Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology Seminar Series
The Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology and the Immunology Training Program hold a weekly Seminar Series on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in X222 unless otherwise noted. While in person attendance is preferred, all seminars will be livestreamed via Zoom, and email reminders containing the Zoom link will be sent prior to each seminar. Please email kfurness@bu.edu if you want to be added to the email listserv.
Click here for previous seminars.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| Jan 15 | Benjamin Winer, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering |
Plasma Membrane Abundance as a Biophysical Regulator of Myeloid cell Migration, Phagocytosis, and its role in Demyelination | Andy Henderson |
| Jan 22 | Taru Dutt, PhD Colorado State University |
Unveiling the Mechanism of Ectopic Germinal Center Formation in the Tuberculosis Lungs: Implications for Immune Therapies and Vaccine Strategies | Andy Henderson |
| Jan 29 | Elizabeth Draganova, PhD Emory University |
Assembly and Inhibition of Herpesvirus Protein Machines | Andy Henderson |
| Feb 5 | Jonathan Kagan, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital |
Regulation of Innate Immunity | Florian Douam |
| Thu, Feb 6 | Hannah Brown Harding, PhD Mass General Hospital/Harvard |
Fungal Pathogens Rewire Innate Immunity | Andy Henderson |
| Feb 12 | Nikolai Slavov, PhD Northeastern University |
From Single-cell Proteomics to Molecular Mechanisms | Adam Hume |
| Feb 19 | No Seminar | ||
| Feb 26 | Nathan Sherer, PhD University of Wisconsin |
Dissecting HIV-1 RNA Regulation using Live Cell Imaging and RNA Capture Proteomics | Hisashi Akiyama |
| Thu, Feb 27 11:00 am |
Fumiaki Ito, PhD Univ. of California, Los Angeles |
Visualizing Virus-host Molecular Arms Race with Cryo-EM | Andy Henderson |
| Mar 5 | No Seminar | ||
| Mar 12 | Cancelled Jason Nomburg, PhD Gladstone Institutes, UCSF |
Andy Henderson | |
| Mar 19 | No Seminar | ||
| Mar 26 | No Seminar | ||
| Apr 2 | Juan Fuxman Bass, PhD Boston University |
Virus-host Cross-transcriptional Regulation | Rachel Fearns |
| Apr 9 | Tuan Leng Tay, DSc Boston University |
Microglia in Neuroinflammation: A Long-term Affair? | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Mon, June 23 12:30 pm |
Som Chatterjee, PhD University of Maryland |
Non-classical Mechanisms of Broad-spectrum Beta-lactam Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and their Implication on Bacterial Pathogenesis | Rachel Fearns |
| June 25 | Michael Vahey, PhD Washington University |
Biophysical Mechanisms of Respiratory Viral Infection and Antiviral Immunity | Rachel Fearns |
| July 7 | Lu Huang, PhD University of Arkansas |
Cracking the Code of Protective Immunity in Tuberculosis: Metabolism and Beyond | Rachel Fearns |