On Friday, June 2nd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Leigh Miller (Alcorn) "Defining the role of B cells during influenza, bacteria super-infection” and Emmanuel Leon-Colon (Hand) "Dissecting the Protective Mechanisms of Intestinal CD4+ Tissue 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.
Events Archive
On Thursday, June 1st, 2023, the University of Pittburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Troy Randall, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His talk is titled, "Anti-tumor immunity in the omentum: Tregs, microbiota and metabolism." 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.
On Friday, May 26th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Catherine Phelps (Meisel) "Exploring the mechanisms of how physical exercise promotes antitumor immunity in cancer immunotherapy resistant melanoma" and Luzmariel Medina-Sanchez (Hinterleitner) "A gut commensal protist protects against virus-mediated loss of oral tolerance." 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.
On Thursday, May 25th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Amanda Poholek, Ph.D. Her talk is titled, "In vivo dissection of Th2 initiation to inhaled allergen." 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.
On Friday, May 19th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Tiffany Taylor (Gaffen) "Understanding the role of IL-17-responsive transcription factors in regulating oropharyngeal candidiasis" and Paul Zdinak (Joglekar) "HIPs Don't Lie: Hybrid Insulin Peptides dominate the diabetogenic CD4+ T cell repertoire." 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.
On Thursday, May 18, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Prof. Dr. Viktor Umansky from the German Cancer Research Center. His talk is titled, "Immunosuppression in tumor microenvironment mediated by MDSC and its targeting." 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.
On Thursday, May 18th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Marlies Meisel, Ph.D. Her talk is titled, "Exploring mechanisms of how the microbiota impacts on autoimmunity and cancer." 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.
On Friday, May 5th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Russell Levack (M. Shlomchik) "Dissection of the protective effects of TLR9 in SLE" and Tristan White (Morel) "Understanding how RNA binding protein, hnRNPL modulates T cell function." 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.
On Thursday, May 4th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Albert Bendelac, M.D., Ph.D., A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology. His talk is titled, "Intestinal homeostatic IgA." 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.
On Friday, April 28th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Alex McPherson (Meisel) "Investigating the impact of probiotic bacteria on antitumor immunity and immunotherapy efficacy in melanoma" and Hye Mi Kim (Bruno) "Induction of tertiary lymphoid structures in non-small cell lung cancer improves B and T cell anti-tumor immunity." 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.
On Thursday, April 27th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Martin Kriegel, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Munster in Germany. His talk is titled, "Wrong place, wrong time - mechanisms and consequences of translocating pathobionts in autoimmunity." 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.
On Thursday, April 27th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Tullia Bruno, Ph.D. Her talk is titled, "Modulating tertiary lymphoid structures in 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.
On Friday, April 21st, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Emily Landy (Canna/L. Kane) "Complementary HLH Susceptibility Factors Converge on CD8 T-cell Hyperactivation" and Haylee Cosgrove (M. Shlomchik) "NOX2 restrains the pathogenicity of Toll-like receptor 7 in murine lupus." 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.
On Thursday, April 20th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Weiguo Cui, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. His talk is titled, "Exhausted CD8 T cells face a developmental fork in the road." 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.
On Thursday, April 20th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Greg Delgoffe, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Nutritional immunology: a new take on immunometabolism." 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.