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Congrats to Carl June on this amazing honor!

Another Black immunologist link up at Penn IGG retreat! I’m so proud of this community we’ve managed to create and all our brilliance. My hope is that graduate PhD programs continue to reflect the full experience of ALL students. Diversity is not a luxury, it is a necessity!! 🤎

So proud of my Penn IGG PhD student Stephanie Schreiner & other students who advocated for this important initiative for the past 2 years & saw it come to fruition (she’s in the striped shirt on the right)! inquirer.com/education/narc…

Great lineup for the PennCHOP Microbiome Symposium this Friday. Please join us!

GAPSA, the Grad Center, and campus partners are excited to present Graduate Wellness Week! See upcoming events at bit.ly/GradWellnessWe… and check out #penngradwellnessweek on social media for updates, resources, and more!

Join us for Spill the Tea tomorrow! Hang out with LTBGS and Penn Med Pride and talk openly about grad school and life. We will have activities and sweet treats as well!

Happy to share our latest preprint from 1st author & Penn IGG PhD student Víctor R. Vázquez Marrero on how GM-CSF potentiates cytokine production in human monocytes during bacterial infection! Congrats to Victor, his undergrad mentees Allyson Lu & Madison Dresler, & postdoc Mikel Haggadone, PhD!

Join us for the Spring 2025 Accountability Groups Introductory Workshop! This event is for current Penn grad students who are interested and committed to joining a spring semester writing group (Feb-May). Learn more about writing accountability groups at gsc.upenn.edu/writing-groups

Don’t miss Yi-Wei summarizing his amazing work as an Assistant Professor. This will be both, great science and a lot of fun!

Each January, the University of Pennsylvania and our surrounding communities come together to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For more details and a full event listing, visit aarc.upenn.edu/mlk

Join us for an engaging event that takes you on a journey through the cosmos! We’ll explore the wonders of space and astronomy, debunk myths about star signs, and uncover the fascinating science behind the stars. Please register at gsc.upenn.edu/events

For those immunologists still on twitter - from the marrow to the thymus, from innate to adaptive - will consider suggestions - but need help for the B cells open.spotify.com/playlist/0aCA8…

Congratulations to Sara Cherry, PhD and the High-Throughout Center for AutoImmune Therapeutic Discovery (HIT-AI) on being named one of two new Colton Centers of Excellence this week! 🔬: med.upenn.edu/HIT-ID/

Happy to share that our paper on immune targeting of T. gondii cysts and the role of this stage in persistence is finally out in Nature Microbiology - Thanks again to all co-authors that made this possible! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Exciting news in IGG!

Congratulations to Katalin Kariko (Penn Neurosurgery), Virginia Lee (Penn Path & Lab Medicine), E. John Wherry (PennSysPharmATT) & Mark Devlin (Penn Physics and Astronomy) on their election to National Academy of Sciences! tinyurl.com/5eehdtms

We're counting down the days to #BGSGraduation2025! Please join us in congratulating this year's amazing graduates - their profiles can be found here!🎉🎓 med.upenn.edu/bgs/bgs-2025-g…

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