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Center for Systems Immunology Annual Retreat

The Center for Systems Immunology Annual Retreat will be held at the Assembly Building on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.

The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) was established in 2019 to foster interdisciplinary research and training at the interface of systems biology and immunology. The retreat will showcase faculty and trainee presentations from within our Pittsburgh research community and will include talks from three leading outside speakers.

In addition to researchers working directly in the field of systems immunology, we invite faculty and trainees working in quantitative biological sciences and biological engineering to join us.

Registration is now OPEN! Please click here to register.

Click here to see the CSI retreat flyer and here to see the program.

Invited Speakers:

  • Stacey Finley, PhD University of Southern California
  • Sam Myers, PhD La Jolla Institute for Immunology
  • Nicolas Chevrier, PhD University of Chicago

Internal Speakers:

  • Robin Lee, PhD Department of Computational and Systems Biology
  • Jianhua Xing, PhD Department of Computational and Systems Biology
  • Youjin Lee, PhD Department of Immunology

Oral Presentations from selected abstracts

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

Timeline: Abstracts are due by October 8th. Abstracts are required if you plan to present a poster and/or be considered for an oral presentation. Please indicate your preference on the registration form.  Note: Poster space is limited, and poster acceptance will be based on the order of abstract submission.

Eligibility – Graduate students, postdocs, clinical fellows (or equivalent), and technicians.

Scoring – The retreat organizing committee will select 6 abstracts for oral presentations at the retreat (12 mins talk + 3 mins for Q&A).

Format - Abstract submissions are limited to 500 words with no figures (excluding title and author list) and should be submitted as a single-page pdf. The following information must be completed at the top of the document:

  • NAME OF PRESENTING AUTHOR
  • EMAIL
  • LAB AFFILIATION
  • CLASSIFICATION: Graduate Student, Postdoc/Research Associate, Other (please identify)
  • CONSIDER FOR AN ORAL PRESENTATION: YES or NO
  • PRESENT POSTER AT POSTER SESSION: YES or NO
  • NOTE: ABSTRACTS SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR POSTER AWARDS.

POSTER GUIDELINES: 

  • As indicated above, abstracts must be submitted by Oct. 8th if you plan to participate in the poster sessions. Please indicate your plan to do so when registering.
  • Two Poster sessions will be held for approximately 1 hour each. Posters will be assigned numbers, with the odd numbers presenting in Poster session I and the even numbers presenting in Poster session II. Presenters will be required to put their posters up in the morning and to remove their posters after the wine and cheese reception.  THE DIMENSIONS OF POSTERS CANNOT EXCEED 3’ x 3’. Pins and numbers will be provided.

Sponsors:

  • Qiagen
  • Illumina
  • BioXCell
  • 10x Genomics
  • Miltenyi Biotec North America

Retreat Organizing Committee:

  • Amanda Poholek, PhD
  • Wayne Stallaert, PhD
  • John Barton, PhD
  • Youjin Lee, PhD
  • Rachel Gottschalk, PhD
  • Tony Cillo, PhD
  • Jishnu Das, PhD
  • Alok Joglekar, PhD
  • Jason Lohmueller, PhD
  • Harinder Singh, PhD
  • PJ Morrison