Previous Seminars


Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Sept 18	Maria Schumacher, PhD Duke University	Guanine Nucleotide Signaling in Transcription	Rachel Fearns
Sept 25	Michael Betts, PhD University of Pennsylvania	My DOGMA ate your Assumptions about the HIV Reservoir	Andy Henderson
Oct 2 Location: L110	Student Invited Speaker Michael Diamond, MD, PhD Washington University VIM	Coronavirus Immunity: Imprinting effects and the Broadly Inhibitory Mucosal Vaccines	Scott Adams
Oct 9	Nancie Archin, PhD University of North Carolina	Chasing an HIV Cure: Addressing Sex Differences and Enhancing Latency Reversal	Andy Henderson
Oct 16	Benjamin tenOever, PhD New York University, Langone	Defensive Maneuvers: How Influenza A Virus Sustains its Pandemic Potential	Elke Mühlberger
Oct 23	TBA
Oct 30	Daisy Leung, PhD Washington University	Viral Immune Antagonism of Host Nuclear Functions	John Misasi
Nov 6	No Seminar
Nov 13	No Seminar
Nov 20 Location: L110	Student Invited Speaker Charles M. Rice ,PhD The Rockefeller University	A Cure for Hepatitis C, Now What?	Andrew Leal
Nov 27	No Seminar
Dec 4	Florian Douam, PhD VIM, Boston University	Illuminating the Immunopathology of Long-COVID using a Novel Humanized Mouse Model	Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 11	Mohsan Saeed, PhD BCB, Boston University	Innate Immune Evasion: A Curious Case of a Coronaviral Ribonuclease	Florian Douam

Fall 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Sept 27	Kathryn Hanley, PhD New Mexico State Univ.	The Tortoise or the Hare? Within-Host Dynamics and Between-Host Transmission of Sylvatic Dengue, Zika and Yellow Fever Viruses	NEIDL	Anthony Griffith
Oct 4	Christopher Rice, PhD Purdue University	Awareness, Drug Discovery and Diagnostic Tools against Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae	NEIDL	Robert Davey
Oct 11	No Seminar
Oct 18	No Seminar
Oct 25	No Seminar
Nov 1	Christelle Harly, PhD Nantes Université	Transcriptional Control of Innate Lymphoid Cell Development	NEIDL	Florian Douam
Nov 8	Student Invited Speaker Shiv Pillai, PhD, MBBS Mass General Hospital	Infection, T-B Collaboration, Memory and Disease	ITP	Christina Ennis
Nov 15	TBA
Nov 22	No Seminar
Nov 29	Student Invited Speaker Courtney Woolsey, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch	Rapid-Acting and Durable Vaccines Against Priority Pathogens	NEIDL	Jacquelyn Turcinovic
Dec 6	Molly Ohainle, PhD University of California, Berkeley	HIV-CRISPR Screens Identify Intracellular Barriers to HIV Infection	VIM	Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 13	Matthew Gagne, PhD Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH	Mucosal Delivery of Vaccines and Therapeutic Agents for Enhanced Protection against COVID-19	NEIDL & VIM	Andy Henderson

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
Aug 16	Priyadharshini Devarajan, PhD UMass Medical Center	Lessons from Influenza: Late Infection-Signals and Local Antigen Drive Development of TFH Effector, Cytotoxic CD4 Effectors and CD4 Memory for Durable Immunity	VIM	Rahm Gummuluru

FALL 2022 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Oct 5	Jennifer Gommerman, PhD University of Toronto	Fantastic IgA plasma cells and where to find them	ITP	Jeff Browning
Oct 12	Lijun Rong, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago	Small molecule entry inhibitors of emerging viruses, mechanisms and therapeutics	NEIDL	Rob Davey
Oct 19	No Seminar
Oct 26	No Seminar
Nov 2	Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medicine	Biological parallels of the HIV and SARS CoV2 pandemics: Discovering vulnerabilities for intervention	MICRO	Jen Cappione
Nov 9	Mohsan Saeed, PhD BUSM Virtual Presentation	Deciphering the determinants of Omicron pathogenicity	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru

SPRING 2022
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 19	Shailabh Kumar, PhD Stanford University Virtual Presentation	Nanointerfaces for molecules to mosquitoes: Mapping vector-pathogen dynamics at the planetary scale	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Jan 26	Faith Osier, PhD Imperial College London Virtual Presentation	Fc-dependent IgG parasite clearance as a guide for vaccine development against P. falciparum malaria	MICRO	Josiane Fofana
Tue, Feb 1 9 AM	Adriana Tomic, PhD University of Oxford, UK Virtual Presentation	SIMON says: Revealing immunity to influenza using systems immunology	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Tue, Feb 8 9 AM	Yvon L. Woappi, PhD Harvard Medical School Virtual Presentation	Learning how to regenerate tissue from DNA viruses	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Feb 9	Connie Chang, PhD Montana State University Virtual Presentation	Single cell infection studies of influenza virus using droplet microfluidics	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Feb 16	Oliver Fregoso, PhD University of California Los Angeles Virtual Presentation	Understanding the host DNA damage response in HIV replication and cure	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Thu, Feb 17 9 AM	Abraam Yakoub, PhD University of North Dakota Virtual Presentation	Virus and virus engineering in disease pathogenesis and therapy	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Feb 23	Jeffrey Grabowski, PhD NIH/NIAID Virtual Presentation	Virus interactions with ticks: Tick cultures and translation towards countermeasure development	BME/ NEIDL	John Connor
Mar 2	No Seminar
Mar 9	No Seminar
Mar 16	Helen Lazear, PhD University of North Carolina	Vector-independent transmission of Zika virus and other flaviviruses	NEIDL	Florian Douam
Mar 23	ITP Student Invited Speaker Gordon Freeman, PhD Dana Farber Cancer Center	Cancer Immunotherapy: PD-1 and new targets	ITP	Megan Snyder
Mar 30	Claudia Jakubzick, PhD Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine	Natural antibodies are the keys that start the engine to T cell-mediated antitumor immunity… and pulmonary macrophages	ITP	Jay Mizgerd
Apr 6 NEIDL 1st Floor Conf. Room	Alexander Ploss, PhD Princeton University	Looking under the hood of a killer virus: New insights into the molecular biology of hepatitis B virus	NEIDL	Florian Douam
Apr 13	Jie Sun, PhD University of Virginia	Respiratory viral infection: From acute morbidity to chronic sequelae	ITP	Jay Mizgerd
Apr 20	Margaret Scull, PhD University of Maryland	Mucin-mediated Defense Against Influenza Virus Infection	NEIDL	Mohsan Saeed
Apr 27	Microbiology Student Invited Speaker Emmie de Wit, PhD NIAID, NIH	A rapid response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: Making past experiences count	MICRO	Callie Donahue
Thu. May 26, 12.30 pm	Tijana Ivanovic, PhD Brandeis University	Function of Shape in Biological Organization: A Case Study on Viral Adaptation	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Aug 17	Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Enhancing Immunity after Viral Infection and Vaccination	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru

