Are you a Ph.D. candidate, postdoc or lab-based researcher—or know someone whose work deserves recognition? ✨ Nominate for possible inclusion in #IAIJournal’s 2027 Emerging Voices in Microbiology Minireview Collection! 📢 Deadline is Oct. 20: asm.social/37u

Find out more about the new Pittsburgh Phage Program led by PMI faculty member @dariavantyne.bsky.social !

Daria Van Tyne@dariavantyne.bsky.social · 2w ago

Check out our new P3 promo video. Teamwork makes the dream work! @idpittstop.bsky.social @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social @pitt-pmi.bsky.social

Pitt, UPMC researchers test vaccine aimed at preventing invasive breast cancer

Pitt, UPMC researchers test vaccine aimed at preventing invasive breast cancer

A vaccine being tested by University of Pittsburgh researchers could one day prevent some breast cancers before they become invasive — potentially stopping the disease before it truly starts. The experimental vaccine builds on decades of research by Pitt cancer researcher Dr. Olivera Finn, whose work identifying a molecule associated

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Congratulations to Robert Zhang from the @cornymel.bsky.social lab on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎉👏

Congratulations to Hye Mi Kim from the Bruno lab on her upcoming PhD thesis defense! 👏🎈

Congratulations to @microbiosaroj.bsky.social from the @lauraamike.bsky.social lab on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎈 🎉

We want to welcome our 19 first year PhD students to Pittsburgh! 🎉 We are happy to have you here and we're excited to see all the wonderful things you do!

Last year, we reported that arginine stimulates mucoidy in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae. Now we show an opposing cue, sugars! Here, we report that sugar import suppresses mucoidy. Full story in @natcomms.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #klebclub See 🧵 for a summary:

Vaishali Aggarwal, Yangxi Sun, Chang Liu, Dario Vignali et al. @pitt-immunology.bsky.social identify two distinct exhausted LAG3⁺CD8⁺ T cell subpopulations in tumors using a lineage-tracing model. rupress.org/jem/article/... #TumorImmunology

We welcome our PMI students back to campus for the 2026-2027 school year, especially our 20 first year students!

Congratulations to PMI student Mitch Meyer from the DePas lab on his upcoming PhD defense! 🎉👏

Congratulations to @nathaliechen.bsky.social from the @dariavantyne.bsky.social lab on her upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎈👏

Know a college sophomore/junior in Pittsburgh who's interested in their first research opportunity? The Microbiology & Immunology Depts. Scholars program is for them! 4 semesters of hands-on research, mentorship & more. Apply by Sept. 2: www.pmi.pitt.edu/research/mid... @pitt-pmi.bsky.social

Congratulations to PMI student @catmphelps.bsky.social from the @meisellab.bsky.social on her upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🙌 🎉

In 2014, Jason Rosch and I met at a GRC in Tuscany and sketched an idea on a cocktail napkin: what if we evolved S.pneumo in mice, treated them with antibiotics, varied their immune systems and watched what won? 11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵

A new @natcomms.nature.com paper from Jishnu Das's lab, incl 1st author @alisaomelchenko.bsky.social, uses a new network-based approach to resolve a longstanding debate about Tfh cells—key drivers of strong antibody responses—in mice vs. humans. Read more: www.immunology.pitt.edu/news/single-...

Congratulations to Reinhard Hinterleitner (@rh-lab.bsky.social) on receiving the @societymucosalimm.bsky.social Young Investigator Award! #ICMI2026 Learn more about this award and Dr. Hinterleitner's research: www.immunology.pitt.edu/news/reinhar...

Congratulations to PMI student Louis Lau from Dr. Harinder Singh's laboratory on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎈 👏

Congratulations to PMI student Austin Hertel from the @roguerifter.bsky.social lab on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🙌 🎉

Congratulations to Julia Ferrick from labs of Dr. Yi-Nan Gong and Rebecca Elsner on her upcoming thesis defense! 🎉 👏

PMI’s own Dr. Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org is the new president of the American Society of Microbiology! 👏🏼

ASM@asm.org · 4mo ago

Please welcome @vscooper.micropopbio.org as the new ASM President and Federico Sisti, Ph.D., as President-Elect. They begin their terms on July 1. ASM congratulates its new & continuing leaders and looks forward to their leadership in advancing ASM’s mission. asm.social/2Zx

A new commentary in @natcancer.nature.com by Tullia Bruno and colleagues at Pitt and @mdanderson.bsky.social explores the potential of targeting tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer immunotherapy and charts a future course for the field. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The future of tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer immunotherapy as biomarkers and therapeutic targets - Nature Cancer

Bruno and colleagues provide an overview of tertiary lymphoid structures as biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets in the cancer immunotherapy era.

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Important results of collab led by ⭐surgeon-microbiologist Ken Urish w/ @dariavantyne.bsky.social @ironark.bsky.social and us: Chronic suppression of a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in prosthetic joint infection using personalized bacteriophage treatment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to former PMI student Christine Tin from the Hand Lab @pittpediatrics.bsky.social on her new paper!

Cell Host & Microbe@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introducing MicFly MicFLY, single-cell technology that quantifies bacterial abundance & links bacterial identity to viability, mRNA expression & Ab binding. Application to preterm infant cohort reveals ⬆️IgA/IgG-unbound Enterobacteriaceae associate w/NEC www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

New paper from PMI faculty member Dr. Tullia Bruno 👇🏼

We had so much fun hosting the Kayaking Event on 6th June! What a great turnout! And great weather! Sunny and super fun! #bgsa #recreational #pitt #kayaking

PMI faculty member @dariavantyne.bsky.social in the news!

New NIH-funded center at Pitt explores ‘natural predators of bacteria’

For more than a century, antibiotics have been medicine's go-to weapon against bacterial infections. But as drug-resistant bacteria become increasingly...

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Congratulations to Jordan Warunek from the @hector15215.bsky.social laboratory on his upcoming thesis defense! 🎈👏

Congratulations to Yannis Rigas from the @stleger.bsky.social laboratory on his upcoming thesis defense! 🎉 🙌

New review in @cp-immunity.bsky.social by @meisellab.bsky.social & @pitt-pmi.bsky.social ‬grad student @catmphelps.bsky.social synthesizes how exercise reshapes the immune system & the potential of exercise-based therapies for cancer, autoimmunity, and other diseases. www.cell.com/immunity/ful...