Welcome New Member Dr. Öğr. Üyesi (Asst. Prof.) Gülten ATEŞ ULUÇAY İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi- Tıp Fakültesi Fizyoloji AD, Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology
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Assistant Professor Gülten ATEŞ ULUÇAY, Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi (Asst. Prof.) Gülten ATEŞ ULUÇAY İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi- Tıp Fakültesi Fizyoloji AD Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University- Faculty of Medicine Department of Physiology Welcome to new member, Dr. Gulten Ates Ulucay! I am an assistant professor in the field of Physiology at Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University, Faculty [READ MORE]

Dr. Mariana J Kaplan, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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Dr. Mariana J Kaplan, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Mariana Kaplan, M.D. is NIH Distinguished Investigator, Chief of the Systemic Autoimmunity Branch and Deputy Scientific Director at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health. She is a rheumatologist whose research has focused on identifying mechanisms of immune dysregulation, organ damage, and premature vascular disease in systemic autoimmunity. Specifically, she investigates how innate immunity (in particular, type I interferons and myeloid cells) promotes autoimmune responses and end-organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other systemic autoimmune diseases. [READ MORE]

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New Member Mini-Bio Célia Nuovo, M.Sc. Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, FRANCE

Celia Nuovo, M.Sc. CIRI ENS de Lyon Lyon, France X: @NuovoCelia6409 I received my master’s degree in Infectiology, specialty immunology and virology at Université Lyon 1 in Lyon, France. There I have been mentored under Dr. Marlène Dreux and studied the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells against different respiratory viruses. [READ MORE]

Brian G. Morreale, M.Sc. (They/Them) Pre-Doctoral Candidate, Laboratory of Scott Abrams, PhD., Dept. of Immunology Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, USA
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New Member Mini-Bio Brian G. Morreale, M.Sc., Pre-Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Immunology Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Brian G. Morreale, M.Sc. (They/Them) Pre-Doctoral Candidate, Laboratory of Scott Abrams, PhD., Dept. of Immunology Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, USA @MorrealeBrian After graduating Daemen College in Amherst, NY, Mr. Morreale received his master’s degree in Cancer Sciences at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY. There he was [READ MORE]

Samuel Adunyah, PhD, Distinguished Chairman and Tenured Professor of the Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, USA
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Samuel E. Adunyah, PhD, Distinguished Chairman and Tenured Professor of the Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience & Pharmacology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, USA

Dr. Samuel Evans Adunyah received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA  in 1987. Dr. Adunyah is currently a Distinguished Chairman and Tenured Professor of the Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN. USA, where he has [READ MORE]

rof. Ilja Striz, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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Ilja Striz, MD, PhD, Head of the Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM)

Ilja Striz serves as the head of the Department of Clinical and Transplant Immunology at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM). He is also a Professor of Immunology at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and holds the positions of Vice-President in the Czech Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology and the Czech Immunological Society. [READ MORE]

ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD (he/him)
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ARINJAY BANERJEE, PhD

Research within Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory focuses on three main themes that are inspired by the One Health ideology, (1) virus-host interactions in wildlife reservoir species, such as bats, (2) virus-host interactions in spillover species, such as humans, and (3) viral vaccine development. Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory is a member of Canada’s Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net), and as part of this network, his laboratory investigates emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. Research within Dr. Banerjee’s laboratory is funded by NIAID/NIH, CIHR, NSERC, SHRF and CoVaRR-Net. [READ MORE]