FALL 2021
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Oct 20	David Martinez, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Virtual Presentation	“Immunologic Approaches to Preventing and Treating Sarbecovirus Infections”	MICRO	Lee Wetzler
Oct 27	TBA
Nov 3	Craig Cameron, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Virtual Presentation	“Antiviral Therapy: Towards the Personal and the Precise”	MICRO	Andy Henderson
Nov 10	Sebla Kutluay, PhD Washington Univeristy	“The Unexpected Role of HIV-1 Integrase in Particle Maturation”	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Nov 17	Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco	“What’s in a Niche? Type 2 ‘Allergic’ Lymphocyte Topography meets Function”	MICRO	Jeff Browning
Nov 24	No Seminar
Dec 1	Shawn Lyons, PhD BUSM	“The RNA Biology of Stress Response”	MICRO	Rachel Fearns
Dec 8	Mike Kagey, PhD Leap Therapeutics	“Targeting DKK1 in Oncology”	MICRO	Jen Cappione

Spring 2021
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Feb 3	Samantha Bell, PhD. Texas A&M	“Cytosolic Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activates Potent Immune Responses”	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 10	Kiera Clayton, Ph.D. Ragon Institute	“Macrophages: Hide outs for HIV and drivers of inflammation”	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 17	Parisa Kalantari, Ph.D. Tufts University	“Molecular Pathways Restraining Immunopathology in Schistosomiasis”	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 24	Robert Abbott, Ph.D. La Jolla Institute for Immunology	“To B or not to B? The Story of B Cell Precursors and Complex Vaccine Antigens”	MICRO	Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 3	No Seminar
Mar 10	No Seminar
Mar 17	Wilton Williams, Ph.D. Duke University	“Fab-dimerized Glycan-reactive Antibodies are a Novel Structural Category of Natural Antibodies”	ITP	Thomas Kepler
Mar 24	No Seminar
Mar 31	No Seminar
Apr 7	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Michaela Gack, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic	“Innate Immune Regulatory Circuits and Antagonism by SARS-CoV-2”	MICRO/ITP	Michael Breen
Apr 14	Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical Center	“Rational Design of a Vaccine to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus: We are Halfway There”	ITP	Thomas Kepler

Fall 2020
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Oct 7	Britt Glaunsinger, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley	“Controlling the Message: Viral Restriction of Host Gene Expression”	NEIDL	Tonya Colpitts
Oct 14	Bert Semler, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine	“Exploitation of Nuclear Functions by Cytoplasmic RNA Viruses”	NEIDL	Mohsan Saeed
Oct 21	Jason McLellan, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin	“Structure-Function Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Development of COVID-19 Interventions”	NEIDL	Rachel Fearns
Oct 28	Joseph Zaia, Ph.D. Boston University	“Quantifying Changes in Spike Protein Glycosylation during Viral Evolution”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Nov 4	No Seminar
Nov 11	No Seminar
Nov 18	Sebastian Joyce, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center	“Taking Antigen Presentation to the Bazar!”	Micro./ Immunol.	Andy Henderson
Nov 25	No Seminar
Dec 2	No Seminar
Dec 9	No Seminar

SPRING 2020
Date Location	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 22 NEIDL	Alejandro Balazs, Ph.D. Ragon Institute/MGH	Escapability of HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies is the Major Driver of Therapeutic Efficacy	NEIDL	Florian Douam
Jan 29 670 Alb	Facundo Batista, Ph.D. Ragon Institute/MGH	Informing Vaccine by Defining the Rules of Antibody Responses	Microbiology	Lee Wetzler
Feb 5 NEIDL	C A N C E L E D Carolyn Coyne, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	~~Antiviral Signaling at the Maternal-Fetal Interface~~	NEIDL	Mohsan Saeed
Feb 12 NEIDL	Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	Impact of Obesity on Influenza: From Disease Severity to Vaccine Efficacy	NEIDL	Anthony Griffiths
Feb 19	No Seminar
Feb 26 NEIDL	Ann Palmenberg, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison	Rhinovirus C Isn’t the Common Cold	NEIDL	Mohsan Saeed
Mar 4 NEIDL	Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D. Yale University	RNA Agonists for Activating RIG-I Antitumor and Antiviral Responses	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
Mar 11 670 Alb	C A N C E L E D Barbara Rehermann, M.D. NIDDK, NIH	Natural Versus Laboratory World: Wild Mouse Microbiota Improve Host Fitness and Preclinical Models	Microbiology	Jay Mizgerd
Mar 18 670 Alb	C A N C E L E D Daniel Stetson, Ph.D. University of Washington	Regulation of Intracellular DNA Sensing	Immunology	Hans Dooms
Mar 25 670 Alb	C A N C E L E D Jason McLellan, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin	Structure-based Development of Interventions for Pneumoviruses and Coronaviruses	Microbiology	Rachel Fearns
Apr 1 NEIDL	C A N C E L E D Derek Walsh, Ph.D. Northwestern University	Why Nuclei Rotate During Cytomegalovirus Infection	NEIDL	Anthony Griffiths
Apr 8 670 Alb	C A N C E L E D Sallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D. Duke University		Immunology	Thomas Kepler
Apr 15 NEIDL	C A N C E L E D Alexander Ploss, Ph.D. Princeton University	The Long and Winding Road Toward Breaking the Barriers of Interspecies Transmission of Human Viral Pathogens	NEIDL	Florian Douam
Apr 22	No Seminar
Apr 29 670 Alb	C A N C E L E D STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Jennifer Lund, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center		Microbiology	Kimberly Barker

FALL 2019 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Sept 25	Juan de la Torre, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute	Bridging Basic and Translational Research to Combat Human Pathogenic Mammarenaviruses	NEIDL	Rob Davey
Oct 2	Alexander Bukreyev, Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch	Subversion of cell-mediated responses by Ebola virus	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Oct 9	Tijana Ivanovic, Ph.D. Brandeis University	Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion	NEIDL	Rachel Fearns
Oct 16	Eric Calvo, Ph.D. NIH/NIAID	Mosquito salivary proteins as modulators of vertebrate vascular biology and pathogen transmission	NEIDL	Tonya Colpitts
Oct 23	No Seminar
Oct 30	No Seminar
Nov 6	Jayne Danska, Ph.D. University of Toronto	Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease: Gene-Environment Interactions and the Gut Microbiome	MICRO	Jeff Browning
Nov 13	TBA
Nov 20	Catherine Adamson, Ph.D. University of St Andrews	Exploring Viral Interferon Antagonists as Novel Antiviral Targets	MICRO	Rachel Fearns
Nov 27	No Seminar
Dec 4	Stefan Kaufmann, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology	Infection and Immunity: At the Bench, Computer and Bedside	NEIDL	Igor Kramnik
Dec 11	Nancy Sullivan, Ph.D. NIH Vaccine Research Center	Harnessing Immunity Against Ebola Virus	NEIDL	Anthony Griffiths

