On Friday, September 29th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Robert Zhang (M. Kane) “Retroviral determinants for the generation of antiviral antibody responses” and Andrew Liu (Kaplan) “Scratching links neuroimmune circuits in cutaneous allergic inflammation.” RIP will take place in 4001 Assembly Conference Room. 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 (Zhang/Liu)
September 29, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Creg Workman, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
September 28, 2023 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, September 28, 2023, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Creg Workman, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Structure, Function and Mechanistic Analysis of LAG3." 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 (Ruffo/Anderko)
September 22, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, September 22nd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Elisa Ruffo (Lohmueller) "Going off-road: New applications of universal SNAP-CAR T cell therapy" and Renee Anderko (Zureikat) "Predicting effective precision combination therapies through patient derived organoids." 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.
Student/Postdoc RIP (Wilfahrt/Azevedo)
September 15, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, September 15th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Drew Wilfahrt (Delgoffe) "Heritable effects of metabolic stress on CD8 T cell function" and Catarina Azevedo (Delgoffe) "Reprogramming T cell Glycosylation: a novel immunotherapeutic strategy in Colorectal Cancer treatment." 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.
Kevin Nickerson, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
September 14, 2023 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, September 14, 2023, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Kevin Nickerson, Ph.D. His talk is titled, “CD11c and CD11b Expressing B cells: The ABCs of SLE." 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 (Li)
September 8, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, September 8th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Yang Li (Gaffen) "Arid5a-dependent RNA translation underlies pathology in IL-17-driven autoantibody-induced glomerulonephritis." 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.
Avery August, Ph.D.
September 7, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, September 7, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Avery August, Ph.D., Deputy Provost and Professor of Immunology at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. His talk is titled, "Kinase turntablism: Tuning T cell activation." 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 (Ye/Spahr)
July 7, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, July 7th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Chenxian Ye (Delgoffe) “Determining the Regulation of Glucose Avidity on Treg Function” and Kellie Spahr (Delgoffe) “Understanding the effects of unbalanced lipid metabolism in exhausted CD8 T cells”. RIP will take place in 4001 Assembly Conference Room. The RIP will also be live-streamed on Zoom and recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.
Richard Ramonell, M.D.
June 29, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, June 29th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting, Richard Ramonell, M.D., Clinical Instructor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His talk is titled, "Off the beaten path: extrafollicular B cell responses in COVID-19." 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)
June 29, 2023 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, June 29th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature William Hawse, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Defining the function of phosphatidylinositol metabolism in T cell fate choices." 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 (Parikh/Kemp)
June 23, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, June 23rd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Avani Parikh (Lohmueller) "Targeting universal Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells via small molecule adaptors" and Felicia Kemp (Byersdorfer) "The role of PPAR-delta in mature murine 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.
Sergio Quezada, Ph.D.
June 22, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, June 22nd, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Sergio Quezada, Ph.D., Professor of Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy at University College London Cancer Institute. His talk is titled, "Targeting regulatory T cells at the interface of adaptive and innate anti-tumour immunity." 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.
Yi-Nan Gong, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
June 22, 2023 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, June 22nd, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Yi-Nan Gong, Ph.D. His talk is titled, “Empowering Necrotic Survivors: Plasma Membrane Repair as modulators for Innate Immunity.” 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 (Mena Hernandez/Chaurasia)
June 16, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, June 16th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Luis Mena Hernandez (Singh) "Engineering B cells to analyze the contributions of BCR and T cell signals in activation fate dynamics" and Smriti Chaurasia (M. Shlomchik) “High Throughput Identification Of Tumor Neoantigen Specific TCRs: Applications For Immunotherapy’." 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.
Kellie Smith, Ph.D.
June 15, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, June 15th, 2023, the University of Pittburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Kellie Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her talk is titled, “Immunogenomic determinants of response and resistance to PD-1 blockade." 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.