uBICo Distinguished Immunology Speakers Series
The uBICo Distinguished Immunology Speakers series was established in 2015 and sees leading Immunologists from around the world visiting Basel to present their work and meet with the Immunology community. In the past this series was organised in conjunction with the immunomeetings. In addition to presenting at the Immunomeetings the speakers would spend the day with faculty and students at the Department of Biomedicine and take part in an extended programme of activities that included one on one meetings with faculty, a lunch with postdoc, a presentation and discussion with the Immune PhD Journal Club and a faculty dinner.
The series is being rebooted in 2026 as a standalone meeting series with a new format that aims to facilitate both the availability of the speakers and of uBICo members in Basel. Speakers will still be invited to spend the day in Basel and to meet with faculty and students and these visits will culminate with a late afternoon seminar that will be followed by an Apéro to allow for continued discussions in a more informal setting.
Upcoming Speakers:
October 7th 2025 Caetano Reis e Sousa, The Francis Crick Institute https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/caetano-reis-e-sousa
December 2026 (date to be confirmed): Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet https://www.brodinlab.com/
Early Spring 2027 (date to be confirmed): Florent Ginhoux, Gustave Roussy, France https://ginhouxlab.com/
Previous uBICo Distinguished speakers
Mauro Perretti, William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London. Decemer 11th 2023
Andrew Macpherson, Inselspital Bern. November 20th 2023
Klaus Rajewsky, MDC Berlin-Buch, Germany. April 24th 2023
Oreste Acuto, University of Oxford, UK. March 27th 2023
Jean-Claude Weill, Inserm, France. February 6th 2023
Burkhard Ludewig, Medical Research Centre, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, October 24th 2022
Jenny Mjösberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. 9th November 2020. Due to the pandemic Jenny Mjösberg was unable to visit Basel as planned, but still carried out her presentation via zoom.
Ananda Goldrath, University of California, San Diego, USA, November 25th 2019
Gillian Griffiths, Professor of Cell Biology and Immunology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK, April 29th 2019
Gioacchino Natoli, School of Medicine, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy, April 1st 2019
Marion Pepper University of Washington, Department of Immunology, Seattle, WA, USA, February 25, 2019
Oreste Acuto, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, November 19, 2018
Pedro Romero Department of Oncology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, September 24, 2018
Stuart Tangye, Garvan Institute of Research, Australia, March 12, 2018
James Di Santo, Insitut Pasteur, France, Feb 5th 2018
Matt Williams, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Nov 13, 2017
Mitchel Kronenberg, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA, April 24, 2017
Vincenzo Cerundolo, Radcliffe Dept of Medicine, Oxford, UK, Feb 20 2017
Meinrad Busslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria Nov 28, 2016
Shane Crotty, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA, Sept 12, 2016
Cornelia Weyand, Stanford University, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, CA, USA, Sept 5, 2016
Dirk Busch, Technische Universität München, Germany, April 11, 2016
Jean Laurent Casanova, University of New York, NY, USA, March 21, 2016
Axel Kallies, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 29, 2016
Rolf Zinkernagel, University of Zürich, Switzerland Jan 14, 2016
Ken Murphy, Washington University School of Medicine St-Louis, Dept. Of Pathology and Immunology, St- Louis, USA, Sept 7, 2015
Jeremy Luban, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dept. Of Pathology and Immunology, MA, USA, May 7, 2015
Russell Jones, Goodman Cancer Centre, Dept. Of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, April 20, 2015
Takeshi Egawa, Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Immunobiology, St- Louis, USA, March 20, 2015