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MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Felix Yarovinsky, MD - Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Apr 26, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-6924

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Jennifer Nayak, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases

 Apr 19, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Paul Bohjanen, MD, PhD - Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

 Apr 12, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Shawn Murphy, PhD - Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

 Apr 05, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

CANCELLED
MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Clive Zent, MD - Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

 Mar 22, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Modeling the Determinants Immune Age During Early Human Development”

Kristin Scheible, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology & Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 15, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“From Farm to Table: Microbiome - Immune Interactions in infancy”

Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, MD, PhD - Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy/Immunology

 Mar 08, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI Seminar Series
Viral Epidemics in Jamaica : Responding Effectively with Research

Joshua Anzinger, PhD - Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology
The University of the West Indies
Head of Virology, Consultant Virologist and
Director of Jamaica Affiliate Global Virus Network

 Feb 29, 2024 @ 1:15 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Aud. (1-7619)

Host: Jacques Robert, PhD

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Training of innate immune memory to establish durable T cell immunity in the airway”

Minsoo Kim, PhD - Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Feb 23, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

CANCELLED MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Circadian control of macrophages by the metabolic stresses of the tumor microenvironment”

Brian Altman, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics

 Feb 16, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Craig Morrell, DVM, PhD - Professor, Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute

 Feb 09, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Immunological impacts of exposure to microplastics in Xenopus tadpoles”

Jacques Robert, PhD - Chair, Microbiology & Immunology

 Jan 26, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
"Staying a Step Ahead: Can SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Keep up with Variants?

Angela Branche, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

 Jan 19, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“IgE-driven regulation of monocyte antiviral responses”

Regina Rowe, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Pediatrics/Infectious Diseases

 Dec 08, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
The Intersection Between Steroids, Innate Immunity, and Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

Stephen Hammes, MD, PhD - Professor, Medicine/Endocrine/Metabolism

 Nov 17, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 501 Student Seminar: Role of mTOR signaling in protection from viral infection

Ian Stone - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology and Virology PhD Program

 Nov 16, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Andrew Samuelson, Ph.D. and Brian Ward, Ph.D. - Advisors

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
"Immunobiology of Bone Infections"

Gowri Muthukrishnan, PhD - Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics/CMSR

 Nov 10, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“A bone chewing role for B cells in rheumatoid arthritis”

Jennifer Anolik, MD, PhD - Professor, Medicine/Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology

 Nov 03, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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The truth about self-harm: Campylobacter jejuni uses a novel mechanism to induce neutrophil extracellular traps, which it then degrades to promote further inflammation

Jeremiah Johnson, PhD - Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Tennessee

 Nov 02, 2023 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph (1-7619)

Zoom - Passcode: 268575

Host: Department of Microbiology & Immunology

MBI 501 Student Seminar Series: Cohesin Complex Mediates Silencing of HIV-1 DNA

Andy Phan - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology PhD Program

 Nov 02, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Yiping Zhu, PhD - Advisor

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
The dysfunctional microenvironment in the leukemic bone marrow

Ben Frisch, PhD - Assistant Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

 Oct 27, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link: passcode 888426

MBI 501 Student Seminar: "Characterizing the innate-adaptive balance in early life CD8+ T cells"

Adam Geber - PhD Candidate, Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Immunology, Microbiology and Virology PhD Program

 Oct 26, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: David Topham, PhD - Advisor

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series:
"Probing Viral RNA-induced Inflammatory Mechanisms in HIV-1 Infection"

Suryaram (Rham) Gummuluru, PhD - Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Director, Graduate Medical Sciences Immunology Training Program (ITP) Investigator, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL) Co-Director, Developmental Core, Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (Prov/Bos CFAR) Boston University

 Oct 23, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Flyer

Host: Steve Dewhurst, PhD

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Leveraging knowledge in data analysis: review, caveats and current status”

Juilee Thakar, PhD - Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

 Oct 20, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom passcode: 888426

MBI 501 Student Seminar: "Cancer secreted lipids promote MDSC differentiation in Pancreatic Cancer"

Ankit Dahal - Graduate Student, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Oct 19, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Minsoo Kim, PhD - Advisor

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: "Targeted transposition with diverse Tn7 elements allowing pathogen evolution and CRISPR-Cas programmable tools"

Joseph E. Peters, PhD - Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Cornell University

 Oct 16, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Andrew Varble, PhD

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): "Regulation of fibroproliferative responses in ARDS and other inflammatory conditions"

Tim Flerlage, MD - Assistant Professor, Pediatrics/Infectious Diseases

 Oct 13, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link: passcode 888426

Special Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Metabolic shifts of Streptococcus pneumoniae during infection alter disease and can serve as targets for therapeutic intervention"

Hansol Im, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Carlos J. Orihuela
University of Alabama at Birmingham

 Oct 12, 2023 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Zoom Link passcode 532816

MBI 501 Student Seminar: "Mechanistic Characterization of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Copy-Back Defective Viral Genome Generation and Function"

Justin Brennan - Graduate Student, Immunology, Microbiology and Virology PhD Program

 Oct 12, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Yan Sun, PhD - Advisor

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series:
Uncovering the structure of phage-bacteria interactions, from the ocean to the oral microbiome

Kathryn M. Kauffman, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Biology School of Dental Medicine University at Buffalo

 Oct 09, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Andrew Varble, PhD

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Autoimmunity against Sez6L2 causes cerebellar ataxia in humans and mice

Jennetta Hammond, PhD - Assistant Professor, Neurology/Neuroimmunology

 Oct 06, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Shannon Hilchey, PhD - Research Assistant Professor, Medicine/Nephrology

 Sep 29, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624 East

Zoom

CANCELLED Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology

Paige Lawrence, PhD - Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine

 Mar 31, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology
"Modulating Innate Immune Responses to Modify Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Preclinical Models"

M. Kerry O'Banion, MD, PhD - Professor, Department of Neuroscience

 Mar 24, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: “What memories are made of: Tissue-resident memory T cells”

Dave Topham, PhD - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Mar 17, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series - Obesity/Cancer Risk: Evidence, Mechanisms and Our Solutions

Bing Li, PhD - Endowed Professor for Cancer Immunology, Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

 Mar 13, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | WCI Formicola CR – 2-0727

Host: Minsoo Kim, PhD and Laura Calvi, MD

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology
RSV vaccine development; the Long and winding Road

Ann Falsey, MD - Professor, Department of Medicine - Infectious Diseases

 Mar 10, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Bacterial cell wall architecture and dynamics: A matter of life and death

Simon Foster, PhD - West Riding Professor of Microbiology, The Florey Institute, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield

 Feb 27, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

ZOOM ONLY

Host: Edward Schwarz, PhD

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology:
“Building a Better Transwell: The µSiM Tissue Chip Platform for Modeling Barrier Function in Physiology and Disease”

Jim McGrath, PhD - Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

 Feb 24, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating CD8 T cell integrin functionality after influenza infection

Taylor Jones - Graduate Student, Advisor: David Topham, PhD

 Feb 23, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: “Host responses during infant RSV infections”

Tom Mariani, PhD - Professor, Department of Pediatrics - Neonatology

 Feb 17, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Dietary modulation of infection severity in Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis in an obese/Type-2 Diabetic model

Emily Britt - Graduate Student, Advisor: Steven Gill, PhD

 Feb 16, 2023 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the impact of platelet-monocyte complexes on cardiovascular disease in persons living with HIV

Zachary Boodoo - Graduate Student, Advisor: Meera Singh, PhD

 Feb 16, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (306408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: “Ki67: A novel regulator of innate immunity disguising as a proliferation marker”

Mike O’Reilly, PhD - Professor, Department of Pediatrics - Neonatology

 Feb 10, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom

MBI Student Seminar: Longevity and viral innate immunity mediation within the mTOR pathways

Ian Stone - Graduate Student, Advisor: Andrew Samuelson, PhD

 Feb 09, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Micro-and Nanofluidics for Biosensing, Mechanobiology, and Dentine Hypersensitivity

Ke Du PhD - Assistant Professor of Chemical/Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside (Formerly RIT)

 Feb 08, 2023 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

Please Note: Dr. Du’s seminar will be via Zoom in 3.9624 KMRB

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Host Adaptative Mutations in the pH1N1 PA CTD Affect Genome Replication

Jordana Schmierer - Graduate Student, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, DVM, PhD

 Feb 02, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology - “Xenopus: a human health relevant model for mycobacteria immunity & immunotoxicology”

Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Jan 27, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Characterizing Innate-like CD8+ T Cells in Early Life: an Unconventional Defense Against Infection?

Adam Geber - Graduate Student, Advisor: David Topham, PhD

 Jan 26, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology - Gut microbiota regulation of host immunity determines osteomyelitis severity in obesity-related type 2 diabetes

Steve Gill, PhD - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Jan 20, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The molecular mechanism of PMN-MDSC differentiation in the TME of Pancreatic Cancer Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)

Ankit Dahal - Graduate Student, Advisor: Minsoo Kim, PhD

 Jan 19, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology
"In vivo CRISPR screen reveals how to drive therapeutic T cell function to target tumor sites"

Minsoo Kim, PhD - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Jan 13, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Cohesin-Mediated Silencing of HIV-1 Gene Expression

Andy Phan - Graduate Student, Advisor: Yiping Zhu, PhD

 Jan 12, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Mechanisms of Host Adaptation of Influenza A Virus through Polymerase PA Mutations - PhD Defense

Michael M. Lutz - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, DVM,PhD

 Jan 11, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.

