Education is core to our mission, which is why IMMCG regularly offers seminars for those interested in deepening their understanding of immunology.
Organized by IMMCG faculty member Marco Orecchioni, PhD, these external seminars are open to any and all, whether you are part of Augusta University or from the community.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held at noon Tuesdays in the Georgia Cancer Center's M. Bert Storey Research Building on the first-floor Knox Foundation Community Room, CN1209.
Ivan Zanoni, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Chair, Immunology Director of Basic Research, Immunology Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, March 11, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR REGULATION OF INFLAMMATION”
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Katey Rayner, PHD,FAHA
Chief Scientific Officer, VP of Research Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Tuesday, February 25, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “LIPIDS AND VASCULAR INFLAMMATION: FROM OBVIOUS TO OBSCURE”
Mykola Mamenko, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology
Tuesday, February 11, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “EFFECTS OF LITHIUM ON
CALCIUM SIGNALING AND
IMMUNE LANDSCAPE IN
THE KIDNEY”
Andres Hidalgo, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunobiology Yale School of Medicine
Tuesday, February 4, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Mapping Neutrophils”
2024 -previous
David Mattson, PhD
David L. Mattson, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Hypertension Department of Physiology
Tuesday, December 3rd at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Immune Mechanisms as Amplifiers of Salt-Sensitive Hypertension & Kidney Damage”
Matteo Borgini, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. Chemistry & Biochemistry, CSM
Tuesday, November 19th at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “EXPANDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY TOOLS TO DRUG “UNDRUGGABLE” TARGETS”
Nicholas Jarjour, PhD
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Center for Immunology University of Minnesota
Thursday, August 22nd at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “IMMUNOLOGY IN CONTEXT:
MECHANISMS SUPPORTING TISSUERESIDENT IMMUNITY”
Jade Nealious
Founder and Executive Director of Crowning Lupus
Friday, August 9th, Knox Foundation Community Center, CN 1209
Title: “The Lupus Experience: Bridging the
Gap”
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PHD
Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University
Tuesday, August 6 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO: CROSSTALKBETWEEN ENDOTHELIUM AND MYELOID CELLS IN DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE”
Justine Abais-Battad, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Physiology Medical College of Georgia
Tuesday, July 30 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “CONTRIBUTION OF DIET AND SEX TO GUT-IMMUNE-KIDNEY CROSSTALK IN HYPERTENSION”
Partha Dutta, DVM, PHD
Associate Professor of Immunology Department of Immunology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Thursday, June 27 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “THE ROLE OF MACROPHAGES IN THE
CONTEXT OF AGING AND MYOCARDIAL
INFARCTION”
Phillip P. Domeier, PhD
Staff Scientist Ziegler Laboratory Benaroya Research Institute
Tuesday, May 28that 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “FROM LAWFUL GOOD TO CHAOTIC EVIL: EXPLORING PROTECTIVE AND PATHOGENIC ROLES OF GERMINAL CENTERS”
Sarajo Mohanta, PhD
Independent Cardiovascular Group Leader Department of Medicine Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention Ludwig-Maximilians University
Thursday, May 23rd at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “NEUROIMMUNE CARDIOVASCULAR INTERFACES IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS”
Neil J. MacKinnon, PhD
Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chief Academic Officer Augusta University
Tuesday, May 21st at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “GEOGRAPHIC HEALTH DISPARITIES AND GLOBAL HEALTH”
Seminar Flyer
Yury Miller, MD, PhD
Professor/Professor in Residence Department of Medicine University of California, San Diego
Tuesday, May 14 at 12:00 p.m., CL 1103
Title: “TLR4 INFLAMMARAFTS AS A NEW THERAPEUTIC TARGET IN VASCULAR AND NEURO INFLAMMATION”
Sonia Sharma, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Immunology Center for Cancer Immunotherapy La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Thursday, April 23 at 12:00 p.m., CN1209, J. Harold Harrison Education Commons
Title: “BIO-ACTIVE LIPID METABOLITES MODULATE
CLINICAL CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
OUTCOMES”
Hui Hu, PHD
Associate Professor Department of Microbiology The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thursday, April 18 at 12:00 p.m., GB1110C, J. Harold Harrison Education Commons
Title: “T FOLLICULAR HELPER (TFH) CELLS, CD4+ T CELL RESPONSES, AND BEYOND”
Seminar Flyer
Qibin Qi, PHD
Professor Associate Director, Einstein Center for Population Cohorts Department of Epidemiology and Population Health Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tuesday, April 16 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “HOST-GUT MICROBIOTA CROSSTALK IN CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE: MULTI-OMNICS DATA INTEGRATION
IN HUMAN POPULATION
STUDIES”
Ahmet F. Coskun, PHD
Assistant Professor Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering College of Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Tuesday, March 19 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “SINGLE-CELL SPATIAL OMICS JOURNEY TO SIGNALING AND METABOLISM OF IMMUNITY, CANCER, AND AGING”
Anatolij Horuzsko, MD, PHD
Professor of Medicine Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor of Graduate Studies Georgia Cancer Center Medical College of Georgia
Tuesday, March 12 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "TRIGGERING RECEPTOR EXPRESSED ON
MYELOID CELLS 1 (TREM1): A NEW TARGET
FOR CANCER THERAPY”
Amir Khan, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, February 22 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "PRO-INFLAMMATORY GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES WITH AGE IN MEN AND WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE"
TianXiang Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Georgia Cancer Center The Graduate School Medical College of Georgia
Thursday, February 13 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "REGULATION OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION ASSOCIATED ORGAN DYSFUNCTION BY THE WNT PATHWAY"
Indumathi Manoharan, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgia Cancer Center
Thursday, December 21 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "REGULATION OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION ASSOCIATED ORGAN DYSFUNCTION BY THE WNT PATHWAY"
Kenneth S. Rosenthal, PhD
Professor of Immunology, Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership
Tuesday, December 5 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "MANIPULATION OF ANTIGEN SPECIFIC IMMUNITY WITH LEAPS VACCINES FOR ANTI-VIRAL, ANTI-CANCER AND ALSO ANTI-RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS THERAPY"
Anshu Agrawal, PhD
Professor in Residence School of Medicine University of California, Irvine
Thursday, November 30 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION UNDERLYING AGING AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE"
Mohammad Oliaeimotlagh, MD, MSC
Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, November 9 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "Thresholdr: An Automated Method For Thresholding Cite-SEQ-Based Antibody Expression Date For Immune Cell Type Identification"
Nicholas R.J. Gascoigne, PhD, FRSB
Professor, Immunology Translational Research Programme, Cancer Translational Research Programme, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore
Tuesday, October 31 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Using Distinct CAR and TCR Signaling Cascades to Enhance Cellular Immunotherapy”
Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer Autoimmunity & Inflammation Center Infectious Disease & Vaccine Research Center La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Thursday, October 12 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Subsets of Pathogenic T cells in Ulcerative Colitis”
Jane Buckner, MD
President, BRI Director, Translational Sample Core Benaroya Institute, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, October 10 at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “T1D from GWAS to Treg Therapy”
Helen Goodridge, Ph.D.
