Save the Date! Join us for the 63rd Annual Blumenthal Lecture on February 27th, featuring Dr. E. John Wherry as our invited speaker. 🔗 Details: z.umn.edu/Blumenthal 🗓️Add to calendar: z.umn.edu/Blumenthal2026

#ICYMI: From Dr. Kristin Hogquist at the Center for Immunology-UMN focuses on interferon (IFN) production within the thymus and its effects on thymic APCs and developing thymocyte while also examining the importance of T-cell tolerance to IFN. The Journal of Immunology: https://ow.ly/UEMw50VEIEx

Warmest wishes for a holiday season full of joy and cherished moments from our Center for Immunology community. We are grateful for the dedication and collaboration of our faculty, trainees, staff, and partners, and we look forward to continued discovery and shared progress in the year ahead.

Congratulations to CFI Associate Director Dr. David Masopust, recipient of the 2026 @aai.org Meritorious Career Award! This award recognizes his exceptional achievements and enduring impact in the field of immunology research.

One message from our #WorldScienceDay Q&A continues to resonate. “#Immunology intersects with many, many disciplines.” — IUIS Vice President Carla Rothlin Revisit the full conversation on #Immunohub: https://loom.ly/UaZHw7g#WorldScienceDay#Immunology#Immunohub#ImmunologyWithoutBorders

Congratulations to our Director, Dr. Carla Rothlin, on being selected as the 2026 recipient of the @aai.org Lancefield Mid-Career Achievement Award. This well-deserved honor recognizes her outstanding contributions to immunology and leadership in the field.

New from CFI’s Stromnes, Tsai, Moriarity and colleagues: a great overview of how forward genetic screens, including CRISPR & Sleeping Beauty, can uncover new engineering strategies to strengthen adoptive T-cell therapy for solid tumors. jitc.bmj.com/content/13/1...

Congratulations to Bryce Binstadt, MD, PhD, who began his two-year term as President of the Rheumatology Research Foundation in October 2025. The Foundation supports research and training to improve the health of patients with rheumatic diseases. Learn more: www.rheumresearch.org/leadership

Congratulations to the Geoff Hart Lab, including @Jenna_K_Dick, A. Sangala, and collaborators! Their MIS C NK cell and monocyte dysfunction paper was named a top article in pediatric asthma, allergy, and immunology by the AAP. Read more: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

Don't miss CFI’s David Masopust, Carmen Gerlach, and Ravi Ahmed for a special webinar hosted by Nature Reviews Immunology, with support from Stemcell Technologies on the new "T cell nomenclature guidelines"! Happening Dec 8 at 11 am CT. Register here: z.umn.edu/Tcellnomencl...

Our 2025 CFI Newsletter is now live on our website, z.umn.edu/CFINewsletter! Catch up on this year’s research highlights, awards, trainee achievements, and more. Want to join our email list? Send a request to [email protected].

Proud of UMN/CFI faculty David Masopust, Dan Knights, and Bruce Blazar, named to the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list! Their groundbreaking work in T cell biology, microbiome research, and immunotherapy drives global advances in immunology. z.umn.edu/CFIhighlycited

This Thanksgiving, the CFI community extends our heartfelt gratitude to our trainees, faculty, staff, collaborators, and alumni. Your dedication drives discovery, strengthens our mission, and advances the future of immunology. We are thankful for all you do. Wishing you a restful and joyful holiday.

In their new editorial, Carla Rothlin and J. S. Gutkind present a Special Collection on Targeting the Immune System, covering advances in cancer immunology, chronic inflammation, neuroimmune biology, addiction immunotherapy, and regenerative immunity. jpet.aspetjournals.org/article/S002...

New from Masopust, Ahmed, and colleagues! A major multi-lab Consensus Statement offering updated, field-wide guidelines for defining and reporting T cell populations, bringing clarity, consistency, and transparency to T cell research. nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the Stromnes Lab: Adam Burrack, Alex Tsai, Madeline Ellefson, Zoe Schmiechen, Brandon Larsen, Kristina Burrack, and Ingunn Stromnes on their new paper showing IL15 complex enhances anti–PDL1 therapy in PDA via sustained T cell function. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41254224/

Congratulations to the Freedman Lab and MD/PhD student Anders Lindstedt on this exciting new JLB paper! A fantastic team effort with the Williams Lab-well done! 👏🧪

Congratulations to T. Dileepan on the publication of his collaborative work with Jennifer Gommerman’s group in Cell, uncovering how TFH1 cells and B-cell MHC class II signaling drive protective IgA responses during mucosal viral infection: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Yesterday was #WorldScienceDay — but honestly, every day is science day here at CFI. 🧬💙 We’re proud to be part of a global community that builds trust, shares knowledge, and pushes discovery forward.

Vobořil, Hogquist @cfi-umn.bsky.social and colleagues reveal the #thymus as a niche for diverse, developmentally distinct #myeloid cells and elucidate their specific requirements for development and maturation. rupress.org/jem/article/... #Hematopoiesis #Tolerance #LymphocyteBiology

Science builds trust and shapes tomorrow. On #WorldScienceDay, Dr. Carla Rothlin, IUIS Vice-President and CFI Director, joins global voices for the IUIS Roundtable — “Trust, Transformation, and Tomorrow.” 🌍 Nov 10 | 9:00 am (CST) Register here: immunohub.iuis.org/b2726748afc1...

AAI member Carla Rothlin, PhD, was elected vice-president of @iuis-online.bsky.social at the 2025 IUIS Congress. While moving her lab to the University of Minnesota to direct the Center for Immunology, Dr. Rothlin generously took the time to answer some questions for us: ow.ly/PG7N50WWL4Q. #AAInews

Join us Friday, Oct 17th, 2025 for Anders Linstedt's MICaB Final Ph.D. Defense: "Lyn kinase controls Toll-like receptor signaling in a cell-specific, isoform-independent manner" Advisor: Tanya Freedman(@tfreedmanlab.bsky.social), 9:00 am, 1-110 LRB/MTRF or Zoom info at immunology.umn.edu

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 rdcu.be/esUdT

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