Hybrid Event

MBI 501 Student Seminar: SARS-CoV-2 remodels endosomal membranes to generate replication organelles in an autophagy-independent manner

Yuexuan Chen - Graduate Student, Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

 Jan 05, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Characterization of microglia-derived exosomes in humanized models of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND)

Sebastian Bosch - Graduate Student, Advisor: Stephen Dewhurst, PhD

 Dec 15, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

CANCELLED -- Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology

Steve Gill, PhD - Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Dec 09, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Mechanistic Characterization of the Generation and Function of Copy-Back Defective Viral Genomes

Justin Brennan - Graduate Student, Advisor: Yan Sun, PhD

 Dec 08, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

MBI Department Seminar Series: Lipids, inflammation, and microbes in vulvovaginal health and disease

Megan L. Falsetta (Wood), PhD - Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

 Dec 05, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology
"Host-pathogen metabolic interfaces that determine the outcomes of viral infection"

Joshua Munger, PhD - Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Microbiology & Immunology

 Dec 02, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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MBI 501 Student Seminar: Impact of prenatal exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the developing neonatal immune system

Darline Castro-Melendez - Graduate Student, Advisors: Kristin Scheible, MD, Paige Lawrence, PhD

 Dec 01, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology

Terry Wright, PhD - Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology

 Nov 18, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link

Investigating the Role of Mycobacterial DD-carboxypeptidases in the Synthesis of 3-3 Crosslinks

David J. Barnard - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Martin Pavelka, PhD

 Nov 17, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Zoom Link

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

Kala Hardy - Graduate Student, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, PhD

 Nov 17, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI Department Seminar Series: Targeting neutrophils against pneumococcal infection: The role of extracellular adenosine signaling

Elsa Bou Ghanem, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo

 Nov 14, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Steven Gill, PhD

CANCELLED -- Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology

Mark Sangster, PhD - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Nov 11, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI Student Seminar: Human Endemic Coronavirus - Reactive CD4 T cells Exhibit Strain and Age-related Patterns of Abundance and Phenotype

Chantelle Lehone White - Graduate Student, Advisor: Andrea Sant, PhD

 Nov 10, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI Seminar Series: Chronically Elevated O-GlcNAcylation Disrupts Immune Homeostasis

Lara Abramowitz, PhD - Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, NIDDK/NIH

 Nov 07, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Jacques Robert, PhD

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: "Cellular mechanisms governing T cell activation during early development in Xenopus"

Matthieu Paiola, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert Lab, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Nov 04, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link

MBI Student Seminar: Transcription factor Nfil3 impacts memory CD8 T cell differentiation in mice

Michael Sportiello - Graduate Student, Advisor: David Topham, PhD

 Nov 03, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI Seminar Series (Joint Appointment Candidate): Osteoimmunology of Staphylococcus aureus Bone Infections

Gowri Muthukrishnan, PhD - Assistant Professor, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Department of Orthopedics

 Oct 31, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: "Taking on the Beast: Developing New Strategies to Fight Pancreatic Cancer Using Lessons Learned From the Clinic"

Scott Gerber, PhD - Professor, Departments of Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology

 Oct 28, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Zoom Link

MBI Student Seminar: A Combinatorial Approach to Provide Long-lasting Immunity Against Pancreatic Tumor Recurrence

Tara Vrooman - Graduate Student, Advisor: Scott Gerber, PhD

 Oct 27, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6804)

MBI Seminar Series: Rapid Development of high-throughput in vitro diagnostic assays during a pandemic

Sydney Simpson, PhD - Senior Scientist Research & Development, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

 Oct 24, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology: Human immune responses to respiratory pathogens and new strategies for vaccination

Andrea Sant, PhD - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Oct 21, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Zoom Link

MBI Student Seminar: Mutations accumulated in the spike of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern allow for more efficient counteraction of the restriction factor BST2

Yuhang Shi - Graduate Student, Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

 Oct 20, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Developing Bone-Targeting Antibiotics and Imaging: ‘The Race for the Surface’

Edward Schwarz, PhD - Professor, Center for Musculoskeletal Research

 Oct 14, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | k-207 (2-6408)

Zoom

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology

Edward Schwarz, PhD - Professor, Departments of Orthopedics and Microbiology & Immunology

 Oct 14, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the role of HE4-mediated immunosuppression in ovarian cancer

John Miller - Graduate Student, Advisors: Rachael Turner, M., PhD and Minsoo Kim, PhD

 Oct 13, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Identifying Regulators of Vibrio cholerae vttRA Expression

Zirui Zhou - MBI Student, Advisor: Michelle Dziejman, PhD

 Sep 15, 2022 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | k-307 (3-6408)

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the Relationship of Peptidoglycan Crosslinking Pathways in Mycobacteria

Shelby Peres - MBI Student, Advisor: Martin Pavelka, PhD

 Sep 15, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K=307 (3-6408)

MBI Seminar Series: Mechanisms of Protection from Malaria by CD4 Effector and Effector Memory T cells

Robin Stephens, PHD, MA - Associate Professor and Director, Neuroinflammation Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School

 Sep 12, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky, MD

MBI 501 Student Seminars: The role of Paneth cell deficiency in intestinal inflammation and homeostasis & Influence of the Gut Virome on the Development of Atopic Disease

Sara Ahmed; Tyrus Perdue - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Felix Yarovinsky, MD; PhD Candidate, Advisor: Cynthia Monaco, MD, PhD

 Sep 01, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor modulation of T follicular helper cell differentiation and function during respiratory viral infection

Cassandra Houser - PhD Candidate in Microbiology & Immunology

 Jul 18, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room 1-9576

Zoom link

Host: Dr. Paige Lawrence, Microbiology & Immunology Program, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Defining the Genetic and Functional Requirements for Type III Secretion System-Mediated Colonization in Vibrio cholerae - PhD Thesis Seminar

Katharine F. Tomberlin - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Michelle Dziejman, PhD

 Jun 28, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Rm (1-9576)

Hybrid Event

Harnessing CD4 T cell localization and functional potential to enhance protective immunity to influenza virus - PhD Thesis Defense

Sean A. Nelson - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Andrea Sant, PhD

 Jun 23, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Aud. (1-7619)

Hybrid

Host: Microbiology & Immunology

"Identifying Factors that Mediate the Anti-Tumor Immune Response to Rectal Cancer Following Short Course Radiotherapy"

Taylor Uccello - PhD Candidate in Microbiology & Immunology

 Jun 03, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium 1-7619

https://urmc.zoom.us/j/96694259171?pwd=ZGJTWlNpQmFaZVBWamRNZDdVN0tIZz09 Passcode: 168998

Host: Dr. Scott Gerber, Microbiology & Immunology Program

MBI 501: TBD

Katharine Tomberlin - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Michelle Dziejman, Ph.D.

 May 26, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 501: TBD

Zanah Francis - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Marty Pavelka, Ph.D.

 May 19, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 501: S. aureus Virulence Factors Enhance Viral Pathogenesis of the Skin Epithelium

Mary Kate Moran - PhD Candidate, Advisors: Lisa Beck, M.D. and Steven Gill, Ph.D.

 May 12, 2022 @ 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.

Induction of apoptosis for cancer therapy

Zhenqiang Yao, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Rochester
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

 May 09, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Zoom Link

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Joint Faculty Candidate

The Function of Type Three Secretion System Protein VopZZ in Vibrio cholerae Infection

Hannah Bell - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Michelle Dziejman, PhD

 May 09, 2022 @ 9:30 a.m.

Zoom Only

Host: Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

MBI 501: TBD

Andrew Martin - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Felix Yarovinsky, M.D.

 May 05, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

Effect of type 2 immune blockade on the host-microbe interface in atopic dermatitis
MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Lisa Beck, MD - Professor, Dermatology

 Apr 29, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: TBD

Michael Lutz - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.

 Apr 28, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

Rapid Development of high-throughput in vitro diagnostic assays during a pandemic

Sydney Simpson, PhD - Senior Scientist, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

 Apr 25, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Zoom Link

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD and Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series

CANCELLED:Taking on the Beast: Developing New Strategies to Fight Pancreatic Cancer using Lessons Learned from the Clinic
MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Scott Gerber, PhD - Associate Professor, Surgery / Microbiology and Immunology/Radiation Oncology

 Apr 22, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: TBD

Aizan Embong - PhD Candidate, Advisor: David Topham, Ph.D.

 Apr 21, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Host-pathogen metabolic interfaces that determine the outcomes of viral infection

Josh Munger, PhD - Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Univ. Rochester

 Apr 20, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

Salmonella under the microscope

Leigh Knodler, PhD - Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University

 Apr 18, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Zoom Link

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Special Faculty Candidate Seminar

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Age-dependent programming of T cell behavior during early life in humans

Kristin Scheible, MD - Professor, Pediatrics / Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 15, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: Insights Into the Role of Translational Control Mechanisms in T Cells for Effector Function Regulation and Homeostasis

Ashwin B.R. Kumar - PhD candidate in BioPhysics, Advisor: David Topham, PhD

 Apr 14, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Zoom Link

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar

MBI 501: TBD

Ashwin Kumar - PhD Candidate, Advisor: David Topham, Ph.D.

 Apr 14, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2: Establishing environmental public health partnerships for pandemics…and beyond!

Katrina Korfmacher, PhD - Professor, Environmental Medicine, Univ. Rochester

 Apr 13, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

An RNA mechanism in systemic lupus erythematosus

Henri Tiedge, PhD - Distinguished Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology, Neurology, Medicine
Downstate Health Sciences University

 Apr 11, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7618)

Zoom Link

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series

Mechanisms of HIV persistence and therapeutic implications: A single-cell multiomics approach

Ya-Chi Ho, MD, PhD - Assoc. Professor, Infectious Disease & Microbial Pathogenesis - Yale University

 Apr 08, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium

Zoom Link

Host: Medical Scientist Research Symposium

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): : Interferon-gamma induced cell death

Felix Yarovinsky, PhD - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, CVBI

 Apr 08, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: TBD

Christie Gilbert - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Steven Gill, Ph.D.

 Apr 07, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Investigating IgE-driven mechanisms of inhibition of antiviral responses

Regina Rowe, MD - Professor, Pediatrics, Univ. Rochester

 Apr 06, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

Understanding bacterial population dynamics in chronic infections

Sheyda Azimi, PhD - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology

 Apr 04, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Zoom Link

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Faculty Candidate

MS Defense Seminar: Analysis of HIV-1 Nef’s counteraction of autophagy initiation and promotion of viral fitness

Jared Benjamin - MS Candidate, Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

 Apr 04, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Zoom Link

MBI 501: Acinetobacter baumannii: Antibiotic Resistance and Inhibition

Bailey Kinn; Clare Heffernan - MS Candidate, Advisor: Paul Dunman, Ph.D.; MS Candidate, Advisors: Charles Chu, Ph.D. and Jacques Robert, Ph.D.

 Mar 31, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

Faculty Candidate: Building reusable phage treatments via exploitation of bacteria-phage coevolutionary dynamics

James Gurney, PhD - Cystic Fibrosis Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology

 Mar 31, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

Zoom link

Host: Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Development of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine

Chris Anderson, PhD - Professor, Pediatrics, Univ. Rochester

 Mar 30, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

Reprogramming chronic neuro-immune signaling for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease

Elizabeth Evans, PhD - Chief Operating Officer Vaccinex, Senior Vice President, Discovery and Translational Medicine

 Mar 28, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7618)

Zoom Link

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD & Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Circadian control of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

Brian Altman, PhD - Professor, Biomedical Genetics

 Mar 25, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph (Lower) Auditorium (1-7619)

Host: CVBI

Thesis Defense: Effects of Intertumoral Heterogeneity on Immunosuppression and Immunotherapy Resistance in Synchronous Melanoma

Shuyang Sue Qin - PhD Candidate, Advisors: Peter Prieto, M.D., M.P.H.
Scott Gerber, Ph.D.

 Mar 24, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Zoom link

MBI 501: Progeric genes modulate activation of an intracellular pathogen response to viral infection in Caenorhabditis elegans

Ian Stone - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Andrew Samuelson, Ph.D.

 Mar 24, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Mechanisms of defective viral genomes generation

Yan Sun, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Mar 23, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

Thesis Defense: Approaches to immunotherapy using cytokines to alter the tumor microenvironment

Karli M. Norville - PhD Candidate, Advisor: John Frelinger, Ph.D.

 Mar 23, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.

