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