Fusing Fields: Cross-Discipline Approaches to Probe and Modulate the Immune System

The Gordon Research Seminar on Immunochemistry and Immunobiology is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and early career scientists to present unpublished data and exchange cutting-edge ideas related to the diverse discipline of immunology. This seminar will foster collaboration, stimulate scientific creativity, and help participants to expand their networks alongside peers with shared interests and diverse experiences.

New techniques have revealed that the molecules, cells, and tissues of the immune system are intensely complex and heterogeneous. Thus, immunologists must take advantage of expertise from diverse fields including biology, engineering, and technology to improve human health. We will explore these cross-field interactions by featuring the work of scientists in both fundamental and applied immunology. This seminar will focus on interdisciplinary approaches, immunomodulatory molecules and materials, and the application of modern analytic tools in the context of vaccines, diagnostics, and immunotherapeutics.