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. 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 17 | Andries Steyn, PhD University of Alabama School of Medicine |
3D Footprints of Active and Latent Tuberculosis: Insights from Bench to Bedside | Igor Kramnik |
Jan 24 | Anne Moscona, MD Columbia University |
Activities of a Paramyxovirus Fusion Complex on the Viral Surface | John Connor |
Jan 31 | Mary Kearney, PhD National Cancer Institute |
HIV Latency and Rebound | Andy Henderson |
Feb 7 | Priya Shah, PhD University of California, Davis |
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Virology and Engineering to Drive Discovery | Rob Davey |
Feb 14 | No Seminar | ||
Feb 21 | No Seminar | ||
Feb 28** | Philip Kranzusch, PhD Harvard Medical School |
Evolution of Antiviral Immunity | Elke Mühlberger |
Mar 6 | A.J. te Velthuis, PhD Princeton |
Aberrant Influenza Virus Transcription Termination Plays a Key Role in Innate Immune Activation | Rachel Fearns |
Mar 13 | Christopher Sullivan, PhD University of Texas at Austin |
Triphosphate Balance: Pro- and Anti-Viral Activities of DUSP11 in Virus Infection |
Rachel Fearns |
Mar 20 | Ann Marshak-Rothstein, PhD UMass Chan Medical School |
Cell Type-specific Functions of STING and TLR9 and Autoinflammatory Diseases in the Liver and Lung | Robin Ingalls |
Mar 27 | Duo Xu, PhD Stanford University |
Vaccine Design via Immunofocusing Strategies | Nancy Sullivan |
Apr 3 | Akira Ono, PhD University of Michigan Medical School |
HIV-1 Assembly at the Plasma Membrane: What’s in the Envelope can Change Your Fate | Hisashi Akiyama |
Apr 10 | TBA | ||
Apr 17 | Seema Lakdawala, PhD Emory University School of Medicine |
Every Breath you Take: Airborne Transmission of Influenza Viruses | Elke Mühlberger |
Apr 24 | TBA | ||
May 1 | TBA | ||
May 8 | Gabor Kemenesi, PhD University of Pécs |
Elke Mühlberger |
**Note this seminar is in person only.