Lab News
May 2022
We found out that our NIAID Flu Systems Vaccinology R01 (Role: MPI, other PIs: Alcorn, Singh, Zimmerman) will be funded.
May 2022
We participated in a Pitt-Case Western CFAR application that was funded.
April 2022
Our CIHR grant (Role: co-I, PI: Konvalinka) was funded.
April 2022
We published a manuscript in Cell Reports Medicine demonstrating how integrating bulk RNA-seq data with protein networks can uncover signatures underlying rejection in pediatric liver transplantation. (link)
March 2022
Our DoD grant (Role: co-I, PIs: Lafyatis and Singh) looking at multi-omic signatures of scleroderma disease severity was funded.
March 2022
Our Essential Regression manuscript was published in Patterns. (link)
January 2022
Javad Rahimikollu from the CPCB program joined the lab as a graduate student (PhD)
December 2021
Three new graduate students (PhD) joined the lab - Swapnil Keshari from the CPCB program, Prabal Chhibbar and Trirupa Chakraborty from the ISB program joined the lab after rotations.
September 2021
A NIAID R01 we participated in (Role: co-I, PIs: Rinaldo and Mailliard) looking at COVID-19 vaccine responses in HIV individuals was funded.
September 2021
We received a 5-year NHGRI U01 1U01HG012041-01 (Role: MPI, Other PIs: Singh, Sahni). Link on NIH Reporter - https://reporter.nih.gov/search/j2KmbxuMYkium4-hI-96ag/project-details/10297231
August 2021
We received a 5-year NIAID New Innovator DP2 Award 1DP2AI164325-01 (Role: PI). Link on NIH Reporter - https://reporter.nih.gov/search/j2KmbxuMYkium4-hI-96ag/project-details/10295268
July 2021
Eunseo Song joins the lab as an undergraduate (CMU Computational Biology) researcher.
July 2021
Rucha Khopkar joins the lab as a Master's Student.
June 2021
A NIDDK dkNET New Investigator Pilot Program in Bioinformatics grant that we participated in has been funded (Role: co-I, PI: Joglekar).
June 2021
Hanxi Xiao, who did her Master's thesis in the lab will continue in the lab as a PhD student in the CMU-Pitt Program in Computational Biology.
June 2021
We contributed to Mechanisms of impaired lung development and ciliation in Mannosidase-1-alpha-2 (Man1a2) mutants in Frontiers in Physiology
May 2021
Jacob Berkowitz joins the lab as an undergraduate (Pitt Statistics) researcher.
April 2021
Jishnu gave a talk at the 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Systems Immunology Meeting
April 2021
A Department of Defense Idea Development Award grant that we participated in has been funded (Role: co-I, PI: Lafyatis).
March 2021
Jishnu gave a talk at the 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Networks Meeting
October 2020
We published Mining for humoral correlates of HIV control and latent reservoir size in PLoS pathogens
November 2020
We welcome Woo Yong "Noah" Chang, who is going to work with us as a Master's Student.
August 2020
We welcome Hanxi Xiao, who is going to work with us as a Master's Student.
September 2020
We contributed to Extracellular Matrix Injury of Kidney Allografts in Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A Proteomics Study, which was published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
September 2020
Sophia Hu (CMU-Pitt Program in Computational Biology) does a rotation in the lab.
August 2020
We are now supported by a Collaborative Research Agreement with the University of Brussels Center for Research In Immunology (Role: PI)!
July 2020
We contributed to Glucosylation by the Legionella effector SetA promotes the nuclear localization of the transcription factor TFEB, which was published in Iscience
July 2020
We published Mapping functional humoral correlates of protection against malaria challenge following RTS, S/AS01 vaccination in Science Translational Medicine
June 2020
We received a pilot Covid-19 grant from the UPMC-ITTC (Role: PI)!
May 2020
We contributed to Co-immunization of DNA and Protein in the Same Anatomical Sites Induces Superior Protective Immune Responses against SHIV Challenge, which was published in Cell Reports
June 2020
We welcome Kiran Nazarali, who is going to work with us as a High School Student.
May 2020
We received a PACER (Pittsburgh Autoimmunity Center for Excellence in Research) grant (Role: PI)!
April 2020
We welcome Syed Rahman, who is going to work with us as a Post-Doctoral Fellow.
March 2020
We contributed to Latency reversal agents modulate HIV antigen processing and presentation to CD8 T cells, which was published in PLoS pathogens
March 2020
We contributed to Epigenetic basis for monocyte dysfunction in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, which was published in the Journal of Hepatology
February 2020
Roshni Bhatt (CMU-Pitt Program in Computational Biology) does a rotation in the lab.
February 2020
We published Antibody Fc Glycosylation Discriminates Between Latent and Active Tuberculosis in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
January 2020
The Das Systems Immunology Lab is now supported by Center for Systems Immunology Startup Funds!
January 2020
The lab is now open! We look forward to exciting science in the future!