The Immunology Center of Georgia welcomes all campus faculty, researchers and staff to two kinds of conversations, organized by IMMCG scientists Kunzhe Dong, PhD, and Peipei Zhu, PhD.
These series alternate each week at noon Thursdays in the Georgia Cancer Center's M. Bert Storey Research Building on the first-floor Knox Foundation Community Room, CN1209. These events are exclusively for students, faculty and staff in the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University and Wellstar MCG Health.
Mohammad Oliaeimotlagh, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, February 29, CN 1209
Title: “DISSECTING CELL IDENTITY VIA NETWORK INFERENCE AND IN
SILICO GENE PERTURBATION”
Layne Benson
Graduate Student Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, February 29, CN 1209
Title: "SLAN+ MONOCYTES KILL CANCER CELLS COATED
IN THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODY BY TROGOPTOSIS”
Megh Mehta
Graduate Student Immunology Center of Georgia Medical College of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, February 15, CN 1209
Title: "TALIN AND KINDLIN USE INTEGRIN TAIL ALLOSTERY
AND DIRECT BINDING TO ACTIVATE INTEGRINS"
Natalia Jaeger, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia Medical College of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, February 1, CN 1209
Title: "MACROPHAGE AND NEUTROPHIL HETEROGENEITY
AT SINGLE-CELL SPATIAL RESOLUTION IN HUMAN
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE"
Peter Biggs, PhD
Graduate Research Assistant Augusta University
Noon, Thursday, January 18, CN 1209
Title: "NAD+ REGULATES NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM
AND GENOMIC DNA REPLICATION"
Kunal Kumar, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, January 11, CN 1209
Title: "UFL1 REGULATES T CELLS EXHAUSTION"
Amir Khan, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Cancer Center
Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CN 1209
Title:“RIMODAL SINGLE-CELL PROFILING REVEALS A NOVEL PEDIATRIC CD8αα+ T CELL SUBSET AND BROAD AGE-RELATED MOLECULAR REPROGRAMMING ACROSS THE T CELL COMPARTMENT”
Mohammad Yeashin Gazi, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Cancer Center
Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CN 1209
Title: “Vaccine-boosted Car T Crosstalk With Host Immunity To Reject Tumors With Antigen Heterogeneity”
Francis Anazodo, BPharm
Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CN 1209
Title: “Regulation of the Terminal Maturation Of iNKT Cells By Mediator Complex Subunit 23”
Kunal Kumar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Nagendra Singh Lab Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Augusta University
Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CN 1209
Title: “MYB Orchestrates T Cell Exhaustion And Response to Checkpoint Inhibition”
Ogacheko Okoko
Ph.D. Candidate Immunology Center of Georgia
Sunil Kumar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow MCG-Immunology Center of GA
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CL 1101
Title: “TCF-1 regulates HIV-Specific CD8+ T cell Expansion Capacity”
Layne Benson, BS
Graduate Student Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. CN 1209
Title: "Single-cell RNA-sequencing identifies anti-cancer immune phenotypes in the early lung metastatic niche during breast cancer.”
Yan Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Klaus Ley Lab Immunology Center of Georgia Augusta University
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
Title: "Flow cytometry based-FRET: basics, novel developments and future perspectives”
QingKang Lyu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Klaus Ley Lab Immunology Center of Georgia Augusta University
Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
Title: "Talin variant P229S compromises integrin activation and associates with multifaceted clinical symptoms”
Kunal Kumar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Nagendra Singh Lab Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Augusta University
Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
Title: "Deletion of SNX9 alleviates CD8 T cell exhaustion for effective cellular cancer immunotherapy”
Sunil Kumar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia Dr. Klaus Ley Lab, AU
Journal Club Gathering
Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
Title: "A critical role for TCF-1 in T-lineage specification and differentiation”
