2022 Retreat

Join us for the 35th Annual Immunology Graduate Group Retreat

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - Friday, November 4, 2022

Location: Skytop Lodge
 

Keynote Speakers

Brian Kim, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Noah Palm, PhD                                                                         
Yale School of Medicine                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule

Day 1 - November 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Registration & Lunch | Evergreen Ballroom
12:30 - 12:40 PM Welcome | Hemlock Ballroom
12:40 - 2:00 PM

Session I: Signaling & Regulation | Hemlock Ballroom

Moderator: Jeff Maslanka

1A Franklin Staback Rodriguez
1B Michelle Cully
1C Joseph Perry
1D Elisa Cruz
2 - 2:15 PM Break
2:15 - 3:35 PM
 

Session II: Therapeutic Immunology | Hemlock Ballroom

Moderator: Bruktawit Goshu

2A William Molina Arocho
2B Casey Lee
2C Diego Espinoza
2D Emily Bettini
3:35 - 4:30 PM

Break on your own
4:30 - 5:30 PM

Junior Faculty Talk | Hemlock Ballroom

Laura Vella, MD, PhD
Melanie Ruffner, MD, PhD
5:30 - 6:30 PM

Keynote | Hemlock Ballroom

Brian Kim, MD, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai 
6:30 - 8:00 PM

Dinner | Evergreen Ballroom
8:00 - 9:00 PM Poster Blitz | Hemlock Ballroom
9:00 PM Reception | Evergreen Ballroom
Day 2 - November 3
7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast | Evergreen Ballroom                        
9:00 - 10:20 AM

Session III: Metabolism & Gene Regulation | Hemlock Ballroom

Moderator: Alexa Semon

3A Megan Clark
3B Michael Scaglione
3C Sam McCright
3D Brittney Allyn
10:20 - 10:35 AM Break
10:35 - 11:55 AM

Session IV: Microbe Interactions | Hemlock Ballroom

Moderator: Victor Vazquez Marrero

4A Indira Rao
4B Jordan Harris
4C Evonne Jean
4D Andrea Wong
12:00 - 3:00 PM

Box Lunch | Pick-up in Evergreen Ballroom

Break on your own

(Nature Hike and other activities)
3:00 - 4:00 PM

Alumni Career Panel | Hemlock Ballroom

Steven Saenz, PhD Industry
Austin Huffman, PhD Consulting
Theresa Leichner, PhD Scientific Writing
Jennifer Reed Dennis, PhD

Product Manager
Will Bailis, PhD Academia

4:00 - 6:00 PM

 Poster Session & Happy Hour | Laurel Ballroom
6:00 - 7:00 PM

Keynote | Hemlock Ballroom

Noah Palm, PhD

Yale School of Medicine 
7:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner & Awards | Evergreen Ballroom
9:00 PM Reception | Evergreen Ballroom
Day 3 - November 4
8:30 - 10:30 AM Breakfast | Evergreen Ballroom                        
11:00 AM Check-out

** Thank you to our SPONSORS **

Institutes, Centers, Departments, and Divisions
• Penn Institute for Immunology
• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, CHOP
• Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
• Department of Pathobiology, Penn Vet 
• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Penn Medicine
• Research Institute, CHOP  Protective Immunity and Immunopathology Research Affinity Group
• Division of Protective Immunity, CHOP
• Department of Pediatrics, CHOP
• Department of Microbiology, Penn Medicine

Training Grants
• Immunobiology of Normal and Neoplastic Lymphocytes (5-T32-CA-009140-47, Warren Pear)
• Training Program/Rheumatic Diseases (5-T32-AR-076951-02, Peter Merkel & Ed Behrens)
• VMD-PhD Training in Infectious Disease-Related Research (5-T32-AI-070077-14, Michael Atchison)
• Parasitology: Modern Approaches (5-T32-AI-007532-24, De’Broski Herbert)
• Immune System Development and Regulation (5-T32-AI-055428-16, David Allman)

Industry
Regeneron, Abcam, Janssen, Tmunity, BioLegend