Microbiology and Immunology Trainee Seminar Series
The Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology (VIM) and Immunology Training Program (ITP) Trainee Seminar/Journal Club sessions are held on Mondays at 12:00 in the X222 Microbiology conference room. While in person attendance is preferred, all seminars will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Email reminders containing the zoom link will be sent prior to each seminar.
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Spring 2024 VIM and ITP Trainee Seminar and Journal Club Series | |
January 22 | STUDENT SEMINARS “Inflammasome Activation in HIV-1 Infection of Macrophages” Ivy Hughes, Gummuluru Lab and “Understanding the Role of BAFF Elevations and TACI Mutations in CVID” Erik Matson, Maglione Lab |
January 29 | STUDENT SEMINARS “Investigating the Role of Oncostatin M in the Lungs especially during Pneumonia” Yewoo Lee, Traber Lab and “Investigating the Requirement of TCR Signaling to Activate T cell Populations” Christina McConney, Cappione Lab |
February 5 | JOURNAL CLUB Badarinarayan, S.S. et al. HIV-1 Infection Activates Endogenous Retroviral Promoters Regulating Antiviral Gene Expression. Nucleic Acids Research 48(19):10890-10908, 2020. https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/48/19/10890/5918323 Presenter: Thomas Murphy |
February 12 | JOURNAL CLUB Pasqual, G. et al. Monitoring T Cell-Dendritic Cell Interactions in vivo by Intercellular Enzymatic Labelling. Nature 553:496-500, 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25442 Presenter: Michael Vannini |
February 19 | NO SEMINAR |
February 26 | JOURNAL CLUB Yun, T. et al. Efficient Reverse Genetics Reveals Genetic Determinants of Budding and Fusogenic Differences between Nipah and Hendra Viruses and Enables Real-Time Monitoring of Viral Spread in Small Animal Models of Henipavirus Infection. J. Virol. 89(2):1242-1253, 2014 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.02583-14# Presenter: Jarod Herrera |
March 4 | JOURNAL CLUB Pasqual, G. et al. TRIMα Restricts Poxviruses and is Antagonized by CypA and the Viral Protein C6. Nature 620:873-880, 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25442 Presenter: Joelle Johnson |
Friday March 8 1:00 pm in L109AC |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR “Host-Pathogen Cartography: Predictive Network of Mapping Ebola Virus-Host Cell Interactions Reveals Mechanisms of Viral Control of the Cell” Callie Donahue |
March 11 | JOURNAL CLUB McMyn, N.F. et al. The Latent Reservoir of Inducible, Infectious HIV-1 does not Decrease Despite Decades of Antiretroviral Therapy. J. Clin. Invest. 133(17):e171554, 2023. https://www.jci.org/articles/view/171554 Presenter: Julia Huynh |
Thursday March 14 11:00 am in L112 |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR “RNA Synthesis Initiation and Termination by the Non-segmented Negative-strand RNA Virus Polymerases” Victoria Kleiner |
March 18 | JOURNAL CLUB Release of Immunomodulatory Ebola Virus Glycoprotein-Containing Microvesicles is Suppressed by Tetherin in a Species-Specific Manner. Cell Rep. 26(7):1841-1853.e6, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719300944#sec4.4.12 Presenter: Elias Nafziger |
March 25 | JOURNAL CLUB Suchanek, O. et al. Tissue-Resident B Cells Orchestrate Macrophage Polarisation and Function. Nat Commun.14:7081, 2023. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42625-4 Presenter: Anna Tseng |
Thursday March 28 1:00 pm in L112 |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Josiane Fofana |
April 1 | JOURNAL CLUB Man, S.M. et al. Inflammasome Activation Causes Dual Recruitment of NLRC4 and NLRP3 to the Same Macromolecular Complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111(20):7403-7408, 2014. https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1402911111 Presenter: Long Chu |
April 8 | POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW SEMINAR Matthew Fish, PhD, Tomic Lab |
April 15 | NO SEMINAR |
April 22 | POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW SEMINAR Giulia Unali, PhD, Douam Lab |
May 1 | TBA |