Congratulations to Andrew Harrison who has been selected as a recipient of a 2023 AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award.  This award recognizes six promising trainees in the field of immunology selected for oral presentation in a Block Symposium. Andrew is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Penghua Wang, and his project involves investigating the role of glucose transporters in antiviral immunity.

Congratulations to Saki Mihori who has received an AAI Trainee Poster Award and ribbon of distinction for the 2023 AAI meeting in May in Washington D.C..  Saki is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Clark and her project focuses on understanding mechanisms involved in harnessing the gut microbiome to regulate systemic innate immunity.

Dr. Yuanyuan Wu was selected to receive the AAI Trainee Abstract Award and invited to give an oral presentation at the Block Symposium of “Cellular Adhesion, Migration and Inflammation” at IMMUNOLOGY2023^TM in Washington, DC. Dr. Wu’s project in Dr. Zhichao Fan’s lab relates to using super-resolution stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) and CRISPR-Cas9 to study the roles of kindlin-3 and talin-1 in beta2 integrin clustering on neutrophils.