Zoom link

Microbiology and Immunology Department Faculty Candidate: Brucella intracellular pathogenesis: from cell biology to effector functions and beyond

Jean Celli, PhD - Professor, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University

 Mar 21, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Zoom Link

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Peripheral Immune Marker of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease during HIV Infection

Meera Singh, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology: Stroke Division

 Mar 18, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: Host factors Responsible for the Silencing of HIV-1 DNA
Role of Influenza A Virus PA C-terminal domain in mammalian host adaptation

Andy Phan; Jordana Schmierer - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.; PhD Candidate, Advisor: Yiping Zhu, Ph.D.

 Mar 17, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing and surveillance sequencing at UR Medicine Labs

Andrew Cameron, PhD - Assistant Director, Clinical Microbiology, Univ. Rochester

 Mar 16, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

MBI 501: Myeloid derived suppressor cell (MDSC) differentiation and function
Characterizing tissue resident memory T cell phenotype and function in human respiratory tract samples

Adam Geber; Ankit Dahal - PhD Candidate, Advisor: David Topham, Ph.D.; PhD Candidate, Advisor: Minsoo Kim, Ph.D.

 Mar 10, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 ()3-6408)

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Understanding the arms race between HIV and autophagy

Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Mar 09, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

Faculty Candidate Seminar:
Single Cell Virology & Drug Repurposing Efforts Against SARS-CoV-2

Nir Drayman, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Savas Tay Lab, School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

 Mar 08, 2022 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

Host: David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology and Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series Melville A. Hare Memorial Lecture: Quorum Sensing Across Domains: from Viruses to Bacteria to Eukaryotes

Bonnie Bassler, PhD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

 Mar 07, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom link: https://urmc.zoom.us/j/93537717243?pwd=SVltUzA5R0VSVWUvaC9lSTQveExIdz09

Host: Microbiology Graduate Students

MBI 501: SARS-CoV-2 intracellular membrane remodeling: Where do the intracellular double membrane vesicles (DMVs) come from?

Yuexuan Chen - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

 Mar 03, 2022 @ 12:30 p.m.

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

MBI 501: Impact of prenatal exposures to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the developing neonatal immune system

Darline Castro-Melendez - PhD Candidate, Advisors: Kristin Scheible, M.D. and Paige Lawrence, Ph.D.

 Mar 03, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Host adaptation of Influenza A virus

Toru Takimoto, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Mar 02, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3.9624

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: High Consequence Emerging Pathogens: Outbreaks and What’s Coming Next

Miles W. Carroll, Ph.D. - Professor, High Consequence Emerging Viruses Group
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Oxford University

 Feb 28, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom link

Host: Brian Ward, Ph.D.

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies

Clive Zent, M.D. - Professor, Department of Medicine: Hematology & Oncology

 Feb 25, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium

Host: CVBI

MBI 501: Mechanistic Characterization of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Copy-Back Defective Viral Genome Generation

Justin Brennan - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Yan Sun, Ph.D.

 Feb 24, 2022 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307

Zoom link

MBI 501: Understanding Microglial Contributions to the Dysfunctional Synapse During HIV Infection of the CNS

Sebastian Bosch - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

 Feb 24, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307

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

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Hijacking the Host Cell: How a Cancer-Causing Virus Modulates Metabolism

Erica Sanchez, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
San Francisco State University
Faculty Candidate

 Feb 24, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 

Zoom link

Host: Dept. Microbiology - Flyer

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Epigenetic Silencing of Extrachromosomal Retroviral DNA

Yiping Zhu, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Feb 23, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: NKT cell development and activation: implications in cancer immunotherapy

Tonya J. Webb, PhD - Associate Professor, ACS-IRG & DICR Program Director
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine

 Feb 21, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Link

Host: Jacques Robert, Ph.D. and NIH/NIAID Predoctoral Training Program in Immunology - T32AI007285

MBI 501: TBD

Chantelle White - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Andrea Sant, Ph.D.

 Feb 17, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Peripheral immune markers of cerebral vascular disease during HIV infection

Meera Singh, PhD - Professor, Neurology, Univ. Rochester

 Feb 16, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

Immature versus tolerigenic immunity in the Xenopus tadpole
MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)

Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 11, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Host: CBVI

MBI 501: Investigating the Long-term Effects of SBRT/IL12 Therapy in a Murine Model of Pancreatic Cancer

Tara Vrooman - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Scott Gerber, Ph.D.

 Feb 10, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408 and Zoom

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: TLR5-mediated reactivation of quiescent ranavirus FV3 in Xenopus

Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Feb 09, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series: Impact of HIV variants in the lung during the rainy days of COVID

Sharilyn Almodovar, PhD - Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology

 Feb 07, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper Aud.)

Zoom

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

MBI 501: Immunometabolic characterization and control of tissue resident memory T cells

Michael Sportiello - PhD Candidate, Advisor: David Topham, Ph.D.

 Feb 03, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408) & Zoom

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: TBA

Brian Ward, PhD - Professor, MBI, Univ. Rochester

 Feb 02, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
Transposons protect from cancer by activating immune response: a lesson from the blind mole rat

Vera Gorbunova, PhD - Co-Director, Rochester Aging Research Center, Department of Biology

 Jan 28, 2022 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Link

MBI 501: Effects of the SUMO Ligase BCA2 on Metabolic Activity, Cell Proliferation, Cell Migration, Cell Cycle, and the Regulation of NF-kB and IRF1 in Different Breast Epithelial Cellular Contexts

Yuhang Shi - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

 Jan 27, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Integrating Large-scale Multi-omics data with Multi-layered Principal Component Analysis, Penalized Regression, and Feature Weight Back-propagation

Xing Qiu, PhD - Professor, Biostats Computational Biology, Univ. Rochester

 Jan 26, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

MBI 501: Assessing the role of environmental pathogens Cryptosporidium parvum and Campylobacter jejuni on the development of the immune system and atopic diseases

Tyler Scherzi - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, M.D., Ph.D.

 Jan 20, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Novel ACE2 Protein Interactions Relevant to COVID-19 Predicted by Evolutionary Methods

Jack Werren, PhD - Professor, Biology, Univ. Rochester

 Jan 19, 2022 @ 3:30 p.m.

MBI 501: Cross Talk Between Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Macrophages Balances Efferocytic Activity in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment

Noah Salama - PhD Candidate, Advisors: Laura Calvi, M.D. and Minsoo Kim, Ph.D.

 Jan 13, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

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

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

Kala Hardy - PhD Candidate, Advisor: Toru Takimoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.

 Jan 06, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 

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

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.

Zoom Link

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.

Zoom link

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

Catherine Pizzarello - PhD Candisate

 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

 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

 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

 Sep 17, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

Host: RIPS: Research in Progress

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

James McGuinness - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jun 03, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: B. Ward

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

Harry Taylor, Ph. D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Upstate Medical University

 May 24, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Sean Nelson - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 20, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: A. Sant

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

Kristin Scheible, M.D. - Associate Professor in Pediatrics, Neonatology, University of Rochester

 May 17, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

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

Andrea Sant, Ph.D. - Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 May 14, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Karim (Aizan) Embong - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 13, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: David Topham, Ph.D.

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

Andrew P. Bischer - PhD Candidate

 May 11, 2021 @ 2:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Robert Quivey, Ph.D.

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

Meera Vir Singh, Ph. D. - Assistant Professor in Neurology, Stroke Division, University of Rochester

 May 10, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

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

Felix Yarovinsky, M.D. - Associate Professor, Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 May 07, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Elizabeth Lindsay - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 06, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: R. Quivey

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

Rachael Turner, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Medicine & Oncology, Wilmot Cancer Institute

 Apr 30, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Noah Salama - PhD Candidate

 Apr 29, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Laura Calvi, M.D./Minsoo Kim, Ph.D.

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

David Easterhoff, Ph.D. - Associate Scientific Director, Platform Immunology | Moderna

 Apr 26, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

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

Laura Calvi, M.D. - Professor, Department of Medicine, Endocrine/Metabolism

 Apr 23, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Ferralita Madere - PhD Candidate

 Apr 22, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Cynthia Monaco, M.D., Ph.D.

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

Amber Smith, Ph. D. - Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

 Apr 19, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Juilee Thakar, Ph.D.

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

Steve Georas, M.D. - Professor, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care

 Apr 16, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Megan Dunagan - IMV PhD Candidate

 Apr 15, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Toru Takimoto, D.V.M., Ph.D.

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

Matthew Brewer, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow

 Apr 14, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Juilee Thakar, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 09, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Ashwin Kumar - BCH PhD Candidate

 Apr 08, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: David Topham, Ph.D.

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

Paul D. Fey, Ph. D. - Professor, Pathology and Microbiology, Vice Chair, Research, Medical Director, Nebraska Medical Center Microbiology Section

 Apr 05, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Steve Gill, Ph.D.

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

David Barnard - IMV PhD Candidate

 Apr 01, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: M. Pavelka

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

Yan Sun - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 31, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Grégoire Lauvau, Ph. D. - Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 29, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Felix Yarovinsky, M.D.

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

Stephanie R. Monticelli

 Mar 26, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

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

Benjamin Frisch, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

 Mar 26, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Christie Gilbert - TBS PhD Candidate

 Mar 25, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Steven Gill, Ph.D. and Jin Xiao, Ph.D. and D.D.S.

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

Maureen Ferran - Associate Professor, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

 Mar 24, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Edward Schwarz, Ph.D. - Center for Musculoskeletal Research

 Mar 19, 2021 @ 9:00 a.m.

Passcode: 955031

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

Jordan Hurlbut

 Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Cynthia Monaco, M.D., Ph.D.

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

Arianna Lopez

 Mar 18, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Jacques Robert, Ph.D.

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

Minsoo Kim, PhD - Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Mar 17, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Jennifer Anolik, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology Division of Allergy/Immunology/Rheumatology

 Mar 12, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Chantelle White - IMV PhD Candidate

 Mar 11, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Andrea Sant, Ph.D.

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

Tara Vrooman - IMV PhD Candidate

 Mar 11, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Scott Gerber, Ph.D.

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

Benjamin Miller, Ph.D. - Professor of Dermatology

 Mar 10, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Javier Irazoqui, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School Microbiology and Physiological Systems

 Mar 08, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Felix Yarovinsky, M.D.

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

Thomas Mariani, Ph.D. - Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Biomedical Genetics & Environmental Medicine

 Mar 05, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Michael Sportiello - IMV PhD Candidate

 Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: K. Järvinen-Seppo/D. Topham

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

Michael Sportiello - PhD Candidate

 Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom

Host: David Topham

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

Tyler Scherzi - PhD Candidate

 Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Kirsi Järvinen-Seppo

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Tyler Scherzi - IMV PhD Candidate

 Mar 04, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: K. Järvinen-Seppo/D. Topham

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Noah Salama - IMV PhD Candidate

 Feb 25, 2021 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: D. Fowell

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

Kala Hardy - PhD Candidate

 Feb 25, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Toru Takimoto

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Kala Harbaugh - IMV PhD Candidate

 Feb 25, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: T. Takimoto

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

Jessica Ciesla - Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

 Feb 24, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Josh Munger

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

Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

 Feb 19, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Megan Ulbrich - IMV PhD Candidate

 Feb 18, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: M. Dziejman

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

Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 17, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: CD4 T Cells Sans Frontières

Carolyn King, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Basel University

 Feb 15, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Thomas Ciucci, Ph.D.

