Previous Seminars

Fall 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Sept 27 Kathryn Hanley, PhD
New Mexico State Univ.
The Tortoise or the Hare? Within-Host Dynamics and Between-Host Transmission of Sylvatic Dengue, Zika and Yellow Fever Viruses NEIDL Anthony Griffith
Oct 4 Christopher Rice, PhD
Purdue University
Awareness, Drug Discovery and Diagnostic Tools against Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae NEIDL Robert Davey
Oct 11 No Seminar
Oct 18 No Seminar
Oct 25 No Seminar
Nov 1 Christelle Harly, PhD
Nantes Université
Transcriptional Control of Innate Lymphoid Cell Development NEIDL Florian Douam
Nov 8 Student Invited Speaker
Shiv Pillai, PhD, MBBS
Mass General Hospital
Infection, T-B Collaboration, Memory and Disease ITP Christina Ennis
Nov 15 TBA
Nov 22 No Seminar
Nov 29 Student Invited Speaker
Courtney Woolsey, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Rapid-Acting and Durable Vaccines Against Priority Pathogens NEIDL Jacquelyn Turcinovic
Dec 6 Molly Ohainle, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
HIV-CRISPR Screens Identify Intracellular Barriers to HIV Infection VIM Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 13 Matthew Gagne, PhD
Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
Mucosal Delivery of Vaccines and Therapeutic Agents for Enhanced Protection against COVID-19 NEIDL
& VIM
Andy Henderson
Spring 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 18 Brad Jones, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Silence and Resistance in HIV Reservoir Persistence NEIDL Florian Douam
Jan 25 Adam Lauring, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
How Host-level Processes Drive and Constrain the Evolution of New Viral Variants MICRO Manish Sagar
Feb 1 Meg Younger, PhD
Boston University
Non-Canonical Olfaction in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes NEIDL Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer
Feb 8 No Seminar
Feb 15 No Seminar
Feb 22 No Seminar
Mar 1 Avinash Bhandoola, PhD
NIH
Transcriptional Control of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cell Development NEIDL Florian Douam
Mar 8 TBA
Mar 15 Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University
CMV and Cardiometabolic Disease in Persons Living with HIV MICRO Jennifer Snyder-Cappione
Mar 22 Liang Shan, PhD
Washington University
The CARD8 Inflammasome in HIV Pathogenesis and Viral Persistence MICRO Rahm Gummuluru and Andrew Henderson
Mar 29 John Misasi, PhD
NIAID, NIH
Immune Recognition of Key Steps in Ebola Virus Entry NEIDL Nancy Sullivan
Apr 5 Sukanya Narasimhan, PhD
Yale School of Medicine
Blocking Tick Transmission of Pathogens: A Relentless Pursuit NEIDL Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer
Apr 12 STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Stephanie Seifert, PhD
Washington State University
Identifying Cryptic Animal Reservoirs for high Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens MICRO Ellen Suder
Apr 19 Nicole Kilian, PhD
Heidelberg University
Malaria, Maurer’s clefts and Mummies NEIDL Catherine Costello and
Elke Mühlberger
Apr 26 Viviana Simon, MD, PhD
Mt Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine
Sleep No More – Determinants of HIV Persistence MICRO Rahm Gummuluru and Andrew Henderson
May 3 S. Rameeza Allie, PhD
Pennsylvania State University
Resident Memory B Cells in the Frontline of Respiratory Immunity ITP Jeffrey Browning
May 10 Michelle Teplensky, PhD
Boston University
Harnessing Nanomaterial Architecture to Program the Immune System NEIDL John Connor
Tuesday,
June 13
Harry Taylor, PhD
SUNY Upstate

Starve the Beast and Tame the Flame: Harnessing HIV and Inflammation by Targeting Immunometabolism

VIM Rahm Gummuluru
June 14 Laith N. AL-Eitan, MSc, PhD
Jordan University of Science and Technology

The Middle East Falling Behind on Biosafety, Biosecurity and One Health Measures​

NEIDL Davidson Hamer
June 21 Filiz Kormaz, PhD
UMass Medical Center

LOX-1-Dependent Regulation of Immunity and Metabolism in the Pneumonic Lung

VIM Rahm Gummuluru
July 19 Partha Biswas, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Comorbidities: New Challenges in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases VIM Rahm Gummuluru
Aug 16 Priyadharshini Devarajan, PhD
UMass Medical Center
Lessons from Influenza: Late Infection-Signals and Local Antigen Drive Development of TFH Effector, Cytotoxic CD4 Effectors and CD4 Memory for Durable Immunity VIM Rahm Gummuluru
FALL 2022 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date
Speaker Title Program Host
Oct 5 Jennifer Gommerman, PhD
University of Toronto
Fantastic IgA plasma cells and where to find them ITP Jeff Browning
Oct 12 Lijun Rong, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Small molecule entry inhibitors of emerging viruses, mechanisms and therapeutics NEIDL Rob Davey
Oct 19 No Seminar
Oct 26 No Seminar
Nov 2 Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Biological parallels of the HIV and SARS CoV2 pandemics: Discovering vulnerabilities for intervention MICRO Jen Cappione
Nov 9 Mohsan Saeed, PhD
BUSM
*Virtual Presentation*
Deciphering the determinants of Omicron pathogenicity MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
SPRING 2022
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 19 Shailabh Kumar, PhD
Stanford University
*Virtual Presentation*
Nanointerfaces for molecules to mosquitoes: Mapping vector-pathogen dynamics at the planetary scale BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Jan 26 Faith Osier, PhD
Imperial College London
*Virtual Presentation*
Fc-dependent IgG parasite clearance as a guide for vaccine development against
P. falciparum malaria
MICRO Josiane Fofana
Tue,
Feb 1
9 AM
Adriana Tomic, PhD
University of Oxford, UK
*Virtual Presentation*
SIMON says: Revealing immunity to influenza using systems immunology BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Tue,
Feb 8
9 AM
Yvon L. Woappi, PhD
Harvard Medical School
*Virtual Presentation*
Learning how to regenerate tissue from DNA viruses BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Feb 9 Connie Chang, PhD
Montana State University
*Virtual Presentation*
Single cell infection studies of influenza virus using droplet microfluidics BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Feb 16 Oliver Fregoso, PhD
University of California
Los Angeles
*Virtual Presentation*
Understanding the host DNA damage response in HIV replication and cure MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Thu,
Feb 17
9 AM
Abraam Yakoub, PhD
University of North Dakota
*Virtual Presentation*
Virus and virus engineering in disease pathogenesis and therapy BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Feb 23 Jeffrey Grabowski, PhD
NIH/NIAID
*Virtual Presentation*
Virus interactions with ticks: Tick cultures and translation towards countermeasure development BME/
NEIDL
John Connor
Mar 2 No Seminar
Mar 9 No Seminar
Mar 16 Helen Lazear, PhD
University of North Carolina
Vector-independent transmission of Zika virus and other flaviviruses NEIDL Florian Douam
Mar 23 ITP Student Invited Speaker
Gordon Freeman, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Center
Cancer Immunotherapy: PD-1 and new targets ITP Megan Snyder
Mar 30 Claudia Jakubzick, PhD
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Natural antibodies are the keys that start the engine to T cell-mediated antitumor immunity… and pulmonary macrophages ITP Jay Mizgerd
Apr 6
**NEIDL 1st Floor Conf. Room**
Alexander Ploss, PhD
Princeton University
Looking under the hood of a killer virus: New insights into the molecular biology of hepatitis B virus NEIDL Florian Douam
Apr 13 Jie Sun, PhD
University of Virginia
Respiratory viral infection: From acute morbidity to chronic sequelae ITP Jay Mizgerd
Apr 20 Margaret Scull, PhD
University of Maryland
Mucin-mediated Defense Against Influenza Virus Infection NEIDL Mohsan Saeed
Apr 27 Microbiology
Student Invited Speaker
Emmie de Wit, PhD
NIAID, NIH
A rapid response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: Making past experiences count MICRO Callie Donahue
Thu.
May 26,
12.30 pm
Tijana Ivanovic, PhD
Brandeis University
Function of Shape in Biological Organization: A Case Study on Viral Adaptation MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Aug 17 Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Enhancing Immunity after Viral Infection and Vaccination MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
FALL 2021
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Oct 20 David Martinez, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*Virtual Presentation*
“Immunologic Approaches to Preventing and Treating Sarbecovirus Infections” MICRO Lee Wetzler
Oct 27 TBA
Nov 3 Craig Cameron, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*Virtual Presentation*
“Antiviral Therapy: Towards the Personal and the Precise” MICRO Andy Henderson
Nov 10 Sebla Kutluay, PhD
Washington Univeristy
“The Unexpected Role of HIV-1 Integrase in Particle Maturation” MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Nov 17 Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
“What’s in a Niche? Type 2 ‘Allergic’ Lymphocyte Topography meets Function” MICRO Jeff Browning
Nov 24 No Seminar
Dec 1 Shawn Lyons, PhD
BUSM
“The RNA Biology of Stress Response” MICRO Rachel Fearns
Dec 8 Mike Kagey, PhD
Leap Therapeutics
“Targeting DKK1 in Oncology” MICRO Jen Cappione
Spring 2021
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Feb 3 Samantha Bell, PhD.
Texas A&M
“Cytosolic Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activates Potent Immune Responses” MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 10 Kiera Clayton, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute
“Macrophages: Hide outs for HIV and drivers of inflammation” MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 17 Parisa Kalantari, Ph.D.
Tufts University
“Molecular Pathways Restraining Immunopathology in Schistosomiasis” MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 24 Robert Abbott, Ph.D.
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
“To B or not to B? The Story of B Cell Precursors and Complex Vaccine Antigens” MICRO Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 3 No Seminar      
Mar 10 No Seminar      
Mar 17 Wilton Williams, Ph.D.
Duke University
“Fab-dimerized Glycan-reactive Antibodies are a Novel Structural Category of Natural Antibodies” ITP Thomas Kepler
Mar 24 No Seminar      
Mar 31 No Seminar      
Apr 7 STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Michaela Gack, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic
“Innate Immune Regulatory Circuits and Antagonism by SARS-CoV-2” MICRO/ITP Michael Breen
Apr 14 Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medical Center
“Rational Design of a Vaccine to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus: We are Halfway There” ITP Thomas Kepler
Fall 2020
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Oct 7 Britt Glaunsinger, Ph.D.
University of California,
Berkeley
“Controlling the Message: Viral Restriction of Host Gene Expression” NEIDL Tonya Colpitts
Oct 14 Bert Semler, Ph.D.
University of California,
Irvine
“Exploitation of Nuclear Functions by Cytoplasmic RNA Viruses” NEIDL Mohsan Saeed
Oct 21 Jason McLellan, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin
“Structure-Function Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Development of COVID-19 Interventions” NEIDL Rachel Fearns 
Oct 28 Joseph Zaia, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Quantifying Changes in Spike Protein Glycosylation during Viral Evolution” NEIDL Ron Corley
Nov 4 No Seminar      
Nov 11 No Seminar      
Nov 18 Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
“Taking Antigen Presentation to the Bazar!”
Micro./
Immunol.
Andy Henderson
Nov 25  No Seminar      
Dec 2  No Seminar      
Dec 9  No Seminar      
SPRING 2020 
Date
Location
Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 22
NEIDL
Alejandro Balazs, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute/MGH
Escapability of HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies is the Major Driver of Therapeutic Efficacy NEIDL Florian Douam
Jan 29
670 Alb
Facundo Batista, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute/MGH
Informing Vaccine by Defining the Rules of Antibody Responses Microbiology Lee Wetzler

