2026-2027 Immunology Seminar Schedule
Mondays, 4:00-5:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, FLTC
| Date | Speaker | Host |
| 09/14/26 | Kenneth Murphy, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology Emil R. Unanue Lecture | |
| 09/28/26 | Taku Kambayashi, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania | Chyi Hsieh, MD, PhD |
| 10/05/26 | Amanda Lund, PhD, New York University | Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD |
| 10/12/26 | No Meeting | |
| 10/19/26 | D. Branch Moody, MD, Harvard University | Eynav Klechevsky, PhD |
| 10/26/26 | Robert Campbell, PhD, WashU Medicine, Emergency Medicine | |
| 11/02/26 | David Artis, PhD, Medical College of Cornell University | Claudia Han, PhD and Aydan Szeto, PhD |
| 11/09/26 | Peter Savage, PhD, University of Chicago | Naresha Saligrama, PhD |
| 11/16/26 | Ulrich von Andrian, MD, PhD, Harvard University | Wayne Yokoyama, MD |
| 11/23/26 | Michael Birnbaum, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT | Nathan Singh, MD, MS |
| 11/30/26 | Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, Stanford University | Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD |
| 12/07/26 | Brian Baker, PhD, University of Notre Dame | Daved Fremont, PhD |
| 12/14/26 | Nikhil Joshi, PhD, Yale University *Immunology Student Invited Speaker | |
| 12/21/26-01/04/27 | No Meetings – Winter Break | |
| 01/11/27 | Gaya Amarasinghe, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 01/18/27 | No Meeting – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | |
| 01/25/27 | Steven Van Dyken, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 02/01/27 | Ali Ellebedy, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 02/08/27 | Andrew Seung-Hyun Koh, PhD, University of Chicago | Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD |
| 02/15/27 | Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 02/22/27 | Joseph Sun, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute *Co-Sponsored by Siteman Cancer Center | Kenneth Murphy, MD, PhD |
| 03/01/27 | Ming Li, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute | Naresha Saligrama, PhD, and Steven Van Dyken, PhD |
| 03/08/27 | Claudia Han, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 03/15/27 | Lisa Wagar, PhD, University of California, Irvine *Co-Sponsored by Vaccine Center | Michael Diamond, MD, PhD |
| 03/22/27 | Jonathan Kagan, PhD, Harvard University | Kodi Ravichandran, BVSc, PhD and Laura Campisi, PhD |
| 03/29/27 | Chrysothemis Brown, MD, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute | Michael Paley, MD, PhD |
| 04/05/27 | Rafick Pierre Selkaly, PhD, Emory University | Eynav Klechevsky, PhD |
| 04/12/27 | Brian Edelson, MD, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology | |
| 04/19/27 | Facundo Batista, PhD, Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT | Ali Ellebedy, PhD and Xiaoxiao Wan, MD, PhD |
| 04/26/27 | Lacy Lecture | |
| 05/03/27 | Alessandro Sette, PhD, La Jolla Institute for Immunology *Co-hosted by Bursky Center for Human Immunology & Immunotherapy Programs | Robert Schreiber, PhD and Eynav Klechevsky, PhD |
| 05/10/27 | Minsoo Kim, PhD, University of Rochester Medicine | Kyunghee Choi, PhD |
| 05/17/27 | Eynav Klechevsky, PhD, WashU Medicine, Pathology & Immunology |
2026-2027 Immunology Student Journal Club
Wednesdays, 4 PM*, CSRB Room 7738
Event limited to DBBS graduate students
Food is provided
| Date | Faculty Host | Student Host | Speaker/Topic |
| 09/09/26 | Lijuan Feng | Josh Deffenbaugh | Hot off the press |
| 09/16/26 | No JC – IMM Retreat | ||
| 09/23/26 | Aayushi Uberoi | Sammy Risma | Taku Kambayashi |
| 09/30/26 | Gwendalyn Randolph | Yifan Cai | Amanda Lund |
| 10/07/26 | Hussein Sultan | Lyra Morina | Hot off the press |
| 10/14/26 | Melissa Mavers | Emily Youngblood | Branch Moody |
| 10/21/26 | Eynav Klechevsky | Audrey Street | Alessandro Sette |
| 10/28/26 | Aydan Szeto | Chi Tai | David Artis |
| 11/04/26 | Chyi Hsieh | Keagan Keplinger | Peter Savage |
| 11/11/26 | Sytse Piersman | Ivette Orosa Vazquez | Uli von Andrian |
| 11/18/26 | Xiaoxiao Wan | Jeong-Hwa Ma | Emmanuel Mignot |