Spring 2019 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Location	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 23	Christopher Basler, Ph.D. Georgia State University	New Insights into Host Interactions with Ebola virus VP30 and VP35	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Jan 30	Priti Kumar, Ph.D. Yale School of Medicine	Balancing Pathology and Protection in Flaviviral Infections of The CNS	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Feb 6	No Seminar
Feb 13	No Seminar
Feb 20	Stephan Kissler, Ph.D. Joslin Diabetes Center	Type 1 Diabetes: Genes, Environment, and More Genes	Immunology	Hans Dooms
Feb 27	Stefan Sarafianos, Ph.D. Emory University	Targeting HIV and HBV with Novel Antivirals	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 6	Keith Jerome, M.D., Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Gene Therapy for Elimination of Persistent Viral Infections	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Mar 13	Javier Irazoqui, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center	The Novel Transcription Factor TFEB Integrates Metabolism, Innate Immunity, and Neural Signaling	Immunology	Lee Quinton
Mar 20	Matthias Götte, Ph.D. University of Alberta	Active Site Inhibitors of Viral Polymerases: From HIV to Ebola	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
Mar 27	Paul Maglione, M.D., Ph.D. Pulmonary Center, BUSM	Unraveling the Variable in Common Variable Immunodeficiency	Immunology	Jay Mizgerd
Apr 3	RESCHEDULED TO October 9, 2019 Tijana Ivanovic, Ph.D. Brandeis University	Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion	NEIDL	Rachel Fearns
Apr 10	Ya-Chi Ho, M.D., Ph.D. Yale School of Medicine	Single-cell Transcriptional Landscape Reveals Aberrant HIV-1 Host Interactions upon Latency Reversal	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Apr 17	No Seminar
Apr 24	STUDEDNT INVITED Donna Farber, Ph.D. Columbia University	Functional Regulation and Tissue Adaptation of Human T Cells	Microbiology	Kim Barker
May 1	Danielle Clark, Ph.D. Austere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESCO)	The Host-Response to Severe Infection: Acute Disease and Long-Term Sequelae	NEIDL	Nahid Badelia and John Connor

FALL 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Location	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Sept 26 NEIDL	Douglas Brackney, Ph.D. Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station	Navigating Anatomical Barriers to Transmission: An Arboviruses Tale	NEIDL	Tonya Colpitts
Oct 3 NEIDL	C A N C E L L E D ~~Slava Epstein, Ph.D.~~ ~~Northeastern Universit~~y		~~NEIDL~~	~~Igor Kramnik~~
Oct 10 L311	Andrew Emili, Ph.D. Boston University	“Mind the Gap: Mapping the Interaction Interface Between the Proteome and Metabolome”	Microbiology	Ron Corley
Oct 17 L311	Hisashi Akiyama, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“HIV Infection and Innate Immune Responses in Myeloid Cells”	Immunology	Tom Kepler
Oct 24 NEIDL	William Bishai, M.D., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	“M. tuberculosis host Subversion: Dampening a DAMP”	NEIDL	Igor Kramnik
Oct 31 L311	Lei Jin, Ph.D., M.Sc. University of Florida	“STING in Lung Innate and Adaptive Immunity”	Immunology	Jay Mizgerd
Nov 7 NEIDL	Peter Daszak, Ph.D. EcoHealth Alliance	“Forecasting Pandemics and the Global Virome Project”	NEIDL	Jerry Keusch
Nov 14 L311	Irene Salinas, Ph.D. Center for Evolutionary & Theoretical Immunology	“Olfactory Sensory Neurons Trigger Ultra-Fast Antiviral Immune Responses in Bony Fish”	Immunology	Tom Kepler
Friday, Nov 16 NEIDL	Wataru Kamitani, D.V.M., Ph.D. Research Institute for Microbial Diseases Osaka Univeristy	“Viral RNA Recognition by Coronavirus nsp1”	NEIDL	Rob Davey and Jerry Keusch
Nov 21	No Seminar
Nov 28 NEIDL	Samuel Behar, M.D., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	“Tuberculosis: Recognizing the Problem”	NEIDL	Igor Kramnik
Dec 5 NEIDL	Mark Denison, M.D. Vanderbilt	“Inducing Infidelity as an Antiviral Strategy for MERS and Emerging Coronaviruses”	NEIDL	Rachel Fearns

SPRING 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 17	Mary (Peggy) Crow, M.D. Weil Cornell Medical College	Triggers of Systemic Autoimmune Disease: Do Virus-Like Elements Play a Role?	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Jan 24	No Seminar
Thursday, Feb 1 @ 11:00 AM	STUDENT INVITED Erica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D. The Scripps Research Institute	Antibodies Against Ebola and Lassa – It took a Village	Microbiology	Tessa Cressey
Feb 7	Joseph Craft, M.D. Yale School of Medicine	T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Feb 14	Alan Rothman, Ph.D. University of Rhode Island	Protective and Pathological Immune Mechanisms in Dengue	NEIDL	Tonya Colpitts
Feb 21	No Seminar
Feb 28	C A N C E L L E D ~~Pardis Sabeti, M.D., D. Phil.~~ ~~Broad Institute~~
Mar 7 Location: NEIDL	Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic	The Secret Life of Measles Virus: Cytoplasm Transfer and RNA Recombination	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Mar 14	RESCHEDULED TO MAY 2 DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
Mar 21	RESCHEDULED TO JUNE 13, 2018 ~~Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.~~ Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Mar 28	Owen Pornillos, Ph.D. University of Virginia School of Medicine	Structural Biology of Retroviral Capsid Recognition and Restriction	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 4	Paul Spearman, M.D. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center	HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trafficking and Particle Assembly	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 11	No Seminar
Apr 18	No Seminar
Apr 25	Daniel Cifuentes, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	miR-144/451 Cluster: The Trojan Horse of Hematopoietic microRNAs	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
May 2	Catharine Bosio, Ph.D. NIAID, NIH	Manipulation of Host Cell Metabolism as a Mechanism of Virulence for Francisella tularensis	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
May 9	Balaji Manicassamy, Ph.D. University of Chicago	Viral and Host Determinants of Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Pathogenesis	NEIDL	Ron Corley
May 16	Robert Stahelin, Ph.D. Purdue University College of Pharmacy	Lipid-Dependent Assembly and Budding of Filoviruses	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
May 23	C A N C E L L E D ~~Carl Ware, Ph.D.~~ ~~Sanford Burnham Prebys~~ ~~Medical Discovery Institute~~		Immunology	Jeff Browning
May 30	Florian Douam, Ph.D. Princeton University	Elucidating Immunological Mechanisms Regulating Flavivirus Infection in vivo	NEIDL	Ron Corley
June 13	Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D. Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine	Glycoprotein Team Burglary: Entry and Egress of the Deadly Zoonotic Henipaviruses	Microbiology	John Connor

FALL 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date Location	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Sept 27 L504	Gregory Melikian, Ph.D. Emory University	Mechanistic Studies of Virus Entry and Restriction by Host Membrane Proteins	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Friday, Sept 29 NEIDL	Mark Harris, Ph.D. University of Leeds	The Hepatitis C Virus Protein: Function and Regulation	NEIDL	Paul Duprex
Oct 4 NEIDL	Jason Rock, PhD. Boston University	Stem Cells and Lung Repair/ Regeneration	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Oct 11
Oct 18 NEIDL	Scott Weaver, Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch	Vaccines for Emerging Urban Arboviruses: Chikungunya and Zika	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Oct 25 L504	Joseph Craft, M.D. Yale University School of Medicine	T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Nov 1 NEIDL	James Whitney, Ph.D. Ragon Institute	Therapeutic Development for Zika Virus Infection	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Nov 8
Nov 15 L504	Zandrea Ambrose, PhD. University of Pittsburgh	Nevertheless it Persisted: HIV Drug Resistance Impacts on PrEP and Antiretroviral Therapy	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Nov 22	No Seminar
Nov 29 L504	Michael Niederweis, Ph.D. The University of Alabama at Birmingham	The Necrosis-Inducing Toxin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Microbiology	Igor Kramnik
Dec 6	Mohsan Saeed, Ph.D. The Rockefeller Univeristy	Creating a Suitable Host Environment for Virus Replication	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Dec 13 NEIDL	Jason Botten, Ph.D. University of Vermont	Virus Particles: Host Machinery Critical for their Formation and Infectivity	NEIDL	John Connor

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	“Epigenetic Variability from Individuals to Single Cells”	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. University of Toronto	“B Cells in MS – Friend or Foe?”	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Mar 1	Nancy MacIver, M.D., Ph.D. 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 and John Porco
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	No Seminar		Immunology
Mar 22	Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University	“Host Defenses Against Ancient and Modern Retroviruses”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 29	No Seminar		Inflammation
Tuesday, Apr 4 Location: NEIDL	Tonya Colpitts, Ph.D. University of South Carolina School of Medicine	“Discovery of Arbovirus Transmission Factors & Vector-Virus Host Interactions”	NEIDL	John Connor and Elke Mühlberger
Apr 5	Francois Villinger, D.V.M, Ph.D. University of Louisiana at Lafayette	“Dynamics of Virus and Host Cells: Use of Novel Tools to Follow Host/Viral Interactions in vivo“	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 12 Location: NEIDL	Kartik Chandran, Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine	“Unraveling and Inhibiting the Cell Invasion Mechanism of Ebola Virus”	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
Apr 19	No Seminar		Immunology
Apr 26	Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham	“Necroptosis in the Lungs and Heart during Bacterial Pneumonia”	Microbiology	Jay Mizgerd
Monday, May 1	Renee WY Chan, Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong	“Rhinovirus Infection and Their Receptors in the Human Respiratory Airways”	Microbiology	Jay Mizgerd
May 3	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Jeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco	“Immunobiology of Tregs in Autoimmunity and Cancer”	Microbiology	Michelle Fleury
May 10	Carla Greenbaum, M.D. Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason	“Disease Modifying Therapy in T1D… What do we Know Now and What do we Need to Know”	Immunology	Barb Nikolajczyk
May 17 Location: NEIDL	Brett Lindenbach, Ph.D. Yale School of Medicine	“The Machinery of Flaviviridae Replication, Assembly, and Pathogenesis”	NEIDL	John Connor and Elke Mühlberger
May 24 Location: NEIDL	Gerald T Keusch, M.D. Boston University	“National Academy of Medicine Report on Therapeutic and Vaccine Clinical Research during the West Africa Ebola Outbreak: What went wrong and What went right”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
May 31	David Lamb, Ph.D. Swansea University Medical School	“Cytochrome P450 Genes in Viruses”	ITP	David Sherr
June 14 Location: NEIDL	Vincent Munster, Ph.D. NIH, NIAID	“The Ecology of Emerging Viruses: From Host Reservoir to Disease”	NEIDL	Paul Duprex
Thursday, June 29 Location: NEIDL	Michael Kurilla, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Office of Biodefense, Research Resources, and Translational Research DMID, NIAID, NIH DHHS	“Infectious Disease Outbreak Response: Reactive, Proactive, Hyperactive, and Mostly Unattractive”	NEIDL	Ron Corley

FALL 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Wednesday, Aug 31 Location: NEIDL	Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D. Rocky Mountain Laboratories NIAID, NIH	“Comparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Reservoirs vs. Disease Models”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Tuesday, Sept 6 Location: NEIDL	Michael Holbrook, Ph.D. Integrated Research Facility NIAID, NIH	“Evaluation of Aerosol Models of Nipah Virus Infection”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Thursday, Sept. 8 Location: NEIDL	David Safronetz, Ph.D. University of Manitoba	“Field and Laboratory Investigations on Lassa Virus”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Sept 28	Xueling Wu, Ph.D. Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center	“Sequential Development of Neutralizing Antibodies and their Associated Envelope Antigens in SHIV_SF162P3N-Infected Rhesus Macaques”	Microbiology	Manish Sagar
Oct 5 Location: NEIDL	Jeremy Luban, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School	“Molecular Characterization of Clade-Defining Mutations from the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Oct 12	Timothy Schacker, M.D. University of Minnesota	“Lymph Node Fibrosis and HIV: Implications for the Cure and Beyond”	Immunology	Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 19	Sanjay Ram, M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center	“Can we Trap “the Clap” by Sugar-Coating it?”	Inflammation	Lee Wetzler
Oct 26	Stephen P. Goff, Ph.D. Columbia University	“Retroviral Silencing: Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Regulation”	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Nov 2 Location: NEIDL	Anthony Griffiths, Ph.D. Texas Biomedical Research Institute	“Advanced Development of Filovirus Countermeasures Yields Insights into Viral Pathogenesis”	NEIDL	Paul Duprex / Ron Corley
Nov 9	Michael Starnbach, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Manipulating the Immune Response to Chlamydia trachomatis“	Immunology	Lee Wetzler
Nov 16	Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	“Thoughts into the Origin of Microbial Virulence”	NEIDL	Igor Kramnik
Friday, Nov 18 Location: NEIDL	Estefania Rodriguez Burgos, Ph.D. Heinrich Pette Institute	“Humanized Mice to Study Viral Persistence and Pathogenesis”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Nov 23	No Seminar
Nov 30	Michael Gilmore, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Multidrug Resistant Enterococci: From Paleozoic Origin to Leading Hospital Pathogen”	Microbiology	Andrew Taylor
Dec 7 Location; NEIDL	Charles Shoemaker, Ph.D. Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine	“Camelid VHH-Based Neutralizing Agents (VNAs) as Unconventional and Versatile Disease Therapeutics”	NEIDL	John Samuelson
Dec 14	Egil Lien, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center	“Lessons from Highly Virulent Bacteria: Evasion and Activation of Innate Immunity by Plague”	Immunology	Lee Wetzler