Feb 5
NEIDL
**C A N C E L E D**
Carolyn Coyne, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh

Antiviral Signaling at the Maternal-Fetal Interface

NEIDL

Mohsan Saeed
Feb 12
NEIDL
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Impact of Obesity on Influenza: From Disease Severity to Vaccine Efficacy NEIDL Anthony Griffiths
Feb 19 No Seminar
Feb 26
NEIDL
Ann Palmenberg, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rhinovirus C Isn’t the Common Cold NEIDL Mohsan Saeed
Mar 4
NEIDL
Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D.
Yale University
RNA Agonists for Activating RIG-I Antitumor and Antiviral Responses NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
Mar 11
670 Alb
**C A N C E L E D**
Barbara Rehermann, M.D.
NIDDK, NIH
Natural Versus Laboratory World: Wild Mouse Microbiota Improve Host Fitness and Preclinical Models Microbiology Jay Mizgerd
Mar 18
670 Alb
**C A N C E L E D**
Daniel Stetson, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Regulation of Intracellular DNA Sensing Immunology Hans Dooms
Mar 25
670 Alb
**C A N C E L E D**
Jason McLellan, Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin
Structure-based Development of Interventions for Pneumoviruses and Coronaviruses Microbiology Rachel Fearns
Apr 1
NEIDL
**C A N C E L E D**
Derek Walsh, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Why Nuclei Rotate During Cytomegalovirus Infection NEIDL Anthony Griffiths
Apr 8
670 Alb
**C A N C E L E D**
Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University
Immunology Thomas Kepler
Apr 15
NEIDL
**C A N C E L E D**
Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.
Princeton University
The Long and Winding Road Toward Breaking the Barriers of Interspecies Transmission of Human Viral Pathogens NEIDL Florian Douam
Apr 22 No Seminar
Apr 29
670 Alb
**C A N C E L E D**
STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Jennifer Lund, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Microbiology Kimberly Barker
FALL 2019 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Sept 25 Juan de la Torre, Ph.D.
Scripps Research Institute
Bridging Basic and Translational Research to Combat Human Pathogenic Mammarenaviruses NEIDL Rob Davey
Oct 2 Alexander Bukreyev, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch
Subversion of cell-mediated responses by Ebola virus NEIDL Ron Corley
Oct 9 Tijana Ivanovic, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion NEIDL Rachel Fearns
Oct 16 Eric Calvo, Ph.D.
NIH/NIAID
Mosquito salivary proteins as modulators of vertebrate vascular biology and pathogen transmission NEIDL Tonya Colpitts
Oct 23 No Seminar
Oct 30 No Seminar
Nov 6 Jayne Danska, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease: Gene-Environment Interactions and the Gut Microbiome MICRO Jeff Browning
Nov 13 TBA
Nov 20 Catherine Adamson, Ph.D.
University of St Andrews
Exploring Viral Interferon Antagonists as Novel Antiviral Targets MICRO Rachel Fearns
Nov 27 No Seminar
Dec 4 Stefan Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Infection and Immunity: At the Bench, Computer and Bedside NEIDL Igor Kramnik
Dec 11 Nancy Sullivan, Ph.D.
NIH Vaccine Research Center
Harnessing Immunity Against Ebola Virus NEIDL Anthony Griffiths
Spring 2019 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date
Location
Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 23 Christopher Basler, Ph.D.
Georgia State University
New Insights into Host Interactions with Ebola virus VP30 and VP35 NEIDL Ron Corley
Jan 30 Priti Kumar, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
Balancing Pathology and Protection in Flaviviral Infections of The CNS Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 6 No Seminar
Feb 13 No Seminar
Feb 20 Stephan Kissler, Ph.D.
Joslin Diabetes Center
Type 1 Diabetes: Genes, Environment, and More Genes Immunology Hans Dooms
Feb 27 Stefan Sarafianos, Ph.D.
Emory University
Targeting HIV and HBV with Novel Antivirals Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 6 Keith Jerome, M.D., Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Gene Therapy for Elimination of Persistent Viral Infections Microbiology Andy Henderson
Mar 13 Javier Irazoqui, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
The Novel Transcription Factor TFEB Integrates Metabolism, Innate Immunity, and Neural Signaling Immunology Lee Quinton
Mar 20 Matthias Götte, Ph.D.
University of Alberta
Active Site Inhibitors of Viral Polymerases: From HIV to Ebola NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
Mar 27 Paul Maglione, M.D., Ph.D.
Pulmonary Center, BUSM
Unraveling the Variable in Common Variable Immunodeficiency Immunology Jay Mizgerd
Apr 3 RESCHEDULED TO 
October 9, 2019
Tijana Ivanovic, Ph.D.

