Joint Research in Progress Seminars
We look forward to you joining us again on the 3rd Friday of every month at 12 pm, Hybrid, via Zoom and BST Conference Room 1595.
Date | Presenter 1 | PI Lab | Presenter 2 | PI Lab |
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09/16/2022
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Mark Snyder
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Mark Snyder
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10/21/2022
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Hussein Baydoun
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Geoffrey Camirand
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TBD | |
11/18/2022
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NO RIP – STI Retreat
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12/16/2022 – CANCELED
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Sarah Gaffen | Robert Lafyatis | ||
01/20/2023
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Alessandro Gambella | Anthony Demetris | Timothy Billiar | |
02/17/2023
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Yang Li | Sarah Gaffen | ||
03/17/2023
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Johnny Bou Saba | Heth Turnquist | ||
04/21/2023
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Gang Zhang | Fadi Lakkis | Doureradjou Peroumal | Partha Biswas |
05/19/2023
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Ruiqi Yang | Samer Tohme | Tony Haykal | Samer Tohme |
06/16/2023 | Jordan Warunek | Heth Turnquist | Mouhamad Al Moussawy | Hossam Abdelsamed |
07/21/2023 | Nicole Ponde | Sarah Gaffen | Ipsita Dey | Sarah Gaffen |
For more information, please contact:
Kristie Bowman
(412) 648-4058
bowmankl2@upmc.edu
Joint Journal Club
We look forward to you joining us again on the 4th Friday of every month at 12 pm, Hybrid, via Zoom and BST Conference Room 1595.
Date | Speaker #1: Basic Scientist |
Speaker #2: Clinician |
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09/23/2022
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Jordan Warunek | |
10/28/2022
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Mouhamad Al-Moussawy | TBD |
11/25/2022
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CANCELLED – Thanksgiving Break
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12/23/2022
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CANCELLED – Holiday Break
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01/27/2023
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Heth Turnquist | TBD |
02/24/2023
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Charbel Elias |
Matthew Pittappilly
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03/24/2023 | Hamza Yazdani |
Chethan Puttarajappa
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04/28/2023
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Hussein Baydoun |
Rajil Mehta
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05/26/2023
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Cindy Avalos |
Akhil Sharma
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06/23/2023
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Tiffany Taylor |
Puneet Sood
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07/28/2023
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Hossam Abdelsamed | Bashar Matour |
08/25/2023 | Johnny Bou Saba | TBD |
For more information, please contact:
Hossam Abdelsamed
(412) 383-5465
abdelsamedha@upmc.edu
Transplantation Biology Seminar Series
We look forward to you joining us again on the 2nd Friday of every month (unless otherwise noted) at 12 pm, Hybrid, via Zoom and BST Conference Room 1595.
Click on the speaker’s name to see the full informational flyer.
September 2, 2022 | Joren Madsen, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital |
October 14, 2022 | Alessandro Alessandrini, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital |
November 11, 2022 | Anat Tambur, DMD, PhD – Northwestern University |
December 9, 2022 | Muhammad Mohiuddin, MBBS – University of Maryland |
January 13, 2023 | Daniel Kreisel, MD – Washington University |
February 10, 2023 | Gilles Benichou, PhD – MGH / Harvard Medical School |
March 3, 2023 | James Markmann, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School |
April 14, 2023 | Gregory Tietjen, PhD – Yale University |
Rescheduled for October 13, 2023 |
Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia |
Cancelled – New Date, TBD |
Claudia Mauri, PhD – University College London |
For more information, please contact:
Kristie Bowman
(412) 648-4058
bowmankl2@upmc.edu
Transplantation Grand Rounds
We look forward to you joining us again every Friday at 8 am, Hybrid, via Zoom and LHAS Auditorium, UPMC Montefiore.