SPRING 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 13 Location: NEIDL	Richard Webby, Ph.D. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	“Transmission of Influenza Viruses at the Human-Animal Interface”	NEIDL	Paul Duprex
Jan 20	Ulrich von Andrian, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Vaccination to Prevent Mucosal Infections”	Immunology	Munir Mosaheb
Jan 27	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Gabriel Victora Ph.D. Whitehead Institute	“Clonal and Cellular Dynamics in Germinal Centers”	Microbiology	Kaitlin Sawatzki
Feb 3	Sean Whelan, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Structure, Function and Inhibition of Large Proteins of Negativesense RNA Viruses – Single Polypeptide Chains that Catalyze Every Step of mRNA Transcription”	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Feb 10	No Seminar
Feb 17	No Seminar
Monday, Feb. 22 Location: NEIDL	Michael Katze, Ph.D. University of Washington	“Computational Biology, Genomics, (Epi)Genetics, and Systems Approaches: Unlocking the Mysteries of Deadly Virus Diseases in the 21st Century”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Feb 24	No Seminar
Friday, Feb 26	Julie Overbaugh, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	“HIV Prevention: A Basic Science Perspective”	Microbiology	Greg Viglianti
Mar 2	No Seminar
Mar 9	Xu Yu, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Immune Recognition of HIV-1 in Dendritic Cells form Elite Controllers”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Mar 16	No Seminar
Mar 23	Raul Andino, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco	“Virus Evolution during Acute Infection: Population Dynamics and Pathogenesis”	Microbiology	Rachel Fearns
Mar 30	Douglas Green, Ph.D. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	“LC3-associated Phagocytosis: Noncanonical Autophagy at the Interface of Innate Immunity, Inflammation, and Aging”	Immunology	Hans Dooms
Apr 6	Arlene Sharp, M.D., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Control of Antibody Responses by T Follicular Regulatory Cells”	Inflammation	Hans Dooms
Apr 13	Michael Emerman, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	“The Evolution and Function of HIV Restriction Factors”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Apr 20	Pamela Schwartzburgh, M.D., Ph.D. National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH	“Tuning T cell Responses”	Immunology	Andy Henderson
Apr 27	Trevor Siggers, Ph.D. Boston University	“Examining the Specificity of Immune Regulators using Protein-binding Microarrays”	Inflammation	Barb Nikolajczyk
May 4	Matthias Schnell, Ph.D. Thomas Jefferson University	“Rabies Virus-based Vaccine Platform Against Emerging Infectious Diseases”	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
May 11	Ronald Germain, M.D., Ph.D. NIAID, NIH	“Imaging Immunity: Developing a Spatiotemporal Understanding of Host Defense”	Immunology	Thomas Kepler
May 18	Anita McElroy, M.D., Ph.D. Emory University School of Medicine	“Immune Responses to Highly Pathogenic Viruses–Do They Help or Harm the Host?”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
May 25			Microbiology
Friday, June 3 Location: NEIDL	Marshall Bloom, M.D. NIAID, NIH	“The Enigmatic Biology of Vector-borne Flaviviruses”	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
June 8 Location: NEIDL	Darryl Falzarano, Ph.D. International Vaccine Centre University of Saskatchewan	“Development of Animal Models and Countermeasures for Emerging Viruses”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
June 15 Location: NEIDL	Pedro F C Vasconcelos, Ph.D. Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Technologia para Hemorrhagicas Virais Belém-Pará, Brasil	“Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil: Present Situation and Perspectives”	NEIDL	Horacio Frydman
June 22 Location: NEIDL	Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D. Heinrich Pette Institute	“Correlates of Immunity to Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses in Humans and Animal Models”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
June 29 Location: NEIDL	Alyson A. Kelvin, Ph.D. Immune Diagnostics and Research	“Viral Pathogenesis and Transmission in the Mother-Infant Dyad: From Influenza to Zika”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Aug 31 Location: NEIDL	Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D. NIAID/NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories	“Comparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Natural Reservoirs vs. Disease Models”	NEIDL	Ron Corley

FALL 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Sept 16 Location: NEIDL	Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D. Heinrich Pette Institute	“Ebola Virus Immunology: A Tale of Mice and Humans”	NEIDL	Elke Mühlberger
Sept 23	No Seminar
Sept 30	Emily Nelson and Judy Yen Boston University School of Medicine	“Ebola Virus Diagnostics in Sierra Leone”	Microbiology
Oct 7 Location: NEIDL	Kathleen A. McDonough, Ph.D. New York Department of Health	“Keeping up with the Neighborhood: Environmental Gene Regulation in M. tuberculosis”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Oct 14	No Seminar
Oct 21	No Seminar
Oct 28	Gregory Viglianti, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“Biosafety – It’s Everybody’s Business”	Microbiology
Nov 4 Location: NEIDL	Benhur Lee, M.D. Mt. Sinai	“Henipaviruses: Not that Rare, Much more Diverse, Still too Dangerous?”	NEIDL	Paul Duprex
Nov 11	No Seminar
Nov 18	Lydia Lynch, Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital	“Obese NK Cells Lack Energy to Kill”	Inflammation	Barb Nikolajczyk
Thursday, Nov 19 Location: NEIDL	Gary Kobinger, Ph.D. Public Health Agency of Canada	“A Decade of Ebola Work in the Field and on Vaccine and Therapeutics Culminating with the Biggest Outbreak and Real Solutions”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Nov 25	No Seminar
Dec 2	Ronald Swanstrom, Ph.D. University of North Carolina School of Medicine	“The Evolution of Macrophage-Tropic HIV-1 and its Role in Virus-Host Interactions”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Thursday, Dec 3 Location: NEIDL	Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D. NIH/NIAID	“Vaccines for Highly Pathogenic Viruses”	NEIDL	Ron Corley
Dec 9	Theresa T. Lu, M.D., Ph.D. Weill Medical College of Cornell University	“Regulating the Lymph Node Vascular-Stromal Compartment to Modulate Immunity”	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Dec 16	Ranjan Sen, Ph.D. Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, NIH	“Coordinating Genetics and Epigenetics to Assemble Antigen Receptor Genes”	Inflammation	Barb Nikolajczyk

SPRING 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 7	Vijay Kuchroo, D.V.M., Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School	“Unexpected Targets and Triggers of Autoimmunity”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Jan 14 Location: NEIDL	Amanda Jamieson, Ph.D. Brown University	“Tolerance of Polymicrobial Infections of the Lung: Innate Immune Response and the Microbiome”	NEIDL	Jerry Keusch
Jan 21	Carl Novina, M.D., Ph.D. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School	“Enhanced microRNA Activity is a Novel Oncogenic Function of eIF4F”	Microbiology	Rachel Fearns
Thursday, Jan 22	Immunology Faculty Candidate William Kaiser, Ph.D. Emory University School of Medicine	“Cell Death Pathways in Host Defense (The Good), Inflammation (The Bad), and the Developmental Failure (The Ugly)	Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Monday, Jan. 26	SEMINAR CANCELLED
Jan 28	SEMINAR CANCELLED		Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Tuesday, Feb 3 Location: NEIDL	Pathology/NEIDL Faculty Candidate James Brien, Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine	“Immune Recognition and restriction of Re-emerging Flaviviruses”	NEIDL	Ronald Corley
Feb 4	Ramnik Xavier, M.D., Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital	“Autophagy and Check Points in Mucosal Immunity”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Feb 11	SEMINAR CANCELLED
Feb 18	Andrew Luster, M.D., Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Imaging Chemokine Function in Disease”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Feb 25	Immunology Faculty Candidate Anthony Rongvaux, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine	“Studying Innate Immunity using Mouse and Humanized Mouse Models”	Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Mar 4	Rebecca Dutch, Ph.D. Univeristy of Kentucky	“Human Metapneumovirus Entry, Assembly, and Spread”	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Thursday, Mar 5	Immunology Faculty Candidate Amelia Pinto, Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine	“The Impact of Type I Interferon on Flavivirus Disease”	Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Mar 11	Student Invited Speaker Michael Katze, Ph.D. University of Washington	“Systems Virology: Can we help stop the Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola Epidemics”	Microbiology	Kate Sawatzki
Monday, Mar 16 @ 11:00 AM	Immunology Faculty Candidate Byron Au-Yeung, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco	“A Chemical-Genetic Approach to Control Zap 70 Activity Enables Quantitative and Temporal Control of T Cell Receptor Signaling”	Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Mar 18 Location: NEIDL	Matthew Frieman, Ph.D. University of Maryland	“SARS and MERS Coronavirus: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis”	NEIDL	Paul Duprex
Mar 25	Dario Vignali, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	“Targeting Tregs in Tumors”	Immunology	Hans Dooms
Apr 1	No Seminar
Apr 8	Zandrea Ambrose, PhD. University of Pittsburgh	“Live-Cell and Super Resolution Imaging of Post-Entry Steps of HIV-1 Infection”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Thursday, Apr 9	Immunology Faculty Candidate Pablo Penaloza, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“The Roles of CD4 T Cells during Chronic Viral Infection”	Microbiology	Thomas Kepler
Apr 15 Location: NEIDL	Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch	“Flaviviral Host Factors: A Love-Hate Relationship”	NEIDL	John Connor
Apr 22	June Round, Ph.D. University of Utah	“Redefining Self: How Commensal Microbes Influence Immunity and Health”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Apr 29	Douglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“Getting More from your Mice: Systems Analysis of in vivo Inflammatory Pathophysiology”	Microbiology	Barb Nikolajczyk