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

Angela Branche, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

 Feb 12, 2021 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom

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

Shuyang Qin - IMV PhD Candidate

 Feb 11, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: P. Prieto/E. Lord

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

Stephen Dewhurst, PhD - Professor & Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vice Dean for Research, SMD

 Feb 10, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Anthony Fauci, David Topham, Lou Papa

 Feb 04, 2021 @ 8:00 p.m.

Second Opinion website

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Catherine Pizzarello - IMV PhD Candidate

 Feb 04, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: K. Järvinen-Seppo

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series

Regina K. Rowe, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases(SMD)

 Feb 03, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Mary Caserta, MD, David Topham, PhD, Ann Falsey, MD, Nana Bennett, MD, Angela Branche, MD

 Jan 28, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

YouTube Channel Link

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

Joseph Murphy - PhD Candidate

 Jan 28, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Scott Gerber, PhD

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Ashley Nelson - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jan 28, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: K. Järvinen-Seppo

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

Yiping Zhu, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 27, 2021 @ 3:30 p.m.

Zoom

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

Konstantin MJ Sparrer, Ph.D. - Junior Group Leader (Institut für Molekulare Virologie, Prof. Frank Kirchhoff, Prof. Jan Münch) Ulm University

 Jan 25, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

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

Elizabeth L. Lindsay - PhD Candidate

 Jan 21, 2021 @ 1:30 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Robert Quivey, Ph.D. (Advisor)

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

Justin Leach - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jan 21, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Dewhurst

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

Briaunna Minor - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jan 14, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S.Hammes/J. Robert

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Analysis of the effects of scheduling, dexamethasone co-administration, and NKG2A signaling on the anti-tumor immune response elicited by radiotherapy

Nicholas G. Battaglia - IMV PhD Candidate

 Dec 15, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Edith Lord, Ph.D. (Advisor)

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Improving Adaptive Immunity During Viral Infection and Vaccination

Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

 Dec 14, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Thomas Ciucci, Ph.D.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): TBD

Paige Lawrence - Environmental Medicine

 Dec 11, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Alicia Healey - IMV PhD Candidate

 Dec 10, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: D. Fowell

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: An Investigation into the Effects of URMC-099 on Peripheral Immune Cells in Neuroinflammatory Disease Models

Priyanka Saminathan - IMV PhD Candidate

 Dec 09, 2020 @ 1:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Harris Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D.

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: A multifaceted approach to combating antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Crista Wadsworth, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences

 Dec 07, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Paul Dunman, Ph.D.

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Dec 04, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2

David Topham - Microbiology & Immunology/CVBI

 Dec 04, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Dec 03, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Neutrophil Elastase and GPNMB are Pro-Tumorigenic in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)

Erin Gibbons - IMV PhD Candidate

 Dec 03, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S.Hammes/M. Kim

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: Multifaceted Host Protein SAMHD1 Modulates Viral Infection and Innate Immunity

Li Wu, Ph.D. - Professor, Chair and Department Executive Officer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Carver College of Medicine - The University of Iowa

 Nov 30, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Yiping Zhu, Ph.D.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Re-emergence of IL-12 as a Potent Anticancer Agent in Pancreatic Cancer

Scott Gerber - Surgery/Micro. and Immunology

 Nov 20, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Circadian control of macrophage function in the tumor microenvironment

Amelia Clark - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 19, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: B. Altman/M. Kim

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Epigenetic Silencing of Extrachromosomal Retroviral DNA

Yiping Zhu - Microbiology & Immunology

 Nov 13, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Modulating the gut microbiota of obese/type 2 diabetics to restore immune defenses against Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis

Tina Bui - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 12, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Gill

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Lung Megakaryocytes are a Novel Immune Modulatory Cell and Present Antigen to CD4+ T

Daphne N. Pariser - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 09, 2020 @ 2:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Craig N. Morrell, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Special Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar: From Graduate School to Industry: My Journey As A Minority Woman in STEM

Dr. Malika Grayson - Engineer, Speaker, Author

 Nov 09, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Ferralita Madere

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Nov 06, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Nov 05, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The role of BCA2 in Breast Cancer

Yuhang Shi - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 05, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: R. Serra-Moreno

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: The evolutionary potential of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain

Jesse D. Bloom, Ph.D. - Professor, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, Affiliate Associate Professor, Genome Sciences & Microbiology, University of Washington Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 Nov 02, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Virology Track Student Invited Speaker (Michael Lutz)

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): T cell pool assembly and disruption in premature infants

Kristin Scheible - Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Neonatology

 Oct 30, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The Responder/Nonresponder Phenomena: The Immune System’s Role in Determining the Outcome of Radiation Therapy in Rectal Cancer

Taylor Uccello - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 29, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Gerber

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar: Beta-lactamase Inhibitors: a Renaissance

Robert A. Bonomo, MD - Associate Chief of Staff for Academic Affairs Director, GRECC and Case VA CARES Professor, Case Western Reserve University

 Oct 26, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Martin Pavelka, Ph.D. and Nicole Pecora, M.D., Ph.D

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Migration of CAR T cell: Barriers to cancer immunotherapy and potential solutions

Minsoo Kim - Microbiology & Immunology/CVBI

 Oct 23, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Defining the minimal genetic elements required for T3SS-mediated Vibrio cholerae colonization

Katharine Tomberlin - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 22, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: M. Dziejman

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Oct 16, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): TBD

Anthony Pietropaoli - Medicine/Critical Care

 Oct 16, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

 Oct 15, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Webinar Registration Form

MBI 501 Student Seminar: S. aureus virulence factors enhance viral pathogenesis of the skin epithelium

Mary Kate Moran - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 15, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: L. Beck/S. Gill

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): The generation of defective viral genomes during respiratory syncytial virus infection

Yan Sun - Microbiology & Immunology

 Oct 09, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: IFN-g Triggers an mTOR-dependent Cell Death Pathway in Peritoneal Tissue-resident Macrophages

Andrew Martin - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 08, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: F. Yarovinsky

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar: Mathematical modelling of vaccine dose response curves

Thomas Evans, M.D. - CSO/CMO Vaccitech

 Oct 05, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom

Host: Steve Dewhurst, Ph.D.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): T cell immunology during pregnancy

Tim Mosmann - Microbiology & Immunology/CVBI

 Oct 02, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Mechanism of Host Adaptation of the Influenza A Virus through Polymerase PA Mutations

Michael Lutz - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 01, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: T. Takimoto

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Characterization of Two Disparate Modes by which Viruses Exploit Host factors to Promote their own Dissemination and Replication

Sydney R. Simpson - PhD Candidate

 Sep 30, 2020 @ 10:00 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Stephen Dewhurst, PhD & Sanjay Maggirwar, MBA, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Cold-blooded killers: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases in ectothermic vertebrates

Anna Savage, Ph.D. - Assistant professor University of Central Florida Department of Biology

 Sep 28, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Jacques Robert, PhD

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): The µSiM: A Tissue-Chip Platform for Modeling Barrier Tissues during Infection, Inflammation, and Injury

Jim McGrath - Professor of Biomedical Engineering

 Sep 25, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulates T follicular helper cells during influenza virus infection

Cassandra Houser - IMV PhD Candidate

 Sep 24, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: P. Lawrence

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Optimizing effector T cell function in inflamed tissues

Deb Fowell - Microbiology and Immunology/CVBI

 Sep 18, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Stress Regulation of Rhamnose Biosynthesis in Streptococcus mutans and the Implications on Rhamnose-Glucose Polysaccharide Production

Andrew Bischer - IMV PhD Candidate

 Sep 17, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: R. Quivey

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): Pathogen and tumor specific CD4+ T cell responses at the single cell resolution

Thomas Ciucci, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology

 Sep 11, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Understanding the Mutual Antagonism Between HIV and Autophagy

Sergio Castro-Gonzalez - PhD Student from Texas Tech University, Department of Biological Sciences in Dr. Ruth Serra-Moreno’s Lab

 Sep 10, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: R. Serra-Moreno

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The Search for Novel Antimicrobials: Testing the Luedemann Hypothesis

Bryan Meyer - MS Candidate

 Sep 03, 2020 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: P. Dunman

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine as a potential viral vector for immunization against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2

Taylor Jones - MS Candidate

 Sep 03, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Dewhurst

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Characterization of IDO1 expression in the human placenta across gestation

Gayathri Guru Murthy - MS Candidate

 Aug 27, 2020 @ 12:30 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Murphy

MBI 501 Student Seminar: The role of Staphylococcus aureus nitric oxide reductase (Nor) in biofilm formation and programmed cell death

Nathalie Colon Torres - MS Candidate

 Aug 27, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: S. Gill

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Characterizing and Targeting the Pancreatic Tumor Draining Lymph Node to Enhance Antitumor Responses in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Booyeon Julia Han - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jul 10, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Scott Gerber, Ph.D.

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Influenza A Vaccine Comparison Study: Analysis of the Memory B Cell Expansion After Vaccination with Egg-Adapted H3N2 Influenza A Vaccine

Aizan Embong - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jun 18, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: David Topham

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Assessing urmc-099 as a therapeutic agent for progressive multiple sclerosis using the EAE mouse model

Priyanka Saminathan - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jun 11, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Harris A. Gelbard

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Lung Megakaryocytes are a Novel Immune Modulatory Cell and Present Antigen to CD4+ T cells

Daphne Pariser - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jun 04, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Craig Morrell

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Protein Kinase D- A Key Regulator of Pulmonary Barrier and Early Innate Immunity

Janelle Marie Veazey - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jun 04, 2020 @ 9:00 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Steve N. Georas, M.D.

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Functional analysis of influenza and coronavirus host shutoff proteins

Megan Dunagan - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 28, 2020 @ 1:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Toru Takimoto

MBI 501 Student Seminar: NKG2A inhibits the anti-tumor CD8 T cell immune response elicited by radiotherapy

Nicholas G. Battaglia - PhD Candidate

 May 21, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Edith Lord

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: IFN-?-Mediated Death of Metabolically Altered Paneth Cells

Alessandra Machado Araujo - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 05, 2020 @ 1:45 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Investigating the Role of Tetherin in Monocyte Derived Microparticle Regulation during HIV Infection

Emily A. Weber - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 05, 2020 @ 10:00 a.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisors: Sanjay Maggirwar, Ph.D. & Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Discovery of macrophage hypophagia as a critical regulator of antibody mediated cellular cytotoxicity

Jonathan J. Pinney - IMV PhD Candidate

 May 01, 2020 @ 1:00 p.m.

Zoom Invitation

Host: Advisor: Michael R. Elliott, Ph.D.

