Events Archive

Sasha Rudensky, Ph.D.
March 28, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, March 28, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D., Chairman of the Immunology Program and Director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His talk is titled, "Differentiation and function of Regulatory T cells." This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Rebecca Elsner, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
March 28, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

On Thursday, March 28, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Rebecca Elsner Ph.D. Her talk is titled, “Regulation of extrafollicular B cell responses by IL-12, IFNg, and BCR specificity." This talk will take place in Assembly Conference Room 4001 and it will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Peroumal/Warunek)
March 22, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, March 22nd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Doureradjou Peroumal (Biswas) "Co-morbidity associated perturbations in antimicrobial immunity" and Jordan Warunek (Turnquist) "Recipient Macrophage Recognition of MHCI Controls Tissue Repair Following Heart Transplantation." RIP will take place in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D.
March 21, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Adrian Erlebacher, M.D., Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. His seminar is titled, "Mechanisms of fetomaternal tolerance." This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

William Hawse, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
March 21, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

On Thursday, March 21, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Bill Hawse, Ph.D. His talk is titled, “The phosphoinositide kinase PIKFYVE is essential for Th17 differentiation." This talk will take place in Assembly Conference Room 4001 and it will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Spahr)
March 8, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, March 8th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Kellie Spahr (Delgoffe) "Obese, not starving: mitochondrial citrate export drives lipid accumulation and dysfunction in exhausted T cells." RIP will take place in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Tracy Ruckwardt, Ph.D.
March 7, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, March 7, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Tracy Ruckwardt, Ph.D., Chief of the Respiratory Viruses Core at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases." Her seminar is titled, “Vaccine Development for Respiratory Viruses." This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Jishnu Das, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
March 7, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

On Thursday, March 7, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Jishnu Das, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Using machine learning and network systems approaches to uncover genetic and molecular determinants of immunological disorders." This talk will take place in Assembly Conference Room 4001 and it will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Wu/Vijay)
March 1, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, March 1st, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Shuxian Wu (M. Shlomchik) “Function of STAT3 phosphorylation Serine 727 in germinal center responses” and Godhev Manakkat Vijay (Singh) "BLIMP1 feedback constrains GC B cell expansion and maturation." RIP will take place in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Michael Gerner, Ph.D.
February 29, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, February 29, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Michael Gerner, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Washington. His talk is titled, “Illuminating the microenvironments that shape the immune response.” This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Roberts/Banerjee)
February 16, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, February 16th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Sean Roberts (M. Shlomchik) "Brain Acid Soluble Protein 1 (BASP1) regulates germinal center B cell development and function" and Hridesh Banerjee (L. Kane) “Tim-3 expression stabilizes tumor-infiltrating Treg, promoting a more immunosuppressive microenvironment." RIP will take place in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Abigail Overacre, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
February 15, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am

On Thursday, February 15, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Abigail Overacre, Ph.D. Her talk is titled, "Diet and microbiome control of the tumor microenvironment." This talk will take place in Assembly Conference Room 4001 and it will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Penny Morel, M.D. (Faculty RIP)
February 14, 2024 - 12:15pm

On Thursday, February 29, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Penny Morel, M.D. Her talk is titled, "RNA processing factors and T cell activation and differentiation." This talk will take place in Assembly Conference Room 4001 and it will be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Yang/Miller)
February 9, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, February 9th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Aaron Yang (Poholek) “3D chromatin topology and T cell exhaustion in TIL” and Leigh Miller (Alcorn) “The role of B cells during heterosubtypic memory influenza, bacteria super-infection." RIP will take place in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.

Katerina Politi, Ph.D.
February 8, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, February 8, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Katerina Politi, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Co-Leader, Cancer Signaling Networks, Yale Cancer Center; Scientific Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers at Yale School of Medicine. Her seminar is titled, "Understanding and Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Lung Cancer." This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Thomas E. Richards Auditorium of the Assembly building. The seminar will also be live-streamed on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded.

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