Brandeis University
Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion NEIDL Rachel Fearns
Apr 10 Ya-Chi Ho, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
Single-cell Transcriptional Landscape Reveals Aberrant HIV-1 Host Interactions upon Latency Reversal Microbiology Andy Henderson
Apr 17 No Seminar
Apr 24 STUDEDNT INVITED
Donna Farber, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Functional Regulation and Tissue Adaptation of Human T Cells Microbiology Kim Barker
May 1 Danielle Clark, Ph.D.
Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESCO)
The Host-Response to Severe Infection: Acute Disease and Long-Term Sequelae NEIDL Nahid Badelia
and
John Connor
FALL 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date
Location
Speaker Title Program Host
Sept 26
NEIDL
Douglas Brackney, Ph.D.
Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station
Navigating Anatomical Barriers to Transmission: An Arboviruses Tale NEIDL Tonya Colpitts
Oct 3
NEIDL
C A N C E L L E D
Slava Epstein, Ph.D.
Northeastern University
NEIDL Igor Kramnik
Oct 10
L311
Andrew Emili, Ph.D.
Boston University
Mind the Gap: Mapping the Interaction Interface Between the Proteome and Metabolome” Microbiology Ron Corley
Oct 17
L311
Hisashi Akiyama, Ph.D.
Boston University
School of Medicine
“HIV Infection and Innate Immune Responses in Myeloid Cells” Immunology Tom Kepler
Oct 24
NEIDL
William Bishai, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine
M. tuberculosis host Subversion: Dampening a DAMP” NEIDL Igor Kramnik
Oct 31
L311
Lei Jin, Ph.D., M.Sc.
University of Florida
“STING in Lung Innate and Adaptive Immunity” Immunology Jay Mizgerd
Nov 7
NEIDL
Peter Daszak, Ph.D.
EcoHealth Alliance
“Forecasting Pandemics and the Global Virome Project” NEIDL Jerry Keusch
Nov 14
L311
Irene Salinas, Ph.D.
Center for Evolutionary & Theoretical Immunology
“Olfactory Sensory Neurons Trigger Ultra-Fast Antiviral Immune Responses in Bony Fish” Immunology Tom Kepler
Friday, Nov 16
NEIDL
Wataru Kamitani, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases
Osaka Univeristy
“Viral RNA Recognition by Coronavirus nsp1” NEIDL Rob Davey
and
Jerry Keusch
Nov 21 No Seminar
Nov 28
NEIDL
Samuel Behar, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Tuberculosis: Recognizing the Problem” NEIDL Igor Kramnik
Dec 5
NEIDL
Mark Denison, M.D.
Vanderbilt
“Inducing Infidelity as an Antiviral Strategy for MERS and Emerging Coronaviruses” NEIDL Rachel Fearns
SPRING 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 17 Mary (Peggy) Crow, M.D.
Weil Cornell Medical College
Triggers of Systemic Autoimmune Disease: Do Virus-Like Elements Play a Role? Immunology Jeff Browning
Jan 24 No Seminar
Thursday,
Feb 1 @
11:00 AM
STUDENT INVITED
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute
Antibodies Against Ebola and Lassa – It took a Village Microbiology Tessa Cressey
Feb 7 Joseph Craft, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine
T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity Immunology Jeff Browning
Feb 14 Alan Rothman, Ph.D.
University of Rhode Island
Protective and Pathological Immune Mechanisms in Dengue NEIDL Tonya Colpitts
Feb 21 No Seminar
Feb 28 C A N C E L L E D
Pardis Sabeti, M.D., D. Phil.

Broad Institute
Mar 7
Location:
NEIDL
Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
The Secret Life of Measles Virus: Cytoplasm Transfer and RNA Recombination Microbiology Paul Duprex
Mar 14 RESCHEDULED TO MAY 2 DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
Mar 21 RESCHEDULED TO
JUNE 13, 2018
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Mar 28 Owen Pornillos, Ph.D.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Structural Biology of Retroviral Capsid Recognition and Restriction Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 4 Paul Spearman, M.D.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trafficking and Particle Assembly Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 11 No Seminar
Apr 18 No Seminar
Apr 25 Daniel Cifuentes, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
miR-144/451 Cluster: The Trojan Horse of Hematopoietic microRNAs NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
May 2 Catharine Bosio, Ph.D.
NIAID, NIH
Manipulation of Host Cell Metabolism as a Mechanism of Virulence for Francisella tularensis NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
May 9 Balaji Manicassamy, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Viral and Host Determinants of Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Pathogenesis NEIDL Ron Corley
May 16 Robert Stahelin, Ph.D.
Purdue University
College of Pharmacy
Lipid-Dependent Assembly and Budding of Filoviruses NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
May 23 C A N C E L L E D
Carl Ware, Ph.D.

