Seminars

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.

Host: Thomas Ciucci, Ph.D.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): TBD

Paige Lawrence - Environmental Medicine

Dec 11, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

MBI 501 Student Seminar: TBA

Alicia Healey - IMV PhD Candidate

Dec 10, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

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.

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.

Host: Paul Dunman, Ph.D.

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Dec 04, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

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.

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Dec 03, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Host: Ferralita Madere

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Nov 06, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Nov 05, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

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

Yuhang Shi - IMV PhD Candidate

Nov 05, 2020 @ 12:00 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Host: M. Dziejman

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Oct 16, 2020 @ 3:00 p.m.

Research in Progress Seminars in Immunology (RIPS): TBD

Anthony Pietropaoli - Medicine/Critical Care

Oct 16, 2020 @ 8:30 a.m.

Prospective Student Informational QA Session

BIO Undergraduate Peer Advisors

Oct 15, 2020 @ 5:00 p.m.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.