Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conference Speakers – 2024-2025
ACI Seminars will be held on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in Conference Center A, unless otherwise noted.
| September 2 | NO SEMINAR – LABOR DAY |
| September 9 | Saghar Kaabinejadian, PhD, OU College of Medicine Unraveling the HLA-DR Immunopeptidome |
| September 16 | Jianan Cheng (Zhao Lab) |
| September 23 | Harini Bagavant, PhD (Deshmukh Lab) Immune Cells and Sex Differences in Aging Salivary Glands |
| September 30 | Stephanie Lawrence (Scofield Lab) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Autoimmunity: Connecting Mental and Physical Health |
| October 7 | Abigael Williams (Kovats Lab) Extrinsic and Intrinsic Effects Regulate Sex-dependent Phenotypes of Pulmonary ILC2s in Homeostasis and Inflammation |
| October 14 | Aleksandra “Ola” Bylinska (Guthridge Lab) Mechanisms of transitions in preclinical autoimmunity: Identifying predictive serum soluble mediators signatures specific to ANA+ individuals at risk of SLE with next generation proteomics |
| October 21 | Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD – University of Iowa Health Care The Gut Game: Diet, Microbiota, and Immune Dynamics in Multiple Sclerosis |
| October 28 | Martha Tsaliki (Scofield Lab) Pathogenic mediators of Sjögren’s Disease |
| November 4 | Carol Webb, PhD – OUHSC Immune Mechanisms and Arid3a |
| November 11 | R. Hal Scofield, MD PTSD associated diseases in the Million Veteran Program |
| November 18 | NO SEMINAR – ACR CONVERGENCE 2024, Washington, DC |
| November 25 | Aneta Pankow (Sun Lab) Fate mapping with Cd3giCre reveals a subset of ILC2s prevalent in pre- and neonatal stages |
| December 2 | Bob Axtell, PhD – Wileman Learning Center Exploring the Molecular and Cellular Landscape Reveals Clinical Diversity in MS Patients |
| December 9 | Jocelyn Labombarde (Kovats Lab) The Role of Lymphatic Endothelial Cell-Expressed Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1 on Immune Cell Trafficking and Response to Influenza Virus |
| December 16 | Ken Smith, PhD (James Lab) How Do Vaccination and Infection Change the Autoantibody Landscape? |
| Dec. 23 – Dec. 30 | NO SEMINAR – BREAK |
| January 6 | Matlock Jeffries, MD, PhD Peripheral blood epigenotyping to predict future knee osteoarthritis development |
| January 13 | CANCELLED |
| January 20 | NO SEMINAR – MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY |
| January 27 | Sophia Sok, PhD (Zhao Lab) |
| February 3 | Justyna Luczak (Alberola-Ila Lab) Invariant Natural Killer T Cells Mediate Early Immune Responses to Influenza A Virus |
| February 10 | John Ice, MD (Scofield Lab) Iterative subsetting of transcriptomic data to expand upon known dysregulated pathways in Sjögren’s disease |
| February 17 | Mandi Roe, PhD (Kovats Lab) Age-dependent differences in monocyte adaptation and viral response in a human lung model |
| February 24 | Caleb Marlin, PhD (Guthridge Lab) Imaging Technologies and Analyses for Spatial Biology in ACI/OMRF |
| March 3 | Darise Farris, PhD Non-canonical autoantibodies in Sjögren’s Disease: Past, Present and Future |
| March 10 | Jacquelyn Gorman, PhD |
| March 17 | Sandra Bajana, MD, PhD (Sun Lab) CD3 expressing ILC1s, γδ T cells and a potential link to autoimmunity |
| March 24 | Aleksander Szymczak, PhD (Jeffries Lab) Tracking the Oral-Gut-Joint Axis in Osteoarthritis through Shotgun Metagenomics |
| March 31 | Yang Mao-Draayer, MD, PhD Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Mediators in Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis |
| April 7 | CANCELLED |
| April 14 | CANCELLED |
| April 21 | Umesh Deshmukh, PhD Under the Radar: Immune Aging and Glandular Inflammation in Male Sjögren’s Disease |
| April 28 | CANCELLED |
| May 5 | NO SEMINAR – AAI ANNUAL MEETING 2025, Honolulu, HI |
| May 12 | CANCELLED |
| May 19 | POSTPONED |
| May 26 | NO SEMINAR – MEMORIAL DAY |
| June 2 | Manish Kumar Singh, PhD (Nath Lab) Post-GWAS Functional Characterization of a Lupus Risk Locus at 19p13.11 |
The Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conferences coincides with the academic year (September through May). Please contact Jacquelyn-Gorman@omrf.org & Brian-Horton@omrf.org for information on the seminar schedule.
