2025

Sam Connell Featured in the 2025 Dare to Discover Campaign!

February 14, 2025

Sam is featured in the annual Dare to Discover Campain, sponsered by the Office of the Vice President for Research!

2024

Lab welcomes Paul Yiran Ntasin for a research rotation!

November 18, 2024

Paul is a member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology and is joining the lab for his 2nd rotation!

Paul Yiran Ntasin

Jason Hristopoulos wins award at the 2024 CCOM Medical Student Research Conference!

September 21, 2024

Congratulations to Jason for winning the Borts Award (U of I Foundation Award) at the annual CCOM Medical Student Research Conference! His presentation was titled " Investigating the metabolic landscape of alopecia areata."

Jason Hristopoulos joins the lab for a summer research rotation!

May 15, 2024

Jason Hristopoulos, an MSTP student, joins the lab for his summer rotation!

jason

2023

Lab welcomes Paul Yiran Ntasin for a rotation!

Paul Yiran Ntasin

November 18, 2024

Paul is a member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology and is joining the lab for his 2nd Rotation!

Jason Hristopoulos wins award at the 2024 CCOM Medical Student Research Conference!

Saturday, Sept 21, 2024

Congratulations to Jason for winnings the Borts Award (U of I Foundation Award) at the annual CCOM medical Student Research Conference! His presentation was titled "Investigating the metabolic landscape of alopecia areata."

 

Jason Hristopoulos Joins the lab for a Summer Research Rotation!

May 15, 2024

Jason Hristopoulos, an MSTP student, joins the Lab for his summer rotation!

jason

Congratulations to Ryan Reis, PhD Candidate!

Monday, November 27, 2023

Congratulations to Ryan Reis for passing his comprehensive exam and officially

Ryan Reis

 becoming a PhD candidate in the Cancer Biology Program!

Ifechukwu Ezeilo joins the Lab for a research rotation!

Ify Ezeilo

November 20, 2023

Ify is a member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology and is joining the Lab for her 2nd rotation!

Yumi and Olivia Present at the 2023 Medical Student Research Conference!

Maddison Lensing Appointed to the Immunology Predoctoral T32 Training Grant!

August 1, 2023

Congratulations to Maddi for her T32 Appointment!

Medical Students (rising M2), Olivia DiGioia & Yumeng Engelking join the lab for summer research

Welcome to the lab Olivia and Yumi!! Both students have been awarded Summer Research Fellowships from the Carver College of Medicine to support their time in the lab this summer! 

Monday, May 22, 2023

Sam Connell Receives AAI Trainee Abstract award to present at Immunology2023 in Washington DC

Sam presented his talk titled "CD4 T cells from mice with alopecia areata express an effector like phenotype and can transfer disease" in the T Cell Responses in Autoimmune Disease Block symposium. Way to go Sam!!

 Monday, May 15, 2023

Otgonzaya Ayush M.D., Ph.D., joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Otgonzaya Ayush

Welcome to the lab Zaya!! She will focus on skin immunology and hair disease interactions.  She studied atopic dermatitis and hair disorders extensively on alopecia in Mongolia.  She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dermatology Branch at the NIAMS/NIH 2018-2023.

Monday, April 3, 2023

Maddi Lensing was included in the recent Dare to Discover campaign

Sam Connell and Maddi Lensing present their work at the 50th annual AIC

Nic Henderson presents at Medical Student Research Conference!

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Paper published in <em>Frontiers in Immunology

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Congratulations to Maddison Lensing and Ali Jabbari on the publishing of their paper entitled, "An overview of JAK/STAT pathways and JAK inhibition in alopecia areata."  

Lensing M, Jabbari A.  An overview of JAK/STAT pathways and JAK inhibition in alopecia areata.  Front. Immunol., 30 Aug 2022. Sec. Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Disorders.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.955035.  PMID: 36110853.  PMCID: PMC9470217.

Immunology Graduate Student, Andrea Benavides, rotates in the lab

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Andrea Benavides

Andrea Benavides, a first year Immunology Graduate Student, is completing a research rotation in the Jabbari Lab.

MSTP Student, Ryan Reis, selects the Jabbari Lab

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Ryan Reis

Following Ryan Reis' rotation, he selected the Jabbari lab to conduct his research.  Ryan began his medical training in 2019.  His research involves using a bioinformatics approach to aid in the understanding of -omics level data in the context of human disease, specifically cancer and other immune-related pathologies.

Welcome, Ryan!

Single cell expression and TCR-seq of Sézary syndrome paper published

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Paper tweet

Henderson awarded Summer Research Fellowship

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Congratulations to Nic Henderson for receiving a Carver College of Medicine Summer Research Fellowship to conduct research in the Jabbari Lab for 10 weeks during the Summer of 2022.  The title of his research is The Immunophenotyping T Cells in Alopecia Areata.  Nic spent two years in the lab prior to starting medical school, and will be completing his M1 year in May.  Congratulations and welcome back!

Welcome Ryan Reis!

Ryan Reis

The Jabbari Lab welcomes Ryan Reis, MSTP student, who will be completing a research rotation in the lab.

Congratulations to Maddi Lensing!

Friday, March 25, 2022

Maddison Lensing

Congratulations to Maddi Lensing for passing her comprehensive exam and officially becoming a PhD candidate in the Immunology Program!

Kahl accepted to UI Masters in Pathology Program

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Payton Kahl

Congratulations to Payton Kahl from the Jabbari Lab for acceptance into the Masters Program in Pathology at the University of Iowa!  Payton has been with the lab since 2018 and serves as the Lab Manager.

Jabbari Lab welcomes Alexis Ramos

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Alexis Ramos

The Jabbari lab welcomes Alexis Ramos from the Cancer Biology Graduate Program as a rotating graduate student starting February 14, 2022.

2022

2021

Sam Connell appointed to the Immunology T32 Predoctoral Training Grant!

August 1, 2021

Congratulations for Sam for his T32 Appointment! Hard work pays off!

Maddi Lensing joins the Lab!

May 9, 2021

Welcome to Maddi Lensing, a member of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, she has committed to the Jabbari Lab to pursue her PhD training!

Congratulations to Sam Connell, PhD Candidate!

March 24, 2021

Sam has successfully passed his Comprehensive Exam and officially became a PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology!