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VopX: Novel Activities of a Vibrio cholerae Effector Protein

Megan Ulbrich - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Michelle Dziejman, Ph.D.

Dec 16, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

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Host: Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar

MBI/CVBI Holiday Party!

Dec 15, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.

Host: MBI and CVBI

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series - Special Alumni Series

Kathy Santos, PhD; Cindy M.P. Duke, MD, PhD, FACOG - Assistant Program Manager, Protection Systems and Technologies Homeland Protection Mission Area Asymmetric Operations Sector The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Physician, Scientist, Virologist, Founder and Director of the Nevada Fertility Institute

Dec 10, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

MBI 501: Circadian control of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

Dec 09, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

Host: Amelia Knudsen-Clark

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology - "Do you know what regulates tryptophan metabolism in the human placenta? I think IDO"

Shawn Murphy, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. Obstetrics & Gynecology

Dec 03, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

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MBI 501: Exposure to farm life in early infancy affects helper T cell and regulatory T cell phenotypes

Catherine Pizzarello - PhD Candisate

Advisor: Kirsi Järvinen-Seppo, M.D., Ph.D.

Disturbances in the immune development during the first year of life can result in the development of atopic diseases such as asthma, eczema, and food allergy. Several environmental factors, such as exposure to farm life, have been shown to protect against the development of atopic diseases. Studies have immunophenotyped school-aged children to better understand the effects of farm life on immune system development; however few studies have immunophenotyped infants. The goal of the current study is to immunophenotype helper T (Th) cell and regulatory T (Treg) cell populations, both of which play a critical role in the development of tolerance or atopic disease, in infants from farming (low risk for allergy) or urban (high risk for allergy) lifestyle cohorts. Using the Scalable Weighted Iterative Flow-clustering Technique (SWIFT) pipeline, we have identified a novel, enriched CD25+CD127hi cluster expressing Th type 2 markers CCR4 and CRTH2 in the urban cohort at 6 and 12 months of age. This finding is consistent with the higher prevalence of allergic diseases in the urban population. Additionally at 12 months of age, farming cohort infants have increased gut homing memory Th and memory regulatory T (Treg) cell populations as well as TIGIT+ memory Tregs. Together these differences illustrate the impact of early farming lifestyle exposure on Th and Treg sub-populations in infants.

Dec 02, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K307

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

CANCELLED - Multi-scale systems modeling for interrogation of immune system dynamics and identification of drug therapies

Tomas Helikar, PhD - Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tomas Helikar, PhD - Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Nov 29, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

Host: Juilee Thakar

Out of the box: 13 years of targeting virus infections unconventionally

Marco Vignuzzi, PhD - Group Leader, Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit (PVP), Pasteur Institute

Nov 22, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

Host: Virology Students

Thesis Defense: Functional Analysis of Influenza Host Shutoff Proteins

Nov 18, 2021 @ 2:00 p.m.

Kornberg Medical Research Building | Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

Host: Megan Dunagan

MBI 501: Exploring Neutrophil Dynamics in Pancreatic Cancer Following Combination SBRT and IL-12

Nov 18, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Please email Brenda_Knorr@urmc.rochester.edu or Daisy_Bird@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link.

Host: Joseph Murphy

Tolerogenicity, non-polymorphic MHC and innate T cell immunity in Xenopus tadpoles

Jacque Roberts, PhD - Professor, Professor & Interim Chair, Microbiology & Immunology

MBI 580
Seminars in Immunology
passcode: 468232

Sep 17, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

VopX: Novel Activities of a Vibrio cholerae Effector Protein

MBI/CVBI Holiday Party!

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series - Special Alumni Series

MBI 501: Circadian control of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology - "Do you know what regulates tryptophan metabolism in the human placenta? I think IDO"

MBI 501: Exposure to farm life in early infancy affects helper T cell and regulatory T cell phenotypes

CANCELLED - Multi-scale systems modeling for interrogation of immune system dynamics and identification of drug therapies

Out of the box: 13 years of targeting virus infections unconventionally

Thesis Defense: Functional Analysis of Influenza Host Shutoff Proteins

MBI 501: Exploring Neutrophil Dynamics in Pancreatic Cancer Following Combination SBRT and IL-12

Tolerogenicity, non-polymorphic MHC and innate T cell immunity in Xenopus tadpoles

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Flex-Fuel Drives HIV Reactivation: Defining an Achilles Heel of the Latent Reservoir

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Investigating early pre- and postnatal T cell development in humans

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): A true research in progress: Analyses of human CD4 T cell reactivity to endemic seasonal human coronaviruses and cross reactivity to SARS-CoV-2

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Generation and Expansion of Memory B Cells Against Coronavirus in Acutely Infected COVID-19 Individuals

Microbiology & Immunology PhD Thesis Seminar: Physiological Significance and Regulation of Rhamnose Biosynthesis in Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Inflammatory role of platelet-leukocyte interaction in HIV pathogenesis

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Interferonoptosis: a new mechanism of inflammatory cell death?

