ABOUT THE LAB


The Immunotrafficking lab at the University of Manitoba applies interdisciplinary approaches to studying immune cell trafficking in complex cellular microenvironments.

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb . 14, 2012

Congratulations to Saravanan for receiving the W.E. Muir Scholarship.

Jan . 17, 2012

The lab received the supplement fund from NSERC for enhancing the support for early career researchers (ECRs).

Jan . 4, 2012

Kanmani Natarajan joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

Dec. 1, 2011

Three Year Anniversary of the lab. Congratulations to all!

Nov. 26, 2011

Nitin is featured in the Faculty of Science News for his summer research experience. (link to details)

Nov. 22, 2011

Congratulations to Saravanan for becoming a Ph.D. candidate!

Sep. 1, 2011

Xun Wu joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

Aug. 24, 2011

Good luck to former lab members Xiuli, Harman and Ning for their further career development and schooling!

Jul. 15, 2011

Jing's paper reviewing microfluidic devices for studying chemotaxis and electrotaxis published in Trends in Cell Biolog is rated by the publisher as Most Downloaded Article for the past 30 days.

Jul. 11, 2011

Dan's chapter on cell migration for Comprehensive Biotechnology, 2nd edition (Elsevier) is in press. (link)

Jul. 7, 2011

Welcome new summer high school student Ning joined the lab!

Jul. 2, 2011

Dan's paper modeling electrotaxis is accepted for publication in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Congratulations! (link)

Jul. 1, 2011

Jiandong Wu joined the lab as a graduate student. Welcome!

Jun. 17, 2011

Dan, Saravanan and Jing presented in the Prairie Infectious Immunology Network (PIIN) Meeting in Russell, MB.

Jun. 14, 2011
Francis delivered an invited talk in the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Jun. 12, 2011

Suresh Neethirajan will join the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph as an Assistant Professor in August 2011. Congratulations!

Jun. 10, 2011

Francis, Dan and Saravanan presented in the Gordon Research Conference in Gradient Sensing and Directed Cell Migration in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. (see pictures)

Jun. 2, 2011

Congratulations to Dan for receiving the MHRC postdoc fellowship.

May 9, 2011

Francis delivered an invited talk in the Annual Canadian National Proteomics Network Conference in Banff, Alberta.

May 5, 2011

Jing's paper on microfluidic devices for studying chemotaxis and electrotaxis is accepted for publication in leading review journal Trends in Cell Biology. Congratulations! (link)

May 2, 2011

Nitin and Harman joined the lab for summer research. Welcome!

Apr. 21, 2011

Francis received the 2010 Rh Award in the Interdisciplinary category. (link)


Archived news



Our research is made possible through the following funding sources:






T cell chemotaxis in a microfluidic device

T cell electrotaxis in a transgenic mouse

Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181(4): 2465-71
Copyright 2008 The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.

Allen 301, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada; (204)474-9895; flin@physics.umanitoba.ca
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