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 (unless otherwise posted). These events are exclusively for students, faculty and staff in the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University and Wellstar MCG Health.
Yan Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Friday, November 22nd, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "Distinct Bidirectional Regulation of LFA1 and
α4β7 by Rap1 and Integrin Adaptors in T cells
Under Shear Flow”
Austin Lowery
First Year PhD Student Biochemistry & Cancer Biology Program
Thursday, November 21st, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Spatial Analysis of NETotic Activity in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC)”
2024
Ruibo Cai, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Friday, November 15th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "Long noncoding RNA LIRIL2R Modulates FOXP3
Levels and Suppressive Function of Human CD4+
Regulatory T Cells by Regulating IL2RA”
Aderonke Fakayode
Molecular Oncology and Immunology PhD Student Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, November 14th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING IN IMMUNE CELLS OF PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES”
Austin Lowery
Biochemistry & Cancer Biology Program Second Year PhD Student
Friday, September 27th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “CXCR6 ORCHESTRATES BRAIN CD8+ T CELL RESIDENCY AND LIMITS MOUSE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PATHOLOGY”
William B. Kiosses, PhD
Program Projects Core Microscopy Director and Senior Staff Scientist, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Tuesday, September 24th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “IMAGING THE
SACRIFICIAL NEUTROPHIL
IMMUNE RESPONSE”
Ruibo Cai, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, September 19th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: “Crosstalk between Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
and Immune Cells in Atherosclerosis”
Gabriel Valentin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, September 12th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "Exploring the Role of CXCR3+ Monocytes in
Enhancing Anti-Tumor Immunity in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Models”
Mohammad Oliaeimotlagh, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Friday, September 6, CN 1203
Title: “TARGETING PRO-INFLAMMATORY T CELLS AS A
NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO POTENTIALLY RESOLVE ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN HUMANS”
Khalia Cummings
Biomedical Sciences PhD Student, Vascular Biology Center | Immunology Center of Georgia
Thursday, September 5th, at 12:00 p.m., CN 1209
Title: "The Role of Olfactory Receptor 2 in the Initiation and Progression of Atherosclerosis”
Gabriel Valentin, PhD
Ph.D. Candidate, Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Friday, August 30, CN 1203
Title: "ZBTB46 COORDINATES ANGIOGENESIS AND IMMUNITY TO CONTROL TUMOR OUTCOME”
Ogacheko Okoko
Ph.D. Candidate Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Friday, August 23rd, CN 1203
Title: "Persistent STAT5 activation reprograms the epigenetic landscape in CD4+ T cells to drive polyfunctionality and antitumor immunity”
YAN WANG, PH.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, June 13th, CN 1209
Title: “TALIN AND KINDLIN COOPERATE TO CONTROL THE DENSITY OF
INTEGRIN CLUSTERS”
Rudolf Lucas, PhD
Vascular Biology Center Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Universit
Noon, Tuesday, June 11th, CN 1209
Title: "A NOVEL PEPTIDE-BASED THERAPEUTICSTRATEGY TOWARDS ARDS"
Smriti Parashar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, May 30th, CN 1209
Title: “Mitochondrial Complex III is Essential for Suppressive Function of Regulatory T Cells”
QINGKANG LYU, PHD
Postdoctoral Fellow Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, May 16th, CN 1209
Title: “REGULATORY T CELLS RESTRAIN INTERLEUKIN-2- AND BLIMP-1-
DEPENDENT ACQUSITION OF CYTOTOXIC FUNCTION BY CD4+ T CELLS”
Kunzhe Dong, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, May 9th, CN 1209
Title: "LONG NON-CODING RNAS AND CELLULAR CROSSTALK IN VASCULAR DISEASES"
Ogacheko Okoko
Ph.D. Candidate Immunology Center of Georgia
Noon, Thursday, April 30, CN 1209
Title: “IL7 INCREASES TARGETED LIPID NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED MRNA EXPRESSION IN T CELLS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO BY ENHANCING T CELL PROTEIN TRANSLATION”
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"
2023
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”
