Dr. Amanda Poholek

Thrilled to share my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at @pitt-immunology.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my incredible lab, collaborators, department, colleagues, family & friends. Science is a team effort, and I'm so proud of our work & excited for what's next! Stay tuned!

Great minds think unalike: Learn how a team of immunologists, cancer researchers, telomere experts, and an organic chemist brought their different expertise together to reveal new insights into how damage to #telomeres can shut down #cancer -fighting T cells. buff.ly/gICm1SL (1/2)

ATTN Pennsylvania researchers: Sen. Fetterman is compiling a list of federal grants and loans across Pennsylvania that are impacted or potentially impacted. Please fill out his form and let him know! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Calling all Pitt, CMU and Chatham University undergrads interested in immunology and microbiology! Applications for
MIDS Program Scholars are due Jan 15th! Providing PAID research experiences for those from diverse and underrepresented groups. pmi.pitt.edu/research/mid...

Spatial microniches of IL-2 combine with IL-10 to drive lung migratory TH2 cells in response to inhaled allergen - Nature Immunology Poholek and colleagues show that, during allergic airway inflammation, the transcription factor Blimp-1 regulates CD4+TH2 cell migration to the lung and define anatomical locations in mediastinal lymp...

Link to publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s the little things in life: Lymph node microniches drive TH2 formation in allergic asthma Lymph node IL-2 microniches guide development of TH2 cells through induction of Blimp-1 expression and an IL-10–positive feedback loop.

1st post on Bluesky! Lovely little highlight of our recent publication by Adam Williams and Kelly Butler. Thanks for the fantastic summary! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...