| 11/25/26 | No JC – Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 12/02/26 | TBD | Ranya Guennoun | Brian M. Baker |
| 12/09/26 | TBD | Bryant Thompson | Nikhil Joshi |
| 12/16/26-01/13/27 | No JC – Winter Break | ||
| 01/20/27 | TBD | Javier Menendez Perez | Steven Van Dyken |
| 01/27/27 | TBD | Christy Paik | Ali Ellebedy |
| 02/03/27 | TBD | Katie Kaiser | Andrew Seung-Hyun Koh |
| 02/10/27 | TBD | Crystal Lovato | Takeshi Egawa |
| 02/17/27 | TBD | Jingyi Yang | Joe Sun |
| 02/24/27 | TBD | Ryan Agnew | Ming Li |
| 03/03/27 | TBD | Hui Qi Loo | Claudia Han |
| 03/10/27 | TBD | Grace Qi | Lisa Wagar |
| 03/17/27 | TBD | Rosie Reilly | Jonathan Kagan |
| 03/24/27 | TBD | Hyeyoon Shin | Chrysothemis Brown |
| 03/31/27 | TBD | Audrey Carson | Rafick Sekaly |
| 04/07/27 | TBD | Jerry Sun | Brian Edelson |
| 04/14/27 | TBD | Madison Ardagh | Facundo Batista |
| 04/21/27 | TBD | No JC | |
| 04/26/27 | TBD | David Turicek | Hot off the press |
| 05/05/27 | TBD | Diego DeMmon | Hot off the press |
| 05/12/27 | TBD | George Shan | Eynav Klechevsky |
2026-2027 WIP Speaker Schedule
Fridays, 4:00-5:00 pm, Connor Auditorium, FLTC
| Date | Host | Speaker (Lab) |
| 09/25/26 | Christina Fu (Schilling) | Rochelle Ellision (Ravichandran) Siling Du (Kipnis/Colonna) |
| 10/02/26 | Julia Bals (Saligrama) | Hanover Matz (Ellebedy) Pavla Bohacova (Artyomov) |
| 10/09/26 | NO WIP (Kornfeld Lecture) | |
| 10/16/26 | Pavla Bohacova (Artyomov) | Elizabeth Schmitz (Cooper) Christina Fu (Schilling) |
| 10/23/26 | Siling Du (Kipnis) | Jacob Gadwa (Karam) David Turicek (Wan) |
| 10/30/26 | Jacob Gadwa (Karam) | Mimi Russler-Germain (Chheda/Hsieh) Tony Yao (Saligrama) |
| 11/06/26 | Tony Yao (Saligrama) | Kevin Harris (Wu) Gustavo Gastao Davanzo (Kipnis) |
| 11/13/26 | Rochelle Ellison (Ravichandran) | Sam Murphy (Saligrama) Omar Abousaway (Hsieh) |
| 11/20/26 | Omar Abousaway (Hsieh) | Lizzette Perez Perez (Laidlaw) Sadia Afrin (Fehniger) |
| 11/27/26 | NO WIP – Thanksgiving Break | |
| 12/04/26 | Lizzette Perez Perez (Laidlaw) | Nada Abdalla (Edelson) Jichang Han (Randolph) |
| 12/11/26 | Jichang Han (Randolph) | Joshu Tobin (Cooper) Jingyi Yang (Li) |
| 12/18/26 | Jingyi Yang (Li) *LOCATION CHANGE: MOORE AUDITORIUM* | Heater Ruiz (Randolph) Joshua Deffenbaugh (Egawa) |
| 12/25/26-1/15/27 | NO WIP – Winter Break | |
| 01/22/27 | Joshua Deffenbaugh (Egawa) | Ryan Agnew (Egawa) Ranya Guennoun (Bigley) |
| 01/29/27 | Ryan Agnew (Egawa) | Eva Kareus (Gomez-Lopez) Corvin Arveseth (Schuettpelz) Shiqi Cao (Fremont) |
| 02/05/27 | Shiqi Cao (Fremont) | Margaret “Maggie” Bohm (Mavers) Hui Qi Loo (DiAntonio) |
| 02/12/27 | Hui Qi Loo (DiAntonio) | Ayoung Kim (Randolph) Arianne Pagam Torres (Han) |
| 02/19/27 | Ayoung Kim (Randolph) | Chandrani Thaur (Saligrama) Marquerite Mrad (Bambouskova) |
| 02/26/27 | Chandrani Thaur (Saligrama) | Meagan Blanchard (Stallings) Maya Olcer (Kipnis) Rongzhen Yu (Wan) |
| 03/05/27 | Meagan Blanchard (Stallings) | Jiarui “Jerry” Sun (Ravichandran) Shawn Soares (Egawa) |
| 03/12/27 | Jiarui “Jerry” Sun (Ravichandran) | William Skipper (Hsieh) Elizabeth Longtine (DeSelm) Chang Han (Kipnis) |
| 03/19/27 | NO WIP – Spring Break | |
| 03/26/27 | William Skipper (Hsieh) | Leah Kim (Van Dyken) Xinyi Liu (Diamond) Wenxuan Cheng (Murphy) |
| 04/02/27 | Wenxuan Cheng (Murphy) *LOCATION CHANGE: CORI CLASSROOM* | Adam Saidu (Mudd) Tiago Zaninelli (Riberio) Jan Kossl (Artyomov) |
| 04/09/27 | Jan Kossl (Artyomov) | Sujhey Hernandez-Bazan (Kotov) Marina Terekhova (Artyomov) |
| 04/16/27 | Marina Terekhova (Artyomov) | Laura Karvelyte (Ravichandran) Quazim Alayo (Randolph) |
| 04/23/27 | Quazim Alayo (Randolph) | Tenzin Yangdon (Singh) Javier Menendez Perez (Campbell) |
| 04/30/27 | NO WIP – AAI | |
| 05/07/27 | Javier Menendez Perez (Campbell) | Surendra Prajapat (Orvedahl) Pavle Boskovic (Kipnis) |
| 05/14/27 | Pavle Boskovic (Kipnis) | Kira Florczak (Van Dyken) Alyssa Koch (Murphy) Komal Patel (Laidlaw) |
| 05/21/27 | Alyssa Koch (Murphy) | John Warrington (Singh) Sarah Coffey (Brestoff) |
| 05/28/27 | Sarah Coffey (Brestoff) | Katsyua Toshida (Egawa) Daan Verhaege (Kipnis) Michael Strickland (Randolph) |