The medical school will welcome Marc Jenkins, PhD, in November as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Jenkins’ presentation is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Erbelli’s will be provided for attendees.
The event is free and MEDU credit is available. If you plan to attend, please register here.
Dr. Jenkins is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. He serves as director of the medical school’s Center for Immunology.
Dr. Jenkins and his colleagues investigate CD4+ T and B cell activation in vivo by directly tracking antigen-specific cells, according to the medical school’s website. The goal of this research is a basic understanding of lymphocyte activation that can be used to improve vaccines and prevent autoimmunity.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.