TTT Scientific Retreat

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Poster Session and Reception

Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 8:00 am - 5:30 pm - Scientific Presentations

The Assembly Building - Crane Shed and Auditorium

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN.

(click on the links below for additional information)

 

 

  • Registration (NOTE: All faculty registrants will be expected to judge posters at the Poster sessions.)

  • Draft Program

  • Abstracts (Available after April 1.)

 

RETREAT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -

Greg Delgoffe, PhD
Roberta Erickson
Reinhard Hinterleitner, PhD
Warren Shlomchik, MD

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Marco Colonna, MD
Robert Rock Belliveau, MD Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
 
TREM and LILR Receptors in Neurodegeneration and Cancer

INTERNAL SPEAKERS -

  • Timothy Hand, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics - Trms in the Gut
  • Fadi Lakkis, MD - Scientific Director, Starzl Transplantation Institute; Frank and Athena Sarris Chair in Transplantation Biology; Distinguished Professor of Surgery; Professor of Immunology and Medicine - Function and Maintenance of Resident Memory T cells in Transplantation
  • Jing Li, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Immunology; Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program, Hillman Cancer Center - Maintenance of Immune Tolerance by Kir+ CD8+ Regulatory T cells
  • Abby Overacre, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Immunology - Microbial Drivers of T cell Exhaustion in Tumors
  • Anuradha Ray, PhD - Professor of Medicine and Immunology; Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; UPMC Endowed Chair in Lung Immunology - Mitochondria Rule in Airway Tolerance But Foul in Severe Asthma
  • David Rothstein, MD - Pittsburgh Steelers Chair in Transplantation; Professor, Depts. of Surgery, Medicine and Immunology; Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute - A Tale of Two TIMs: Regulatory and Effector B cells in Tumors and Transplantation
  • Faruk Sacirbegovic, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Surgery - Maintenance of Immune Responses in Tissue Environments: Lessons from GVHD and Organ Rejection
  • Jeremy Tilstra, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Rheumatology - T cell Exhaustion as a Mechanism of Peripheral Tolerance in Autoimmunity

ORAL PRESENTATIONS FROM SELECTED ABSTRACTS - TBD

  • Names and Talk Titles to be posted as soon as they're selected.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND POSTER SESSIONS -

 

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES:

Timeline - Abstracts are due by March 15, 2024. Abstracts are required if you plan to participate in the poster session and/or be considered for an oral presentation and must be emailed to Sam Petzold at SGP47@pitt.edu by the due date. Please also indicate your plans on the registration form.

Eligibility - Graduate students, postdocs, clinical fellows (or equivalent), and technicians.

Scoring - The Organizing Committee will select 3 abstracts for oral presentation at the Retreat. Selections will be made from the Graduate Student (YR4+), Postdoc/Research Associate, and Lab Staff submissions who have indicated that they would like to be considered. They will give 12 minute presentations plus 3 minutes for Q&A.

Format - Abstracts should not exceed 250 words in length. This does not include the title, authors or funding source (optional). Abstract should be a one-page pdf document less than 4 MB in size. The following information must be included at the top of the document:

  • NAME OF PRESENTING AUTHOR
  • EMAIL
  • LAB AFFILIATION
  • CLASSIFICATION: Graduate Student (YR1-3), Graduate Student (YR4+), Postdoc/Research Associate, Faculty, Lab Staff, Other (please identify)
  • CONSIDER FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION: YES or NO

NOTE: ABSTRACTS SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR POSTER AWARDS.

 

POSTER GUIDELINES:

As indicated above, abstracts must be submitted by March 15 if you plan to participate in the poster sessions. Please indicate your plan to do so when registering.

Posters will be judged based on the quality of the Subject Matter, Presentation and Poster Display. 

Poster sessions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons beginning at 4:00 pm. Posters will be assigned numbers, with the odd numbers presenting on Wednesday and the even numbers presenting on Thursday. Presenters will be required to put their posters up the day of their session and to remove their posters at the end of the day.

NOTE: POSTERS CANNOT EXCEED 3' X 3'. Pins and numbers will be provided. The department is not covering the cost of the poster pringing.