stanford |
| 3/11/26 | Claudia Han, PhD | Rongzhen Yu | Golnaz Vahedi, PhD, University of Pennsylvania |
| 3/18/26 | Laura Campisi, PhD | Corvin Arveseth | Nevan Krogan, PhD, University of California – San Francisco |
| 3/25/26 | Alexey Sergushichev, PhD | Chang Han | Amanda Lund, PhD, New York University |
| 4/1/26 | Jonathan Brestoff, MD, PhD, MPH | Leah Kim | Erika Pearce, PhD, Johns Hopkins University |
| 4/8/26 | Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD | Heather Ruiz Christina Fu Clarice Pavlak | Pillars – Lymphatics |
| 4/15/26 | Carl DeSelm, MD, PhD | Sarah Coffey | Sana Karam, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Radiation Oncology |
| 4/22/26 | Hussein Sultan, PhD | Alex Liu | Gordon Freeman, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| 4/29/26 | Brian Edelson, MD, PhD | Komal Patel | Brian Crucian, PhD, NASA |
| 5/6/26 | No Journal Club | ||
| 5/13/26 | Jennifer Foltz-Stringfellow, PhD | Lizzie Longtine | Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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2026 WIP Speaker Schedule
Fridays, 4:00-5:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, FLTC
| Date | Host | Speaker (Lab) |
| 1/2/26 | No WIP | |
| 1/9/26 | No WIP | |
| 1/16/26 | “Tony” Jing Yuan Yao (Saligrama) | Jessica Carpenter (Lenschow) Riley Mullins (Puram) |
| 1/23/26 | Riley Mullins (Puram) *Location Change to Moore Auditorium* | Haley Schmidt (Nednarksi) YeRam Kim (Choi) |
| 1/30/26 | Haley Schmidt (Bednarksi) | Julia Bals (Saligrama) Kevin Telfer (Randolph) |
| 2/6/26 | Kevin Telfer (Randolph) | Tornike Mamuladze (Kipnis) Reyan Coskun (Gordon) |
| 2/13/26 | Tornike Mamuladze (Kipnis) *Location & Time Change to Moore Auditorium 12 p.m.* | Joshua Deffenbaugh (Egawa) Alexander Yizhou Liu (Colonna) Joy Um (Paley) |
| 2/20/26 | Joshua Deffenbaugh (Egawa) | Christina Fu (Schilling) Heather Ruiz (Randolph) |
| 2/27/26 | Heather Ruiz (Randolph) | Ryan Agnew (Egawa) Bianka Porubska (Bambouskova) Javier Menedenz Perez (Campbell) |
| 3/6/26 | No WIP | |
| 3/13/26 | No WIP | |
| 3/20/26 | Ryan Agnew (Egawa) | Daan Verhaage (Kipnis) Christy Paik (Fehniger) Ranya Guennoun (Bigley) |
| 3/27/26 | Christy Paik (Fehniger) | Clarice Pavlak (Wu) Macee Owen (Lavine) |
| 4/3/26 | Macee Owen (Lavine) | Rochelle Ellison (Ravichandran) Tenzin Yangdon (Singh) “Jerry” Jiarui Sun (Ravichandran) |
| 4/10/26 | Rochelle Ellison (Ravichandran) | Katsuya Toshida (Egawa) Nora Abduljawd (Kipnis) |
| 4/17/26 | No WIP | |
| 4/24/26 | Katsuya Toshida (Egawa) | Elizabeth Juarez Diaz (Johanns) Abraham Ogbaslase (Wu) Lyra Morina (Fehniger) |
| 5/1/26 | Abraham Ogbaslase (Wu) | Rosie Reilly (Lopez) “George” Sicong Shan (Murphy) Nada Abdalla (Edelson) |
| 5/8/26 | “George” Sicong Shan (Murphy) | Hanling Wang (Colonna) Diego DeMmon (Egawa) Sarah Coffey (Brestoff) |
| 5/15/26 | Diego DeMmon (Egawa) | Crystal Lovato (Baldridge) Tyler Michael Harmon (Lavine) Onyinyechi Onyeador (Herzog) |
| 5/22/26 | Crystal Lovato (Baldridge) | Shitong Wu (Colonna) Jingyi Yang (Li) Jacob Bedia (Brestoff) |
| 5/29/26 | Shitong Wu (Colonna) | Shasha Wu (Yokoyama) Hui Qi Loo (DiAntonio) Noah Perlmutter (Egawa) |
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