Another year celebrating the joy of neighborly science with the Chrysothemis Brown and Vardhana Lab crew - thanks as always to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for their generosity via the #MSKFunFund!!!

Dr. Randy Longman and colleagues at Weill Cornell Medicine IBD have received the #NIHHighRisk Transformative Research Award from NIH Common Fund to study how gut microbes affect human health and drive inflammatory bowel disease. Full story: bit.ly/3U1VjaW

Congrats to IMP faculty member Andrea Schietinger The SchietiLab on receiving the distinguished Fred Alt Award from the Cancer Research Institute for her groundbreaking discoveries in T cell biology! cancerresearch.org/media-room/202…

Congratulations to IMP faculty member Virginia Pascual on this latest paper from her lab! cell.com/immunity/abstr…

Yay! Our paper on homeostatic #macrophage programming by #glucocorticoids and #IL4 in collaboration with Josefowicz Lab is finally out Nature Communications this weekend! Congrats and thanks to all involved!! nature.com/articles/s4146…

2024 IMP Scientific Retreat is underway Crystal Springs Resort Resort! Starting the morning off with our own IMP faculty Dr Iliyan Iliev leading the presentations! followed by our amazing students!

Thrilled to have Dr. Sara Cherry of UPenn as our Keynote Speaker today! 🌟 Amazing talk on emerging RNA viruses and innate immune control. 🦠🧬

Check out our talented students and postdocs showcasing their research during the poster session! 🧪📝 Lively discussions happening all around. 🧬👏

Day 2 of the IMP Retreat started bright and early with a presentation by our Co-Director, Dr. Theresa Lu about Understanding the skin-lymphatic-lymph node axis in lupus! Followed by our amazing students and postdocs!

Moving along with presentations at the IMP Retreat! 🧪 Dr. Gabi Rizzuto is giving her talk on Maternal B Cell responses to the placenta and fetus . Our postdocs and students continue with their talks presenting their research!

TODAY!!! The Thesis Defense for Dasom Kim of TheDiehlLab Watch via Zoom: meetmsk.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Exciting findings from our IMP faculty! Great to see this work published in nature. 👇

🏆Congrats to our retreat presentation winners! Poster Session: ✨ Student Winners: Kathleen Mills & Mariano Aufiero ✨ Post-doc Winner: Sofia Tortora, PhD✨ Poster Blitz:✨ Ian McBain, Alex McGurk & Serena Teh ✨Talk Winners:✨ Student: Brooke Fiedler✨Post-doc: Simon Grassmann

A most appreciative THANK YOU also to our incredible organizing committee: Faculty Gretchen Diehl, Inez Rogatsky, Brad Jones; students Ian Mantel, Baila (Schochet) Sokolsky, Amanda Chen, Aazam Ghelani, Dean Matthews, Ryann Callaghan; our wonderful IMP Coordinator Thelma Lopez!

*TOMORROW* IMP's very own Adam Krebs will be defending his thesis, details in the notice below! if you'd like to join remotely, register here: meetmsk.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congrats to Xi, Gaya, Ella, Nicole, Dinesh, Marija, Ian Dan, Richard, Tinghu, Laura, Susan, Nat, Yurii, Rob, Inez - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… is out! - There're 6 Weill Cornell GSMS students (5 students, 1 postdoc & 2 faculty from Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis (IMP) Program !) among co-authors! Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)

Huge congratulations to Adam Krebs Adam Krebs for successfully defending his PhD thesis on tuberculosis, under the mentorship of his PI, Michael Glickman! 🎓🎉 We’re so proud of this incredible milestone in your scientific journey! Onward to amazing things! #IMPPhD

🎓🧬This week, we cheered on our brilliant PhD students as they officially became graduates! From convocation to commencement, it was all joy, pride, and big smiles. So proud of this crew! Scroll for some of our favorite moments! 📸