FALL 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Monday, Sept 8 Location: NEIDL	Thomas Hoenen, Ph.D. Rocky Mountain Laboratories	“Reverse Genetics as a Tool For Studying the Biology of Ebolaviruses”	Microbiology	John Connor
Sept 24	Igor Kramnik, M.D., Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“The Process of Dying: Thanatogenesis in Inflammatory Lesions – A Common Pathway and a Therapeutic Target”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Monday, Sept 29	Avery August, Ph.D. Cornell University	“Tuning T Cell Behavior”	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Oct 1	Marc Jenkins, Ph.D. University of Minnesota	“Tracking the Activation of CD4+ T Cells During Infection”	Immunology	Andy Henderson
Oct 8	Joyce Wong, Ph.D. Boston University	“Biomaterial Strategies to Detect and Treat Cardiovascular Disease”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Oct 15	Ellen Rothenberg, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology	“Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Early T-cell Lineage Commitment”	Immunology	Andy Henderson
Oct 22	Theodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D. The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center	“Breaking Barriers: HIV-1 Induced AIDS in Monkeys”	Microbiology	Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 29	Thomas Kepler, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“Human B Cell Lineage Dynamics in Chronic Infection and Repeated Immunization”	Immunology	David Sherr
Nov 5 Location: NEIDL	Ekaterina Heldwein, Ph.D. Tufts University School of Medicine	“Mechanisms of Host Manipulation by Herpesviruses”	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Nov 12	Senad Divanovic, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati	“Immunopathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”	Immunology	Barb Nikolajczyk
Nov 19	Ramon Bonegio, M.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“The Role of Endogenous TLR Signaling in Immune Complex Glomerulonephritis”	Immunology	David Sherr
Nov 26	NO SEMINAR
Dec 3	Jonathan Karn, Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University	“Molecular Mechanisms of HIV Latency and the Search for a Cure”	Microbiology	Andy Henderson
Dec 10	Kevin Francis, Ph.D. Perkin Elmer FellowElena Dubikovskaya, Ph.D. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	“Recent Advances in Preclinical Imaging of Infectious Diseases and Inflammation”	Inflammation	Caroline Genco
Dec 17 Location: NEIDL	Hideki Ebihara, Ph.D. NIAID, NIH	“In vitro and in vivo Approaches to Unraveling the Mechanisms for Replication and the Pathogenesis of Ebola and Marburg Viruses”	Microbiology	Elke Mühlberger

SPRING 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES
Date	Speaker	Title	Program	Host
Jan 15	Shannon Turley, Ph.D. Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard	“Regulation of Leukocyte Function and Territoriality by Lymphoid Stroma”	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Jan 22	No Seminar		Microbiology
Jan 29	Margaret Lowe University of California San Francisco	“When Worlds Collide: Identification of a Novel Endogenous Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand, Cinnabarinic Acid, that Drives Th22 Differentiation”	Immunology	Dave Sherr
Feb 5	*C A N C E L E D*		Microbiology
Feb 12	Jeffrey Browning, Ph.D. Boston University Medical School	“Lymphotoxin-LIGHT Pathway Regulates the Interferon Signature in Rheumatoid Arthritis”	Immunology
Feb 19 Location: NEIDL	David Wentworth, Ph.D. J. Craig Venter Institute	“Genomics and Pathogenesis of Emerging/Zoonotic Viruses”	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Feb 26	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Chadene Tremaglio	“Investigating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transcription: Evidence for Alternative Initiation Events and Small RNA Synthesis”	Microbiology
Mar 5	Andrew Camilli, Ph.D. Tufts University	“A Vibrio cholerae/Phage Arms Race in the Context of Human Infection”	Microbiology	Jay Mizgerd
Mar 12	No Seminar		Immunology
Mar 19 Location: NEIDL	Christina Spiropoulou, Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control	“Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis”	Microbiology	Paul Duprex
Mar 26	Michael Carroll, Ph.D. Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard	“Regulation of Lupus-antigen Specific B Cells by Follicular Dendritic Cells”	Immunology	Jeff Browning
Apr 2	Liisa K. Selin, M.D., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center	“Heterologous Immunity and T Cell Crossreactivity During Viral Infections”	Immunology	Dave Sherr
Apr 9 Location: NEIDL	Michael Holbrook, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health	“Immunological Mechanisms of Yellow Fever Virus Pathogenicity”	Microbiology	Ron Corley
Apr 16	No Seminar		Microbiology
Apr 23	Thomas Braciale, MD, Ph.D. University of Virginia Medical School	“Respiratory Dendritic Cells and the Control of Anti-viral Effector and Memory T Cell Responses”	Immunology	Lee Quinton
Apr 30 Location: NEIDL	Ralph Isberg, Ph.D. Tufts University	“Aggravation and Madness: Understanding Intracellular Growth by a Robust Bacterial Pathogen”	Microbiology	Igor Kramnik
Thursday, May 1 @ 11:00 am	Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D. University of Louisville	“Evolutionary Mechanisms of RNA Virus Host Switching”	Microbiology	Ron Corley
May 7 Location: NEIDL	Anita Goel, M.D., Ph.D. Nanobiosym	“Harnessing Nanobiophysics for Next Generation Pathogen Detection”	Microbiology	Gerald Keusch
May 14	Donna Farber, Ph.D. Columbia University	“Tissue Compartmentalization of T Cell Responses: From Mouse Models to Humans”	Microbiology	Jay Mizgerd
May 21	No Seminar Dr. Jenkins rescheduled to October 1, 2014
May 28 @ 12:00 noon	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER Katherine Fitzgerald, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Med Ctr	“Long Non-Coding RNA and Regulation of Inflammatory Gene Expression”	Microbiology	Munir Mosaheb
June 11 @ 12:00 noon	John Misasi, M.D. Children’s Hospital Boston	“Host Factors for Filovirus Entry”	Microbiology	Elke Mühlberger

FALL 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES
Sept 23	*POSTDOC INVITED SPEAKER* John Schoggins, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical School	“Unraveling the Complexity of the Interferon Antiviral Response”	Judith Olejnik
Sept 30	Student Seminars Fadie Coleman (Mizgerd Lab) and Kristie Hilliard (Quinton Lab)	“Robust NF-kB Responses by Alveolar Macrophages Potentiate Anti-pneumococcal Defense During Pneumonia” and “The Liver Response to Pneumonia: More than Just a Biomarker”
Oct 7	Wilson Wong, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering Boston University	“Engineering T Cells for Cancer Therapy”	Ron Corley
Oct 14	No Seminar
Oct 21 Location: NEIDL	W. Evan Johnson, Ph.D. Computational Biomedicine BU School of Medicine	“Pathoscope: Species Identification and Strain Attribution with Unassembled Sequencing Data”	Rahm Gummuluru
Wednesday, Oct 23 @ 1:00 PM	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Daniele Cary	“RON Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, a Negative Regulator of Inflammation, is Decreased during Simian Immunodificiency Virus Associated Central Nervous System Disease”
Oct 28	No Seminar
Nov 4	Karin Strijbis, Ph.D. Ploegh Lab Whitehead Institute, MIT	“Commensal or Pathogen? Immune Responses to the Yeast Candida albicans“	Greg Viglianti
Nov 11	No Seminar
Nov 18	Student Seminars Krishna Moody (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) and Emily Nelson (Mühlberger Lab)	“FcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking” and “Post-Transcriptional Regulation of RNA During Ebola Virus Infection”
Nov 25 Location: NEIDL	Megan L. Shaw, Ph.D. Microbiology Mt. Sinai Hospital	“Exploring Novel Targets for Influenza Antivirals”	John Connor
Dec 2	Walther Mothes, Ph.D. Microbial Pathogenesis Yale University	“Seeing is Believing – Visualizing Individual Steps of the Retroviral Life Cycle”	Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 9 Location: NEIDL	Christopher Sassetti, Ph.D. Microbiology & Physiological Systems UMASS Medical School	“Bacterial and Host Determinants of Tuberculosis Disease”	Igor Kramnik


