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Immunology Graduate Program Alumni
Welcome, alumni and friends of the U-M Medical School Immunology Graduate Program! We’d love to hear from you—whether it’s a career milestone, a recent publication, or a personal update.
Your journey continues to inspire our community, and we invite you to stay in touch and share your story.
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Recent Graduates
- Alexander Ethridge: Early Life Pulmonary Infection, Microbiome and Trained Innate Immunity (Dissertation)
- Francisco Gomez-Rivera, MSc: HIV Infection Dynamics: From Underlying the Establishment and Maintenance to the Molecular Mechanisms of Latency (Dissertation)
- Elena Levi-D'Ancona: TRAF6 Promotes β-cell Mitophagy in Response to Metabolic Stress (Dissertation)
- Ashley Pearson: Myeloid and Granulocyte Contributions to Therapeutic Resistance and Cancer Progression (Dissertation)
- Luis Correa-Medero: Dissecting Proteostatic Regulation of CD8+ T cell Immunity (Dissertation)
- Gabrielle Entrup: Obesity Modulates Anti-Bacterial Functions of Alveolar Macrophages from Male Mice, but not Female Mice (Dissertation)
- Henry Gong: The Role of Neutrophil Heterogeneity in Lung Injury During Acute Viral Respiratory Infections (Dissertation)
- Padma Kadiyala: Cellular Crosstalk in Pancreas Cancer Microenvironment: Mechanisms of Tumor Immune Evasion and Immune Suppression (Dissertation)
- Emma Lauder: The Role of Iron in Tissue Tolerance (Dissertation)
- Mitra Maz: Human and Murine Evidence for Myeloid Cells as Early Drivers of Photosensitivity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Dissertation)
- Mack Reynolds: Mitochondrial coordination of macrophage metabolic and inflammatory programming during bacterial infection (Dissertation)
- Enze Xing: Omics approach to elucidating skin immunity in health and fibrosis (Dissertation)
- Judy Chen, PhD: Mechanisms of the Age-Associated Dysregulation of the Immune Response to Influenza Infections (Dissertation)
- Qingyang Liu, MSc, PhD: Regulation of the Mobilization of Multi-potential ILC Progenitors from the Bone Marrow (Dissertation)
- Shannon Loftus, PhD: Innate Immune Mechanisms That Regulate Disease Flare in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Dissertation)
- Ashley Munie - Gardner, PhD: Regulation of Myeloid Cells during Inflammatory Demyelinating Disease (Dissertation)
- M. Sydney Smith, PhD: Role of CAR and JAM-A in Regulation of Intestinal Epithelial Cell Function (Dissertation)
- Ranjitha Uppala, MSc: Mechanisms Regulating Type I Interferon Signaling in Human Keratinocytes Triggered by Exogenous DNA (Dissertation)
- Patrick Coit, PhD, MPH: A longitudinal and transancestral analysis of DNA methylation patterns in systemic lupus erythematosus (Dissertation)
- Hanna Hong, PhD: Defining Metabolic Regulators of T Cell-Mediated Immunity (Dissertation)
- Eli Olson, PhD: Endo-Lysosomal Assembly Variations of Human Leukocyte Antigen B Allotypes in Human Monocytes and moDCs (Dissertation)
- Jazib Uddin, PhD: The Regulatory Mechanisms of PIR-B and STARD7 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Dissertation)
- Emily Yarosz, PhD: Novel Roles for Cullin 3 in T Cell-Mediated Immunity (Dissertation)
- John Charpentier, PhD: Regulation of T Lymphocyte Growth By Macropinocytosis (Dissertation)
- Mikel Haggadone, PhD: Mechanistic Insights into Regulation of Vesicular SOCS3 Secretion by Alveolar Macrophages: Interplay Between Cell Stress and Metabolic Remodeling (Dissertation)
- Blake Heath, PhD: Investigating Regulatory Mechanisms Influencing Oral Cancer-Intrinsic Type I Interferon Production and Signaling (Dissertation)
- Amnah Yamani, MSc, PhD: Molecular Pathways Modulating the Severity of IgE-mediated Anaphylaxi (Dissertation)
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Featured News & Stories
Department News
Congratulations to Lillia Baird for first-author manuscript
Lillia Baird has reached an exciting milestone with the acceptance of her first-author publication in Frontiers
Department News
Congratulations to Our Immunology T32 Awardees!
Our learners have been selected for support through the prestigious Immunology T32 Training Grant for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Department News
Patrick O'Brien (Kahlenberg Lab) & Jorge Reyes-Arbujas (Gallagher Lab) Awarded MICHR T32
PhD students Patrick O’Brien and Jorge Reyes-Arbujas have been awarded the prestigious MICHR Predoctoral T32 Grant
Department News
Jannaldo Nieves-Salva (Chiang Lab) Awarded the Hematology Inclusion Pathway (HIP) Graduate Award
Jannaldo Nieves-Salva has been awarded the 2025 Hematology Inclusion Pathway (HIP) Graduate Award by the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
Department News
Congratulations Thalia Newman (Knight Lab)
We are delighted to share that Thalia Newman (Jason Knight Lab) has been selected for the MICHR Predoctoral Translational Science T32 training program!
Department News
Congratulations Jorge Reyes-Arbujas (Gallagher Lab)
We are thrilled to announce that Jorge has been selected for appointment as a trainee on the highly competitive MICHR Predoctoral Translational Science T32!
