Lexi Cassano

Immunology PhD candidate in the Alegre lab at UChicago @uchicagoimmuno || Northeastern University 2019 || she/her

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Many artists aren't appreciated in their time, luckily my lab appreciates (puts up with) my ~art~

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Calling all prospective biomedical science PhD applicants to apply to our application assistance program!
You will get access to student panels and office hours with current students for any parts of the application process.
Deadline has been extended to 10/04/23 11:59pm CST.

[Christine McIntosh Kambe, MD, PhD @C_M_McIntosh]

Incredibly proud to see our latest work from the Alegre Lab in press at @jclinicalinvest. It is the culmination of >5 years of unbelievably hard work, especially from @jballocco, Peter Wang, @LexiCassano, Ying Wang and of course, Marisa Alegre. https://t.co/S2a26i8XEh 1/n🧵

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

We are excited to announce our application assistance program which launched today!

https://t.co/awyTz2KEIg

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Congratulations to @jballocco of the Alegre lab, who will be defending her thesis today, titled "Duration of alloantigen expression affects the induction of transplantation tolerance." #PhDone

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Alegre lab accomplishing our goals again!

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Yesterday was our Committee on Immunology winter social: lots of good food, fun conversations, and friendly competition! Congratulations to our inter-lab contest winners!
@LB_Barreiro: Exalted mouse of victory
Pamer lab: 2x4 of creativity
Alegre lab: Sad cat of defeat

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Congratulations to Marisa Alegre for being named a 2023 @ImmunologyAAI Distinguished Fellow! The Distinguished Fellows program annually recognizes members for distinguished careers and outstanding scientific contributions as well as service to AAI and the immunology community.

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Go Alegre lab!

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Congrats to Ph.D. candidate @jballocco and undergraduate student @stezxie for earning Great Lakes Transplant Immunology Forum 2022 Young Investigator poster awards! @ImmunologyAAI

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Back 2 back 🏆

[UChicago Committee on Immunology @UChicagoCOI]

Our spring social was a success! Congratulations to our inter-lab competition winners!
Alegre lab: Exalted mouse of victory
@LB_Barreiro lab: 2x4 of creativity
Chervonsky and Golovkina labs: Sad cat of defeat

[Kyla Hamling @kyla_hamling]

Officially petitioning for this to become the new naming strategy for PhD students

[Jen Allocco @jballocco]

Lab beautification continued: new floors 😍

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Really going to lean into the fact that maintaining my lab notebook is just glorified scrapbooking by using these 1,000 science stickers I just bought to tape things into the notebook #art

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

When the lab undergrad tries to say his weirdness is rubbing off on us but we've been like this for decades

[Jen Allocco @jballocco]

Lab purge day two: shelves and drawers @LexiCassano

[Jen Allocco @jballocco]

Day one of lab purge: 20+ years of old data @LexiCassano

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Every winter I tell myself "oh I'm from the Northeast I'll be fine, I can handle this" and every winter Chicago plays me for a fool 🥶

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

@jballocco Now this is art

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

Someone needs to tell my lab mates that lab Crocs are high fashion

[Jen Allocco @jballocco]

@LexiCassano

[Lexi Cassano @LexiCassano]

@jballocco Listen, I just needed an excuse to show off my Crocs on the internet