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Biology Seminar - Jun Huh | Monday, May 6, 2024 at 4 pm

Monday, May 6, 2024
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Biology Seminar

Monday, May 6, 2024

4 pm

Reception: 3:30 pm

Chen 100

Jun Huh, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Immunology

Harvard Medical School

Faculty Host: Bruce Hay

Title and Abstract Coming Soon!

About the Speaker:

Jun Huh earned his B.S. and M.S. in microbiology from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. After completing one and half year of military duty, he came to United States to enter graduate program at California Institute of Technology. He carried out his doctoral training in the laboratory of Bruce Hay where he studied Drosophila apoptosis, obtained his PhD in Biology. Jun was trained as a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dan R. Littman at the NYU School of Medicine, studying T cell immunology with a particular focus on chemical and genetic modulation of pathogenic Th17 cells. Jun was selected as a recipient of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), the NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (2011), and the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2013). He has been named a 2015 Searle Scholar and 2016 Pew Scholar.

For more information, please contact Tish Cheek by phone at 626-395-4952 or by email at [email protected].