Human sirtuin-2 protein (SIRT2) – a validated target for a broadly-effective host-targeted antiviral

Lillian W. Chiang, PhD, MBA - President & CEO of Evrys Bio

 Mar 09, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Joshua Munger

Anti-CD19 CAR T-cells in Lymphoma

Patrick Reagan - Assistant Professor, Lymphoma Program at Wilmot Cancer Center

 Mar 06, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Phuong Nguyen

 Mar 05, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated is required for response to influenza A virus infection

Rachel R. Warren - Microbiology & Immunology PhD Candidate

 Mar 03, 2020 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Auditorium (Adolph) 1-7619

Host: Dr. Michael O'Reilly

Elucidating and harnessing the bacterial biofilm matrix

Paula Watnick, M.D., Ph.D. - Harvard Medical School

 Mar 02, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Michelle Dziejman

Center Research Meeting

Cassandra Houser

 Feb 27, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

“A CD8+ T cell-dependent immunopathologic pathway is a target for host-directed therapies in leishmaniasis”

Phillip Scott, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine; Vice Dean for Research & Academic Resources, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

 Feb 24, 2020 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 207 (2-6408)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

Intestinal epithelial cell functions in host-microbiome interactions”

Maayan Levy, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 Feb 17, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series: Intestinal epithelial cell functions in host-microbiome interactions

Maayan Levy, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Microbiology

 Feb 17, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Immunology Student Hosted Seminar (Booyeon Han)

Center Research Meeting

Rohith Palli

 Feb 13, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: T cell search strategies for finding infection foci

Deborah Fowell, Ph.D. - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Feb 12, 2020 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Keegan Vaughn

 Feb 06, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: The Role of Adhesive Signaling in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Jeevisha Bajaj - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Genetics

 Jan 31, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Anuj Rattan

 Jan 30, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Elucidating the role AMPK plays in HCMV infection

Diana Dunn, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow Biochemistry & Biophysics

 Jan 29, 2020 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Xenopus as experimental organism for host-viral pathogen interaction and immunotoxicity

Jacques Robert - Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

 Jan 24, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Brad Mills

 Jan 23, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Flow Cytometry, it’s not just for cells anymore

Timothy Bushnell, Ph.D. - Director, Shared Resource Laboratories Associate Professor, Pediatrics

 Jan 22, 2020 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Scott Leddon

 Jan 16, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: Antigen and Antibody Microarrays for Influenza Surveillance and Serology

Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D. - Professor of Dermatology

 Jan 15, 2020 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Emma Reilly

 Jan 09, 2020 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: TBD

Terry Wright - Pediatrics

 Dec 20, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: TBD

Deb Fowell - Microbiology & Immunology/CVBI

 Dec 13, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: TBD

Juilee Thakar - Microbiology & Immunology, Biostatistics

 Dec 11, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Metabolic control of intestinal inflammation

Felix Yarovinsky - Microbiology & Immunology/CVBI

 Dec 06, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Adil Khan

 Dec 05, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series: TBD

Shawn Murphy - Microbiology & Immunology, OBGyn

 Dec 04, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiome and Cancer

Amiran Dzutsev, Ph.D. - Cancer and Inflammation Program NCI, NIH

 Nov 25, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Evaluation of CD4 T cell Mediated Immunity Following Early Childhood Influenza Infection or Vaccination

Jennifer Nayak, M.D. - Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases

 Nov 22, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Center Research Meeting

Janelle Veazey

 Nov 21, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): IFN-γ-dependent loss of resident macrophages during Toxoplasma gondii infection

Andrew Martin

 Nov 21, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky, PhD

Science Career Seminar: Guest speakers in various scientific careers will speak on their experiences and provide advice for current students

Waaqo Daddacha, PhD: Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Augusta University
Danielle Alcena, PhD: Staff Scientist in Life Sciences Learning Center at URMC
Robert Lopez-Astacio: Immunology Graduate Student at Cornell University

 Nov 08, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Targeted Immune Therapy for B cell malignancy

Clive Zent, M.D. - Professor of Medicine; Hematology and Oncology, URMC

 Nov 08, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: An Insight Into Human Cytomegalovirus Mediated Metabolics Reprogramming

Irene Rodríguez Sánchez - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 07, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room 1-9576

Host: Advisor: Joshua Munger, Ph.D.)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Quiescence and Reactivation of Frog Virus 3 in Xenopus laevis

Phoebe Lee Henry - IMV PhD Candidate

 Nov 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Jacques Robert, Ph.D.

MBI 588 Virology Seminar: Contributions of the UL30 Associated Open Reading Frames to HCMV Infection

Morgan Monaghan, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Associate

 Nov 06, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-9624

The function and generation of RSV defective viral genomes

Yan Sun, PhD - University of Pennsylvania

 Nov 04, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Department of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Co-Sponsored by: Immunology Training Grant NIH/NIAID T32 AI007285: Tuning T cell responses

Avery August, Ph.D. - Cornell University

 Nov 01, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

Host: Zanah Francis

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Platelets; A New Street Address for HIV

Sydney Simpson - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 31, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Stephen Dewhurst, PhD

Understanding the structural changes in HIV-1 trimer and their effects on tropism and vaccine development

Maria J. Duenas Decamp, Ph.D. - University of Massachusetts Medical School

 Oct 28, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Distinct mechanisms of FcγR- and complement-mediated hypophagia

Johnathan Pinney - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 24, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Michael Elliott, PhD

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Changing the biology of tumors using cytokines

Karli Norville - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 17, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: John Frelinger, PhD

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Potentiating broadly protective local immunity to influenza virus through a novel vaccine platform

Sean Nelson - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 10, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Andrea Sant, PhD

Role of macrophages in persistence, quiescence and reactivation of ranavirus infection

Jacques Robert, PhD & Mrinal Samanta, PhD,DMV

 Oct 09, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

The Henipavirus Cell Entry Machinery: from Structure to Function

Joyce Jia Wen Wong, Ph.D. - Stanford University

 Oct 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Impact of Radiation on Synaptic Integrity and Blood Brain Barrier Function

Kerry O’Banion, MD, PhD - Department of Neuroscience

 Oct 04, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Characterization of Poxvirus EV-Specific Glycoprotein Interactions and Their Role During Infection

Stephanie Monticelli - IMV PhD Candidate

 Oct 03, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Andrea Sant, PhD

Not so Heartless: Functional Integration of the Immune and Circulatory System of Mosquitoes

Julián Hillyer, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University

 Sep 30, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Jacques Robert

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Non-canonical regulation of the stress tolerance cascade in Streptococcus mutans by the regulator TreR

Elizabeth L. Lindsay - IMV PhD Candidate

 Sep 26, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 

Host: Advisor: Robert G. Quivey Jr.

Tetherin and Microparticles: Better Together

Emily Weber

 Sep 25, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Governing Differentiation, Maintenance, and Physiological Functions of Macrophages and Monocytes

Frederic Geissman, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 Sep 23, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Immunology Student Hosted Seminar

Discovery and significance of macrophage hypophagia

Rusty Elliott, PhD

 Sep 20, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): Targeting the Tumor-Draining Lymph Node to Enhance Anti-Tumor Responses in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Booyeon Han - IMV PhD Candidate

 Sep 19, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Scott Gerber

Role of BCA2 in HIV Biology: From Preventing Virus Assembly to Enforcing Proviral Latency

Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD - Texas Tech University

 Sep 16, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Auditorium 1-7619

Neuroimmune remodeling of neural networks

Ania Majewska

 Sep 13, 2019 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

LdtC is a key enzyme for Mycobacterium smegmatis peptidoglycan biosynthesis

Zanah Francis

 Sep 12, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar (MB 501): The Molecular Function of Type Three Secretion System Protein VopZZ in V. cholerae Infection

Hannah Bell - IMV PhD Candidate

 Sep 05, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Michelle Dziejman

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: The roles of Innate-like T cells and macrophages during Mycobacterium marinum infection in Xenopus laevis

Kun Hyoe (Jules) Rhoo - IMV PhD Candidate

 Aug 29, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Host: Advisor: Jacques Robert, Ph.D.

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Early Detection and Chronic Management of Sepsis

Alissa Jane Trzeciak - IMV PhD Candidate

 Jul 11, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph (Lower Auditorium 1-7619)

Host: Advisor: Minsoo Kim, Ph.D.

Jupyter and Galaxy: Easing entry barriers into complex data analyses for biomendical researchers

Anton Nekrutenko - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State

 Jun 14, 2019 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Metod Room 1-9576

Host: Dr. Juilee Thakar

Jupyter and Galaxy: Easing entry barriers into complex data analyses for biomendical researchers

Anton Nekrutenko - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State

 Jun 14, 2019 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Metod Room 1-9576

Host: Dr. Juilee Thakar

“Adapting Yeast Display to Identify Poxvirus Cellular Receptor(s)”

James McGuinness

 May 16, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Shannon Loelius

 May 09, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Functions of host shut-off proteins of influenza A virus

Megan Dunagan

 May 02, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

“The Regulation of NOD Signaling”

Dana Philpott, PhD - University of Toronto

 Apr 29, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

Flu 1 Humanity 0

Jonathan Yewdell, MD, PhD - Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID NIH

 Apr 25, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Host: Andrea Sant

The Human Cytomegalovirus UL38 protein reprograms multiple aspects of the cellular metabolic network

Irene Rodriguez Sanchez

 Apr 25, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

“Research and Response- Public Health Stories”

Inger Damon, MD, PhD - CDC’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP)

 Apr 22, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Virology Student Sponsored Seminar (Megan Dunagan)

Evaluation of URMC-099 as a neuroprotectant during HIV infection and latency reversal

Priyanka Saminathan

 Apr 18, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

“Strategies of host adaptation of influenza A viruses”.

Toru Takimoto, D.V.M, Ph.D. - University of Rochester Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 17, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

“Not so Heartless: Functional Integration of the Immune and Circulatory System of Mosquitoes”

Julián Hillyer, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University

 Apr 15, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Jacques Robert

Multifaceted Coordination of Airway Epithelial Barrier Integrity and Inflammation by Protein Kinase D

Janelle Veazey

 Apr 11, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

The Human Postmortem Microbiome: Forensic Applications and Beyond

Jennifer Pechal, PhD - Michigan State University

 Apr 08, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Micro SSS

Airway epithelial barrier dysfunction in asthma: are respiratory viruses the culprit?

