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2026

May 26—29, 2026

Martin Prlic, Eva Domenjo, Andrew Konecny, Nicole Potchen, and Quinn Peters will be attending ImmunoMemphsis 2026 — Harmonizing Immunotherapy: Tuning T Cells to Give Cancer the Blues — hosted by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Technical University of Munich in Memphis, Tennessee, May 26–29, 2026, with Martin Prlic presenting. 

February 24, 2026

Several members of the Prlic lab attended and presented at the Northwest Flow Cytometry Society (NWFCS) Third Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. 

Nicole Potchen presented the poster "Composition and Function of the T Cell Compartment Are Stable Across a Spectrum of Inflammation in Human Mucosal Tissue."

Quinn Peters presented the poster "The Immunoregulatory Role of Endogenous Progesterone on Immune Milieu and T Cell Function at Barrier Sites."

Alexander Zambidis presented the poster "CaptureBody – An Anti-CD45 x Anti-IgG Bispecific Antibody Enables Accurate Unmixing for Spectral Flow Cytometry."

2025

November 2—4, 2025

Eva Domenjo presented a flash talk and poster "Human Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes Appear Functionally Competent" at Cell Symposia: The Cancer-Immunity Cycle in Sitges, Spain.

September 22, 2025

Nicole Potchen was invited to speak at the Oral Mucosal Immunity Consortium Annual Symposium at the University of Nebraska and presented "Targeting T Cells to Restore Tissue Homeostasis in Inflamed Human Gingiva."

May 3—7, 2025

Several members of the Prlic Lab attended and presented at the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI.

Martin Prlic presented "Nobody Puts T Cell in a Corner" at the President's Symposium.

Caitlin DeJong presented the poster "Trophoblasts Silence T Cells During Local Inflammatory Immune Response."

Nicole Potchen presented the poster "Composition and Function of the T Cell Compartment Are Stable Across a Spectrum of Inflammation in Human Mucosal Tissue."

Caitlin Dejong
Cailtin DeJong presenting her poster at the 2025 AAI Annual Meeting
Caitlin Dejong, Nicole Potchen, and Sarah Vick
Caitlin DeJong, Nicole Potchen, and Sarah Vick taking advantage of the photo op at the 2025 AAI Annual Meeting
Nicole Potchen
Nicole Potchen presenting her poster at the 2025 AAI Annual Meeting

2024

November 12, 2024

Andrew Konecny guest lectured for UW IMMUN 537 on "Designing and Performing Flow Cytometry Experiments."

October 20—23, 2024 

Alexis Taber presented the poster "TGF-β Broadly Modifies rather than Specifically Suppresses Memory CD8+ T Cells Reactivated by Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines or T Cell Receptor Signals" at KAI Cytokines 2024. 

October 18, 2024

Eva Domenjo and Nicole Potchen each presented lightning talks at the Fred Hutch Post-Doc Symposium.

Eva presented "Human Metastatic Lymph Nodes are No Longer Functional Hubs of Immune Control."

Nicole presented "Defining Unexpected Discrepancies Between NK Cell Phenotype and Function in the Human Tumor Microenvironment."

Nicole at the podium giving her talk
Nicole Potchen presenting a lightning talk at the 2024 Fred Hutch Post-Doc Symposium

October 7, 2024

Andrew Konecny presented the plenary talk "Practical and Technical Aspects of High-Dimensional Analysis, Including Deep Versus Broad Phenotyping and Impact on Panel Design" at the International Clinical Cytometry Society Annual Meeting.

Andrew and his talk
Andrew Konecny presenting the plenary talk at the 2024 International Clinical Cytometry Society Annual Meeting

September 22—27, 2024

The Prlic Lab attend ImmuneOctober Fest 2024 in Munich, Germany. 

Martin Prlic presented the talk "Human metastatic lymph nodes are no longer functional hubs of immune control."

Andrew Konency presented the poster "MAIT Cells Respond to a Single TCR:MR1 Interaction in the Presence of Inflammatory Cytokines.”

Eva Domenjo presented the poster "Human metastatic lymph nodes are no longer functional hubs of immune control."

Eva at her poster
Eva Domenjo presenting her poster at ImmuneOctober Fest 2024 in Munich
Andrew, Eva and Martin at OctoberFest
Eva Domenjo, Martin Prlic, and Andrew Konecny enjoying some "small" German beers

September 16, 2024

The Prlic Lab attend the UW Immunology Annual Retreat

Alexis Taber presented the talk "TGF-β broadly modifies rather than specifically suppresses reactivated memory CD8 T cells in a dose-dependent manner."

Andrew Konecny presented the poster "MAIT Cells Respond to a Single TCR:MR1 Interaction in the Presence of Inflammatory Cytokines.”

Nicole Potchen presented the poster "Defining unexpected discrepancies between NK cell phenotype and function in the human tumor microenvironment."

Alexis speaking
Alexis Taber presenting at the 2024 UW Immunology Annual Retreat
Nicole with her poster
Nicole Potchen showing off her poster for the 2024 UW Immunology Annual Retreat

July 17—19, 2024

Martin Prlic presented "Immune cell communication in healthy and inflamed human tissues" at the IBS-KAI-KSV Conference on Infection and Immunity.

May 30, 2024

Andrew Konecny presented "Immune cell communication in healthy and inflamed human tissues" at UW Immunology Research in Progress (RIP).

May 7, 2024

Nicole Potchen presented a lightning talk and poster "High-Parameter Spectral Flow Cytometry Panel to Comprehensively Assess T Cell Function in Human Tissues" at the Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Research Center Retreat.

Nicole with her poster
Nicole Potchen with her poster at the 2024 Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Research Center Retreat

May 2024

Caitlin DeJong presented "Maternal-Fetal Interactions During Steady State and Acute Inflammation" at the MOD Ohio Collaboration PI/Key Investigator Meeting.

March 14, 2024

Nicole Potchen presented "Insights on Using the BD Rhapsody" at the BD Biosciences Pi Day Single Cell Seminar.

March 6, 2024

Andrew Konecny presented "Tregs Co-Expressing ICOS and IL1R1 are Enriched and Highly Suppressive Within the Human Tumor Microenvironment" at the Northwest Flow Cytometry Society (NWFCS) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.

January 27—30, 2024

Caitlin DeJong presented "Tissue-Derived Instructions for Human Immune Cells in Health vs Acute Inflammation" at the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists.