Seminars & Journal Clubs
Microbial Pathogenesis, Inflammation, and Immunology Seminar Series
The Department of Microbiology, NEIDL Institute, Program in Inflammatory Disorders, and Immunology Training Program will hold a weekly Microbial Pathogenesis, Inflammation, and Immunology Seminar Series on Wednesdays at 12:00 pm noon in L504 (unless otherwise noted) and the Journal Club sessions are held on Mondays at 12:00 noon also in the Microbiology Conference Room L504.
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| 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 |
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. Professor University of Toronto |
“B Cells in MS – Friend or Foe?” | Immunology | Jeff Browning |
| Mar 1 | Nancie MacIver, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor 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 |
| 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 | Immunology | |||
| Mar 22 | Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University |
Microbiology | Rahm Gummuluru | |
| Mar 29 | Inflammation | |||
| Apr 5 | Francois Villinger, D.V.M, Ph.D. University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Microbiology | Rahm Gummuluru | |
| Apr 12 Location: NEIDL | Kartik Chandran, Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
NEIDL | Elke Mühlberger | |
| Apr 19 | Immunology | |||
| Apr 26 | Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Microbiology | Jay Mizgerd | |
| May 3 | STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Jeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco |
Microbiology | Michelle Fleury | |
| May 10 | Carla Greenbaum, M.D. Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason |
Immunology | Barb Nikolajczyk | |
The Department of Microbiology, Program in Infectious Diseases Training Program, and Immunology Training Program Trainee Seminar/Journal Club sessions are held on Mondays at 12:00 noon in the Microbiology Conference Room L504.
| SPRING 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY JOURNAL CLUB |
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| Jan 9 | Microbiology Journal Club | Sila Ataca | Briney, B. et al. 2016. Tailored Immunogens Direct Affinity Maturation Toward HIV Neutralizing Antibodies. Cell 166:1459-1470. | |
| Jan 16 | No Seminar | |||
| Jan 23 | Immunology Journal Club |
Kyle Pedro | Park, R.J. et al. 2016. A Genome-Wide CRISPR Screen Identifies a Restricted set of HIV Host Dependency Factors. Nat. Genetics [Epub ahead of print]. | |
| Jan 30 | Inflammation Journal Club | Christina Lisk | Hutton, A.J. et al. 2017. Human Lung Fibroblasts Present Bacterial Antigens to Autologous Lung Th Cells. J. Immunol. 198:110-118. | |
| Feb 6 | Postdoctoral Fellow Seminars | John Ruedas (Connor Lab) and Sarah Shearer (Fearns Lab) |
“Common Occurrence of Tissue-Culture Adapted Ebola Viruses Caused by a Single Mutation in the Glycoprotein Fusion Loop” and “Initiation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transcription and Replication” |
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| Feb 13 | Student Seminars | Molly Braun (Fearns Lab) and Matthew Gagne (Henderson Lab) |
“The Multifunctional Role of a Domain in the RSV Polymerase” and “The Effects of Differential T Cell Stimulation on HIV Infection and Reactivation” |
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| Feb 20 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb 27 | Microbiology Journal Club | Rachel Yuen | Deriu, E. et al. 2016. Influenza Virus Affects Intestinal Microbiota and Secondary Salmonella Infection in the Gut through Type I Interferons. PLoS Pathogens 12(5): e1005572. | |
| Mar 6 | Immunology Journal Club | Matthew Gagne | Druzd, David et al. Lymphocyte Circadian Clocks Control Lymph Node Trafficking and Adaptive Immune Responses. Immunity , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , 120 – 132 | |
| Mar 13 | Outside speaker for Microbial Pathogenesis, Inflammation, and Immunology Training Program Seminar | |||
| Mar 20 | Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar | Dequina Nicholas (Nikolajczyk Lab) and Judith Olejnik (Mühlberger Lab) |
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| Mar 27 | Student Seminars | Tessa Cressey Fearns and Muhlberger Labs) and Ludy Registre (Sagar Lab) |
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| Apr 3 | Microbiology Journal Club | Kimberley Barker | ||
| Apr 10 | Immunology Journal Club | Ian Francis | ||
| Apr 17 | No Seminar | |||
| Apr 24 | Student Seminars | R Baer (Galagan Lab) and Kyle Pedro (Henderson Lab) |
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| May 1 | Inflammation Journal Club | Eric Brownhill | ||
| May 8 | Postdoctoral Fellow Seminars | Luis Agosto (Henderson Lab) and Michael Reiser (Wetzler Lab) |
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| Monday, May 22 @ 10:00 am | Dissertation Defense Seminar | Kaitlin Sawatzki | ||
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