Engineering the Future of Immunology
Thursday, June 11, 2026
at 2-3 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Daniel McManus, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Daniel McManus, PhD, is an immunologist whose research focuses on how CD8 T cells make critical developmental decisions during viral infection and how these choices influence long-term immune protection. He earned his doctorate in Immunology from Emory University in the laboratory of Rafi Ahmed, where he identified an early precursor CD8 T cell population with remarkable developmental flexibility. His work demonstrated that these cells adapt their fate based on infection outcomes—forming long-lived memory cells when infections are rapidly cleared, or sustaining immune responses through a balance of self-renewal and effector function during persistent infections.