Graduate Student Melissa Leonard publishes her first author paper titled “Aiolos promotes CXCR3 expression on Th1 cells via positive regulation of IFN-γ/STAT1 signaling” in JCI Insight. Congratulations to Melissa and team!

Postdoctoral scholar Srijana Pokhrel presented her work for which she was awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) postdoctoral fellowship in a poster at their reception. Great work Srijana!

Congratulations to graduate student Gayathri Dileepan on her successful poster presentation and receiving the 3rd place the poster award. Great job on your first presentation from the lab!

Congratulations to previous graduate student Jasmine Tuazon for completing her PhD! Now she will continue the Medical Scientist Training Program by returning to medical school as an M3. Best wishes to her during her last two years in the path to becoming a physician scientist!

This month the Oestreich Lab welcomed graduate student Gayathri Dileepan to the team! She is an MD/PhD student in OSU’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP). We are so glad to have you!

Congratulations to Srijana for receiving the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association!

Recent graduates Dr. Devin Jones and Dr. Jasmine Tuazon publish their co-first-author paper “Cytotoxic Programming of CD4+ T Cells is Regulated by Opposing Actions of the Related Transcription Factors Eos and Aiolos”. Well done, both of you!

Dr. Jasmine Tuazon successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis, titled, “The Ikaros zinc finger transcription factor Eos as a novel regulator of STAT5 phosphorylation in CD4+ T helper cells”. She is now heading back to medical school to wrap up the last two years of the MSTP! Congratulations, Dr. Tuazon!

Our team would not be complete without lab manager and research assistant Robert Warren’s contributions to all our recent lab achievements, from cloning to genotyping to being our star mouse colony manager. As such, he has earned co-authorships on both the lab’s recent Nature Communications and Journal of Immunology publications. Congratulations, Rob!

Graduate student Jasmine Tuazon was awarded an NIH/NIAID Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research service F30 fellowship (impact score 10, percentile 2)! This award will be used to fund the remainder of her Ph.D. research studying Eos-STAT5 phosphorylation mechanisms in T cells, followed by a portion of her Med 3 year upon returning to medical school in 2024. Congratulations, Jasmine!