Sanford Burnham Prebys
Medical Discovery Institute
Immunology Jeff Browning
May 30 Florian Douam, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Elucidating Immunological Mechanisms Regulating Flavivirus Infection in vivo NEIDL Ron Corley
June 13 Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Glycoprotein Team Burglary: Entry and Egress of the Deadly Zoonotic Henipaviruses Microbiology John Connor
FALL 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date
Location
Speaker Title Program Host
Sept 27
L504
Gregory Melikian, Ph.D.
Emory University
Mechanistic Studies of Virus Entry and Restriction by Host Membrane Proteins Microbiology Andy Henderson
Friday,
Sept 29
NEIDL
Mark Harris, Ph.D.
University of Leeds
The Hepatitis C Virus Protein: Function and Regulation NEIDL Paul Duprex
Oct 4
NEIDL
Jason Rock, PhD.
Boston University
Stem Cells and Lung Repair/ Regeneration NEIDL Ron Corley
Oct 11
Oct 18
NEIDL
Scott Weaver, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch
Vaccines for Emerging Urban Arboviruses: Chikungunya and Zika NEIDL Ron Corley
Oct 25
L504
Joseph Craft, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity Immunology Jeff Browning
Nov 1
NEIDL
James Whitney, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute
Therapeutic Development for Zika Virus Infection NEIDL Ron Corley
Nov 8
Nov 15
L504
Zandrea Ambrose, PhD.
University of Pittsburgh
Nevertheless it Persisted: HIV Drug Resistance Impacts on PrEP and Antiretroviral Therapy Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Nov 22 No Seminar
Nov 29
L504
Michael Niederweis, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Necrosis-Inducing Toxin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Microbiology Igor Kramnik
Dec 6 Mohsan Saeed, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller Univeristy
Creating a Suitable Host Environment for Virus Replication NEIDL Ron Corley
Dec 13
NEIDL
Jason Botten, Ph.D.
University of Vermont
Virus Particles: Host Machinery Critical for their Formation and Infectivity NEIDL John Connor
SPRING 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 11 Juan Fuxman Bass, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Protein-DNA Interaction Networks to Study Function and Disease” Microbiology Ron Corley
Jan 18 No Seminar NEIDL
Jan 25 Galit Alter, Ph.D.
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
“Defining Novel Correlates of Humoral Immunity to TB” Immunology Thomas Kepler
Feb 1 Christine Cheng, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Epigenetic Variability from Individuals to Single Cells” Immunology Ron Corley
Feb 8 Mark Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
“T, B and DC: Keys to SLE” Microbiology Jeff Browning
Feb 15
Location: NEIDL
Robert Davey, Ph.D.
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
“Ebola Virus Teaches Autophagy New Tricks” NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
Feb 22 Jennifer Gommerman, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
“B Cells in MS – Friend or Foe?” Immunology Jeff Browning
Mar 1 Nancy MacIver, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University Hospital
“Nutrition and Leptin in T Cell Metabolism” Inflammation Barb Nikolajczyk
Mar 8
Location: NEIDL
Tony Wang, Ph.D.
SRI International
“Coming from the Blood: Unraveling the Mystery of Zika Virus Dissemination” NEIDL Ron Corley
and
John Porco
Monday, Mar 13
Location:
NEIDL
Julian Hiscox, Ph.D.
University of Liverpools
“Delineating the Role of the Host and Co-infections in Ebola Virus Disease and its Outcome” NEIDL John Connor
Mar 15 No Seminar Immunology
Mar 22 Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
“Host Defenses Against Ancient and Modern Retroviruses” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 29 No Seminar Inflammation
Tuesday, Apr 4 Location: NEIDL Tonya Colpitts, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
“Discovery of Arbovirus Transmission Factors & Vector-Virus Host Interactions” NEIDL John Connor
and
Elke Mühlberger
Apr 5 Francois Villinger, D.V.M, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
“Dynamics of Virus and Host Cells: Use of Novel Tools to Follow Host/Viral Interactions in vivo Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 12
Location: NEIDL
Kartik Chandran, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Unraveling and Inhibiting the Cell Invasion Mechanism of Ebola Virus” NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
Apr 19 No Seminar Immunology
Apr 26 Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Necroptosis in the Lungs and Heart during Bacterial Pneumonia” Microbiology Jay Mizgerd
Monday, May 1 Renee WY Chan, Ph.D.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Rhinovirus Infection and Their Receptors in the Human Respiratory Airways” Microbiology Jay Mizgerd
May 3 STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Jeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
“Immunobiology of Tregs in Autoimmunity and Cancer” Microbiology Michelle Fleury
May 10 Carla Greenbaum, M.D.
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason
“Disease Modifying Therapy in T1D… What do we Know Now and What do we Need to Know” Immunology Barb Nikolajczyk
May 17 Location: NEIDL Brett Lindenbach, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
“The Machinery of Flaviviridae Replication, Assembly, and Pathogenesis” NEIDL John Connor
and
Elke Mühlberger
May 24 Location: NEIDL Gerald T Keusch, M.D.
Boston University
“National Academy of Medicine Report on Therapeutic and Vaccine Clinical Research during the West Africa Ebola Outbreak: What went wrong and What went right” NEIDL Ron Corley
May 31 David Lamb, Ph.D.
Swansea University Medical School
“Cytochrome P450 Genes in Viruses” ITP David Sherr
June 14 Location: NEIDL Vincent Munster, Ph.D.
NIH, NIAID
“The Ecology of Emerging Viruses: From Host Reservoir to Disease” NEIDL Paul Duprex
Thursday, June 29
Location: NEIDL
Michael Kurilla, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Office of Biodefense, Research Resources, and Translational Research
DMID, NIAID, NIH DHHS
“Infectious Disease Outbreak Response: Reactive, Proactive, Hyperactive, and Mostly Unattractive” NEIDL Ron Corley
FALL 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Wednesday, Aug 31
Location: NEIDL
Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
NIAID, NIH
“Comparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Reservoirs vs. Disease Models” NEIDL Ron Corley
Tuesday, Sept 6
Location: NEIDL
Michael Holbrook, Ph.D.
Integrated Research Facility
NIAID, NIH
“Evaluation of Aerosol Models of Nipah Virus Infection” NEIDL Ron Corley
Thursday, Sept. 8
Location: NEIDL
David Safronetz, Ph.D.
University of Manitoba
“Field and Laboratory Investigations on Lassa Virus” NEIDL Ron Corley
Sept 28 Xueling Wu, Ph.D.
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
“Sequential Development of Neutralizing Antibodies and their Associated Envelope Antigens in SHIVSF162P3N-Infected Rhesus Macaques” Microbiology Manish Sagar
Oct 5
Location: NEIDL
Jeremy Luban, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
“Molecular Characterization of Clade-Defining Mutations from the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic” NEIDL Ron Corley
Oct 12 Timothy Schacker, M.D.
University of Minnesota
“Lymph Node Fibrosis and HIV: Implications for the Cure and Beyond” Immunology Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 19 Sanjay Ram, M.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
“Can we Trap “the Clap” by Sugar-Coating it?” Inflammation Lee Wetzler
Oct 26 Stephen P. Goff, Ph.D.
Columbia University
“Retroviral Silencing: Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Regulation” Microbiology Andy Henderson
Nov 2
Location: NEIDL
Anthony Griffiths, Ph.D.
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
“Advanced Development of Filovirus Countermeasures Yields Insights into Viral Pathogenesis” NEIDL Paul Duprex / Ron Corley
Nov 9 Michael Starnbach, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Manipulating the Immune Response to Chlamydia trachomatis Immunology Lee Wetzler
Nov 16 Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“Thoughts into the Origin of Microbial Virulence” NEIDL Igor Kramnik
Friday,
Nov 18 Location: NEIDL
Estefania Rodriguez Burgos, Ph.D.
Heinrich Pette Institute
“Humanized Mice to Study Viral Persistence and Pathogenesis” NEIDL Ron Corley
Nov 23 No Seminar
Nov 30 Michael Gilmore, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Multidrug Resistant Enterococci: From Paleozoic Origin to Leading Hospital Pathogen” Microbiology Andrew Taylor
Dec 7 Location; NEIDL Charles Shoemaker, Ph.D.
Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
“Camelid VHH-Based Neutralizing Agents (VNAs) as Unconventional and Versatile Disease Therapeutics” NEIDL John Samuelson
Dec 14 Egil Lien, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
“Lessons from Highly Virulent Bacteria: Evasion and Activation of Innate Immunity by Plague” Immunology Lee Wetzler
SPRING 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 13
Location: NEIDL
Richard Webby, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
“Transmission of Influenza Viruses at the Human-Animal Interface” NEIDL Paul Duprex
Jan 20 Ulrich von Andrian, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Vaccination to Prevent Mucosal Infections” Immunology Munir Mosaheb
Jan 27 STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Gabriel Victora Ph.D.

