Along with those serving on AAI committees, members participating in numerous other volunteer service activities play a critical role in guiding AAI, contributing to the success of their colleagues, and shaping the future of AAI and the field. They lend vital support through a variety of roles including as abstract programming chairs for the Annual Meeting, career development program advisors and mentors, journal reviewers and editors, and in other service capacities. Their valuable experience, talents, ideas, and energy help to shape the field of immunology, ensure that AAI meets the needs of immunologists at all career stages, and inspire their present and future colleagues by demonstrating the value of volunteer service in sustaining the field and building its future.
- Abstract Programming Chairs (APC) review abstracts submitted for the annual meeting, selecting abstracts submitted to their Topic Category for presentation in Poster Sessions and Block Symposia.
Board Mentor
- The AAI Career Advisory Board is a referral service that assists senior postdocs and early-career PIs who submit requests for guidance on specific career issues by matching them with more senior scientist mentors who have experience and insights in those areas.
- The AAI Grant Review for Immunologists Program (GRIP) provides a referral resource to match early career principal investigators (PIs) with established PI mentors who have experienced significant success in winning research grants, offering new PIs guidance in preparing grant proposals as they embark on their independent research careers.
- This program provides high school science teachers with support for hands-on experiences conducting research in the laboratories of AAI members and developing related curricula for use in teachers’ classrooms and for dissemination to other teachers via the curriculum archive on the program website.
- This voluntary list serves as a resource when considering the selection of reviewers for manuscripts submitted to The Journal of Immunology and ImmunoHorizons. Individuals will be contacted to ensure their reviewer profile in the journals’ online submissions system is current. Individuals may also express interest in serving as an editor for the AAI journals (Associate or Section/Senior Editor).
- By becoming a media and/or social media champion, AAI members can help spread the word about immunology and their own work while building on and strengthening AAI’s engagement with the public and the media.