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MBI 501 Student Seminar: "BST2-mediated restriction of SARS-CoV-2 virion release and antibody-dependent cellular responses"

Haley Aull - Graduate Student, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Dec 05, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

Mechanisms of Enhanced Growth of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza A Virus through PA Mutations - Thesis Defense

Jordana Schmierer - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Nov 19, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Event

Host: Advisor: Toru Takimoto, PhD

MBI Seminar Series - Antibody-Mediated Protection against Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses

David T. Evans, PhD - Professor, WNPRC Associate Director of Research Services Pathology and Lab Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Nov 18, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

Beyond blocking virus entry: SERINC5 Impairs the Expression of Non-Self-DNA - MBI Student Seminar

Shahad Ahmed - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Nov 13, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Ruth Serra-Moreno, PhD

Small Molecule Adjuvants that Overcome Antibiotic Resistance - MBI Seminar Series

Christian Melander, PhD - George & Winifred Clark Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

 Nov 11, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Paul Dunman, PhD

Combinatorial action of TGFβ and IL-10 induces monocyte and MoDC dysfunction in people living with HIV - MBI Student Seminar

Karli Sutton - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Nov 07, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Meera Singh, PhD

Uncovering the rules for cross-species virus transmission - MBI Seminar Series

Ryan A. Langlois, PhD - Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota

 Nov 04, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Andrew Varble, PhD

MBI Seminar Series: Defective Virus Genomes: Unraveling Their Roles in Viral Evolution and Therapeutic Potential

John Yin, PhD - Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

 Oct 28, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Yan Sun, PhD

MBI Faculty Candidate Seminar: Innate immune control of pathogen physiology

Ajay Akhade, PhD - Senior Research Associate, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

 Oct 24, 2024 @ 2:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Hybrid Event

MBI 501 Student Seminar: Investigating the role and therapeutic potential of the Aryl hydrocarbon receptor in thyroid eye disease

Charkira Patrick - PhD Candidate, IMV PhD Program

 Oct 24, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisors: Collynn Woeller, PhD & Jacques Robert, PhD

MBI 501: The role of polyamines on macrophage function and Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis in obesity and type 2 diabetes related osteomyelitis infections

Emily Britt - Graduate Student

 Oct 17, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Steve Gill, PhD

MBI Special Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Macrophages dictate carbon utilization by Salmonella"

Nicholas Pokorzynski, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine

 Oct 14, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

MBI 501: The Interplay Between Type I Interferons and the Gut Microbiome in the Response to Rectal Cancer Radiotherapy

Maggie Lesch - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology, and Virology Ph.D. Program

 Oct 10, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Scott Gerber, PhD

MBI Special Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Bacterial Gene Regulation by Noncoding RNA"

Kumari “Kavita” Thakur, PhD - Associate Research Scientist, Division of Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology, Yale University

 Oct 10, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

MBI Seminar Series: Key Pathways in Immunosurveillance of Cancer

Robert J. Binder, PhD - Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh

 Oct 07, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Jacques Robert, PhD

MBI 501 - "Understanding the development and retention of tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells (TRM) in the lungs"

Taylor Jones - Graduate Student

 Oct 03, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: David Topham, PhD

MBI Special Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Toxic antiphage defense proteins inhibited by intragenic antitoxin proteins"

Aoshu Zhong, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Bethesda, MD

 Sep 30, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Hybrid Event

MBI 501 Student Seminar: "The Spleen: A Dynamic Archive of Past B Cell Responses"

Molly Niska - Graduate Student

 Sep 26, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisors: Martin Zand, MD, PhD and Tim Mosmann, PhD

MBI Special Faculty Candidate: Probing life with photons: How optical imaging uncovers the cellular machineries of biological systems

Pu-Ting Dong, PhD - NIH/NIDCR K99 Postdoctoral Fellow, The ADA Forsyth Institute, Harvard University Cambridge, MA

 Sep 23, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Hybrid Event

MBI 501 - "Investigating the impact of platelet-monocyte interactions on HIV-associated vascular disease"

Zachary Boodoo - Graduate Student

 Sep 19, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisors: Meera Singh, PhD and Juilee Thakar, PhD

MBI 501 - "Determining genetic features that influence conjugation efficiency"

Yuchang Liu - Graduate Student

 Sep 12, 2024 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Allison Lopatkin, PhD

MBI 501: "Innate sensing of Toxoplasma gondii"

Chenghao Wang - Graduate Student

 Sep 12, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Felix Yarovinsky, MD

MBI Albert L. Ritterson Lecture - "CD8 T cell subset response during chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection"

Imtiaz A. Khan, PhD - Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences

 Sep 09, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Aud. (3-7619)

Host: Felix Yarovinsky

Functional analysis of mouse gut microbiota taxon required for polyamine biosynthesis - MBI 501 Student Seminar

Lauren Paddock - Graduate Student

 Sep 05, 2024 @ 12:30 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Steven Gill, PhD

Identifying host receptors for poxviruses - MBI 501 Student Seminar

Thomas Wilson - Graduate Student

 Sep 05, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

Host: Advisor: Brian Ward, PhD

MBI 501: "Evaluating the role of cellular senescence in lupus nephritis and impact of SGLT2 inhibitors"

Jennifer Nicholson - Graduate Student

 Aug 29, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)

Host: Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar
Advisor: Jennifer Anolik, MD, PhD

Acidic pH Alters Circadian Rhythms in Macrophages

Amelia M. Knudsen-Clark, MS - PhD Candidate

 Aug 26, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Event

Host: Advisors: Brian J. Altman, PhD and Minsoo Kim, PhD

Departmental Retreat: Microbiology and Immunology

 Aug 23, 2024 @ 8:00 a.m.

 Helen Wood Hall | Aud 304

Targeted Radiation and IL-12 Immunotherapy Stimulate a Systemic Immune Response to Protect Against Pancreatic Tumor Recurrence - Thesis Seminar

Tara Vrooman - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology and Virology PhD Program

 Jul 30, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Event

Host: Advisor: Scott Gerber, PhD

Dynamic CRISPR-Cas9 regulation enhances phage defense while minimizing autoimmunity

Joshua W. Modell, PhD - Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 Jun 10, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Dept. Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series and Andrew Varble, PhD

Human coronavirus NL63 nsp1 induces degradation of RNA polymerase II to shut off host protein synthesis - Thesis Defense

Kala Hardy, MS - PhD Candidate, Immunology, Microbiology and Virology PhD Program

 Jun 10, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)

Hybrid Event

Host: Advisor: Toru Takimoto, PhD

Immune checkpoint blockade therapy for breast cancer: Lessons from epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity

Anushka Dongre, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Cornell University

 Jun 03, 2024 @ 12:00 p.m.

 Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series and Scott Gerber, PhD

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Differential antiviral SARS-CoV-2 memory CD4 T cell responses in pre- and post-pandemic children and adults.”

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

 Apr 26, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
“Macrophage Adaptation to Microbial Infections”

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

 Apr 19, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

MBI 580: Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS)
"HIV immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in Uganda"

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

 Apr 12, 2024 @ 9:00 a.m.

 Kornberg Medical Research Building | 3-9624

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

Shawn Murphy, PhD - Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Microbiology & Immunology

 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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