(Note: Bolded text denotes External Speakers)
DATE | SPEAKER |
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September 9, 2022 | Sundaram Hariharan |
September 16, 2022 | David McMichael |
September 23, 2022 | CANCELLED |
September 30, 2022 | Chadi Hage |
October 7, 2022 | Matthew Pittappilly |
October 14, 2022 | Allyson Hart, University of Minnesota – ZOOM ONLY |
October 21, 2022 | Karthik K Tennankore, Dalhousie University – ZOOM ONLY |
October 28, 2022 | Abhi Humar |
November 4, 2022 | Christopher Hughes |
November 11, 2022 | Christine Falk, MHH Hanover, Germany – ZOOM ONLY |
November 18, 2022 | NO GRAND ROUNDS – STI RETREAT |
November 25, 2022 | THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY BREAK |
December 2, 2022 | Swaytha Ganesh |
December 9, 2022 | Kazunari Tanabe, Tokyo Japan |
December 16, 2022 | Qingyong Xu |
January 13, 2023 | Paula Novelli |
January 20, 2023 | George Mazariegos |
January 27, 2023 | Jonathan Bromberg, University of Maryland |
February 3, 2023 | John Forsythe, University of Edinburgh – ZOOM ONLY |
February 10, 2023 | Eun Kwak |
February 17, 2023 | Thierry Berney, University of Geneva – ZOOM ONLY |
February 24, 2023 | John McDyer |
March 3, 2023 | Puneet Sood |
March 10, 2023 | NO GRAND ROUNDS |
March 17, 2023 | Rajil Mehta |
March 24, 2023 | Enrico Benedetti, University of Illinois |
March 31, 2023 | Arjun Kalaria |
April 7, 2023 | NO GRAND ROUNDS |
April 14, 2023 | Megan Sykes, Columbia University |
April 21, 2023 | Caitlin Loseth |
April 28, 2023 | Chethan Puttarajappa |
May 5, 2023 | Naudia Jonassaiint |
May 12, 2023 | Michele Molinari |
May 19, 2023 | Raman Venkataraman |
May 26, 2023 | Parmjeet Randhawa |
June 2, 2023 | Colin Powers |
June 9, 2023 | Aravind Cherukuri |
For more information, please contact:
Kristie Bowman
(412) 648-4058
bowmankl2@upmc.edu
Joint Faculty Research Forum (JFRF)
We look forward to you joining us the 1st and 3rd Wednesday at noon, Hybrid, via Zoom and 1595 Biomedical Science Tower.
DATE | SPEAKER |
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October 5, 2022 | No Meeting |
October 19, 2022 | Fadi Lakkis |
November 2, 2022 | Daniella Schwartz |
November 16, 2022 | Sarah Gaffen |
December 7, 2022 | Matthew Rosengart |
December 21, 2022 | No Meeting |
January 4, 2022 | Heth Turnquist |
January 18, 2023 | Kevin Mollen |
February 1, 2023 | Martin Oberbarnscheidt |
February 15, 2023 | Aravind Cherukuri |
March 1, 2023 | TBD |
March 15, 2023 | Craig Byersdorfer |
April 5, 2023 | Geoffrey Camirand |
April 19, 2023 | Alison Kohan |
May 3, 2023 | Adrian Morelli |
May 17, 2023 | Sawa Ito |
June 7, 2023 | No meeting (ATC) |
June 21, 2023 | Tim Billiar |
July 5, 2023 | Partha Biswas |
July 19, 2023 | Adriana Larregina |
August 2, 2023 | Partha Dutta |
August 16, 2023 | Hossam Abdelsamed |
September 6, 2023 | Patrizia Fuschiotti |
September 20, 2023 | Yoram Vodovotz |
October 4, 2023 | Khodor Abou-Daya |
October 18, 2023 | Khodor Abou-Daya |
November 1, 2023 | Geoffrey Camirand |
November 15, 2023 | Kevin Mollen |
December 6, 2023 | Mohamed Ezzelarab |
December 20, 2023 | TBD |
For more information, please contact:
Amy Nye
(412) 383-5774
nyea@upmc.edu
STI Retreat
SAVE THE DATE!
