Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology Seminar Series
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Training Program hold a weekly Seminar Series on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon in X222. 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.
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Elucidating Mechanisms of Immunity to Nipah Virus Infection through Generation of Attenuated Viruses and a Single-Cycle Vectored Vaccine
| Spring 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Title | Program | Host |
| Jan 18 | Brad Jones, PhD Weill Cornell Medicine |
Silence and Resistance in HIV Reservoir Persistence | NEIDL | Florian Douam |
| Jan 25 | Adam Lauring, MD, PhD University of Michigan |
How Host-level Processes Drive and Constrain the Evolution of New Viral Variants | MICRO | Manish Sagar |
| Feb 1 | Meg Younger, PhD Boston University |
Non-Canonical Olfaction in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes | NEIDL | Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer |
| Feb 8 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb 15 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb 22 | No Seminar | |||
| Mar 1 | Avinash Bhandoola, PhD NIH |
Transcriptional Control of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cell Development | NEIDL | Florian Douam |
| Mar 8 | TBA | |||
| Mar 15 | Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University |
CMV and Cardiometabolic Disease in Persons Living with HIV | MICRO | Jennifer Snyder-Cappione |
| Mar 22 | Liang Shan, PhD Washington University |
The CARD8 Inflammasome in HIV Pathogenesis and Viral Persistence | MICRO | Rahm Gummuluru and Andrew Henderson |
| Mar 29 | John Misasi, PhD NIAID, NIH |
Immune Recognition of Key Steps in Ebola Virus Entry | NEIDL | Nancy Sullivan |
| Apr 5 | Sukanya Narasimhan, PhD Yale School of Medicine |
Blocking Tick Transmission of Pathogens: A Relentless Pursuit | NEIDL | Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer |
| Apr 12 | STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Stephanie Seifert, PhD Washington State University |
Identifying Cryptic Animal Reservoirs for high Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens | MICRO | Ellen Suder |
| Apr 19 | Nicole Kilian, PhD Heidelberg University |
Malaria, Maurer’s clefts and Mummies | NEIDL | Catherine Costello and Elke Mühlberger |
| Apr 26 | Viviana Simon, MD, PhD Mt Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine |
Sleep No More – Determinants of HIV Persistence | MICRO | Rahm Gummuluru and Andrew Henderson |
| May 3 | S. Rameeza Allie, PhD Pennsylvania State University |
Resident Memory B Cells in the Frontline of Respiratory Immunity | ITP | Jeffrey Browning |
| May 10 | Michelle Teplensky, PhD Boston University |
Harnessing Nanomaterial Architecture to Program the Immune System | NEIDL | John Connor |
| Tuesday, June 13 |
Harry Taylor, PhD SUNY Upstate |
Starve the Beast and Tame the Flame: Harnessing HIV and Inflammation by Targeting Immunometabolism |
VIM | Rahm Gummuluru |
| June 14 | Laith N. AL-Eitan, MSc, PhD Jordan University of Science and Technology |
The Middle East Falling Behind on Biosafety, Biosecurity and One Health Measures |
NEIDL | Davidson Hamer |
| June 21 | Filiz Kormaz, PhD UMass Medical Center |
LOX-1-Dependent Regulation of Immunity and Metabolism in the Pneumonic Lung |
VIM | Rahm Gummuluru |
| July 19 | Partha Biswas, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
Comorbidities: New Challenges in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases | VIM | Rahm Gummuluru |
