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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 CLOSED. If you are interested in attending the Retreat, please email Roberta Erickson (ericksn@pitt.edu) directly.

RETREAT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

"Marco Colonna, MD"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 Harris 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 - 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

  • Luzmariel Medina Sanchez - Graduate Student (YR4+) - Hinterleitner Lab - The Gut Protist Tritrichomonas Arnold Restrains Virus-Mediated Loss of Oral Tolerance by Modulating Dietary Antigen-Presenting Dendritic Cells
  • Ronal M. Peralta - Graduate Student (YR4+) - Delgoffe Lab - Lactate Uptake Through MCT11 Enforces Dysfunction in Terminally Exhausted T cells
  • Kevin Quann, MD, PhD - Faculty Instructor - Warren Shlomchik Lab - A Novel High-Throughput Method for Identifying T-cell Receptor: Minor Histocompatibility Antigen Interactions in Mouse Models of Graft-vs-Host Disease

 

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 10 minute presentations plus 5 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 on 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 printing.