On Thursday, November 17, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting David Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., from the Center for Transplantation Sciences at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His talk is titled, "The immunobiology and potential of pig organ transplantation." 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.
Events Archive
David Cooper, M.D., Ph.D.
November 17, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Partha Biswas, MVSc, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
November 17, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, November 17th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Partha Biswas, MVSc, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Immune dysfunction and risk of infection in kidney disease". 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 (Abbott/Liu)
November 11, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, November 11th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Darryl Abbott (Hand) "Maternal IgA and the infant intestinal microenvironment exert selective control over immunogenic bacterial colonization" and Andrew Liu (Kaplan) "Determining the role of sensory itch nerves in allergic skin inflammation." RIP will take place in the Ground Floor 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.
Ning Jenny Jiang, Ph.D.
November 10, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, November 10, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Ning Jenny Jiang, Ph.D., Peter and Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovationa and Bioengineering and the University of Pennsylvania. Her talk is titled, "High-throughput and High-dimensional Single T cell Profiling Enabled Systems Immunology and Immune Engineering." 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 (Frisch/Joshi)
November 4, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, November 4th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP Series will feature Andrew Frisch (Delgoffe) "Improving persistence and efficacy of cellular therapies for cancer through glycolytic reprogramming" and Supriya Joshi (Delgoffe) "Making fuel efficient CARs: metabolic manipulation as a tool for cellular therapy." 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.
Martin Blaser, M.D.
November 3, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, November 3rd, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Martin Blaser, M.D., Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine; Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome; and Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers University. His talk is titled, "Perturbing early-life microbiota affects metabolic and immunological development." 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.
Prof. Dr. med. Ulf Panzer
October 27, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, October 27th, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Prof. Dr. medical Ulf Panzer, Head of the Translational Immunology Section and Scientific Director of the III. Medical Clinic at the University of Hamburg. His talk is titled, "T cell subsets and their signature cytokines in autoimmune kidney diseases." 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.
Daniella Schwartz, M.D. (Faculty RIP)
October 27, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, October 27th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Daniella Schwartz, M.D. Her talk is titled, "Exploring the convergence of allergy, autoimmunity, and autoinflammation". 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.
Sally Kent, Ph.D.
October 20, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, October 20th, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Sally Kent, Ph.D., George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. Her talk is titled, "Islet T Cell Infiltrate in Human Type 1 Diabetes: What Do We Know?" This seminar will take place ON ZOOM ONLY. The seminar will also be recorded and the recording will be posted on the department website.
Rachel Gottschalk, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
October 20, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, October 20th, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Rachel Gottschalk, Ph.D. Her talk is titled, "Quantifying monocyte and macrophage transcriptomic states during inflammation and resolution." 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.
Caroline Sokol, M.D., Ph.D.
October 13, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, October 13th, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Caroline Sokol, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Physician at Massachusetta General Hospital. Her talk is titled, "Scratching that itch: neuroimmune control of allergic immunity. This seminar will take place IN PERSON in the Ground Floor 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 (MacFawn)
September 23, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, September 23rd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP will feature Ian MacFawn (Bruno) "Tumor and Stromal Factors Regulate B Cell Infiltrate and Tertiary Lymphoid Structures in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer". RIP will take place in the Ground Floor 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.
Ruoning Wang, Ph.D.
September 22, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be VIRTUALLY hosting Ruoning Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University. His talk is titled, "COP22: Mapping the carbon footprint and reducing the carbon emission to boost T cell immunity." This seminar will take place VIRTUALLY on Zoom only. The seminar will also be recorded. The recording will be posted on the department website.
Daniel Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
September 22, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am
On Thursday, September 22nd, the Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Dan Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D. His talk is titled, “The genesis of cutaneous neuroinflammation.” 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 (DePeaux/Peralta)
September 16, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
On Friday, September 16th, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP will feature Kristin DePeaux (Delgoffe) "Oncolytic virus-mediated delivery of a potent TGFbeta inhibitor overcomes therapeutic resistance driven by a tolerogenic tumor microenvironment" and Ronal Peralta (Delgoffe) "Lactate uptake through MCT11 enforces dysfunction in terminally exhausted T cells." RIP will take place in the Ground Floor 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.