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Center for Systems Immunology Annual Retreat
September 7, 2022 - 8:00am to 6:00pm

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Student/Postdoc RIP (Ford/Kumar)
September 2, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

On Friday, September 2nd, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Student/Postdoc RIP will feature Rhodes Ford (Poholek) "Role of hypoxia and Kdm6b in regulating bivalency and dysfunction in tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T cells” and Alok Kumar (Delgoffe) "Postprandial changes to systemic metabolism imprint durable changes on T cell immune responses." 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.

Irene Salinas, Ph.D.
September 1, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

On Thursday, September 1st, 2022, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology Seminar Series will be hosting Irene Salinas, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. Her talk is titled, "Neuroimmune interactions in the zebrafish olfactory-brain axis." 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 (Phelps/Zhang)
June 24, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Catherine Phelps (Meisel) "Exploring the role of physical exercise in treatment of cancer immunotherapy resistant melanoma" and Robert Zhang (M. Kane) "Genetic basis for IFNgamma-independent antiviral antibody response." The talks will be in BST S100A and live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Yi-Nan Gong, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
June 21, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am

The Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Yi-Nan Gong, Ph.D. His talk is titled, "Signals from the plasma membrane". The talk will be held in BST 1095 and it will be live-streamed via Zoom. The talk will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Warunek/Kim)
June 17, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Jordan Warunek (Turnquist) "Recognition of Donor MHCI Disrupts Recipient Reparative Macrophage Differentiation" and Hye Mi Kim (Bruno) "Interrogating the function of B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures in lunh adenocarcinoma." The talks will be in 1095 BST and they will be live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Kemp/Zdinak)
June 10, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Felicia Kemp (Byersdorfer) "The role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta in graft versus host disease" and Paul Zdinak (Joglekar) "Decoding antigen specificity of CD4+ T cells in type 1 diabetes with Signaling and Antigen-presenting Bifunctional Receptors." The talks will be in BST S100A and they will be live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Brady/Miller)
June 3, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Alex Brady (McGeachy) "A single amino acid change enhances mouse CD28 function to better model human co-stimulation" and Leigh Miller (Alcorn) "Assessing follicular helper T cell memory induced by LAIV vs. IIV4 in children." The talks will be in BST S100A and live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Olja Finn, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
May 31, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am

The Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Olja Finn, Ph.D., Her talk is titled, "Bulk RNAseq and scRNAseq of pre-vaccination PBMC reveal differences that predict vaccine responsiveness." The talk will be held in BST 1095 and it will be live-streamed via Zoom. The talk will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Olja Finn, Ph.D. (Faculty RIP)
May 31, 2022 - 9:00am to 10:00am

The Department of Immunology's Faculty RIP will feature Olja Finn, Ph.D., Her talk is titled, "Bulk RNAseq and scRNAseq of pre-vaccination PBMC reveal differences that predict vaccine responsiveness." The talk will be held in BST 1095 and be live-streamed via Zoom. The talk will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Student/Postdoc RIP (Yang/Medina-Sanchez)
May 27, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Aaron Yang (Poholek) "Impact of increased metabolism of CD4 T cells on histone modifications in SLE” and Luzmariel Medina-Sanchez (Hinterleitner) "The Role of Gut Commensal Protist in Loss of Oral Tolerance to Dietary Antigens" The talks will be in BST S100A and live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Student/Post Doc RIP
May 27, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

The Department of Immunology’s Student/Post Doc RIP Series will include Aaron Yang (Poholek) "Impact of increased metabolism of CD4 T cells on histone modifications in SLE” and Luzmariel Medina-Sanchez (Hinterleitner) "The Role of Gut Commensal Protist in Loss of Oral Tolerance to Dietary Antigens" The talks will be in BST S100A and live-streamed via Zoom. The talks will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D.
May 26, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Department of Immunology's Seminar Series will be hosting Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D., Charles B. de Nancrede Professor and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, Biology, and Surgery at the University of Michigan. His talk is titled, "Cross-talk between immunogenic and metabolic pathways in tumor immunity and therapy."  This seminar will be IN PERSON. It will take place in S120 BST and be live-streamed on Zoom. This seminar will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D.
May 26, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Department of Immunology's Seminar Series will be hosting Weiping Zou, M.D., Ph.D., Charles B. de Nancrede Professor and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, Biology, and Surgery at the University of Michigan. His talk is titled, "Cross-talk between immunogenic and metabolic pathways in tumor immunity and therapy."  This seminar will be IN PERSON. It will take place in S120 BST and it will be live-streamed on Zoom. This seminar will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

Julie Zikherman, M.D.
May 19, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Department of Immunology's Seminar Series will be hosting Julie Zikherman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her talk is titled, "Mechanisms of lymphocyte tolerance". This seminar will be IN PERSON. It will take place in 1095 BST and be live-streamed on Zoom. This seminar will also be recorded and made available on the department website.

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