AAI Announces Recipients of 2019
Intersect Fellowships for Computational Scientists and Immunologists

AAI congratulates 10 members selected to receive AAI Intersect Fellowships in 2019. The AAI Intersect Fellowship Program for Computational Scientists and Immunologists provides independent research scientists with salary support for postdoctoral fellows trained in basic bench research to undertake one year of training in computational science, or postdoctoral fellows trained in computational science to spend one year in an immunology research lab to learn basic immunological principles and laboratory techniques.

Details about this program may be found here.

The awardees selected for the 2019 Intersect Fellowships are:

	Karl M. Ansel, Ph.D. (AAI '08), Professor, University of California, San Francisco Trainee: Ni-Ting Chiou, Ph.D. (AAI '18) Co-PI: Hani Goodarzi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Project: Global identification of RBP-binding motifs governing the post-transcriptional regulation of the T cell transcriptome
	Daniel Bolnick, Ph.D. (AAI '18), Professor, University of Connecticut Trainee: Lauren E. Fuess, Ph.D. (AAI '19) Co-PI: Jill L. Wegrzyn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
Project: Investigating immune cell function as a response to parasitism in the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) using single-cell RNAseq
	Jane H. Buckner, M.D. (AAI '09), President & Director, Translational Research Program, Benaroya Research Institute Trainee: Elisa Balmas, Ph.D. (AAI '18) Co-PI: Peter S. Linsley, Ph.D. (AAI '93), Associate Member, Benaroya Research Institute
Project: Single cell RNA sequencing of islet antigen reactive CD4 T cells to predict response to therapy in T1D
	Donna L. Farber, Ph.D. (AAI '95), Professor of Surgical Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center Trainee: Peter A. Szabo, Ph.D. (AAI '18) Co-PI: Peter A. Sims, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Columbia University Medical Center
Project: Dissecting human tissue resident memory T cell heterogeneity using single-cell proteogenomics
	Samuel Huber, M.D. (AAI '18), Professor, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Trainee: Babett Steglich, Ph.D. (AAI '19) Co-PI: Stefan Bon, Ph.D., Professor, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Project: Unravelling the pathogenesis of PSC-associated IBD through bioinformatics approach
	Denise Kirschner, Ph.D. (AAI '01), Professor, University of Michigan Trainee: Stephanie Evans, Ph.D. (AAI '18) Co-PI: Joshua T. Mattila, Ph.D. (AAI '12), Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Project: Bridging wet-lab and in silico experimentation to identify the relationships between IL-10 and fibrosis in TB
	Pavel Pevzner, Ph.D. (AAI '18), Professor, University of California at San Diego Trainee: Yana Safonova, Ph.D. (AAI '17) Co-PI: Corey T. Watson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine
Project: Detection of genomic variants in human immunoglobulin loci and analysis of their impact on the adaptive immune response
	Adam G. Schrum, Ph.D. (AAI '07), Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Trainee: Kimberly G. Laffey, Ph.D. (AAI '19) Co-PI: Chi-Ren Shyu, Ph.D., Professor and Director, University of Missouri, Columbia
Project: Precocious expression and engagement of mature alpha/beta TCR in CD4-CD8- T cell progenitors can drive NOTCH1 mutation and T-ALL transformation
	Alessandro Sette, Ph.D. (AAI '89), Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology Trainee: Yuan Tian, Ph.D. (AAI '16) Co-PI: Bjoern Peters, Ph.D. (AAI '07), Professor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Project: Defining cellular and molecular characteristics of dengue virus-specific CD8 T cell subsets
	Ingunn M. Stromnes, Ph.D. (AAI '18), Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School Trainee: Adam L. Burrack, Ph.D. (AAI '13) Co-PI: Steve Shen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, University of Minnesota
Project: Clonal and functional evolution of neoantigen specific T cells during immunotherapy of pancreatic cancer

The American Association of Immunologists annually honors the research achievements and professional promise of over 1000 scientists through fellowships, career awards, and travel grants. The Intersect Fellowship Program for Computational Scientists and Immunologists is one of two new fellowship programs launched by AAI in 2018. To learn about all AAI awards and grants, visit www.aai.org/Awards.