
EMBO Workshop on Inflammasomes 2024, Bavarian Night, September 26, 2024

Aegean conference on Innate Immunity, June 2024. Left to right: Juliana Idoyaga, Elodie Segura, Carla Rothlin, Julie Magarian Blander, Elina Zuniga

Blander Lab - June 2024

Secret Santa Get Together - December 21, 2023 (photo by Dr. Yuhua Shi)

2022-2023 Student Invited Speaker, Immunology Graduate Student Association at Washington University in St. Louis

American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 2023. Blander with Amal Amer and Thirumala Kanneganti.

Central Park Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, a 20 minute walk from the lab.

Bob and Dmitry returning from the Weill Cornell/Sloan Kettering Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Retreat at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY (Oct 20-21, 2022)

Looking out at the Queensboro Bridge from Roosevelt Island where some WCM postdocs live, April 2022

2nd Intercampus Immunology Symposium, Cornell Tech. Professor Gary Koretzky talks to trainees about "finding your path in science", April 20, 2022

Second Cornell Intercampus Immunology Symposium at Cornell Tech. Professor Judy Lieberman delivers a Keynote lecture, "Lighting A Fire: Pyroptosis in Immune Defense and Immune Pathology". April 19, 2022

Second Cornell Intercampus Immunology Symposium, Cornell Tech. Professor Stephen Quake delivers a keynote lecture, "A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases". April 20, 2022
Farewell Brunch for Hilary. Freezing outdoors to avoid COVID. April 28, 2022

Dr. Julie Magarian Blander is the recipient of the 2021 Jeanne and Herbert Siegel Award for Outstanding Medical Research. Dr. Virginia Pascual was the recipient of this Award in 2020. Drs. Blander and Pascual were recognized for this honor during the Weill Cornell Medical College Commencement held virtually on May 20, 2021.

Virtual Blander Lab meeting, February 18, 2021. Left to Right, from top: Julien Moretti, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Baosen Jia, Zachary Hutchins, Barzan Sadiq, Ian Mantel, Kristel Yee Mon, and Anne-Perrine Foray.

Alex's virtual farewell party! July 2, 2020 Top L to R: Maeva Metz, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Monica Viladomiu. Bottom L to R: Silvia Pires, Alex Gutierrez-Guerrero, Barzan Sadiq

Belated Lab Holiday Party in January 2020. Left to right at the table: Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Gaetan, Maria Violenus (Sr. Admin Specialist), Julien Moretti, Baosen Jia, Ian Mantel.

Lab Journal Club in Central Park, September 2019. Left to right: Julien Moretti, Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Julie Magarian Blander (PI), Ian Mantel, Baosen Jia, Gaetan Barbet.

Lab Journal Club in Central Park, September 2019. Left to right: Julien Moretti, Alejandra Gutierrez-Guerrero, Ian Mantel, Baosen Jia, Gaetan Barbet.

International Cell Death Society, Cell Death through the Ages, 25th Anniversary Meeting, New York, NY. June 2019 Blander (PI) presenting our work on cell death in the intestinal epithelium.

International Cell Death Society, Cell Death through the Ages, 25th Anniversary Meeting, New York, NY. June 2019 Blander (PI) presenting our work on cell death in the intestinal epithelium.

FASEB Summer Research Conference on Autoimmunity. Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, July 7-12, 2019. Left to right: Doug Green, Donna Farber and Julie Magarian Blander.

The late Jill Roberts with David Artis, June 2019

20-year Medzhitov Lab Reunion, Lakeville, CT. June 30-July 2, 2019. Ruslan Medzhitov gives state of the lab address.

20-year Medzhitov Lab Reunion, Lakeville, CT June 30-July 2, 2019. Julie Magarian Blander and Jon Kagan.

Antigen Processing and Presentation Workshop 10, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, May 30-June 2, 2019. An unusual view of the Tour Eiffel.

Celebrations! Gaetan Barbet received a Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award and Ian Mantel chose our lab for his PhD thesis work. Jill Roberts Institute lounge area. June 13, 2019.

Celebrations! Gaetan Barbet received a Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Career Development Award and Ian Mantel chose our lab for his PhD thesis work. Jill Roberts Institute lounge area. June 13, 2019.

American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2019. Distinguished Fellows of AAI Olivera J. Finn and M. Michele Hogan.

American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2019. Blander with Gretchen Diehl and Amanda Jamieson.

Blander and Moretti, November 2017

14th Annual International Innate Immunity Conference, Aegean Conferences, Crete, Greece, June 19-24, 2017. Conference Farewell Dinner.

14th Annual International Innate Immunity Conference, Aegean Conferences, Crete, Greece, June 19-24, 2017. Left to right: Julie Magarian Blander, Manuela Raffatellu and Elina Zuniga

RM Lab 15 years – Reunion 2014 Standing left to right: Chandrashekhar Pasare, Greg Barton, Liz Kopp, Simmie Foster, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Dominik Schenten, Arun Unni, Amanda Jamieson, Noah Palm, Carrie Sokol, Dan Stetson, Tanya Bondar. Seated left to right: Julie Magarian Blander, Tiffany Horng, Igor Brodsky, Ruslan Medzhitov, Jon Kagan

Genentech, Immunology and Infectious Disease Seminar Series, San Francisco, CA, April 2, 2019. Tangsheng Yi and Julie Magarian Blander.

EMBO Meeting on “Phagocytosis of dying cells: Molecules, mechanisms and therapeutic implications”. Ghent, Belgium, October 24-27, 2018. Tal Burstyn-Cohen and Julie Magarian Blander.

EMBO Meeting on “Phagocytosis of dying cells: Molecules, mechanisms and therapeutic implications”. Ghent, Belgium, October 24-27, 2018. Tour of the St Stefanus Monastery Library.

Convocation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2018. Andrew Kent and Julie Magarian Blander.

American Association of Immunologists, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2018 Blander with Olja Finn and her lab.