Steve Georas, MD - University of Rochester, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 03, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Serum-induced antibiotic tolerance in Acinetobacter baumannii

Michaelle Chojnacki, Ph.D. - Department of Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 03, 2019 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | G-9654

An Investigation into the Function of Vaccinia Virus Protein F15

Emily Ivey

 Mar 28, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

The Ability of Standard of Care Antibiotic Therapies to Eradicate Staphylococcus aureus Occupying the Osteocytic-Canalicular Network of Cortical Bone

Mark Niomiya

 Mar 28, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Partick Oakes - Department of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Biology

 Mar 27, 2019 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

“Toxoplasma on My Mind (and in my brain): Tales of Life Cycles and Cell Cycles”

Anthony Sinai, PhD - University of Kentucky

 Mar 25, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Marty Pavelka

TBD

Tyler Scherzi

 Mar 21, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Alesa Philbrick

 Mar 21, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

“Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Governing Differentiation, Maintenance, and Physiological Functions of Macrophages and Monocytes”

Frederic Geissman, MD, Ph.D. - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 Mar 18, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Immunology SSS (Nicholas Battaglia)

TBD

Taylor Uccello

 Mar 14, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Katherine Tomberlin

 Mar 14, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Mary Moran

 Mar 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Andrew Martin

 Mar 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Michael Lutz

 Feb 28, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Cassandra Houser

 Feb 28, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Andrew Bischer

 Feb 21, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Jenna Hindsley

 Feb 21, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Kevin Chiem

 Feb 14, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Karim (Abdul) Embong

 Feb 14, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Sydney Simpson

 Feb 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Jonathan Pinney

 Jan 31, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Karli Norville

 Jan 24, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Characterization of Staphylococccus aureus RnpA and approaches for antibacterial discovery

Jennifer Colquhoun - Microbiology & Immunology PhD Candidate

 Jan 22, 2019 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408

Host: Dr. Paul Dunman

TBD

Sean Nelson

 Jan 17, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Stephanie Monticelli

 Jan 10, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Elizabeth Lindsay

 Jan 03, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Deborah Fowell - University of Rochester

 Dec 14, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Booyeon Han

 Dec 13, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Impact of tumor hypoxia on immune response: implication for radiotherapy and anti-tumor immunity

Aditi Murthy - Microbiology & Immunology PhD Candidate

 Dec 12, 2018 @ 9:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Auditorium K-307 (3-6408, URMC)

Host: Dr. Edith Lord

Defining Functional Roles for the Rhamnose-glucose Polysaccharides of Streptococcus mutans

Christopher Kovacs - Microbiology & Immunology PhD Candidate

 Dec 07, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Adolph Auditorium (3-7619, URMC)

Host: Dr. Robert Quivey

TBD

Andrea Sant - University of Rochester

 Dec 07, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Zanah Francis

 Dec 06, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Minsoo Kim - University of Rochester

 Nov 30, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Hannah Bell

 Nov 29, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Priyanka Saminathan

 Nov 15, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Once upon a “toad” in immunology (An exploration of evolutionary immunology)

Jacques Robert

 Nov 09, 2018 @ 4:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Ryan Case Method Room (1-9576)

TBD

Felix Yarovinsky - University of Rochester

 Nov 09, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Alissa Trzeciak

 Nov 08, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated is required for proper epithelial repair and immune regulation following influenza A virus infections

Rachel Warren

 Nov 01, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Leaderless Genes and Small Proteins: Big Surprises in Mycobacterial Genomes

Keith Derbyshire, Ph.D. - NYS Department of Health, Wadsworth Center

 Oct 29, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Whipple Auditorium, 2-6424

Host: Martin Pavelka

TBD

Alessandra Araujo

 Oct 25, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Microbes and Cytokines Regulating Tumor Elicited Inflammation

Sergei Grivennikov, Ph.D - Fox Chase Cancer Center

 Oct 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

Updating the Master Donor Virus of the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine to Reflect Currently Circulating H1N1 Subtype Viruses

Andrew Smith

 Oct 18, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Molecular Correlates of Infant Respiratory Virus Dieease Severity

Thomas J. Mariani, PhD

 Oct 17, 2018 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Intestinal Antiviral Responses to Rotavirus Replication

Siyuan Ding, PhD - Stanford University

 Oct 16, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

Towards Eradicating Human Toxoplasma gondii Infections and Toxoplasmosis

Rima McLeod, MD - University of Chicago School of Medicine

 Oct 15, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

Neonatal microbiota: nutrition and development through time and space

Steve Gill - University of Rochester

 Oct 12, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

A novel fluorescent and bioluminescent Bi-Reporter influenza A virus (BIRFLU) to track viral infections in vitro and in vivo

Aitor Nogales - University of Rochester

 Oct 10, 2018 @ 3:30 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Lung Megakaryocytes are Professional Antigen Presenting Cells

Daphne Pariser

 Oct 04, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Secretory IgA and Intestinal Immunity to Vibrio cholerae

Nicholas Mantis, Ph.D. - Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health

 Oct 01, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Michelle Dziejman

Elucidating the Role of TNF-alpha in the Genesis of Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Emily Wu

 Sep 27, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Comprehensive Network Analysis Reveals Host Cell Targets That Control Latent HIV-1 Infection

Olaf Kutsch, Ph.D. - University of Alabama at Birmingham

 Sep 24, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Virology Faculty Search Committee

New studies with Mycobacterium abscessus, a novel non-tubercular mycobacterial species

Marty Pavelka - University of Rochester

 Sep 21, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Staphylococcus aureus Superantigens Kill. So…What Can We Do About It?

Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D. - University of Iowa

 Sep 17, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium 3-7619

Host: Steve Gill

The role of cell death and metabolism in fractionated and ablative radiotherapy

Nicholas Battaglia

 Sep 13, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Exploring the evolutionary relevance of MHC class 1-like molecules and innate-like Tcells in Xenopus tumor immunity

Maureen Ludmila Banach - PhD Candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Jacques Robert

 Aug 21, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Effects of P2Y2 Signaling on Regulation of Efferocytosis and CXCR4 Internalization

Taylor J. Moon - PhD Candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Michael R. Elliott

 Aug 15, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Lower Auditorium 1-7619

Chemokine Independent CD8+ T cell Migration

Brandon L. Walling - PhD Candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Minsoo Kim

 Aug 14, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

A comparative approach to T cell presence in lactation

Bethaney Fehrenkamp - University of New Mexico

 Jul 16, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 2-11211

Host: Jacques Robert

The Dichotomy of Curaxin Compounds in HIV-1 Latency

Maxime Junior Jean - PhD Candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Jian Zhu

 Jun 20, 2018 @ 3:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 2-6408

Specificity determinants of homologous VapBC toxin-antitoxin systems

Lauren Rice Walling - PhD Candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Scott Butler

 Jun 12, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Whipple Auditorium, 2-6424

Investigating How Platelets Interact with HIV-1 and Promote Viral Spread

Sydney Simpson

 May 31, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Alesa Philbrick

 May 31, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Updating the Master Donor Virus of the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine to Reflect Currently Circulating H1N1 Subtype Viruses

Andrew Smith

 May 17, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Brandon Walling

 May 10, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Paige Lawrence - Environmental Medicine

 May 04, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Lacey Favazzo

 May 03, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

GPCR requirements for Th2 cell migration in allergic inflammation

Deb Fowell, PhD - Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 May 01, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Michael O'Reilly

Control of herpesvirus lifestyle decisions by ribosome biogenesis and DNA damage responses

Ian Mohr, Ph.D. - New York University

 Apr 30, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Brian Ward

TBD

Jessica Shand - Pediatrics/Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 27, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Staphylococcus aureus RnpA: Investigation of essential function and identification of novel inhibitors

Jennifer Colquhoun

 Apr 26, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Dr. Randolph - Wash University of St. Louis

 Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Imm. SSS

TBD

Jennifer Nayak - Pediatrics/Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 20, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Aditi Murthy

 Apr 19, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Lung Biology Pilot Project Awardees

Jacob Finkelstein, Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Steven Gill, & Sally Quataert

 Apr 17, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Michael O'Reilly

Host-microbial interactions in the vertebrate olfactory system: unknown players in fish and mammals

Irene Salinas, Ph.D. - University of New Mexico

 Apr 16, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Jaques Robert

TBD

Terry Wright - Pediatrics/Microbiology & Immunology

 Apr 13, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

A Role for P2Y2-Integrin ?1 Interaction in Coordinating Find-me and Eat-me Signaling in Phagocytes During Apoptotic Cell Clearance

Taylor Moon

 Apr 12, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

The Shock and Kill Approach to HIV Eradication

Jonathan Karn, Ph.D. - Case Western University

 Apr 09, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Steve Dewhurst

Mechanistic Analysis of Influenza A Virus Assembly and Host Gene Regulation

Chutikarn Chaimayo - PhD candidate - Microbiology & Immunology, Advisor: Dr. Toru Takimoto

 Apr 06, 2018 @ 1:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Exploring the evolutionary relevance of a MHC class I-like/innate-like T cell system in Xenopus tumor immunity

Maureen Banach

 Apr 05, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Kenneth Sims

 Mar 29, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Regulation of CNS inflammation by AHR

Francisco Quintana, Ph.D.

 Mar 26, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Paige Lawrence

Control of Paneth Cell Fate and Intestinal Inflammation by IFN-gamma

Felix Yarovinsky - Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Mar 23, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Determinants of Colonization in Non-O1/O139 Vibrio cholerae

Hannah Bell

 Mar 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Development of computational algorithms for curation, inference, and analysis of viral responsive gene-sets

Lauren Benoodt

 Mar 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Glycoprotein Team Burglary: Entry and Egress of Deadly Zoonotic Henipaviruses

Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD - Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Cornell University

 Mar 19, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Aud 3-7619

Host: Brian Ward

TBD

James Kobie - Medicine M&D-Infect Disease Unit

 Mar 16, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Investigation into the Function of Orthopoxvirus p28

Justin Brennan

 Mar 15, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Type 2 mechanisms in allergic lung

Anne Sperling, Ph.D. - University of Chicago

 Mar 12, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium, Room G-9425

Host: Steve Georas

"The effect of vaccine protein composition on the immune response of B cells" and "A previously unappreciated polymorphism in I-As MHC II"

Marina Koroleva & Courtney Lavery

 Mar 08, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

TBD

Neal Hammer, Ph.D. - Michigan State

 Mar 05, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Micro SSS

TBD

Steve Gill - Microbiology & Immunology

 Mar 02, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Regulation of macrophage phagocytic capacity in mAb-mediated host cell clearance

Jonathan Pinney

 Mar 01, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Cytokines, synergy, and the potential for tumor immunotherapy

Karli Norville

 Feb 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Understanding the Role of CD4 T cells in Immune Responses to Influenza Virus

Sean Nelson

 Feb 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

How MHC-like restricted innate-T cells fit in with the immune surveillance paradigm?

