Conferences and Retreats

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

Graduate Students attending the 2023 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat

Postdoctoral Fellows 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

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

Graduate Students attending the 2022 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat

Postdoctoral Fellows 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

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.

Timofey Karginov and Andrew Harrison standing next to a Welcome sign at AAI
Immunology group standing together in front of the AAI sign
Arshmeet K. Chawla standing next to her poster at AAI
Swathy Ollikara Vasudevan standing next to her poster at AAI

2019 Conference Highlights

NEIC-2019 in Woods Hole, MA

Award Recipients:
Travel Award – Andrew Harrison
Young Investigator Award – Ashley Russo

NEIC conference attendees sitting at a table

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.

Lynn Puddington with Clinton Mathias, recipient of the AAI Distinguished Service Award
Scott Anthony, recipient of the Lefrancois-BioLegend Memorial Award, with Lynn Puddington and Kimberly Schluns

2019 Department of Immunology Retreat

North House, Avon, CT
April, 2019

Group at the 2019 Immunology Retreat
Poster presentation at the 2019 Immunology Retreat

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.

Attendees at the 2018 AAI Conference in Austin, Texas
Attendees at the 2018 AAI Conference in Austin, Texas
Attendees at the 2018 AAI Conference in Austin, Texas

2017 Conference Highlights

2017 Department of Immunology Retreat

North House, Avon, CT
October, 2017

Retreat 1
Retreat 2
Retreat 3
Retreat 4
Retreat 5
Retreat 6

43rd Annual New England Immunology Conference

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
October, 2017

Photos from the NEIC Conference:

NEIC Conference 1
NEIC Conference 2
NEIC Conference 3
NEIC Conference 4

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 Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.
AAI Conference 2017, Washington, D.C.

AAI Capitol Hill Day

May 16, 2017

AAI Capitol Hill Day - May 16, 2017
April Masters visited Capitol Hill to advocate for NIH funding of biomedical science research. She met with a number of Connecticut delegates including representatives from Senator Chris Murphy’s office and other AAI members representing. (April is second from the right.)

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.

 

AAI Conference 2016, Seattle, WA
AAI Conference 2016, Seattle, WA
AAI Conference 2016, Seattle, WA
AAI Conference 2016, Seattle, WA

2015 Conference Highlights

AAI-2015 in New Orleans

2015 AAI Trainee Poster Awardees

2015 AAI Trainee Poster Awardees from left to right: Nandini Acharya, Dr. Naomi Tsurutani and Mai Fujiwara

2015 AAI Trainee Abstract Awardees

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)

2015 AAI Trainee Poster Awardees

The Department of Immunology was well represented at AAI-2015!

Drs. Tsurutani and Mittal

Drs. Tsurutani and Mittal having a royally good time at AAI.

Other 2015 Conference Attendees

Crystal Morales

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 Programs Directors

Immunology Graduate Program Director, Dr. Leonardo Aguila and Associate Director, Dr. Linda Cauley.

Immunology Graduate Program Group

Immunology Graduate Program Group Photo – October, 2014.

Julia Svedova and Roslyn Taylor

Congratulations to Julia Svedova and Roslyn Taylor – Winners of the student abstract competition at the 2014 Immunology Graduate Program Retreat.