Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology Seminar Series

The Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology and the Immunology Training Program hold a weekly Seminar Series on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in X222 unless otherwise noted. While in person attendance is preferred, all seminars will be livestreamed via Zoom, and email reminders containing the Zoom link will be sent prior to each seminar. Please email kfurness@bu.edu if you want to be added to the email listserv.

Click here for previous seminars.


Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Jan 15	Benjamin Winer, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering	Plasma Membrane Abundance as a Biophysical Regulator of Myeloid cell Migration, Phagocytosis, and its role in Demyelination	Andy Henderson
Jan 22	Taru Dutt, PhD Colorado State University	Unveiling the Mechanism of Ectopic Germinal Center Formation in the Tuberculosis Lungs: Implications for Immune Therapies and Vaccine Strategies	Andy Henderson
Jan 29	Elizabeth Draganova, PhD Emory University	Assembly and Inhibition of Herpesvirus Protein Machines	Andy Henderson
Feb 5	Jonathan Kagan, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital	Regulation of Innate Immunity	Florian Douam
Thu, Feb 6	Hannah Brown Harding, PhD Mass General Hospital/Harvard	Fungal Pathogens Rewire Innate Immunity	Andy Henderson
Feb 12	Nikolai Slavov, PhD Northeastern University	From Single-cell Proteomics to Molecular Mechanisms	Adam Hume
Feb 19	No Seminar
Feb 26	Nathan Sherer, PhD University of Wisconsin		Hisashi Akiyama
Thu, Feb 27	Fumiaki Ito, PhD Univ. of California, Los Angeles	Visualizing Virus-host Molecular Arms Race with Cryo-EM	Andy Henderson
Mar 5	TBA
Mar 12	Jason Nomburg, PhD Gladstone Institutes, UCSF	Structure-guided Discovery in the Viral Proteome	Andy Henderson
Mar 19	TBA
Mar 26	TBA
Apr 2	Juan Fuxman Bass, PhD Boston University		Rachel Fearns
Apr 9	Tuan Leng Tay, DSc Boston University		Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 16	TBA
Apr 23	No Seminar
Apr 30	TBA