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VopX: Novel Activities of a Vibrio cholerae Effector Protein

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

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

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Host: Microbiology and Immunology Student Seminar

MBI/CVBI Holiday Party!

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

Host: MBI and CVBI

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series - Special Alumni Series

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

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

Medical Center | Upper Auditorium (3-7619)

Host: Ruth Serra-Moreno, Ph.D.

MBI 501: Circadian control of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

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

Medical Center | K307 (3-6408)

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

Host: Amelia Knudsen-Clark

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

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

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

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

Catherine Pizzarello - PhD Candisate

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.

VopX: Novel Activities of a Vibrio cholerae Effector Protein

MBI/CVBI Holiday Party!

Microbiology and Immunology Department Seminar Series - Special Alumni Series

MBI 501: Circadian control of macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

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

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

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

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

Thesis Defense: Functional Analysis of Influenza Host Shutoff Proteins

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

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

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

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

Microbiology & Immunology Department Seminar: CD4 T Cells Sans Frontières

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

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

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

MBI 588 Virology Seminar Series

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

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

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

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

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

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

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

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