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  • Wednesday, Apr 15th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET1 - First Things First: Your Smart Start to IMMUNOLOGY2026™ (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Membership and Program Committees
    Location: 205
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET2 - A Deeper Dive with Ulrich von Andrian (registration required)
    Location: 101
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    8:00 AM - 9:30 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET3 - How to Have a Successful Postdoctoral Experience
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Bryan Monesson-Olson, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    10:00 AM - 11:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET4 - How to Convert Your CV into a Résumé
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Derek Haseltine – Hertz Fndn.
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET5 - Guided Poster Walk
    Location: Hall A
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET6 - Career Roundtables and Speed Networking (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Minority Affairs Committee
    Location: 258AB
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET8 - Connect with Me Networking (ticketed event)
    Location: Exhibit Hall
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Thursday, Apr 16th
    3:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET9 - Interactive Workshop: Navigating the NIH Funding Process
    Location: 258AB
    Chair: Karobi Moitra, PhD (she/her/hers) – NIH/NIAID
    Chair: Timothy A. Gondre-Lewis, PhD (he/him/his) – NIH/NIAID
    Speaker: Karobi Moitra, PhD (she/her/hers) – NIH/NIAID
    Speaker: Timothy A. Gondre-Lewis, PhD (he/him/his) – NIH/NIAID
    Speaker: Lillian Kuo – NIH/NCI
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET10 - A Deeper Dive with Shane Crotty (registration required)
    Location: 101
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - 3D – Design, Discover, Decipher: Integrating Experimental Design in Didactic Immunology Teaching 
    Location: 153C
    Breakout Leader: Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, MSc PhD – Case Western Reserve Univ.
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - AAI-Recommended Immunology Content Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Education in the U.S.A. 
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Aimee Pugh-Bernard, PhD – Univ. of Colorado Anschutz
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Beyond Memorization: Active and Adult Learning Strategies in Undergraduate Immunology
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Nurcan Kilic, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Dakota
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Computer-Based Models to Teach Immunology from the Undergraduate to Professional and Graduate Level
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Louis B. Justement, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Immunology and Infection Biology in Cinema: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Course 
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Raffaella Ghittoni, PhD – University of Southern California
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Immunology Integration and Team-Based Learning (TBL) Enhance Comprehension in a Foundations to Medicine Module
    Location: 153C
    Speaker: Ivo Boudakov, PhD (he/him/his) – Med. Col. of Georgia; Augusta Univ
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Immunology Teaching Interest Group: Enhancing Your Immunology Teaching
    Location: 153C
    Chair: Viviana P. Ferreira, DVM, PHD (she/her/hers) – University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
    Chair: Matthew D. Woolard, PhD – Louisiana State University Health Shreveport
    Speaker: Louis B. Justement, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
    Speaker: Aimee Pugh-Bernard, PhD – Univ. of Colorado Anschutz
    Speaker: Raffaella Ghittoni, PhD – University of Southern California
    Speaker: Nurcan Kilic, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Dakota
    Speaker: Ivo Boudakov, PhD (he/him/his) – Med. Col. of Georgia; Augusta Univ
    Breakout Leader: Rebecca Clements, PhD (she/her/hers) – Kenyon College
    Breakout Leader: Crystal C. Walline, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of North Carolina, Pembroke
    Breakout Leader: Manoj K. Mishra, PhD (he/him/his) – Alabama State Univ.
    Breakout Leader: Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, MSc PhD – Case Western Reserve Univ.
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Mentorship to Nurture the Next Generation: Immunology Education at Minority-Serving Institution
    Location: 153C
    Breakout Leader: Manoj K. Mishra, PhD (he/him/his) – Alabama State Univ.
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Powering health literacy with STEAM: Using an infographic project to teach the public about complex topics in immunology 
    Location: 153C
    Breakout Leader: Crystal C. Walline, PhD (she/her/hers) – Univ. of North Carolina, Pembroke
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    8:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    EDU2 - Taboo! A Game-Based Strategy to Build Conceptual Understanding and Communication Skills in Immunology 
    Location: 153C
    Breakout Leader: Rebecca Clements, PhD (she/her/hers) – Kenyon College
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET13 - Sip and Learn: Speed Networking with Immunology Educators (ticketed event)
    Location: 258AB
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    9:15 AM - 10:15 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET12 - Interviewing for a Job
    Location: 104C
    Speaker: Derek Haseltine – Hertz Fndn.
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    9:30 AM - 5:30 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET11 - NIH Resource Room
    Location: 150
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET14 - Guided Poster Walk
    Location: Exhibit Hall
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    12:45 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET15 - Careers in Science Roundtables (ticketed event), Sponsored by AAI Comm. on the Status of Women
    Location: 258AB
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET17 - Connect with Me Networking (ticketed event)
    Location: Exhibit Hall
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    1:45 PM - 2:15 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET16 - Careers in Science Keynote Lecture, Sponsored by AAI Comm. on the Status of Women
    Location: 253
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET18 - AAI Vanguard Award Presentation and Lecture
    Location: 157
    Chair: Harlan Jones, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of North Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr.
    Speaker: Curtis J. Henry, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Colorado Cancer Ctr
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Friday, Apr 17th
    4:45 PM - 5:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET18 - Never working a day in your life: Turning your passions into a career
    Location: 157
    Speaker: Curtis J. Henry, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ. of Colorado Cancer Ctr
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET19 - A Deeper Dive with Frances Lund (registration required)
    Location: 101
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    9:15 AM - 11:15 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET21 - Professions in Biotech: Panel Discussion and Networking (ticketed event), Sponsored by the AAI Edu. Comm.
    Location: 258AB
    Chair: Jane Grogan – Biogen
    Panelist: Nicholas J. Hess – Promega Corp.
    Panelist: Kate Jeffrey – Moderna
    Panelist: Eleanor Kincaid – Cytek Biosciences
    Panelist: H. Kiyomi Komori, PhD (she/her/hers) – Uniquity Bio
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    9:30 AM - 5:30 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET20 - NIH Resource Room
    Location: 150
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    11:45 AM - 12:15 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET22 - Guided Poster Walk
    Location: Exhibit Hall
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Saturday, Apr 18th
    1:00 PM - 1:45 PM US ET
    CAREER/NET23 - Connect with Me Networking
    Location: Exhibit Hall
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)
  • Sunday, Apr 19th
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM US ET
    CAREER/NET24 - A Deeper Dive with Mark Kaplan (registration required)
    Location: 101
    Career/Networking (CAREER/NET)