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.
Events Archive
Student/Postdoc RIP (Roberts/Banerjee)
February 16, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
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.
Reinhard Hinterleitner, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
February 8, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, February 8, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Reinhard Hinterleitner, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Mucosal immune responses shaped by a commensal protist." 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 (Chakraborty/Keshari)
February 2, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, February 2nd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Trirupa Chakraborty (Das) “Deep Humoral Profiling Coupled to Interpretable Machine Learning Unveils Novel Diagnostic Markers and Pathophysiology of Schistosomiasis Infection" and Swapnil Keshari (Das) “A systems approach to elucidate differences in gene regulatory networks across B cell states." 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.
Francisco Quintana, Ph.D.
February 1, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, February 1, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Francisco Quintana, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology at the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His seminar is titled, “Regulation of CNS inflammation." 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 (Medina-Sanchez/Phelps)
January 26, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, January 26, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Luzmariel Medina-Sanchez (Hinterleitner) “Exploring the role of Gut Commensal Protist Tritrichomonas arnold in Celiac Disease” and Catherine Phelps (Meisel) "Exercise-induced microbial metabolite promotes CD8 T cell immunity against immunotherapy resistant preclinical melanoma." 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.
Fadi Lakkis, M.D.
January 25, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, January 25, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Fadi Lakkis, M.D., Scientific Director of the Starzl Transplantation Institute and the Frank and Athena Sarris Chair in Transplantation Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. His seminar is titled, “And Now for Something Completely Different.” 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.
Robert Binder, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
January 25, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, January 25, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Robert Binder, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Mechanisms of cancer immunosurveillance." 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 (Pease/Weiss)
January 19, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, January 19th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Nick Pease (Singh) "Transcription factor networks regulating divergent human B cell fates" and Eric Weiss (Kaplan) "Cognate antigen encounter in skin is required for full differentiation of epidermal resident memory 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.
Doug Reed, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
January 18, 2024 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, January 18, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Doug Reed, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Monoclonal antibody-based prophylaxis against highly pathogenic avian influenza." 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 (Scott/Zheng)
January 12, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, January 12th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Ellen Scott (Vignali) “Ebi3 binds to IFN-gamma and IL-10 and blocks their downstream function” and Yibo Zheng (Poholek) "Identifying the expression and function of Blimp-1in ILC2s in allergic asthma." 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.
Katalin Susztak, M.D., Ph.D.
January 11, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, January 11, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Katalin Susztak, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her seminar is titled, "Genetics of kidney function." 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.