19th Annual Immunology Symposium

October 29, 2026 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD

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Join Us for This Upcoming Symposium

Tissue-Resident Leukocytes: There’s No Place Like Home

Registration is free

Check-in/Registration begins at 8:00am
Opening remarks begin at 8:45am
Lectures 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Reception to follow

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Event Details

Date

October 29, 2026
8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Location

Versiti Blood Research Institute
8733 W. Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Contact

Megan Baker
MBaker@versiti.org
414-937-6824
See you there!

Speakers

Donna Farber, PhD

Keynote Speaker

Donna Farber, PhD

Tissue reservoirs for immune memory in humans

Principal Investigator, Columbia Center for Translational Immunology Chief, Division of Surgical Sciences

Sponsored by BioLegend from Revvity.

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Nicholas Jarjour, PhD

Running in place: maintenance and renewal of tissue-resident immunity.

Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute

 

Brian Laidlaw, PhD

Establishment of lung tissue-resident memory B cells.

Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pathology and Immunology

 

Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD

Neuroimmune Circuits in Allergic Immunity

Assistant Professor at Harvard University

 

Daniel Kaplan, MD, PhD

Neuronal Control of Cutaneous Immunity

Professor of Dermatology and Immunology

 

Yajing Gao, PhD

How immune cells handle their lipids: cholesterol trafficking in immunity, inflammation, and metabolism.

Assistant Project Scientist

Symposium Chairs

Bonnie Dittel, PhD
Senior Investigator
Nicholas Jarjour, PhD
Associate Investigator