On Thursday, March 16th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Harinder Singh, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Regulatory genomics analysis of human B cell fate dynamics." 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 Thursday, March 9th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Doug Reed, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Host-Pathogen Interactions in Pneumonic Tularemia." 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, March 3rd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Feng Shan (Vignali) "Integrated BATF transcriptional network regulates suppressive intratumoral regulatory T cells" and Prabal Chhibbar (Das) "Uncovering immunomodulatory molecular phenotypes using three-dimensional protein-protein interaction networks." 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, March 2nd, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Amal Amer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Infection and Immunity in the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. Her talk is titled, "The versatile functions of caspase-11 in the lung and the brain." 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, February 24th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Hridesh Banerjee (L. Kane) "Conditional deletion of Tim-3 on Treg limits tumor progression, reduces T cell exhaustion, and potentiates PD-1 therapy" and Jorna Sojati (Williams) "IFN-Lambda Drives Lung Immune Repertoire Changes and Antiviral Responses in Human Metapneumovirus 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.
On Thursday, February 9th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Jishnu Das, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Interpretable machine learning and network approaches for the discovery of immunomodulatory molecular phenotypes." 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, February 17th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Monika Vashisht (Wong) "TRAF2/3 deficient B cells resist DNA damage-induced apoptosis via NF-kB2/XIAP/cIAP2 axis and IAP antagonist sensitizes mutant lymphomas to chemotherapeutic drugs" and Brydie Huckestein (Alcorn) "Severe influenza infection causes long-term inflammation, lung damage, and metabolic changes 21 days post-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.
On Thursday, February 16th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Meike Dittmann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Her talk is titled, "Interferons in respiratory viurs defense and transmission." 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, February 16th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature Tim Hand, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "KLF4 regulates intestinal CD4+ tissue resident memory T cells." 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, February 10th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Nick Pease (Singh) "Regulatory mechanisms governing human B cell fate choice" annd Louis Lau (Singh) "Non-canonical unfolded protein response transcription factor CREB3L2 regulates survival of long-lived plasma 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.
On Thursday, February 9th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP Series will feature William Klimstra, Ph.D. "Mononuclear phagocytes: gatekeepers for arbovirus virulence, transmission and vaccinology." 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, February 3rd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Hector Nieves-Rosado (L. Kane) "Tim-2 expression in Treg controls viral persistence and effector T cell response during chronic LCMV infection" and Jordan Warunek (Turnquist) "Recognition of Donor MHCI Modulates Recipient Macrophage Differentiation and Wound Repair." 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, February 2nd, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Mandy Ford, Ph.D., Professor in the Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and Scientific Director of the Emory Transplant Center. Her talk is titled, "Regulation of CD8+T Cell Immunity via Fgl2." 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, January 27th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Dani Antos (Alcorn) "Interferon gamma alters immune function during influenza, bacteria super-infection" and Kevin Vergara (Atianand) "Defining the role of LUCAT1-RBMX axis in macrophage gene regulation." 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, January 26th, 2023, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Amy Weinmann, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her talk is titled, "Translating mechanisms between species: how evolutionary genome rearrangements affect gene programming potential in immune 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.