Professor Biomedical Sciences Associate Director of Discovery Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Title: “Monocyte Heterogeneity and Origins”
Ting Zhang, MD/Ph.D.
Tianjin Medical University Peking University
Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “Leukemia-induced Macrophage in Stem Cells Leukemia/Lymphoma”
Zhichao Fan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Immunology UConn Health
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “Roles of mitofusin-2 in Neutrophil Adhesion and Development”
Mohammad Yeashin Gazi, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow Georgia Cancer Center
Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “The Immunological Basis of the Antitumor Effect of a Novel RAS/b-catenin Dual Inhibitor”
Wei Zhang, PhD
Assistant Professor Vascular Biology Center
Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “New regulators of inflammation in the disordered vessel wall”
Gabriel Valentin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “CXCR3 Expression in Myeloid Cells as a Predictive Biomarker for Immunotherapies.”
Wan-Tien (Austin) Chiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Project Scientist University of California San Diego
Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: “Systems Immunology: Doubling the Power of Single Cell Data in Unraveling the Complex Immune System”
Sujan Shresta, Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Thursday, June 13, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Flavivirus-Dendritic Cell Interactions”
Jiliang Zhou, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Augusta University
Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title:"Identification of master transcription factors for smooth muscle development and homeostasis”
Yan Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Klaus Ley Lab Augusta University
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
CN 1209
Title: "FACS based-FRET monitor β2 integrin conformation spreading”
Ada Weinstock, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago
Tuesday at 12:00 p.m.
Title: "The effects of weight loss and regain on atherosclerosis”
Amir Khan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Klaus Ley Lab Immunology Center of Georgia
Title: "Single cell RNA sequencing reveals age effects on immune cell proportions and transcriptomes in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD)”
Xuemei Xie, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of Pathology
Title: "Exploring Neutrophil development and heterogeneity in homeostasis and infection through single cell transcriptomics”
Natalia Jaeger, MSc
Ph.D. Candidate in Immunology Department of Pathology & Immunology Washington University in Saint Louis, MO
Title: "Heterogeneity of human small intestine T cells and their abnormal distribution in Crohn’s disease”
Caryn L. Bird, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Candidate, Dr. Theodore Johnson Lab, Cancer Immunology, Inflammation and Tolerance
Program, AU
Title: "Local complement-mediated signaling in response to a tumor antigen augments anti-tumor
T cell responses”
Arif Yurdagul Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Cardiovascular Center for
Diseases and Sciences, LSU Health Shreveport
Title: "Nutrient Sensing of Apoptotic Cell-Derived Cargo Drives Inflammation Resolution”
Mercy Kihinde-Ige
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Huidong Shi Lab, AU
Title: "Single-cell RNA-sequencing Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks and Metabolic Pathways in Genetically Modified Tumor-specific CD4+ T cells”
Ogacheko Okoko
Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Gang Zhou’s Lab, AU
Title: "Novel strategies to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy – Sensitizing tumors and improving T cell function”
Dr. Shahad Iqneibi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology Center of Georgia, Dr. Klaus Ley Lab at AU
Title: "Single cell transcriptomic changes of CD8T cells in male and female patients with coronary artery disease and diabetes"
Dr. Huidong Shi
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
"Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Retinal Microglia Heterogeneity: from Metabolic Profiles to Lineage Topology"
Dr. David Munn
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
“Tracking T cell reactivation during immunotherapy”
Dr. Yukai He, MD, PhD
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
"The affinity of antigen binding domain on CAR-T’s efficacy: Moderate may be better"
Heping Ma, MD
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
"Introduce an imaging modality new at AU, multiphoton and confocal intravital microscopy"
Dr. Gang Zhou
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
"The identity of the immunosuppressive myeloid cells emerging during chemotherapy-induced myelopoiesis"
Dr. Adil Rasheed
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
"MLKL (Mixed Lineage Kinase Domain-Like Protein): An Immunometabolic Nexus of Cardiovascular Disease"
