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!

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!

At the 2023 MI&I Retreat at the Mohican Lodge and Conference Center, postdoctoral scientist Srijana Pokhrel gave a talk and presented a poster on her work studying the impact of IkZF factors on memory T cell populations. Way to represent, Srijana!

Devin Jones and her family moved to Boston to start her new position as an industry postdoctoral research with Merck. Congratulations, Devin!

The Immunology and Immunotherapeutics Graduate Program (I2GP), directed by Dr. Oestreich, brought in their first class of Ph.D. students in Fall 2023. We are excited to see the great research and accomplishments from this group. Welcome!

Lab manager and research assistant Robert Warren was certified for hazardous shipping for all members of Microbial Infection and Immunity. This critical responsibility ensures that everyone in MI&I can safely send out samples and reagents as needed and keeps everything running smoothly. Thanks for all your help and initiative, Rob!

Dr. Devin Jones successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled, Regulation of Cytotoxic Programming in CD4+ T Cells by the Ikaros Zinc Finger Family of Transcription Factors. Congratulations, Dr. Jones! We are excited to see where you go next.