CMM Seminar Series: Immunity to the Gut Microbiota by professor Ivaylo Ivanov
- Time:
- Location:
- CMM Lecture Hall, Visionsgatan 18, floor 00, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, L8:00.
- Speaker:
- Ivaylo Ivanov, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, NY.
- Topic:
- Immunity to the Gut Microbiota
Speaker: Ivaylo Ivanov, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, NY.
Title of the talk: Immunity to the Gut Microbiota
Date and time: Thursday 21 May 2026, 15:00-16:00, followed by a networking reception.
Host: Professor Eduardo Villablanca
Venue: CMM Lecture Hall, Visionsgatan 18, floor 00, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, L8:00.
After the talk there will be a networking reception with some drinks and light bites.
Speaker’s short bio:
Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov is a tenured Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, where he heads the Laboratory for Mucosal Immunology. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Molecular Biology from Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria) and his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He then completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Dan Littman at the New York University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ivanov’s research focuses on mucosal immunology and the role of the microbiota in regulating gut and systemic immunity and physiology. His work identified the first commensal bacterial species shown to control the function of mucosal T cells. Seminal studies from his laboratory have been instrumental in elucidating how the microbiota interact with intestinal epithelial cells and regulate mucosal T cell differentiation and function. More recently, his group uncovered a network of interactions between diet, the microbiota, and mucosal immunity that influences systemic diseases such as obesity.
Dr. Ivanov has received multiple honors, including the NIH Pathway to Independence Award, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Young Investigator and Senior Research Awards, two Pew Charitable Trusts Innovation Awards, and the Mayent-Rothschild–Institut Curie Award. He is a Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and an Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Dr. Ivanov is currently on sabbatical at the Immunity and Cancer Unit of the Institut Curie in Paris.