November 17, 2023
10:00 am – 7:00 pm
University Club
123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
For more information, please contact:
Amy Nye
(412) 383-5774
nyea@upmc.edu
2023 Eberly Distinguished Lectureship in Immunology
May 25, 2023

E. John Wherry, PhD
• Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s Distinguished Professor
• Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
• Director, Institute for Immunology and Immune Health
•Director, Colton Center for Autoimmunity
• University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
September 14, 2023

Professor Dame Fiona Powrie
• Director of The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
• University of Oxford
November 30, 2023

Susan Kaech, PhD
• Professor & Director of the Nomis Center for Immunobiology & Microbial Pathogenesis at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Immunology Seminar Series
We look forward to you joining us every Thursday (unless otherwise noted) at 11 am at the Assembly Building, Ground Floor Auditorium.
Please click here to see the full flyer for more details.
September 1, 2022 | Irene Salinas – University of New Mexico |
September 8, 2022 | Gretchen Diehl – Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Hinterleitner) |
September 15, 2022 | No Seminar |
September 22, 2022 | Ruoning Wang – The Ohio State University |
September 29, 2022 | No Seminar – Department Retreat |
October 6, 2022 | Jenny Ting, PhD – University of North Carolina (Eberly Lecture) |
October 13, 2022 | Carrie Sokol – Massachusetts General Hospital |
October 20, 2022 | Sally Kent – UMass Chan Medical School |
October 27, 2022 | Ulf Panzer – University of Hamburg |
November 3, 2022 | Martin Blaser – Rutgers University |
November 10, 2022 | Ning Jenny Jiang – University of Pennsylvania |
November 17, 2022 | David Cooper – Massachusetts General Hospital |
November 24, 2022 | No Seminar – Thanksgiving Day |
December 1, 2022 | Louis Staudt, MD – National Cancer Institute (Eberly Lecture) |
December 8, 2022 | Laura Su – University of Pennsylvania |
December 15, 2022 | Jamie Spangler – Johns Hopkins University |
December 22, 2022 | No Seminar – Winter Recess |
December 29, 2022 | No Seminar – Winter Recess |
January 5, 2023 | No Seminar – Winter Recess |
January 12, 2023 | Ari Melnick – Weill Cornell Medicine |
January 19, 2023 | Doreen Cantrell – University of Dundee |
January 26, 2023 | Amy Weinmann – University of Alabama |
February 2, 2023 | Mandy Ford – Emory University |
February 9, 2023 | No Seminar |
February 16, 2023 | Meike Dittmann – NYU Langone Health |
February 23, 2023 | Ali Ellebedy – Washington University in St. Louis |
March 2, 2023 | Amal Amer – The Ohio State University |
March 9, 2023 | No Seminar – Spring Break |
March 16, 2023 | Bart Lambrecht – VIB Center for Inflammation Research |
March 23, 2023 | Miriam Merad – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
March 30, 2023 | Ram Savan – University of Washington |
April 6, 2023 | Kole Roybal – University of California, San Francisco |
April 13, 2023 | Laurie Kilpatrick – Temple University |
April 20, 2023 | Weiguo Cui – Versiti Blood Research Institute |
April 27, 2023 | Martin Kriegel – University of Munster |
May 4, 2023 | Albert Bendelac – University of Chicago |
May 11, 2023 | No Seminar – AAI |
May 18, 2023 | Viktor Umansky – German Cancer Research Center |
May 25, 2023 | John Wherry, PhD – Penn Institute for Immunology (Eberly Lecture) |
June 1, 2023 | Troy Randall – University of Alabama |
June 8, 2023 | Benjamin Youngblood – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
June 15, 2023 | Kellie Smith – Johns Hopkins Medicine |
June 22, 2023 | Sergio Quezada – UCL Cancer Institute |
June 29, 2023 | Richard Ramonell – University of Pittsburgh |
For more information, please contact:
Candice Kuo
(412) 648-7050
cak94@pitt.edu