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A new year calls for fresh introductions 👋! this is the official social media page for Canadian Society for Immunology, run by the Trainee Engagement Committee (TEC). Our TEC team comes from across Canada and we have two main goals:
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The Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI), founded in 1966, supports Immunology research throughout Canada. Tweets by our trainee engagement committee.
- Today, for #WomensHistoryMonth we would like to highlight @JenGommerman, a professor in the Dept. of #Immunology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Gommerman has made significant contributions to our understanding of B cells and key members of the TNF superfamily.
- Congratulations to #CSI2023 Investigator Award winner @KMcNagnylab and New Investigator Award winner @DanielaQuail 🏆👏
- Did you vaccinate your own kids against COVID? Why or why not? #ImmunologistsWhoImmunize #VaccinesWork @VirusesImmunity
- Dr. Pauline Johnson (@PaulineJ_Immi) is a Canadian immunologist and professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at UBC. Dr. Johnson has made significant advancements to our knowledge of the structure, function and regulation of CD45. #WomensHistoryMonth
- Dr. Tania Watts (@Tania_WattsUofT) is a professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Early in her career, Dr. Watts provided some of the first evidence for the existence of a ternary complex between MHC II, peptide antigen and the T cell receptor.
- Congratulations to all our poster awardees!! 🎉🥳🎊
- Dr. Jean Marshall is a professor and head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University. Dr. Marshall has made many outstanding discoveries in the field of mast cell biology throughout her career #WomensHistoryMonth
- Dr. Pamela Ohashi is a Canadian immunologist and professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics and Immunology at the University of Toronto whose research focuses on harnessing the abilities of T cells to develop immunotherapies for cancer.
- In this International Day of Women and Girls in Science day, we congratulate Dr. Sarah Crome (@sarah_crome), the recipient of the 2024 CSI New Investigator award, for her outstanding work in tissue-specific immune tolerance 🏆👏
- Up first for our immunologist highlights is Dr. Jeanette Boudreau! @JeanetteEB is a professor at Dalhousie University in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Pathology. Her research focuses on natural killer cell immune response to cancer and infectious disease.
- Dr. Daniela Quail (@DanielaQuail) is an associate professor @mcgillu. Her lab uses highly-multiplexed single-cell techniques to study the microenvironmental regulation of chronic inflammation and anti-tumor immunity, with a particular focus on myeloid-targeted immunotherapies
- Congratulations to Dr. Kelly McNagny (@KMcNagnylab) @UBC, this year's recipient of the Investigator Award! csi-sci.ca/_Library/_docu…
- Dr. Megan Levings (@mklevings) is Canada Research Chair in Engineered Immune Tolerance and an internationally renowned transplantation immunologist. Currently, she is the Childhood Diseases Theme team leader at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute.