Jacques Robert - Microbiology & Immunology

 Feb 16, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

TBD

Elizabeth Lindsay & Stephanie Monticelli

 Feb 15, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Changes in Immune Phenotype and Function in Human Cancer

Kerry Campbell, Ph.D. - Temple Health

 Feb 12, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium, Room G-9425

Host: Rusty Elliott

Assessing Impact of Vaccine Regimen on Vaccine Induced Antibody Durability

Rohith Palli

 Feb 05, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Aud 3-7619

TBD

Michael "Rusty" Elliott - Center for Vaccine Biology & Immunology

 Feb 02, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Characterization of Mycobacterial L,D-Transpeptidases

Zanah Francis

 Feb 01, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Investigation into the roles of vaccinia virus protein F13 and its molluscum contagiosum virus homolog MC021

Peter Bryk

 Jan 26, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Aud 3-7619

“Screening of an FDA-approved compound library identifies levosimendan as a novel anti-HIV-1 agent that inhibits viral transcription”

Yoshi Hayashi - Microbiology & Immunology

 Jan 26, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Sexual Dimorphism in the Tumor Necrosis Factor Transgenic Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Emily Wu

 Jan 25, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Monocyte-derived Microparticle Regulation by Tetherin and Characterization in HIV Infection

Emily Weber - MBI 501

 Jan 18, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Monocyte-derived Microparticle Regulation by Tetherin and Characterization in HIV Infection

Emily Weber - MBI 501

 Jan 18, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Molecular analysis of adaptive immune responses to pathogens and vaccines

Spyros Kalams, MD - Vanderbilt University

 Jan 18, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

TBD

John Frelinger - Microbiology & Immunology

 Jan 12, 2018 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated is required for proper epithelial repair and immune regulation following influenza A virus infections

Rachel Warren

 Jan 11, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Identifying Mammalian Adaptive Residues in the Polymerase of the G1 H9N2 Influenza A Virus

Andrew Smith

 Dec 14, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Genome Evolution During Bacterial Persistence in the Human Airways in COPD

Tim Murphy, Ph.D. - University Of Buffalo

 Dec 04, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Steve Gill

Ex Viro Immune Organoids to Model Immunity, Epigenetics, and Malignancies

Ankur Singh - Cornell

 Nov 27, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Jian Zhu

"Mechanisms of Myeloid Cell Dysfunction in Neoplastic Disease"

Dr. Scott Abrams - Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

 Nov 20, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Minsoo Kim

TBD

Dave O'Connor, Ph.D. - Wisconsin

 Nov 13, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Sanjay Maggirwar

Strategies for Cytosolic Surveillance of Bacterial Pathogens

Russell Vance, Ph.D. - UC Berekley

 Nov 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Michelle Dziejman

Tracking Humans - Getting the Bang for the Buck from High Dimensional Immune Monitoring

Shai Shen-Orr, Ph.D.

 Oct 30, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Julie Thakar

TBD

Julie Dunning-Hotopp - University of Maryland

 Oct 16, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Scott Butler

Novel Immune-based Strategies Targeting Viral Persistence in SIV-Infected Nonhuman Primates

Mirko Paiardini, Ph.D. - Emory University

 Oct 02, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Sanjay Maggirwar

Nutritional Immunity Promotes Patoadaptation and Persistence of Haemophilus influenzae

Kevin Mason, Ph.D. - Nationwide Children's

 Sep 25, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Scott Butler

Microbiology and Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: The Role of Neutrophils in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Anna K. Bird

 Jun 26, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Research Showcase: Training in HIV Replication & Pathogenesis

John McAnany, Patrick Miller-Rhodes, Emily Weber, Zachary Hilt - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jun 26, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | MBI Conference Room (MRBX 2-11211)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Impact of Hypoxia on IFNy gamma)-Dependent Responses: Implications for Radiotherapy and Anti-Tumor Immunity

Aditi Murthy - Microbiology and Immunology

 May 04, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: To Build a Biofilm

George O'Toole, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College

 May 01, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

Host: Scott Butler, PhD.

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Alternate Functions of P2Y2 on Myeloid Cells

Taylor Moon - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 27, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Neural Control of Inflammation and Immunologic Memory

David Farrar, PhD. - Associate Professor, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

 Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Jim Miller, PhD.

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar

Peter Bryk - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 20, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Mechanisms of Virus-Induced Compartmentalization of the Host Translational Machinery

John S. L. Parker, BVMS, Ph.D - Associate Professor, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine

 Apr 17, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Brian Ward, Ph.D.

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar

Terry Wright, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 14, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Spontaneous Immune Dysregulation in the Skin in the Absence of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein

Katherine Herman - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 12, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 207 (2-6408)

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: The Effect of Memory B cells on Influenza Vaccination, Immune Focusing, and Implications on Vaccine Design

Christopher S. Anderson - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 11, 2017 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Protein Density on Nanoparticles Modulates the Immune Response to Viral Antigens

Matthew Brewer - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 10, 2017 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Microbial Whole Genome Sequencing in the Clinical Laboratory: Implementation and Applications

Nicole Pecora, M.D., Ph.D - Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

 Apr 10, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Steve Gill, Ph.D

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Hypofractionated vs. hyperfractionated radiotherapy treatment’s effects on tumor growth and tumor infiltrating CD8+ T cells

Margaret Barlow - Microbiology and Immunology

 Apr 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Innate Lymphoid Cells in Immunity

Marco Colonna, M.D. - Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

 Apr 03, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Steve Georas, M.D.

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Innate Lymphoid Cells in Immunity

Marco Colonna, M.D. - Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

 Apr 03, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Steve Georas, M.D.

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Staphylococcus aureus RnpA: Investigation of essential function and identification of novel inhibitors

Jennifer Colquhoun - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 30, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Modulating Innate Immunity in Alzheimer's Disease

Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D. - Department of Neuroscience

 Mar 24, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Exploring the roles of Xenopus MHC class I-like molecules and innate-like T cells in tumor immunity

Maureen Banach - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 23, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar

James Kobie, Ph.D. - Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

 Mar 17, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Enhancing pH-Responsive Nanoparticle Drug Delivery via High Throughput Screening to Inhibit Gram Positive Bacterial Biofilm Formation

Kenneth Sims - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 16, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Examination of the Collagen IV Matrix in the Human Placenta Across Gestation

Elizabeth Seltz - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Examination of the Collagen IV Matrix in the Human Placenta Across Gestation

Elizabeth Seltz - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Climate, Oceans, Human Health, and Cholera

Rita Colwell, Ph.D - Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland

 Mar 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: The effect of vaccine protein composition on the immune response of B cells

Marina Koroleva - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 02, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Investigating PSGL-1 Dysregulation During HIV-1 Infection

Ryan P. Connor - Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 01, 2017 @ 9:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Microbiota, Immune Subversion, and Chronic Inflammation

Caroline Genco, Ph.D - Professor and Chair, Department of Integrative Physiology & Pathobiology, Tufts University

 Feb 27, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Marty Pavelka, Ph.D

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Seq, and Ye Shall Whine: Attempting genome assembly of the S. aureus strain, UAMS-1.

James Miller - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 23, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Toxoplasma gondii and the Double-edged Sword of Human Monocyte Endocytosis

Andrew Martin - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 23, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: A Liposomal Vaccine Adjuvant that binds to His-tagged Antigens

Jonathan Lovell, Ph.D - Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department at University of Buffalo

 Feb 20, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Class of ‘62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Sexual Dimorphism of Pulmonary Inflammatory Infiltrate in the Tumor Necrosis Factor Transgenic Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Emily Wu - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 16, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Understanding how Platelet Activating Factor (PAF) contributes to neuroinflammation in HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND)

Priyanka Saminathan - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 16, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Relevance of innate T cells in antimicrobial immunity

Jacques ROBERT, Ph. D. - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 16, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series: Eradication without Reactivation, Silencing of the HIV Reservoir with a potent Tat Inhibitor

Susana Valente, Ph.D - Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbial Sciences (IMS), Scripps Florida

 Feb 13, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Class of ‘62 Auditorium (G-9425)

Host: Jian Zhu, Ph.D

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: The role of CD4 T cell specificity in human influenza-specific responses to vaccination and infection

Andrea J. Sant Ph.D. - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 10, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Brain dysfunction driven by systemic inflammation

Minsoo Kim - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Influenza A virus leads to the development of lung disease in a mouse model of Ataxia-telangiectasia

Rachel Warren - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Viral and Host Determinants of Zika Virus Pathogenesis

Helen Lazear, Ph.D - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 Feb 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Whipple Auditorium 2-6424

Host: Student Host: Shringkhala Bajimaya

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Identifying Mammalian Adaptive Residues in the Polymerase of the H9N2 Influenza A Virus

Andrew Smith - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 02, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Monocyte-derived Microparticle Regulation by Tetherin and Characterization in HIV Infection

Emily Webe - Microbiology and Immunology

 Feb 02, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: A New Pharmacological Avenue towards the Functional Cure of HIV-1

Maxime Jean - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 26, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: The Effect of PF4 on T cell Differentiation

Daphne Pariser - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 26, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Macrophages as effectors of immunotherapy

Rusty Elliott, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Jan 20, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Measuring Memory to Bordetella pertussis

Megan Dunagan - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 19, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar

John Frelinger, Ph.D. - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 13, 2017 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Persistent Changes in the Small Intestine Microenvironment as a Result of Acute Gastrointestinal Infection

Alessandra Araujo - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 12, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: The Role of DacB1 in Mycobacterial Cell Wall Assembly

David Barnard - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 12, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Interplay of airway epithelial cytokine secretion and barrier integrity mediated in part via protein kinase D signaling pathway

Janelle Veazey, Tim Chapman, Tim Smyth, Sara Hillman, and Steve Georas, M.D. - Microbiology and Immunology

 Jan 05, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: The Autotaxin/LPA axis: new players in lung immune responses?

Steve Georas, M.D. - Professor, Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology

 Dec 16, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Triggering the aryl hydrocarbon receptor during development durably programs CD4+ T cell responses

Catherine Burke - Microbiology and Immunology Student

 Dec 15, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators (SPMs) as Potential Therapeutics for Asthma by Regulating Human B-cell Antibody Production

Nina Kim - Microbiology and Immunology Student

 Dec 14, 2016 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Richard Phipps

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Developing a model in Xenopus to investigate the roles of MHC-like-restricted innate T cells in macrophage-mediated anti-Mycobacterium marinum response

Jules Rhoo (Park) - Microbiology and Immunology Student

 Dec 08, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Jacques Robert

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar : T cell dynamics at sites of inflammation

Deborah Fowell, PhD - Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Dec 02, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

CFAR World AIDS Day Scientific Symposium and Poster Session:

Guido Silvestri, MD, B. Matija Peterlin, MD, Paul A. Wender, PhD - Emory, UCSF, Stanford

 Dec 01, 2016 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of ‘62 Auditorium (Keynote Presentations) Flaum Atrium (Poster Session

TBD

Jun Wang, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University at Albany

 Nov 28, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Minsoo Kim

Targeting microbiome and vitamin D receptor in inflammation and infection

Jun Sun, PhD, AGAF - Associate Professor Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

 Nov 21, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Michelle Dziejman

RIPS/NYICE Seminar Series: Sex differences in influenza pathogenesis and vaccination

Dr. Sabra Klein - Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

 Nov 18, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | Room 3.9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Effects of antiretroviral drugs and cigarette smoke on human platelet function

Shannon Loelius - Student, URMC

 Nov 17, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Richard Phipps

Endogenous antimicrobials in the female reproductive tract and their role in modulating HIV infection (Co-Sponsored by the Center for AIDS Research & HIV Training Grant)