Whitehead Institute
“Clonal and Cellular Dynamics in Germinal Centers” Microbiology Kaitlin Sawatzki
Feb 3 Sean Whelan, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Structure, Function and Inhibition of Large Proteins of Negativesense RNA Viruses – Single Polypeptide Chains that Catalyze Every Step of mRNA Transcription” Microbiology Paul Duprex
Feb 10 No Seminar
Feb 17 No Seminar
Monday, Feb. 22
Location: NEIDL
Michael Katze, Ph.D.
University of Washington
“Computational Biology, Genomics, (Epi)Genetics, and Systems Approaches: Unlocking the Mysteries of Deadly Virus Diseases in the 21st Century” NEIDL Ron Corley
Feb 24 No Seminar
Friday,
Feb 26
Julie Overbaugh, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
“HIV Prevention: A Basic Science Perspective” Microbiology Greg Viglianti
Mar 2 No Seminar
Mar 9 Xu Yu, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Immune Recognition of HIV-1 in Dendritic Cells form Elite Controllers” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 16 No Seminar
Mar 23 Raul Andino, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
“Virus Evolution during Acute Infection: Population Dynamics and Pathogenesis” Microbiology Rachel Fearns
Mar 30 Douglas Green, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
“LC3-associated Phagocytosis: Noncanonical Autophagy at the Interface of Innate Immunity, Inflammation, and Aging” Immunology Hans Dooms
Apr 6 Arlene Sharp, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Control of Antibody Responses by T Follicular Regulatory Cells” Inflammation Hans Dooms
Apr 13 Michael Emerman, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
“The Evolution and Function of HIV Restriction Factors” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 20 Pamela Schwartzburgh, M.D., Ph.D.
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
“Tuning T cell Responses” Immunology Andy Henderson
Apr 27 Trevor Siggers, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Examining the Specificity of Immune Regulators using Protein-binding Microarrays” Inflammation Barb Nikolajczyk
May 4 Matthias Schnell, Ph.D.
Thomas Jefferson University
“Rabies Virus-based Vaccine Platform Against Emerging Infectious Diseases” NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
May 11 Ronald Germain, M.D., Ph.D.
NIAID, NIH
“Imaging Immunity: Developing a Spatiotemporal Understanding of Host Defense” Immunology Thomas Kepler
May 18 Anita McElroy, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
“Immune Responses to Highly Pathogenic Viruses–Do They Help or Harm the Host?” NEIDL Ron Corley
May 25   Microbiology
Friday, June 3 Location: NEIDL Marshall Bloom, M.D.
NIAID, NIH
“The Enigmatic Biology of Vector-borne Flaviviruses” NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
June 8
Location: NEIDL
Darryl Falzarano, Ph.D.
International Vaccine Centre
University of Saskatchewan
“Development of Animal Models and Countermeasures for Emerging Viruses” NEIDL Ron Corley
June 15
Location: NEIDL
Pedro F C Vasconcelos, Ph.D.
Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Technologia para Hemorrhagicas Virais
Belém-Pará, Brasil
“Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil: Present Situation and Perspectives” NEIDL Horacio Frydman
June 22
Location: NEIDL
Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D.
Heinrich Pette Institute
“Correlates of Immunity to Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses in Humans and Animal Models” NEIDL Ron Corley
June 29
Location: NEIDL
Alyson A. Kelvin, Ph.D.
Immune Diagnostics and Research
“Viral Pathogenesis and Transmission in the Mother-Infant Dyad: From Influenza to Zika” NEIDL Ron Corley
Aug 31
Location: NEIDL
Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D.
NIAID/NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories
“Comparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Natural Reservoirs vs. Disease Models” NEIDL Ron Corley
FALL 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Sept 16
Location: NEIDL
Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D.
Heinrich Pette Institute
“Ebola Virus Immunology: A Tale of Mice and Humans” NEIDL Elke Mühlberger
Sept 23 No Seminar
Sept 30 Emily Nelson and Judy Yen
Boston University School of Medicine
“Ebola Virus Diagnostics in Sierra Leone” Microbiology
Oct 7
Location: NEIDL
Kathleen A. McDonough, Ph.D.
New York Department of Health
“Keeping up with the Neighborhood: Environmental Gene Regulation in M. tuberculosis NEIDL Ron Corley
Oct 14 No Seminar
Oct 21 No Seminar
Oct 28 Gregory Viglianti, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“Biosafety – It’s Everybody’s Business” Microbiology
Nov 4
Location: NEIDL
Benhur Lee, M.D.
Mt. Sinai
“Henipaviruses: Not that Rare, Much more Diverse, Still too Dangerous?” NEIDL Paul Duprex
Nov 11 No Seminar
Nov 18 Lydia Lynch, Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Obese NK Cells Lack Energy to Kill” Inflammation Barb Nikolajczyk
Thursday, Nov 19 Location: NEIDL Gary Kobinger, Ph.D.
Public Health Agency of Canada
“A Decade of Ebola Work in the Field and on Vaccine and Therapeutics Culminating with the Biggest Outbreak and Real Solutions” NEIDL Ron Corley
Nov 25 No Seminar
Dec 2 Ronald Swanstrom, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
School of Medicine
“The Evolution of Macrophage-Tropic HIV-1 and its Role in Virus-Host Interactions” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Thursday, Dec 3 Location: NEIDL Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D.
NIH/NIAID
“Vaccines for Highly Pathogenic Viruses” NEIDL Ron Corley
Dec 9 Theresa T. Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of
Cornell University
“Regulating the Lymph Node Vascular-Stromal Compartment to Modulate Immunity” Immunology Jeff Browning
Dec 16 Ranjan Sen, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, NIH
“Coordinating Genetics and Epigenetics to Assemble Antigen Receptor Genes” Inflammation Barb Nikolajczyk
SPRING 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 7 Vijay Kuchroo, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
“Unexpected Targets and Triggers of Autoimmunity” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Jan 14
Location: NEIDL
Amanda Jamieson, Ph.D.
Brown University
“Tolerance of Polymicrobial Infections of the Lung: Innate Immune Response and the Microbiome” NEIDL Jerry Keusch
Jan 21 Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School
“Enhanced microRNA Activity is a Novel Oncogenic Function of eIF4F” Microbiology Rachel Fearns
Thursday, Jan 22 Immunology Faculty Candidate
William Kaiser, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
“Cell Death Pathways in Host Defense (The Good), Inflammation (The Bad), and the Developmental Failure (The Ugly) Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Monday,
Jan. 26
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Jan 28 SEMINAR CANCELLED

Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Tuesday, Feb 3
Location: NEIDL
Pathology/NEIDL Faculty Candidate
James Brien, Ph.D.
Washington University
School of Medicine
“Immune Recognition and restriction of Re-emerging Flaviviruses” NEIDL Ronald Corley
Feb 4 Ramnik Xavier, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
“Autophagy and Check Points in Mucosal Immunity” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Feb 11 SEMINAR CANCELLED
Feb 18 Andrew Luster, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“Imaging Chemokine Function in Disease” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Feb 25 Immunology Faculty Candidate
Anthony Rongvaux, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
“Studying Innate Immunity using Mouse and Humanized Mouse Models” Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Mar 4 Rebecca Dutch, Ph.D.
Univeristy of Kentucky
“Human Metapneumovirus Entry, Assembly, and Spread” Microbiology Paul Duprex
Thursday, Mar 5 Immunology Faculty Candidate
Amelia Pinto, Ph.D.

