2024 Conference Highlights
AAI-2024 in Chicago, IL
2024 AAI Laboratory Travel Grant Recipient:
Dr. Penghua Wang
2024 Early Career Faculty Travel Grant Recipient
Dr. Zhichao Fan
2024 Trainee Abstract Receipient:
Arshmeet K. Chawla
Stabonia Maji
Below are some highlights from the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists.
Dr. Penghua Wang and Jason Cahoon attend AAI
AAI program and award: https://aai.secure-platform.com/site/solicitations/102001/sessiongallery
2023 Retreat Highlights
2023 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat at The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT
Graduate Students attending the 2023 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
Postdoctoral Fellows attending the 2023 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
Group Photo from the 2023 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
2023 Conference Highlights
AAI-2023 in Washington, DC
2023 AAI-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award:
Andrew Harrison
2023 AAI Trainee Abstract Winner:
Dr. Yuanyuan Wu
2023 AAI Trainee Poster Winner:
Saki Mihori
2023 AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grantee:
Dr. Zhichao Fan
Below are some highlights from the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists.
Dr. Yuanyuan Wu presents at AAI 2023
Graduate student Andrew Harrison is one of 6 AAI 2023-Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award Recipients
Pictured from left to right: AAI President Dr. Mark Davis, Dr. Loretta L. Doan, Chin Yee Tan, Dr. Sonya J. Wolf-Fortune, Dr. Insha Zahoor, Andrew Harrison and Chris Langsdorf of Thermo Fisher Scientific. (Not pictured: Dr. Tanushree Dangi and Fiona A. Raso)
2022 Retreat Highlights
2022 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat at The North House in Avon, CT
Graduate Students attending the 2022 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
Postdoctoral Fellows attending the 2022 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
Group Photo from the 2022 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
2022 Conference Highlights
AAI-2022 in Portland, OR
2022 AAI Trainee Abstract Winners:
Blake Torrance
Arshmeet K. Chawla
Timofey Karginov
Swathy Ollikara Vasudevan
2022 AAI Trainee Poster Winner:
Summit Singhaviranon
2022 AAI Early Career Faculty Travel Grantee:
Dr. Zhichao Fan
Below are some highlights from the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists.
2019 Conference Highlights
NEIC-2019 in Woods Hole, MA
Award Recipients:
Travel Award – Andrew Harrison
Young Investigator Award – Ashley Russo
From Left to Right: Dr. Tao Lin, Dr. Duomeng Yang, Dr. Tinging Geng, Andrew Harrison, Dr. Penghua Wang
AAI-2019 in San Diego, CA
AAI Award Recipient:
Trainee Poster Award – Karthik Chandiran
Below are some highlights from the 2019 AAI.
2019 Department of Immunology Retreat
North House, Avon, CT
April, 2019
2018 Conference Highlights
AAI-2018 in Austin, TX
AAI Award Recipient:
Third Year Member AAI Trainee Abstract Award – Ishita Banerjee
Below are some highlights from the 2018 AAI.
2017 Conference Highlights
2017 Department of Immunology Retreat
North House, Avon, CT
October, 2017
43rd Annual New England Immunology Conference
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
October, 2017
Photos from the NEIC Conference:
AAI-2017 in Washington, D.C.
AAI Award Recipients:
Second-Year Members AAI Trainee Abstract Award – Bharat Behl and Joseph Ryan
AAI Trainee Poster Award – Ishita Banerjee
AAI Early-Career Faculty Travel Award – Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja, D.V.M, Ph.D. and Kepeng Wang, Ph.D.
Young Investigator Travel Award from AAI in the year 2017 – Dr. Kepeng Wang
Block Symposium “Molecular Pathways in Autoimmunity” Speaker - Andrei Medvedev, Ph.D. His talk was entitled, “Deficiency in IRAK4 activity attenuates manifestations of murine lupus”
Below are some highlights from the 2017 AAI.
AAI Capitol Hill Day
May 16, 2017
2016 Conference Highlights
AAI-2016 in Seattle
AAI Award Recipients:
First-Year Members AAI Trainee Abstract Award - Chaitali Basole
First-Year Members AAI Trainee Abstract Award - Basak B. Cicek
AAI Early-Career Faculty Travel Award - Vijay Rathinam, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Below are some highlights from the 2016 AAI.
2015 Conference Highlights
AAI-2015 in New Orleans
2015 AAI Trainee Poster Awardees from left to right: Nandini Acharya, Dr. Naomi Tsurutani and Mai Fujiwara
2015 AAI Trainee Abstract Awardees from left to right: Roslyn Taylor, Emily Anstadt, Dr. Crystal Morales, Paurvi Shinde, Dr. Payal Mittal, Cory Brennick, Dr. Alok das Mohapatra (Not featured: Dr. Sara Colpitts and Yinghong Hu)
The Department of Immunology was well represented at AAI-2015!
Drs. Tsurutani and Mittal having a royally good time at AAI.
Other 2015 Conference Attendees
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Crystal Morales presented a poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories – Fundamental Immunology & Its Therapeutic Potential Conference. April, 2015
2014 Retreat Highlights
Immunology Graduate Program Retreat
Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, CT
October, 2014
Immunology Graduate Program Director, Dr. Leonardo Aguila and Associate Director, Dr. Linda Cauley.
Immunology Graduate Program Group Photo – October, 2014.
Congratulations to Julia Svedova and Roslyn Taylor – Winners of the student abstract competition at the 2014 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat.