Alysa Evans

  • 1st Year GS

Why did you choose the University of Pittsburgh?

The University of Pittsburgh has outstanding, prolific faculty members with diverse research interests, which will allow me to explore different research areas during rotations. In addition, the faculty and graduate students are so welcoming and really made an effort to get to know me during interview weekend. I feel that members of the PMI department truly care about students' wellbeing- even outside of the lab. Finally, the department coordinators are well-organized, great at communication, and always available for questions, which has made my transition to Pitt much easier. 

 

Education & Training

  • The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Environmental Engineering, BS 2016

Research Interests

Microbiome, Cancer Immunotherapy, and Host-Pathogen Interactions

Publications

1. Claire E. Pillsbury, Jodi Dougan, Jennifer L. Rabe, Jairo A. Fonseca, Chengjing Zhou, Alysa N. Evans, Hasan Abukharma, Ona Ichoku, Gloria Gonzalez-Flamenco, Sunita I. Park, Ahmed Aljudi, Deborah DeRyckere, Sharon M. Castellino, Sarwish Rafiq, Solomon Langermann, Linda N. Liu, Curtis J. Henry, Christopher C. Porter; Siglec-15 Promotes Evasion of Adaptive Immunity in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancer Research Communications, 3 July 2023; 3 (7): 1248–1259. https://doi.org/10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0056

2. Lin H, Freeman R, Evans A, et al. 310 Engineering optimal CAR T cells to overcome pancreatic tumors with secreted antagonistic peptidesJournal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2022: https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2022-SITC2022.0310

3. Evans, Alysa N. BS; Lin, Heather K. BS; Hossian, A. K. M. Nawshad PhD; Rafiq, Sarwish PhD, Using adoptive cellular therapy for localized protein secretion, The Cancer Journal: 3/4 2021 - Volume 27 - Issue 2 - p 159-167 https://doi.org/10.1097/PPO.0000000000000510

4. Sheffield L, Sciambra N, Evans A, Hagedorn E, Goltz C, Delfeld M, Kuhns H, Fierst J & Chtarbanova S. Age-dependent impairment of disease tolerance is associated with a robust transcriptional response following RNA virus infection in Drosophila. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2021; jkab116, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab116 (2021).