Seminars
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
ZoomMBI 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
Zoom LinkMBI 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
Zoom LinkMBI 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
ZoomThe 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: 268575Host: 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 888426MBI 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)
FlyerHost: 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: 888426MBI 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 888426Special 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 532816MBI 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 LinkMBI 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
ZoomCANCELLED 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
Zoom LinkResearch 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
Zoom LinkMicrobiology 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 ONLYHost: 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
ZoomMBI 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
ZoomMBI 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
ZoomMBI 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 KMRBMBI 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 EventMBI 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)