The MIBRC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program includes twice-weekly courses taught by faculty instructors along with student presenters.
The schedule for the 2025 Summer Biomedical Course in Immunity, Microbes and the Mucosa, part of the Mass General Brigham for Children Summer Research Program in Digestive Disease, was:
2025 Course:
| Date | Day | Time | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 6/10/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Bryan Hurley | Program Orientation / Course Introduction |
| 6/17/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Daniel Irimia | Innate Immunity - Neutrophils |
| 6/18/25 | Wed | 11:30am-1:00pm (lunch provided) | MIBRC Guest Seminar Kenny Chan Ph.D., Instructor - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Stress-activated brain-gut circuits trigger intestinal inflammation and barrier permeability |
| 6/24/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Lael Yonker | Long COVID: Bench to Bedside |
| 7/1/25 |
Tues | 9:00-10:30am | Ali Zomorrodi | Microbiome Multi-omics Analysis in Health and Disease |
| 7/8/25 | Tues | 9:00-10:30am | Marcy Kingsbury | Gut-Brain Axis: Microbiota & the Nervous System |
| 7/15/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Juliana Barreto De Albuquerque | Vaccination & Mucosal Immunology |
| 7/22/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Elizabeth & Emily; Brian L. | Engineering the Microbiome to Treat Human Disease |
| 7/25/25 | Fri | 2:00-3:30pm | All Student Participants | Mass General Brigham for Children Summer Research Career Advisory Panel Discussion |
| 7/29/25 | Tues |
no class scheduled |
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| 8/5/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Max & Taryn; Liakot | Model Organisms for the Study of the Digestive Tract |
| 8/12/25 | Tues | 9:00am-10:30am | Hongmei Mou | Diseases of Mucosal Surfaces |
| 8/15/25 | Fri | 8:30-11:00am | All Student Participants | Mass General Brigham for Children Summer Student Research Symposium |
2024 Course:
| Date | Day | Time | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 6/4/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Bryan Hurley | Program Orientation / Course Introduction |
| 6/6/24 | Thursday | 9:00am-10:30am | Hongmei Mou | Diseases of Mucosal Surfaces |
| 6/11/24 | Tuesday | 9:30am-10:30am | Eliana Drenkard | MIBRC Research Seminar - Hurley Lab |
| 6/13/24 | Thursday | 9:00am-10:30am | Nitya Jain | Introduction to Immunology |
| 6/18/24 |
Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Daniel Irimia | Innate Immunity - Neutrophils |
| 10:30am-11:30am | Brittany Jimena | MIBRC Research Seminar - Jain Lab | ||
| 11:30am | All Student Participants | MIBRC Summer Pizza Party / Picnic | ||
| 6/20/24 | Thursday | 8:00am-9:00am | Chienwen Su & Katherine Olshan | MIBRC Combined Clinical / Research Conference |
| 6/25/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Nitya Jain | Early Life Immunity |
| 6/27/24 | Thursday |
no class scheduled |
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| 7/2/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Marcy Kingsbury | Gut-Brain Axis: Microbiota & the Nervous System |
| 7/4/24 | Thursday | no class scheduled |
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| 7/9/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Ali Zomorrodi | Microbiome Multi-omics Analysis in Health and Disease |
| 7/11/24 | Thursday | 9:00am-10:30am | Brianna & David; Juliana | Vaccination & Mucosal Immunology |
| 7/16/24 | Tuesday | no class scheduled | ||
| 7/18/24 | Thursday | |||
| 7/19/24 | Friday | 11:00am-12:30pm | All Student Participants | MGfC Summer Research Career Advisory Panel Discussion |
| 7/23/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Christina Faherty | Infectious Diseases |
| 7/25/24 | Thursday | 9:00am-10:30am | Aleia & Allison; Brian L. | Engineering the Microbiome to Treat Human Disease |
| 7/30/24 | Tuesday | 9:00am-10:30am | Karen & Sophie; Meg | Implementation Science / Healthy Lifestyle Interventions |
| 8/1/24 | Thursday | 9:00am-10:30am | Callie & Helen; Liakot | Model Organisms for the Study of the Digestive Tract |
| 8/6/24 | Tuesday | no class scheduled | ||
| 8/8/24 | Thursday | |||
| 8/9/24 | Friday | TBD | All student participants | MGfC Summer Student Research Symposium |