Previous Seminars
| 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 | Whats 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 Childrens 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 Isnt 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 HutchinsonCancer 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 Childrens 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 forFrancisella 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 Infectionin 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 ofMycobacterium 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 Interactionsin 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 | CarlosOrihuela, 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 Childrens 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 Childrens 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 VirusesDo 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 Its Everybodys 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 Womens 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 Womens 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 Childrens 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. Childrens 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 DCruz, 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 & Womens 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 | Its 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 RSVs 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 NetworksWithin and Between Species | Rachel Fearns |
| Dec. 5 | Pricilla Yang, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School | Chemical Approaches to theStudy 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 EimeriaandInvestigating 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 InfectionandRSVs 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 |