Washington University
School of Medicine
“The Impact of Type I Interferon on Flavivirus Disease” Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Mar 11 Student Invited Speaker
Michael Katze, Ph.D.
University of Washington
“Systems Virology: Can we help stop the Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola Epidemics” Microbiology Kate Sawatzki
Monday, Mar 16 @ 11:00 AM Immunology Faculty Candidate
Byron Au-Yeung, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
“A Chemical-Genetic Approach to Control Zap 70 Activity Enables Quantitative and Temporal Control of T Cell Receptor Signaling” Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Mar 18
Location: NEIDL
Matthew Frieman, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
“SARS and MERS Coronavirus: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis” NEIDL Paul Duprex
Mar 25 Dario Vignali, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
“Targeting Tregs in Tumors” Immunology Hans Dooms
Apr 1 No Seminar
Apr 8 Zandrea Ambrose, PhD.
University of Pittsburgh
“Live-Cell and Super Resolution Imaging of Post-Entry Steps of HIV-1 Infection” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Thursday, Apr 9 Immunology Faculty Candidate
Pablo Penaloza, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
“The Roles of CD4 T Cells during Chronic Viral Infection” Microbiology Thomas Kepler
Apr 15
Location: NEIDL
Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch
“Flaviviral Host Factors: A Love-Hate Relationship” NEIDL John Connor
Apr 22 June Round, Ph.D.
University of Utah
“Redefining Self: How Commensal Microbes Influence Immunity and Health” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Apr 29 Douglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Getting More from your Mice: Systems Analysis of in vivo Inflammatory Pathophysiology” Microbiology Barb Nikolajczyk
FALL 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Monday,
Sept 8
Location: NEIDL
Thomas Hoenen, Ph.D.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
“Reverse Genetics as a Tool For Studying the Biology of Ebolaviruses” Microbiology John Connor
Sept 24 Igor Kramnik, M.D., Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“The Process of Dying: Thanatogenesis in Inflammatory Lesions – A Common Pathway and a Therapeutic Target” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Monday,
Sept 29
Avery August, Ph.D.
Cornell University
“Tuning T Cell Behavior” Microbiology Andy Henderson
Oct 1 Marc Jenkins, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
“Tracking the Activation of CD4+ T Cells During Infection” Immunology Andy Henderson
Oct 8 Joyce Wong, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Biomaterial Strategies to Detect and Treat Cardiovascular Disease” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Oct 15 Ellen Rothenberg, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
“Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Early T-cell Lineage Commitment” Immunology Andy Henderson
Oct 22 Theodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D.
The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
“Breaking Barriers: HIV-1 Induced AIDS in Monkeys” Microbiology Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 29 Thomas Kepler, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“Human B Cell Lineage Dynamics in Chronic Infection and Repeated Immunization” Immunology David Sherr
Nov 5
Location: NEIDL
Ekaterina Heldwein, Ph.D.
Tufts University School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of Host Manipulation by Herpesviruses” Microbiology Paul Duprex
Nov 12 Senad Divanovic, Ph.D.
University of Cincinnati
“Immunopathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease” Immunology Barb Nikolajczyk
Nov 19 Ramon Bonegio, M.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“The Role of Endogenous TLR Signaling in Immune Complex Glomerulonephritis” Immunology David Sherr
Nov 26 NO SEMINAR
Dec 3 Jonathan Karn, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
“Molecular Mechanisms of HIV Latency and the Search for a Cure” Microbiology Andy Henderson
Dec 10 Kevin Francis, Ph.D.
Perkin Elmer FellowElena Dubikovskaya, Ph.D.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
“Recent Advances in Preclinical Imaging of Infectious Diseases and Inflammation” Inflammation Caroline Genco
Dec 17 Location: NEIDL Hideki Ebihara, Ph.D.
NIAID, NIH
In vitro and in vivo Approaches to Unraveling the Mechanisms for Replication and the Pathogenesis of Ebola and Marburg Viruses” Microbiology Elke Mühlberger
SPRING 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker Title Program Host
Jan 15 Shannon Turley, Ph.D.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard
“Regulation of Leukocyte Function and Territoriality by Lymphoid Stroma” Immunology Jeff Browning
Jan 22 No Seminar Microbiology
Jan 29 Margaret Lowe
University of California San Francisco
“When Worlds Collide: Identification of a Novel Endogenous Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand, Cinnabarinic Acid, that Drives Th22 Differentiation” Immunology Dave Sherr
Feb 5 *C A N C E L E D* Microbiology
Feb 12 Jeffrey Browning, Ph.D.
Boston University Medical School
“Lymphotoxin-LIGHT Pathway Regulates the Interferon Signature in Rheumatoid Arthritis” Immunology
Feb 19
Location: NEIDL
David Wentworth, Ph.D.
J. Craig Venter Institute
“Genomics and Pathogenesis of Emerging/Zoonotic Viruses” Microbiology Paul Duprex
Feb 26 DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Chadene Tremaglio
“Investigating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transcription: Evidence for Alternative Initiation Events and Small RNA Synthesis” Microbiology
Mar 5 Andrew Camilli, Ph.D.
Tufts University
“A Vibrio cholerae/Phage Arms Race in the Context of Human Infection” Microbiology Jay Mizgerd
Mar 12 No Seminar Immunology
Mar 19 Location: NEIDL Christina Spiropoulou, Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control
“Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis” Microbiology Paul Duprex
Mar 26 Michael Carroll, Ph.D.
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard
“Regulation of Lupus-antigen Specific B Cells by Follicular Dendritic Cells” Immunology Jeff Browning
Apr 2 Liisa K. Selin, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts
Medical Center
“Heterologous Immunity and T Cell Crossreactivity During Viral Infections” Immunology Dave Sherr
Apr 9
Location: NEIDL
Michael Holbrook, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
“Immunological Mechanisms of Yellow Fever Virus Pathogenicity” Microbiology Ron Corley
Apr 16 No Seminar Microbiology
Apr 23 Thomas Braciale, MD, Ph.D.
University of Virginia Medical School
“Respiratory Dendritic Cells and the Control of Anti-viral Effector and Memory T Cell Responses” Immunology Lee Quinton
Apr 30
Location: NEIDL
Ralph Isberg, Ph.D.
Tufts University
“Aggravation and Madness: Understanding Intracellular Growth by a Robust Bacterial Pathogen” Microbiology Igor Kramnik
Thursday,
May 1 @ 11:00 am
Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
“Evolutionary Mechanisms of RNA Virus Host Switching” Microbiology Ron Corley
May 7
Location: NEIDL
Anita Goel, M.D., Ph.D.
Nanobiosym
“Harnessing Nanobiophysics for Next Generation Pathogen Detection” Microbiology Gerald Keusch
May 14 Donna Farber, Ph.D.
Columbia University
“Tissue Compartmentalization of T Cell Responses: From Mouse Models to Humans” Microbiology Jay Mizgerd
May 21 No Seminar
Dr. Jenkins rescheduled to
October 1, 2014
May 28 @ 12:00 noon STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
Katherine Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Med Ctr
“Long Non-Coding RNA and Regulation of Inflammatory Gene Expression” Microbiology Munir Mosaheb
June 11 @ 12:00 noon John Misasi, M.D.
Children’s Hospital Boston
“Host Factors for Filovirus Entry” Microbiology Elke Mühlberger
FALL 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES
Sept 23 *POSTDOC INVITED SPEAKER*
John Schoggins, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical School
“Unraveling the Complexity of the Interferon Antiviral Response” Judith Olejnik
Sept 30 Student Seminars
Fadie Coleman
(Mizgerd Lab)
and
Kristie Hilliard
(Quinton Lab)
“Robust NF-kB Responses by Alveolar Macrophages Potentiate Anti-pneumococcal Defense During Pneumonia”
and
“The Liver Response to Pneumonia: More than Just a Biomarker”
Oct 7 Wilson Wong, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
“Engineering T Cells for Cancer Therapy” Ron Corley
Oct 14 No Seminar
Oct 21
Location: NEIDL
W. Evan Johnson, Ph.D.
