Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conference Speakers – 2025-2026
ACI Seminars will be held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in Conference Center A, unless otherwise noted.
| September 1 | NO SEMINAR – LABOR DAY |
| September 8 | Emma Newton (Axtell Lab) Smoking tobacco increases extracellular vesicles and alters their cargo in the blood of multiple sclerosis patients |
| September 15 | NO SEMINAR |
| September 22 | Rufei Lu, M.D., Ph.D. Multi-omic signatures in SLE and RA highlight divergent immune pathways in different ethnicities |
| September 29 | Xiao-Hong Sun, Ph.D. A novel mechanism for limiting auto-immune promoting gamma/delta T cells: Reprogramming into ILC1s |
| October 6 | Joel Guthridge, Ph.D. Why is Mona Lisa SMILEing? Did she take HCQ? |
| October 13 | José Alberola-Ila, M.D., Ph.D. The X’s and Y’s of hematopoietic progenitor differentiation and fitness |
| October 20 | Carol Webb, Ph.D. – OU ARID3a is a Marker of Activated Naïve B Cells in SLE |
| October 27 | NO SEMINAR – ACR CONVERGENCE 2025, Chicago, Illinois |
| November 3 | Jocelyn Labombarde (Kovats Lab) The role of lymphatic endothelial-expressed S1pr1 on immune response to influenza |
| November 10 | NO SEMINAR – Cancelled |
| November 17 | Center for Biomedical Data Sciences How to make the most of OMRF data resources |
| November 24 | Matlock Jeffries, M.D. Targeting pluripotent stem cell genes as a novel epigenetic treatment for knee osteoarthritis |
| December 1 | NO SEMINAR – ACI Retirement Celebrations |
| December 8 | John Ice, M.D. (Scofield Lab) The Curious Case of the Cuproptosis Genes in SjD |
| December 15 | Sara McCoy, MD, PhD – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health The Omics of Sjögren’s Disease Symptoms: Linking Molecular Mechanisms to Patient Experience Wileman Learning Center |
| Dec. 22 – Dec. 29 | NO SEMINAR – BREAK |
| January 5 | Sophia Sok, Ph.D. (Zhao Lab) |
| January 12 | Lily Wong, Ph.D. (Nath Lab) |
| January 19 | NO SEMINAR – MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY |
| January 26 | Mandi Roe, Ph.D. (Kovats Lab) |
| February 2 | Axtell Lab |
| February 9 | Guthridge Lab |
| February 16 | Rebecca “Becca” Wood (Scofield Lab) |
| February 23 | Josh Mytych, Ph.D. (Mao-Draayer Lab) |
| March 2 | Jinan Cheng (Zhao Lab) |
| March 9 | Aneta Pankow (Sun Lab) |
| March 16 | Biji Kurien, Ph.D. (Scofield Lab) |
| March 23 | Zoe Reed / Xana Howard / Caleb Marlin, Ph.D. (James Lab) |
| March 30 | Jacquelyn Gorman, Ph.D. |
| April 6 | Aleksander Szymczak, Ph.D. (Jeffries Lab) |
| April 13 | Mao-Draayer Lab |
| April 20 | NO SEMINAR – AAI 2026, Boston, Massachusetts |
| April 27 | Deshmukh Lab |
| May 4 | Nath Lab |
| May 11 | Tommi Taylor (Farris Lab) |
| May 18 | Stefan Wilhelm, Ph.D. – OU |
| May 25 | NO SEMINAR – MEMORIAL DAY |
The Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conferences coincides with the academic year (September through May). Please contact Jacquelyn-Gorman@omrf.org for information on the seminar schedule.
