Dr. Marc Jenkins is stepping back from leadership at CFI, but he is not retiring from lab work. His research and mentorship will continue to inspire. 🙌🔬

With deep gratitude, we thank Dr. Marc Jenkins for his decades of leadership, mentorship, and dedication to the Center for Immunology. The foundation he built will guide and inspire us for years to come.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Carla Rothlin, incoming Director of CFI, on her election as Vice-President of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS)! A tremendous honor and a testament to her leadership in the global immunology community. 🌍🧪

Our latest paper, Identification of conserved and tissue-restricted transcriptional profiles for lipid associated macrophages, is online at Communications Biology. Collaboration with the Ivanov and Revelo labs. @cfi-umn.bsky.social

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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Rothlin as our new Director of the Center for Immunology and Dr. Sourav Ghosh as CFI Program director, Immunology of Tissue Resolution, Repair, & Regeneration at UMN! Both join us from Yale and officially start in August 2025.

Huge congratulations to @lab-williams.bsky.social
on your well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor! 🎉 We're so proud to call you a colleague, your hard work and leadership truly shine. Excited for all that’s ahead!

Congratulations to Zoe Schmiechen!

All of us at CFI are thrilled to celebrate Zoe Schmiechen for an incredible achievement—winning not one, not two, but three prestigious trainee awards this semester! 🎉

CFI at AAI 2025 having a great time.

🔬 Meet the Stromnes Lab (@IngunnStromnes)!
Part of CFI & the Center for Genome Engineering, they’re engineering T cells to take on one of the toughest cancers out there: pancreatic cancer.
They’re pushing the limits of immunotherapy, and it’s just the beginning.
👉 sites.google.com/umn.edu/stro...

⌛ The countdown to #IMMUNOLOGY2025 is on!

Get ready for the meeting by listening to @aai.org President Dr. Stephen Jameson and @immunohorizons.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief Dr. Bonnie Dittel discuss the highlights of this year's program: bit.ly/3Rs5zY1

#AAI2025

The recorded video of Dr. Marc Jenkins seminar entitled The CD4+ T cell response to food: you aren't what you eat is now available at “Global Immunotalks” YouTube Channel youtube.com/live/zPLBJT1...
Please ask questions in the Youtube comment section for Marc.
Hope you enjoy it!

CFI welcomes Jim Zimring as our next Spring 2025 Immunology MICaB Invited Speaker. Join us today at noon in person (1-125 CCRB) to hear his talk on "The Role of Linked Recognition in Alloimmunization to Transfused RBCs and the B cell Precursor Frequency Hypothesis."

Have you booked your hotel for #IMMUNOLOGY2025™? In partnership with onPeak, AAI has secured discounted rates at a selection of Honolulu hotels. Reserve your room now: ow.ly/zFBn50VcUE5.

🗓️ Save the Date!🗓️
Join us for the 2025 Blumenthal Memorial Lectureship Series featuring Jenny Ting, Ph.D. on April 25, 2025, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM at 2-620 Moos Tower.
Don’t miss this exciting talk! To save to your calendar: z.umn.edu/2025_Blument...

🎉CFI congratulates Dr. Alexander Khoruts on the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship! His pioneering microbiome research is revolutionizing treatments for C. diff, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. 👏👏

Kicking off our journey on BlueSky! We're excited to share updates and connect with you. Follow us and help us get the word out! For more information about the Center for Immunology, go to our website: immunology.umn.edu