Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conference Speakers – 2021-2022
ACI Seminars will be held via Zoom (until further notice)
on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
| Sep. 6 | NO SEMINAR – LABOR DAY |
| Sep. 13 | Hal Scofield, MD The Association of SLE and Myasthenia Gravis is a Very Large Database |
| Sep. 20 | CANCELLED |
| Sep. 27 | Carol F. Webb, PhD Innate Immune Responses and ARID3a |
| Oct. 4 | |
| Oct. 11 | Ken Smith, PhD (James Lab) Lessons from an Oklahoma cohort of COVID-19 patients and vaccinees: antibodies, variants, and autoimmunity |
| Oct. 18 | CANCELLED |
| Oct. 25 | Saurabh Gawde, Graduate Student (Axtell Lab) Blood Biomarkers and Lifestyle Factors as Predictors of Disease Activity and Prognosis in MS |
| Nov. 1 | Ashley Hoover, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman (hosted by Sun Lab) Glycated Chitosan Stimulates Immune Responses Through the Activation of Dendritic Cells |
| Nov. 8 | NO SEMINAR – ACR CONVERGENCE 2021 VIRTUAL MEETING |
| Nov. 15 | NO SEMINAR – ACI SAB |
| Nov. 22 | Joanna Papinska, Graduate Student (Deshmukh Lab) The Intersection of Oxidative Stress and Innate Immunity Activation in Development of Salivary Gland Disease in Sjogren’s |
| Nov. 29 | Guru Maiti, PhD (Nath Lab) Post GWAS Functional Evaluation of SLC15A4 Single Nucleotide Variants for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Susceptibility |
| Dec. 6 | Sandra Bajana, MD, PhD (Sun Lab) Thymus-derived innate lymphoid cells |
| Dec. 13 | NO SEMINAR |
| Dec. 20 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Dec. 27 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
| Jan. 3 | NO SEMINAR – HAPPY NEW YEAR |
| Jan. 10 | NO SEMINAR |
| Jan. 17 | NO SEMINAR – MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY |
| Jan. 24 | Narcis Popescu, PhD (Coggeshall Lab) Recognition of Polymeric Peptidoglycan by Human Innate Immune Cells |
| Jan. 31 | Mandi Roe, PhD (Kovats Lab) Filling the myeloid niche in a 3D human tissue-engineered lung model to study age-dependent immune response to respiratory syncytial virus |
| Feb. 7 | Josh Mytych, Graduate Student (Farris Lab) Bacillus anthracis peptidoglycan alters human M2-like macrophage efferocytosis |
| Feb. 14 | |
| Feb. 21 | Kyle Wright, MD, PhD (Guthridge/James Lab) Seeing Things Differently: Utilizing High-Parameter Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging (MIBI) to Deconvolute the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment of Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma |
| Feb. 28 | Bujana Allushi, Graduate Student (Axtell Lab) Impact of B-cell depletion therapy on respiratory viral infection |
| Mar. 7 | Melissa Munroe, MD, PhD (James Lab) Harnessing Immune Dysregulation to Assess Risk in SLE |
| Mar. 14 | Philip A. Mudd, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Probing T follicular helper cell responses in the human lymph node after vaccination |
| Mar. 21 | Martha Tsaliki, Graduate Student (Scofield/Koelsch Lab) Pathogenic Autoantibodies in Sjögren’s Syndrome |
| Mar. 28 | Meng Zhao, PhD Metabolic Regulation of iNKT Cells |
| Apr. 4 | Ananth “Adi” Jupudi, Graduate Student (Farris Lab) Identifying disease-associated T cell receptors in Sjögren’s syndrome |
| Apr. 11 | Christina Bruxvoort, Graduate Student (Scofield Lab) Investigating the Role of CXorf21 in Endolysosomal Signaling in SLE |
| Apr. 18 | Valerie Lewis, PhD (Scofield Lab) Review of African American/Black Lupus: Where do we go from here? |
| Apr. 25 | |
| May 2 | Gaurav Kumar, PhD (Axtell Lab) Critical Role of B Cell Maturation Antigen in Multiple Sclerosis |
| May 9 | NO SEMINAR – AAI ANNUAL MEETING 2022 |
| May 23 | Mehdi Fazel, PhD (Nath Lab) Genetic Susceptibility of Lupus: Defining Functional Variants to Target Genes |
| May 30 | NO SEMINAR – MEMORIAL DAY |
The Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program Research Conferences coincides with the academic year (September through May). Please contact Teresa Westmuckett at (405) 271-7786 or Teresa-Westmuckett@omrf.org for information on the 2021-2022 seminar schedule.
