Skin Research Interest Group
The Skin Research Interest Group is a seminar, data club and journal club that meets Mondays at noon once per month throughout the academic year. We have a variety of internal and external speakers from all levels in their careers. Our discussions focus on skin biology and translational research.
Please also consider attending Global Dermatology Talks on other Mondays each month!
Faculty Organizers: Jillian Richmond, PhD & Sarah Whitley, MD PhD
Email jillian.richmond@umassmed.edu to be added to the mailing list or to sign up to present!
2024 Speakers:
| Month | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location | Zoom Link |
| January | |||||
| February 5 | Nuria Guiterrez Martinez | UMass Chan (Harris Lab) | AS7-2072 | Click here to livestream this talk | |
| March 4 | Silverman Lab | UMass Chan | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| April 8 | Jane Chuprin | UMass Chan (Rashighi Lab) | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| May 20 | Dr. Gulsum Yildiz-Altay | UMass Chan (Richmond Lab) | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| June 3 | Jafira Johnson | UMass Chan (Orzalli Lab) | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| July 1 | Garber Lab | UMass Chan | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| August 5 | Enxhi Ferraj | UMass Chan (Kang lab) | Click here to livestream this talk | ||
| September 16 | Anukriti Mathur | UMass Chan (Fitzgerald Lab) | A novel activator of the NLRP10 inflammasome shapes skin immunity and anti-tumor activity | S1-342 | Click here to livestream this talk |
| October 7 | Dr. Ramon Almela | Tufts | Comparative Immunology Approaches to Veterinary Dermatology | AS7-2072 | Click here to livestream this talk |
| November 4 | Soheila Sobhani | UMass Chan (Whitley Lab) | AS7-2072 | Click here to livestream this talk | |
| December 2 | Yiyen Erin Chen | MIT / Broad | AS7-2072 |
2023 Speakers:
| Month | Speaker | Institution | Topic | Location | Zoom Link |
| January 23 | Yuqing Wang | UMass (Garber Lab) | Single cell transcriptomics in inflammatory skin diseases | ||
| February 6 | Qi Tang | UMass (Khvorova Lab) | siRNA therapeutics for inflammatory skin diseases | ||
| March 20 | Jillian Richmond | UMass | Resident memory T cells in cutaneous lupus | ||
| April 3 | Hassan Fakih | UMass (Khvorova Lab) | Delivery of therapeutic RNA medicine into skin through novel tools | ||
| May 2 (note: Tuesday date) | Lupus Day | UMass & LFNE | Register here | ||
| June 12 | Mushi Li | UMass (Whitley lab) | Neuroimmune interactions in control of cutaneous immune homeostasis | 8th floor LRB (rm 816) | Click here to livestream this talk |
| July – holiday | |||||
| August 14 | Katherine Gross | UMass (Khvorova Lab) | Chemical engineering of therapeutic siRNAs for the modulation of gene expression in skin | 8th floor LRB (rm 816) | Click here to livestream this talk |
| September - holiday | |||||
| October 2 | Sarah Whitley | UMass | TBD | 8th floor LRB (rm 816) | |
| November 6 | Matt Vesely | Yale | TBD | 8th floor LRB (rm 816) | Click here to livestream this talk |
| December 4 | Saeed Shakiba | UMass (Harris Lab) | Spatial and -omics approaches to understand immune cell recruitment in CLE | 8th floor LRB (rm 816) |