Friday, November 1, 2024 3:30pm to 4:30pm
About this Event
The 2024 Ascending Star Award is an honor that recognizes highly productive, creative mid-career faculty members. As Ascending Stars, each of the five awardees receives $25,000 in research support and will give a research talk at 3:30 p.m. in Alan Magee Scaife Hall, room 3785.
Amy Lynn Hartman, who earned her PhD from Pitt in 2003, completed her postdoctoral training at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studying the Ebola virus. As an associate professor also in the Center for Vaccine Research, her research goal is to understand how emerging mosquito-transmitted viruses, like the Rift Valley fever virus, cause disease. She and her team decipher the mechanisms of understudied disease outcomes, like encephalitis or fetal infection during pregnancy, to advance the development of vaccines and therapeutics. Her lecture will take place Friday, Nov. 1.
A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture.
Please let us know if you require an accommodation in order to participate in this event. Accommodations may include live captioning, ASL interpreters, and/or captioned media and accessible documents from recorded events. At least 5 days in advance is recommended.