Computational Biomedicine
BU School of Medicine
“Pathoscope: Species Identification and Strain Attribution with Unassembled Sequencing Data” Rahm Gummuluru
Wednesday,
Oct 23 @
1:00 PM
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Daniele Cary
“RON Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, a Negative Regulator of Inflammation, is Decreased during Simian Immunodificiency Virus Associated Central Nervous System Disease”
Oct 28 No Seminar
Nov 4 Karin Strijbis, Ph.D.
Ploegh Lab
Whitehead Institute, MIT
“Commensal or Pathogen? Immune Responses to the Yeast Candida albicans Greg Viglianti
Nov 11 No Seminar
Nov 18 Student Seminars
Krishna Moody
(Marshak-Rothstein Lab)
and
Emily Nelson
(Mühlberger Lab)
“FcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking”
and
“Post-Transcriptional Regulation of RNA During Ebola Virus Infection”
Nov 25
Location: NEIDL
Megan L. Shaw, Ph.D.
Microbiology
Mt. Sinai Hospital
“Exploring Novel Targets for Influenza Antivirals” John Connor
Dec 2 Walther Mothes, Ph.D.
Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University
“Seeing is Believing – Visualizing Individual Steps of the Retroviral Life Cycle” Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 9
Location: NEIDL
Christopher Sassetti, Ph.D.
Microbiology & Physiological Systems
UMASS Medical School
“Bacterial and Host Determinants of Tuberculosis Disease” Igor Kramnik
SPRING 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES
Jan 14 Pinghua Liu, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry, BU
“Conditional Knockout by Chemically Controlled Selective Degradation of mRNA and Protein” Ron Corley
Jan 21 No Seminar
Jan 28 C A N C E L L E D
Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D.
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
“Mechanistic Spatially Resolved Modeling of Cellular Signaling Pathways” Tom Kepler
Feb 4 Student Seminars
Kaitlin Sawatzki
(Bossart Lab)
and
Gregory Wasserman
(Jones Lab)
“Evaluating the Role of T Cells in Nipah Virus Pathogenesis”
and
“Alternative microRNA Utilization Regulates Cytokine Expression During Acute Bacterial Infection”
Greg Viglianti
Feb 11 No Seminar
Graduate Student Recruitment Day
Feb 18 No Seminar
Tuesday
Feb 19
Brian Bird, D.V.M., M.S.P.H., Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Rift Valley Fever Virus: A Killer on the Move and New Ways to Stop it” Ron Corley and
Jack Murphy
Feb 25 Student Seminar
Suzanne Geer
(Gummuluru Lab)
and
Emily Nelson
(Muhlberger Lab)
“Differences in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Interactions with Dendritic Cells”
and
“Post-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA by Ebola Virus VP30″
Greg Viglianti
Mar 4 Jeroen Saeij, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Susceptibility to Infection: A Complex Interplay Between Host and Parasite Genotypes” Igor Kramnik
Mar 11 Ulla Hansen, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, BU
“Transcription Factor LSF: Achilles Heel for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?” Greg Viglianti
Mar 18 Hinh Ly, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“Host-Pathogen Interaction in Lassa Fever Virus Infection” Ron Corley and
Jack Murphy
Tuesday,
Mar 19
@2:00 pm
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Laura Dickey
“Respiratory Syncytial Virus Interactions with Host Cell RNA-Processing Structures and Proteins”
Mar 25 Student Seminar
Krishna Moody
(Marshak-Rothstein Lab)
“FcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking” Greg Viglianti
Apr 1 Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
“New Insight into Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Alphavirus Infection” Elke Mühlberger
Apr 8 J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Humanized Mice Models of Viral Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention” Andy Henderson
Apr 15 No Seminar
Apr 22 Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
“Strategies and Discoveries in Small Molecules: From Hits to Leads for Treatment of RNA Virus Infections” John Connor
Apr 29 Student Debate
Michelle Fleury & Ludy Registre
(Facilitator: John Connor)
”Tregs in HIV Infection: Friend or Foe?” Greg Viglianti
Wednesday, May 1 @
1:00 pm
Volker Thiel, Ph.D.
St Gallen, Switzerland
“Coronaviruses: Large RNA Viruses with Growing Impact” Paul Duprex
May 6 Philip J. Santangelo, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
“Interrogating RSV Infections with Single Molecule Sensitive Probes” Rachel Fearns
May 13 *STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER*
James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D.
University of California, Davis
“Role of Cholesterol in HIV Infection and Pathogenesis” Fadie Coleman
Wednesday, May 22 @ 12:00 noon Professor Theo Geijtenbeek
University of Amsterdam
“C-Type Lectin Receptors in Infection and Immunity” Paul Duprex
Tuesday,
May 28 @ 12:00 noon
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Andrew Platt
“Characterization of Responses Induced by N. meningitidis PorB and its use as a Vaccine Adjuvant”
June 3 Ruslan Afasizhev, Ph.D.
Boston University Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine
“Mitochondrial Cryptogene Expression and RNA Editing Machines of Trypanosomes” Ron Corley
Thursday, June 6 @ 12:00 noon QUALIFYING EXAM SEMINAR
Munir Mosaheb
“Examining the Role of Varying Antigen Presenting Cell Types in PorB Adjuvant Activity” Greg Viglianti
Thursday, June 27 @ 2:00 pm DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Ryan McClure
“Host and Pathogen Response to Gonococcal Infection: A Global Analysis”
FALL 2012 SEMINAR SERIES
Sept. 17 Richard C. Condit, Ph.D.
University of Florida
“Structure and Assembly of the Poxvirus Virion” Paul Duprex / John Connor
Sept 24 No Seminar
Oct 1 Student Seminar
Chadene Tremaglio
(Fearns Lab)
“Investigating RSV Transcription: Evidence for an Alternative Initiation Event at the Viral Promoter that Generates small RNAs” Greg Viglianti
Oct 8 No Seminar – Holiday
Tuesday, Oct 9 @
1:00 PM
***Dissertation Defense***
Erin Hodges
“Characterization of the S2 Isolate
of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Oct 15 Bjoern Reinhard, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Boston University
“Rationally Designed Nanoparticles as Tools in Biomedical Research and Imaging” Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 22 No Seminar
Oct 29 Postdoctoral Fellow Seminars
CANCELLED due to Hurricaine
Nov 5 Taekjip Ha, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Single Molecule Views of Antiviral Signaling” Elke Mühlberger
Nov 12 No Seminar
Nov 19 Student Seminars
Ryan McClure
(Genco Lab)
and
Andrew Platt
(Wetzler Lab)
“Analysis and Characterization of the Global Gonococcal Transcriptome”
and
“Transcriptome Analysis of a Multi-Injection Vaccine Schedule Reveals a Non-Linear Response to the Adjuvant PorB”
Greg Viglianti
Nov 26 Manish Sagar, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Section of Infectious Diseases
Boston University School of Medicine
“Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of HIV-1 Present Early After Transmission” Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 3 Gerald Pier, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Channing Laboratory
“A Microbial Achilles Heel: Poly-N-acetyl Glucosamine is a Ubiquitously Expressed Vaccine Target on Bcaterial, Fungal and Protozoan Pathogens” Jay Mizgerd
Dec 10 Student Seminars
Fadie Coleman
(Mizgerd Lab)
and
Kristie Hilliard
(Quinton Lab)
“Meaningful Variation in the Activation of Macrophage NF-κB Responses by Pneumococcus”
and
“Liver-Derived Proteins Facilitate Pulmonary Inflammatory Injury during the Acute Phase of Pneumonia”
Greg Viglianti
Dec 17 Hans Dooms, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Arthritis Center/Rheumatology Section
Boston University School of Medicine
“How to Forget bad T cell Memories while Keeping the Good Ones” Ron Corley
SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SERIES
Thursday Jan. 6 Mehul S. Suthar, Ph.D.
University of Washington
“RIG-I Like Receptor Regulation of Viral Infection and Immunity” Ronald Corley
Tuesday, Jan. 17 Hideki Ebihara, Ph.D.
NIAID, NIH
“Molecular Determinants of Filovirus Virulence in Small Animal Models” Elke Mühlberger
Jan. 23 No Seminar
Jan. 30 Student Qualifying Exam Seminars
Kristie Hilliard
and
Emily Nelson
“The Hepatic Acute Phase Response Regulates Pulmonary Inflammation and Injury During Pneumonia”
and
“Regulation of mRNA Stability by Ebola Virus VP30”
Gregory Viglianti
Thursday Feb. 2 Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Iowa