Mimi Ghosh, Ph.D., M.S. - Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health and Health Services The George Washington University

 Nov 14, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: James Kobie

First Annual MBI Alumni Seminar: Adaptation of influenza virus polymerase to the divergent host protein ANP32A

Steven Baker, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Nov 10, 2016 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

TBD

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D. - Ann Scott Carrell Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Director, VANTAGE

 Nov 07, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Stephen Dewhurst

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: NO• Diggity: nor, a nitric oxide reductase, plays a role in mouse organ seeding and invasion

Lacey Favazzo - Microbiology and Immunology Student

 Nov 03, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Steven Gill

An evolving RNA war between a small RNA¬-based immune system and endogenous retroviruses during chicken domestication

Xin Li, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of Rochester

 Oct 31, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Jian Zhu

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: Deep analysis of T cell responses in pregnancy and atopic dermatitis

Tim Mosmann, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology & Director, DHSCVBI

 Oct 28, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Using functional genomics to reveal new targets for antiviral therapeutics

Sara Cherry, PhD - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 Oct 24, 2016 @ 1:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | CEL 2-7536

Heritable symbionts affect the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions

John Jaenike, Ph.D. - Professor of Biology University of Rochester

 Oct 24, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Michelle Dziejman

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar: HMGB1 as a rational therapeutic target in MLL-rearranged acute leukemia

Jessica Shand, M.D., M.H.S. - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology

 Oct 21, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Role of Influenza PA-X and NS1 Proteins in Mediating Host Shutoff

Chutikarn Chaimayo - Student, URMC

 Oct 20, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Toru Takimoto

CFAR World AIDS Day Scientific Symposium and Poster Session:

Guido Silvestri, MD, B. Matija Peterlin, MD, Paul A. Wender, PhD - Emory, UCSF, Stanford

 Oct 18, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Gloria Pryhuber

Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Rare Diseases: Big Insights into Lung Development (CO-SPONSORED BY PEDS/PATHOLOGY)

Dr. Gail Deutsch - Associate Professor, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington

 Oct 18, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Gloria Pryhuber

Learning Immunology from Parasites

Alan Sher, Ph.D. - Chief, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH

 Oct 17, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Tim Mosmann & Felix Yarovinsky

RIPS – MBI 580 Research in Progress (RIPS) Seminar : Resolution of neutrophil response during infection

Minsoo Kim, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology

 Oct 14, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Microbiology & Immunology Ph.D. Thesis Seminar: Coordinated Regulation of Virulence, Motility, Biofilm and Stress Response Phenotypes in Type Three Secretion System Positive Vibrio cholerae

Madeline Kelley Sofia - URMC

 Oct 13, 2016 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Dr. Michelle Dziejman

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Critical Role of Cellular Cholesterol in Respiratory Virus Production

Shringkhala Bajimaya - Student, URMC

 Oct 13, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Toru Takimoto

Systems approaches highlight the many facets of interferons in infections and in vaccine mediated protection

Rafick Sékaly, Ph.D.

 Oct 10, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (Room 3-7619)

Host: Sanjay Maggirwar and Harris Gelbard

Host molecular and immunological drivers of disease severity

Juliet Morrison - Columbia University

 Oct 07, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

Host: NYICE & RPRC

Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar: Chemokine Independent T cell Migration

Brandon Walling - URMC

 Oct 06, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Minsoo Kim

Targeting Moraxella catarrhalis for Prevention and Treatment of Otitis Media

Anthony A. Campagnari, Ph.D. - University at Buffalo

 Oct 03, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619

Host: Steve Gill, PhD

Vaccines for H3N2v

John Treanor, M.D. - Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

 Sep 30, 2016 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624 KMRB

Characterization of the VapBC toxin-antitoxin systems from NTHi

Lauren Rice - URMC

 Sep 29, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K 307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Scott Butler

Reprogramming Technology to Build "The Team" for Cancer Immunotherapy

Fumito Ito, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Oncology Department of Surgical Oncology - Center for Immunotherapy Roswell Park Cancer Institute

 Sep 26, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | WHIPPLE Auditorium (Room 2-6424)

Host: Jacques Robert, PhD

Reversing HIV Latency: an Empirical Approach

Vicente Planelles, Ph.D. - Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine , Division of Microbiology and Immunology Department of Pathology

 Apr 11, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

The Influence of CD4 T Cell Specificity on Differentiation of the Repertoire and Shaping the Adaptive Immune Response to Influenza Infection

Zackery Abram George Knowlden

 Apr 07, 2016 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6425 (Whipple Auditorium)

Recent Advances in Ranaviral Phylodynamics

Thomas B. Waltzek, MS, DVM, PhD - Assistant Professor Infectious Diseases and Pathology University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine Co-Director, Aquatic Animal Health Program

 Apr 04, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S Wing Auditorium)

The Role of PlsX in Fatty Acid Synthesis and Acid Adaptation in Streptococcus mutans

Benjamin W. Cross

 Apr 04, 2016 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Transcriptional networks that regulate development of Tregs & Th17 cells

Vijay Kuchroo, Ph.D. - Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology

 Mar 28, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Immunometabolism and Staphylococcus aureus Infections

Anthony Richardson, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

 Mar 14, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Anti-viral protection by memory CD8 T-cells

Luis Sigal, D.V.M.,Ph.D. - Professor, Thomas Jefferson University Department of Microbiology and Immunology

 Mar 07, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Increasing the safety of the Live Attenuated Influenza Virus Vaccine

Andrew Cox - PhD Candidate

 Mar 03, 2016 @ 3:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

Antibiotic discovery with genome-scale models

Paul Jenson, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor University of Illinois

 Feb 29, 2016 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

The evolution of the intrinsic cellular response to virus infection

Benjamin tenOever, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital

 Oct 12, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Luis Martinez-Sobrido

Life inside the box: consequences of in vitro-to-in vivo disconnects and the opportunity for non-traditional antibacterial screening

Andrew Tomaras, Ph.D. - Vice President and Director of Microbiology at BacterioScan

 Oct 05, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Paul Dunman

An Unexpected Population of B Cells

Philippa Marrack, PhD, FRS - Professor in the Department of Immunology & Microbiology and the Depts. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Medicine, Univ. of Colorado Medical School

 Oct 02, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Edith Lord

Tracking the Elusive Antigens in Type I Diabetes

John W. Kappler, PhD - Distinguished Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology University of Colorado Medical School

 Oct 02, 2015 @ 8:30 a.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

Host: Edith Lord

Synthetic intestinal systems for studying bacterial interactions with epithelia

John March, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering Cornell University

 Sep 28, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S Wing Auditorium)

Host: Michelle Dziejman, Ph.D.

TBA

Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D. - Director, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine

 May 18, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium

Host: Steve Gill

Regulating the intersection of metabolism and pathogenesis in Staphylococcus aureus

Greg Somerville, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Lincoln

 May 07, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Catlyn Blanchard

Comparative Human Retrovirus Pathogenesis

Lee Ratner, M.D., Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Medicine- Oncology Division, Medical Oncology Section - Molecular Oncology Section, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

 May 04, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S Wing Auditorium)

Host: Jian Zhu

Hare Lecture

Thomas Geisbert, Ph.D. - Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

 Apr 27, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Andrew Cox

Physiology and Environment Influence Infection Outcomes in Drosophila

Brian Lazzaro, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University

 Apr 20, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Alexandra Livingstone

Molecular explanations for the toxicity of oxygen

James A. Imlay, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbiology, Romano Scholar, Associate Director - MCB Graduate Program , School of Molecular & Cellular Biology,University of Illinois

 Mar 02, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Robert Quivey

Mechanisms Underlying HIV-1 Restriction in Myeloid Cells

Li Wu, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences Ohio State University

 Feb 23, 2015 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | G-9425 Class of '62 Auditorium

Host: Jian Zhu

Explant culture systems: useful tools to study herpesvirus pathogenesis

Gerlinde Van de Walle, DVM, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Viral Pathogenesis Baker Institute for Animal Health Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine

 Dec 15, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)

Host: Brian Ward

The battle for metal between bacterial pathogens and their vertebrate hosts

Eric P. Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Ernest W. Goodpasture Associate Professor, Director - Host-Pathogen Interactions Division, Dept of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 Dec 08, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Paul Dunman

TBA

TBA

 Dec 01, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Modulation of CXCR3-cognate chemokine production in the tumor microenvironment: Restoring T cell infiltration to enhance immune-mediated control of metastatic melanoma.

David W. Mullins, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University

 Nov 24, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Rusty Elliott

The Molecular Tool-Kit of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. - Professor of Immunology and Microbial Science, Scripps Research Institute, California Campus

 Nov 19, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Joshua Munger & Luis Martinez-Sobrido

Bad Bugs & Old Drugs: Optimizing Polymyxin Combinations

Brian Tsuji, PharmD. - Associate Professor Department of Pharmacy Practice School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Buffalo

 Nov 17, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | G-9425 Class of '62 Auditorium

Host: Steve Gill

Glial derived microparticles communicate CNS damage to the peripheral immune system

Norman Haughey, Ph.D. - Director, JHU NIMH Surrogate Markers Core, Associate Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University

 Nov 10, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Sanjay Maggirwar

Alpha (v) Integrins and Innate Immune Mechanisms of Tolerance

Adam Lacy-Hulbert, Ph.D. - Associate Member, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason

 Nov 03, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Deborah Fowell

Regulation of neutrophil recruitment to inflammatory sites by NLRP12

Fayyaz Sutterwala, M.D., Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Iowa Inflammation Program, University of Iowa

 Oct 27, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Damian Krysan

Cellular Mechanisms that Regulate HIV Latency

Andrew J. Henderson, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease, Boston University Schoof of Medicine

 Oct 20, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619( Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Jian Zhu

Uncovering the link between oncogenic pathways and tumor immune suppression

Mary Jo Turk, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Norrie-Cotton Cancer Center Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth University

 Oct 13, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | G-9425 (Class of '62 Auditorium)

Host: Edith Lord

Imaging Inflammation in Zebrafish: Implications to Human Disease

Anna Huttenlocher, MD - Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Oct 06, 2014 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | 3-7619 (Upper S-Wing Auditorium)

Host: Dillon Schrock

Thesis Defense: Characterization of the Spx global regulator in Streptococcus mutans

Isamar Rivera Ramos - Ph.D. Candidate

 Sep 29, 2014 @ 2:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6424 (Whipple Auditorium)

Thesis Defense: Analysis of Cellular Signaling Within the Human Placenta: Implications for Vascular Development and Trophoblast Cell Function

Meghan Bushway - Graduate Student

 Aug 21, 2014 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

Antiretroviral drug distribution into the CNS and Management of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder

Scott Letendre, M.D., - Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, Antiviral Research Center

 Jun 19, 2014 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium 1-7619

Anti-Microbial Peptides and the Pro-Microbial Movement in Immunology

Richard Gallo, M.D., Ph.D. - Dermatology Division Chief, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego

 May 21, 2014 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 2-6408 (K-207)

Host: Brian Ward