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New research published in @natimmunol.nature.com by Pitt Immunology researchers sheds light on how the immune system balances B cell quality and diversity during infection or after vaccination, offering a potential new avenue to improve vaccines. Learn more: www.immunology.pitt.edu/news/blimp1-...
Graphic announcing Guest Symposium: Translating Human Immunology Through Cytokine Research and presentation ““Signaling dynamics in cytokine-driven gene control” with Rachel Gottschalk as speaker and symposium chair
Graphic announcing presentation: “Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) as Adaptors for Universal CAR T cells” with Elisa Ruffo (Jason Lohmueller Lab) as speaker
Graphic announcing presentation: “Dietary lipids are delivered to Tregs in chylomicrons and determine intestinal Treg survival” with Alexandra Cermak (Alison Kohan Lab) as speaker
Graphic announcing posters in the morning session (11:30am-12:30pm) on April 17 at the American Association of Immunologists annual meeting. -Poster 257: Functional Identification and Characterization of Human Tissue Resident Memory T Cells Using Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion — Allyson Lieberman (Mark Snyder Lab) -Poster 747: Fetoplacental-derived extracellular vesicles convey paternal antigen to antigen presenting cells resident within maternal lymphoid tissues— Juliana Powell (Adrián Morelli Lab) -Poster 833: Tumor Egfl6 is a new driver of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in ovarian cancer — Parisa Lotfinejad (Sandra Cascio Lab)
Tomorrow (April 17) is a busy day for the Pitt Department of Immunology at the @aai.org #IMMUNOLOGY2026 meeting! Here’s where you’ll find us in the morning!
Go chat with Sonia Kruszelnicki about how microbiota-dependent IGF-1 shapes alveolar macrophage function. AAI, tomorrow morning!
Rachel A. Gottschalk @gottschalklab.bsky.social, Satarupa Ganguly @satarupa2025.bsky.social & team show lung macrophages lacking GATA2 during inflammation promote metabolic dysfunction & profibrotic gene expression in mice: doi.org/10.1172/jci....
Excited for this! If you are in the area, would love to see you.
Graphic announcing Dr. Rachel Gottschalk's promotion to associate professor
Graphic announcing Dr. Reinhard Hinterleitner's promotion to associate professor
Graphic announcing Dr. Marlies Meisel's promotion to associate professor
Good things come in threes! Please join us in congratulating @gottschalklab.bsky.social, @rh-lab.bsky.social, and @meisellab.bsky.social on promotion to associate professor! (1/2)
Excited to share that our paper was accepted at @insight.jci.org !
GATA2 controls alveolar macrophage inflammatory gene expression and metabolic function insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
GATA2 controls alveolar macrophage inflammatory gene expression and metabolic function @insight.jci.org @gottschalklab.bsky.social
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Congrats to @soniakruszel.bsky.social who led the work!
New preprint!
TL;DR: Network analysis reveals that CEBP/β and PU.1 stabilize regulatory architecture in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages to constrain inflammatory responses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
TNF is a driver of rheumatoid arthritis, but the pathway details remain incomplete
@SLG1717.bsky.social & team now report Arid5a as an activator of TNF signaling elevated in human RA tissues. And its loss in mice results in resistance to arthritis: doi.org/10.1172/jci....
Blog post: Just quit
Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it.
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Her training is almost complete
49 travel grants awarded! 🎉
These early-career scientists are going to absolutely crush it at Cytokines 2025. The future of cytokine biology is looking bright with talent like this!
Check out all the recipients: cytokinesociety.org/2025/08/29/2...
#CytokineSociety #Cytokines2025 #NextGenScientists
Three former MIDS scholars stand in a group along with Drs. Olivera Finn and Partha Biswas.
Do you know an undergrad at Pitt, Chatham University, or @cmu.edu who hasn't had opportunities for hands-on research? Please encourage them to apply for the Microbiology and Immunology Departments (MID) Scholars Program! Learn more and apply: lnkd.in/eT-gYTqR
Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold.
Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday
We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15.
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Graphic announcing that the Center for Systems Immunology and the University of Pittsburgh Department of Immunology are hiring an Assistant Professor in Systems Immunology. To learn more or apply, visit join.pitt.edu and search 24007498 under Faculty Positions
🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) and @pitt-immunology.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3L42cGS
The Center for Systems Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh is recruiting at the Assistant Professor level. See below for more information. Please repost! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost!
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Morgan Symone Jackson-Strong will defend her thesis "Investigating the regulatory roles of CD36 and GATA2 in the immunometabolic, transcriptomic, and functional programming of alveolar macrophages" on November 6, 2025 at 1 pm at The Assembly.
Congratulations to Morgan Jackson-Strong from the @gottschalklab.bsky.social who will defend her thesis in a few weeks! 👏
Reposting, submit soon!
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
Great minds think unalike: Learn how a team of immunologists, cancer researchers, telomere experts, and an organic chemist brought their different expertise together to reveal new insights into how damage to #telomeres can shut down #cancer -fighting T cells. buff.ly/gICm1SL (1/2)
We are currently in the process of recruiting a technician. 🥼🐭🔬
If you know anyone with enthusiasm to learn new skills and stamina to hear me go on and on about IFNs, please have them reach out to me for more details!
If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague!
Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.
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👋 Hello Bluesky! We are the Pitt Department of Immunology. From autoimmune disease and cancer immunotherapy to vaccine development to infectious disease, our work spans the spectrum of immunological science. Follow along for updates on the latest publications and other news!
Excellent opportunity - the Kueh lab will be recruiting at the Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology this fall.