“Back with the Wnts: Their Novel Roles in T Cell Biology Ronald Corley
Feb. 6 Student Qualifying Exam Seminars
Fadie Coleman
and
Suzanne Geer
“Influence of Macrophage NF-kB Activation on the Outcome of Pneumococcal Pneumonia”
and
“HIV Appropriates Host Lectins to Facilitate Capture and Dissemination by DCs”
Gregory Viglianti
Feb. 13 No Seminar
Wed., Feb. 15, in
L201/203
Louise D’Cruz, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
“Transcriptional Regulation of Natural Killer T Cell Development and Homeostasis” Ronald Corley
Feb. 20 No Seminar
Feb. 27 No Seminar
Mar. 5 Dorian McGavern. Ph.D.
NINDS, NIHI
“Dynamics of Immunity to Acute and Persistent Viral Infection” Paul Duprex
Mar. 12 Matthew Jones, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“Widespread Uridylation of microRNA is Governed by Zcchc11 in vivo Elke Mühlberger
Wednesday, Mar. 14, in L201/203 Janelle Ayres, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
“Friend or Foe? Host Tolerance of Pathobionts in Health and Disease” Ronald Corley
Mar. 19 Student Seminar
Ryan McClure
Genco Lab
and
Andrew Platt
Wetzler Lab
“An In Depth Conversation Between the Human Pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the Host as Revealed by Global Transcriptome Analysis”
and
“Antigen Uptake and Migration by APCs is Enhanced by PorB”
Gregory Viglianti
Mar. 26 Jonathan Towner, Ph.D
CDC
“Ecology of Ebola and Marburg Viruses” Elke Mühlberger
Apr. 2 No Seminar
Apr. 9 Ronald Iorio, Ph.D.
UMass Medical Center
“Diversity of Paramyxovirus Fusion Triggering Mechanisms” Gregory Viglianti
Tuesday, Apr. 10
@ 1:15 PM
Scott Gray-Owen, Ph.D.
Univeristy of Toronto
“The Pathogenic Neisseria: Dancing with Humans Lee Wetzler
Apr. 16 No Seminar
Apr. 23 Christopher Aiken, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
“Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5alpha” Rahm Gummuluru
Apr. 30 Student Debate
Munir Mosaheb, Kaitlin Sawatzki, and Gregory Wasserman
(Facilitator: Katharine Bossart)
“Should the Controversial H5N1 Studies be Published?” Gregory Viglianti
May 7 STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
John K. Rose, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
“New Approaches to Vaccines for Old and New Plagues” Chadene Zack
May 14 Valentina Perissi, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
“Dissecting GSPS2 Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Roles: A Novel Protective Strategy Against Hyper-Inflammatory Responses” Gregory Viglianti
June 20
@ 10:00 AM
Dissertation Defense Seminar
Nathaniel Green
“TLR7 Dependent and Independent Responses of Autoreactive B Cells to Nucleic Acid Containing Immune Complexes” Gregory Viglianti
June 25
@ 1:00 PM
Dissertation Defense Seminar
Guy Bushkin
“The Glycobiology of Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and Eimeria” Gregory Viglianti
FALL 2011 SEMINAR SERIES
Sept. 19 Ted Ross, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
“Influenza in the Young and Aged: Infection, Vaccination and Overcoming Viral Diversity” Stephanie Oberhaus
Sept. 26 STUDENT SEMINAR
Erin Hodges
Connor Lab
and
Kristina Schmidt
Mühlberger Lab
“S2 VSV Shows a Unique Transcriptional Phenotype that Leads to Viral Attenuation”
and
“Location and Relocation: Filovirus Nucleocapsids, Stress and Being Green”
Oct. 3 ID Faculty Candidate
Manish Sagar, MD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard
 ”Selection and Antibody Susceptibility During Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission” Caroline Genco
Oct. 10 NO SEMINAR
Oct. 17 STUDENT SEMINAR
Nathaniel Green
Marshak-Rothstein Lab
and
Krishna Moody
Marshak-Rothstein Lab
 ”It’s all About the -OH. The Difference Between RNA- and DNA-immune Complexes for Stimulating B Cells”
and
“FcγRIIB Engagement Modulates the Trafficking of Immune Complexes”
Oct. 24 ID Faculty Candidate
Christopher Woelk, PhD
University of California San Diego
 ”Machine Learning Approaches to Combat Infectious Diseases” Caroline Genco
Oct. 31 Alexander Poltorak, Ph.D.
Tufts University
 ”Genetic Studies of Innate Immunity in Wild Mice” Igor Kramnik
Nov. 7 ID Faculty Candidate
John Love, MD, PhD
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center
 ”The Human Cathelicidin LL-37 Induces Group A Streptococcus Resistance to Killing by Multiple Human Cell Types” Caroline Genco
Nov. 14 STUDENT SEMINAR
Daniele Cary
Henderson Lab
and
Laura Dickey
Fearns Lab
“Intrinsic Mechanisms that Limit HIV Expression in Macrophages and T Cells”
and
“RSV’s Relationship with Cellular Decapping Protein 1″
Nov. 21 STUDENT SEMINAR
Guy Bushkin
Samuelson Lab
and
Chadene Zack
Fearns Lab
“Characterization of Oocyst Wall Proteins of Toxoplasma and Eimeria”
and
“Evidence for an Alternate RNA Initiation Site Associated with Transcription at Nucleotide 3 of the RSV Leader Region in Wildtype Virus Infection”
Nov. 28 Brandon Xia, Ph.D.
Boston University
“Three-Dimensional View of Protein Networks Within and Between Species” Rachel Fearns
Dec. 5 Pricilla Yang, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School 
“Chemical Approaches to the Study of Viruses” John Connor
Tuesday, Dec. 20 Joeo H. Pedra, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside
“Pathogen Immune Evasion at the Vector-Host Interface” Ronald Corley
SPRING 2011 SEMINAR SERIES
Jan. 10 Kathleen McDonough, Ph.D.
Wadsworth Center
New York State Department of Public Health
“From White Plague to Black Death: A Wide Spectrum of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in M. tuberculosis and Y. pestis Caroline Genco
Tuesday,
Jan. 18
Immunology Faculty Candidate
Lauren Zenewicz, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
“Gut Instincts: Interleukin-22 and Mucosal Immunity” Ronald Corley
Jan. 24 Thomas Kepler, Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine
“B Cells, Bats, and Barcodes: Next Gen Sequence Analysis for Immunology” Ronald Corley
Jan. 31 Immunology Faculty Candidate
Jacob Kohlmeier, Ph.D.
Trudeau Institute
“Generation and Recall of T Cell Memory Following Respiratory Infection” Ronald Corley
Thursday,
Feb. 3 @ 12:30 PM
Immunology Faculty Candidate
Artem Barski, Ph.D.
NHLBI, NIH
“Exploring the T Cell Epigenome: Poised Genes and T Cell Memory” Ronald Corley
Feb. 7 NO SEMINAR
Feb. 14 NO SEMINAR
Feb. 21 NO SEMINAR
Feb. 28 Surachi Supattapone. M.D., Ph.D., D. Phil.
Dartmouth Medical School
“Cofactors in Prion Propagation” Rachel Fearns
Mar. 7 STUDENT SEMINAR
Gary Guy Bushkin
(Samuelson Lab)andChadene Zack
(Fearns Lab)
“Identification of Beta-Glucan in the Oocyst Walls of Toxoplasma and Eimeria”and”Investigating a New Model of Transcription Initiation in Respiratory Syncytial Virus”
Mar. 14 STUDENT SEMINAR
Daniele Cary
(Henderson Lab)andLaura Dickey
(Fearns Lab)
“Dysregulation of Tissue Resident Macrophages During HIV Infection”and”RSV’s Relationship with Stress Granule and Processing Body Proteins”
Mar. 21 Mark Heise, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Bugs in the System: Using Systems Genetics to Study Virus-Host Interactions” John Connor
Mar. 28 STUDENT DEBATE
Kristie Hilliard vs. Emily Nelson
(Facilitator: Barb Nikolajczyk)
“Is Type 2 Diabetes a Mis-Classified Autoimmune Disease?”
Apr. 4 STUDENT DEBATE
Fadie Coleman vs. Suzanne Geer
(Facilitator: Andy Henderson)
“Will There Ever be an HIV Vaccine?”
Apr. 11 Zahra Zakeri, Ph.D.
City University of New York
“Viral Manipulation of Cell Death Machinery” Elke Mühlbeger
Apr. 18 NO SEMINAR
Friday,
Apr. 22
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Timothy Hanley
Department of Microbiology
“The Effects of Nuclear Receptor and Toll-like Receptor Crosstalk on
HIV-1 Replication in and Transmission by Macrophages and Dendritic Cells”
Apr. 25 Qiang Zhou, Ph.D.
University of California at Berkeley
“New Insights into the Control of HIV-1 Transcription: When Tat  Meets the 7SK snRNP and Super Elongation Complex (SEC)” Andrew Henderson
May 2 STUDENT SEMINAR
Ryan McClure
(Genco Lab)
and
Andrew Platt
(Wetzler Lab)
“Examining sRNA Mediated Regulation in Neisseria
and
“Lymphocyte Responses to Porin Adjuvanted Vaccines”
May 9 NO SEMINAR
May 16 Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch
 ”The Fever from the Forrest: Prospects for Continued Emergence of Sylvatic Dengue Virus and Impact on Public Health” Caroline Genco
Friday,
June 10,
11:00 am
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
Daniel Green
Department of Microbiology
“CD4 Regulation of T Cell Migration”
Wednesday,
June 29,
3:00 pm
Debi P. Sarkar, Ph.D.
University of Delhi
“Cellular Signaling in Virus-Host Interactions: Regulation of Fusion Mediated Entry of Sendai Virus” Sibaji Sarkar