MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Spring 2026 MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar: Immunology-focused
These are the immunology-focused sessions; the full seminar schedule is posted by the Microbiology Immunology and Cancer Biology program (MICaB).
12:00–1:15 p.m.
In-person seminars will be held in:
1-125 Cancer & Cardiovascular Research Building (CCRB)
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February 2, 2026
"Vax-Innate: A Paradigm for Developing Tumor Vaccines to Induce Stem-like CD8 T cells and Modulate the Tumor Microenvironment"
Robert Seder, M.D.
Chief of the Cellular Immunology Section in the Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Host: David Masopust
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February 16, 2026
“Mechanisms of anti-cancer immunity elicited by natural microbial exposure”
Francesco Marangoni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
Host: David Masopust
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March 2, 2026
"Disease-associated T cells in the development of type 1 diabetes"
Maki Nakayama, M.D.
Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Anschutz Campus, School of Medicine, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes Basic Research,
Host: Brian Fife
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March 16, 2026
"Thetis cell regulation of intestinal tolerance."
Chrysothemis Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Physician; Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Host: Ryan Nelson
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March 30, 2026
"Adaptive immune responses in pulmonary fibrosis"
Anne Sperling, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia
Host: Jesse Williams
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April 13, 2026
"Defining the causes and consequences of T cell clonal expansion in the liver during chronic disease"
Matthew Burchill, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
Host: Mike Farrar
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April 27, 2026
Title TBA
William (Bill) Hawse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Craig Byersdorfer
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Jointly sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Center for Immunology.
To schedule time with a speaker, please contact their host.