Dr. Oestreich and graduate student Jasmine Tuazon raised money to bike 35 and 24 miles in this year’s Pelotonia, respectively. Jasmine represented the Spin Doctors peloton and Ken the MII-ghty Bucks peloton. Together with Jasmine’s dad, Ritchy, they raised $5,616 for cancer research! Go Bucks!
Graduate student Melissa Leonard is awarded a 2023-2024 pre-doctoral T32 fellowship from the OSU Infectious Disease Institute. This fellowship will help Melissa in her studies of Aiolos in the context of influenza infection. Congratulations, Melissa!
Graduate student Jasmine Tuazon published her first-author paper in The Journal of Immunology, titled, “Eos Promotes TH2 Differentiation by Interacting with and Propagating the Activity of STAT5.” The article was also selected as a Top Read for the August 2023 issue. Great job, team!
Graduate student and veterinary pathology resident Melissa Leonard presented a poster at the 2023 Society of Toxicologic Pathology Annual Symposium in Las Vegas and received the first-place Young Investigator Award. Way to go!
Graduate students Melissa Leonard, Devin Jones, and Jasmine Tuazon presented posters at the AAI IMMUNOLOGY2023 conference. Melissa and Devin both presented symposium talks and received travel awards for their work. After the conference, Jasmine, along with OSU MI&I and PIIO PIs Drs. Emily Hemann and Mark Rubinstein, advocated to Ohio representative and senator staffers for increased, sustainable NIH funding.
Kaitlin Read graduated with her Ph.D. from the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and celebrated in her backyard with close friends and family. Since then, she and her family moved to Philadelphia to start as a postdoctoral researcherR at the University of Pennsylvania in the lab of Dr. Jim Riley studying CAR T cells.
Postdoctoral scientist Srijana Pokhrel and graduate students Jasmine Tuazon and Devin Jones presented posters at the 2023 OSU College of Medicine Trainee Research Day. Both Jasmine and Devin received travel awards in the MD-PhD and PhD categories, respectively. Congrats, everyone!
Graduate students Devin Jones and Kaitlin Read publish their co-first-author Nature Communications paper titled, “Aiolos represses CD4+ T cell cytotoxic programming via reciprocal regulation of TFH transcription factors and IL-2 sensitivity.” Excellent work, Kaitlin and Devin!
Dr. Kaitlin Read successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled, Cytokine- and transcription factor-mediated mechanisms of T follicular helper cell regulation. Congratulations, Dr. Read! Well-deserved.
Graduate Student Devin Jones presented her poster on the impact of Aiolos on CD4-CTL differentiation and function at the OSU Hayes Forum. Great work, Devin!