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): The role of HE4 in ovarian cancer tumorigenesis and immune suppression

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells within the Bone Marrow Microenvironment in the Setting of Impaired Apoptotic Cell Clearance

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar: Fundamentals of mRNA-LNP technology to enable next-generation medicines

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Reciprocal regulatory interactions in the hematopoietic stem cell niche

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Elucidating Complex Interactions Between Viral and Bacterial Components of The Female Reproductive Tract Microbiome

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Harnessing Experimentally-Validated Models to Forecast Influenza-Mediated Pathology and Disease Severity

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Initiating allergic immune responses in the lung: from dangerous allergens to epithelial barrier dysfunction

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Impact of influenza A virus shutoff proteins on host immune responses

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Identifying characteristics/perturbations of the skin microenvironment that alter viral permissivity

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Integrating knowledge with data for systems-level modeling of human responses

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Regulation of effector function in CD8+ memory cells

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Function of amino acid auxotrophy in Staphylococcus aureus

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The Role of Carboxypeptidases in the 3-3 Peptidoglycan Pathway in Mycobacteria

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Bacterial factors regulating RSV infection and DVG generation

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Deconstructing T cell differentiation and protection in vivo

MBI PhD Defense: Characterization of the Role of the Poxvirus Extracellular Virion-Specific Glycoproteins A33, A34, and B5 for Infectivity and Pathogenesis

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Leukemia Associated Macrophages in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The role of the maternal and infant microbiome in the onset of Early Childhood Caries

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: NFkB-dependent antiviral pathways in VSV-resistant cancer cells

Elucidating the Immune Proteome against S. aureus in Patients with Bone Infections

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Impact of Microbiome Composition on Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Reproductive Tract (FRT) of HIV infected women

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Pathogenicity, dissemination, and persistence of Mycobacterium abscessus smooth and rough morphotypes in tadpole Xenopus laevis

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Neutrophil shapes T cell immunity to influenza infection

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Defining effector B cell function in the joint in rheumatoid arthritis: Tissue is the Issue

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Characterization of the Immunodominance Hierarchy and Functional Potential of Betacoronavirus-Reactive CD4+ T Cells

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Elucidating the Role of the Draining Lymph Node Following Combination Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Optical Sensors for Analysis of the Human Response to COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar: Positive and negative regulation of the innate immune response by MiT transcription factors

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Defining variability in host responses to respiratory viral infection

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Tissue resident memory CD8 T cells have unique metabolic profiles in mouse lung

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Determination of binding of IgA from human milk towards gut commensal organisms Lactobacillus reuteri, Lactobacillus plantarum, and Bifidobacterium infantis

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Functional analysis of human coronavirus host shutoff protein nsp1

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: TNFα-Induced Metabolic Reprogramming is Essential for its Anti-Viral Activity

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Uncovering New Mechanisms of Retroviral Restriction by SERINC5

MBI 501 Student Seminar: VopX: Novel Activities of a Vibrio cholerae Effector Protein

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Uncovering new mechanisms of retroviral restriction by SERINC5

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: CD4 T Cells Sans Frontières

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: COVID19 Vaccines: Current Status

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the Effects of Intertumoral Heterogeneity on Antitumor Immunity in Metastatic Melanoma

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Understanding and improving the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV)

Second Opinion: Coronaviruses, a family of viruses that cause illnesses like the common cold and COVID-19

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series

Experience Rochester: Rochester's Quest to Beat COVID-19

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the mechanisms and consequences of radiation induced neutrophil trafficking

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Protein Interaction and Genetic Screenings to Identify Host Factors Involved in HIV-1 Infection

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Innate immune antagonism by SARS-CoV-2

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Dynamic Regulation in Streptococcus mutans by the Transcriptional Regulator TreR

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis for control of the COVID-19 pandemic

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Double Duty: Elucidating The Effects of Estrogen on Tumor Cells and Their Microenvironment in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)