SPRING 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES
Jan 14	Pinghua Liu, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, BU	“Conditional Knockout by Chemically Controlled Selective Degradation of mRNA and Protein”	Ron Corley
Jan 21	No Seminar
Jan 28	C A N C E L L E D Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D. NIAID, National Institutes of Health	“Mechanistic Spatially Resolved Modeling of Cellular Signaling Pathways”	Tom Kepler
Feb 4	Student Seminars Kaitlin Sawatzki (Bossart Lab) and Gregory Wasserman (Jones Lab)	“Evaluating the Role of T Cells in Nipah Virus Pathogenesis” and “Alternative microRNA Utilization Regulates Cytokine Expression During Acute Bacterial Infection”	Greg Viglianti
Feb 11	No Seminar Graduate Student Recruitment Day
Feb 18	No Seminar
Tuesday Feb 19	Brian Bird, D.V.M., M.S.P.H., Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	“Rift Valley Fever Virus: A Killer on the Move and New Ways to Stop it”	Ron Corley and Jack Murphy
Feb 25	Student Seminar Suzanne Geer (Gummuluru Lab) and Emily Nelson (Muhlberger Lab)	“Differences in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Interactions with Dendritic Cells” and “Post-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA by Ebola Virus VP30″	Greg Viglianti
Mar 4	Jeroen Saeij, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“Susceptibility to Infection: A Complex Interplay Between Host and Parasite Genotypes”	Igor Kramnik
Mar 11	Ulla Hansen, Ph.D. Department of Biology, BU	“Transcription Factor LSF: Achilles Heel for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?”	Greg Viglianti
Mar 18	Hinh Ly, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	“Host-Pathogen Interaction in Lassa Fever Virus Infection”	Ron Corley and Jack Murphy
Tuesday, Mar 19 @2:00 pm	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Laura Dickey	“Respiratory Syncytial Virus Interactions with Host Cell RNA-Processing Structures and Proteins”
Mar 25	Student Seminar Krishna Moody (Marshak-Rothstein Lab)	“FcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking”	Greg Viglianti
Apr 1	Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine	“New Insight into Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Alphavirus Infection”	Elke Mühlberger
Apr 8	J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	“Humanized Mice Models of Viral Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention”	Andy Henderson
Apr 15	No Seminar
Apr 22	Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D. University of Louisville	“Strategies and Discoveries in Small Molecules: From Hits to Leads for Treatment of RNA Virus Infections”	John Connor
Apr 29	Student Debate Michelle Fleury & Ludy Registre (Facilitator: John Connor)	”Tregs in HIV Infection: Friend or Foe?”	Greg Viglianti
Wednesday, May 1 @ 1:00 pm	Volker Thiel, Ph.D. St Gallen, Switzerland	“Coronaviruses: Large RNA Viruses with Growing Impact”	Paul Duprex
May 6	Philip J. Santangelo, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University	“Interrogating RSV Infections with Single Molecule Sensitive Probes”	Rachel Fearns
May 13	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D. University of California, Davis	“Role of Cholesterol in HIV Infection and Pathogenesis”	Fadie Coleman
Wednesday, May 22 @ 12:00 noon	Professor Theo Geijtenbeek University of Amsterdam	“C-Type Lectin Receptors in Infection and Immunity”	Paul Duprex
Tuesday, May 28 @ 12:00 noon	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Andrew Platt	“Characterization of Responses Induced by N. meningitidis PorB and its use as a Vaccine Adjuvant”
June 3	Ruslan Afasizhev, Ph.D. Boston University Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine	“Mitochondrial Cryptogene Expression and RNA Editing Machines of Trypanosomes”	Ron Corley
Thursday, June 6 @ 12:00 noon	QUALIFYING EXAM SEMINAR Munir Mosaheb	“Examining the Role of Varying Antigen Presenting Cell Types in PorB Adjuvant Activity”	Greg Viglianti
Thursday, June 27 @ 2:00 pm	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Ryan McClure	“Host and Pathogen Response to Gonococcal Infection: A Global Analysis”


FALL 2012 SEMINAR SERIES
Sept. 17	Richard C. Condit, Ph.D. University of Florida	“Structure and Assembly of the Poxvirus Virion”	Paul Duprex / John Connor
Sept 24	No Seminar
Oct 1	Student Seminar Chadene Tremaglio (Fearns Lab)	“Investigating RSV Transcription: Evidence for an Alternative Initiation Event at the Viral Promoter that Generates small RNAs”	Greg Viglianti
Oct 8	No Seminar – Holiday
Tuesday, Oct 9 @ 1:00 PM	*Dissertation Defense* Erin Hodges “Characterization of the S2 Isolate of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Oct 15	Bjoern Reinhard, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Boston University	“Rationally Designed Nanoparticles as Tools in Biomedical Research and Imaging”	Rahm Gummuluru
Oct 22	No Seminar
Oct 29	Postdoctoral Fellow Seminars CANCELLED due to Hurricaine
Nov 5	Taekjip Ha, Ph.D. Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“Single Molecule Views of Antiviral Signaling”	Elke Mühlberger
Nov 12	No Seminar
Nov 19	Student Seminars Ryan McClure (Genco Lab) and Andrew Platt (Wetzler Lab)	“Analysis and Characterization of the Global Gonococcal Transcriptome” and “Transcriptome Analysis of a Multi-Injection Vaccine Schedule Reveals a Non-Linear Response to the Adjuvant PorB”	Greg Viglianti
Nov 26	Manish Sagar, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases Boston University School of Medicine	“Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of HIV-1 Present Early After Transmission”	Rahm Gummuluru
Dec 3	Gerald Pier, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Channing Laboratory	“A Microbial Achilles Heel: Poly-N-acetyl Glucosamine is a Ubiquitously Expressed Vaccine Target on Bcaterial, Fungal and Protozoan Pathogens”	Jay Mizgerd
Dec 10	Student Seminars Fadie Coleman (Mizgerd Lab) and Kristie Hilliard (Quinton Lab)	“Meaningful Variation in the Activation of Macrophage NF-κB Responses by Pneumococcus” and “Liver-Derived Proteins Facilitate Pulmonary Inflammatory Injury during the Acute Phase of Pneumonia”	Greg Viglianti
Dec 17	Hans Dooms, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Arthritis Center/Rheumatology Section Boston University School of Medicine	“How to Forget bad T cell Memories while Keeping the Good Ones”	Ron Corley

SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SERIES
Thursday Jan. 6	Mehul S. Suthar, Ph.D. University of Washington	“RIG-I Like Receptor Regulation of Viral Infection and Immunity”	Ronald Corley
Tuesday, Jan. 17	Hideki Ebihara, Ph.D. NIAID, NIH	“Molecular Determinants of Filovirus Virulence in Small Animal Models”	Elke Mühlberger
Jan. 23	No Seminar
Jan. 30	Student Qualifying Exam Seminars Kristie Hilliard and Emily Nelson	“The Hepatic Acute Phase Response Regulates Pulmonary Inflammation and Injury During Pneumonia” and “Regulation of mRNA Stability by Ebola Virus VP30”	Gregory Viglianti
Thursday Feb. 2	Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue, M.D., Ph.D. University of Iowa	“Back with the Wnts: Their Novel Roles in T Cell Biology	Ronald Corley
Feb. 6	Student Qualifying Exam Seminars Fadie Coleman and Suzanne Geer	“Influence of Macrophage NF-kB Activation on the Outcome of Pneumococcal Pneumonia” and “HIV Appropriates Host Lectins to Facilitate Capture and Dissemination by DCs”	Gregory Viglianti
Feb. 13	No Seminar
Wed., Feb. 15, in L201/203	Louise D’Cruz, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego	“Transcriptional Regulation of Natural Killer T Cell Development and Homeostasis”	Ronald Corley
Feb. 20	No Seminar
Feb. 27	No Seminar
Mar. 5	Dorian McGavern. Ph.D. NINDS, NIHI	“Dynamics of Immunity to Acute and Persistent Viral Infection”	Paul Duprex
Mar. 12	Matthew Jones, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“Widespread Uridylation of microRNA is Governed by Zcchc11 in vivo“	Elke Mühlberger
Wednesday, Mar. 14, in L201/203	Janelle Ayres, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley	“Friend or Foe? Host Tolerance of Pathobionts in Health and Disease”	Ronald Corley
Mar. 19	Student Seminar Ryan McClure Genco Lab and Andrew Platt Wetzler Lab	“An In Depth Conversation Between the Human Pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the Host as Revealed by Global Transcriptome Analysis” and “Antigen Uptake and Migration by APCs is Enhanced by PorB”	Gregory Viglianti
Mar. 26	Jonathan Towner, Ph.D CDC	“Ecology of Ebola and Marburg Viruses”	Elke Mühlberger
Apr. 2	No Seminar
Apr. 9	Ronald Iorio, Ph.D. UMass Medical Center	“Diversity of Paramyxovirus Fusion Triggering Mechanisms”	Gregory Viglianti
Tuesday, Apr. 10 @ 1:15 PM	Scott Gray-Owen, Ph.D. Univeristy of Toronto	“The Pathogenic Neisseria: Dancing with Humans	Lee Wetzler
Apr. 16	No Seminar
Apr. 23	Christopher Aiken, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University	“Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5alpha”	Rahm Gummuluru
Apr. 30	Student Debate Munir Mosaheb, Kaitlin Sawatzki, and Gregory Wasserman (Facilitator: Katharine Bossart)	“Should the Controversial H5N1 Studies be Published?”	Gregory Viglianti
May 7	STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER John K. Rose, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine	“New Approaches to Vaccines for Old and New Plagues”	Chadene Zack
May 14	Valentina Perissi, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine	“Dissecting GSPS2 Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Roles: A Novel Protective Strategy Against Hyper-Inflammatory Responses”	Gregory Viglianti
June 20 @ 10:00 AM	Dissertation Defense Seminar Nathaniel Green	“TLR7 Dependent and Independent Responses of Autoreactive B Cells to Nucleic Acid Containing Immune Complexes”	Gregory Viglianti
June 25 @ 1:00 PM	Dissertation Defense Seminar Guy Bushkin	“The Glycobiology of Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and Eimeria”	Gregory Viglianti

FALL 2011 SEMINAR SERIES
Sept. 19	Ted Ross, PhD University of Pittsburgh	“Influenza in the Young and Aged: Infection, Vaccination and Overcoming Viral Diversity”	Stephanie Oberhaus
Sept. 26	STUDENT SEMINAR Erin Hodges Connor Lab and Kristina Schmidt Mühlberger Lab	“S2 VSV Shows a Unique Transcriptional Phenotype that Leads to Viral Attenuation” and “Location and Relocation: Filovirus Nucleocapsids, Stress and Being Green”
Oct. 3	ID Faculty Candidate Manish Sagar, MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard	”Selection and Antibody Susceptibility During Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission”	Caroline Genco
Oct. 10	NO SEMINAR
Oct. 17	STUDENT SEMINAR Nathaniel Green Marshak-Rothstein Lab and Krishna Moody Marshak-Rothstein Lab	”It’s all About the -OH. The Difference Between RNA- and DNA-immune Complexes for Stimulating B Cells” and “FcγRIIB Engagement Modulates the Trafficking of Immune Complexes”
Oct. 24	ID Faculty Candidate Christopher Woelk, PhD University of California San Diego	”Machine Learning Approaches to Combat Infectious Diseases”	Caroline Genco
Oct. 31	Alexander Poltorak, Ph.D. Tufts University	”Genetic Studies of Innate Immunity in Wild Mice”	Igor Kramnik
Nov. 7	ID Faculty Candidate John Love, MD, PhD Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center	”The Human Cathelicidin LL-37 Induces Group A Streptococcus Resistance to Killing by Multiple Human Cell Types”	Caroline Genco
Nov. 14	STUDENT SEMINAR Daniele Cary Henderson Lab and Laura Dickey Fearns Lab	“Intrinsic Mechanisms that Limit HIV Expression in Macrophages and T Cells” and “RSV’s Relationship with Cellular Decapping Protein 1″
Nov. 21	STUDENT SEMINAR Guy Bushkin Samuelson Lab and Chadene Zack Fearns Lab	“Characterization of Oocyst Wall Proteins of Toxoplasma and Eimeria” and “Evidence for an Alternate RNA Initiation Site Associated with Transcription at Nucleotide 3 of the RSV Leader Region in Wildtype Virus Infection”
Nov. 28	Brandon Xia, Ph.D. Boston University	“Three-Dimensional View of Protein Networks Within and Between Species”	Rachel Fearns
Dec. 5	Pricilla Yang, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Chemical Approaches to the Study of Viruses”	John Connor
Tuesday, Dec. 20	Joeo H. Pedra, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside	“Pathogen Immune Evasion at the Vector-Host Interface”	Ronald Corley

SPRING 2011 SEMINAR SERIES
Jan. 10	Kathleen McDonough, Ph.D. Wadsworth Center New York State Department of Public Health	“From White Plague to Black Death: A Wide Spectrum of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in M. tuberculosis and Y. pestis”	Caroline Genco
Tuesday, Jan. 18	Immunology Faculty Candidate Lauren Zenewicz, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine	“Gut Instincts: Interleukin-22 and Mucosal Immunity”	Ronald Corley
Jan. 24	Thomas Kepler, Ph.D. Duke University School of Medicine	“B Cells, Bats, and Barcodes: Next Gen Sequence Analysis for Immunology”	Ronald Corley
Jan. 31	Immunology Faculty Candidate Jacob Kohlmeier, Ph.D. Trudeau Institute	“Generation and Recall of T Cell Memory Following Respiratory Infection”	Ronald Corley
Thursday, Feb. 3 @ 12:30 PM	Immunology Faculty Candidate Artem Barski, Ph.D. NHLBI, NIH	“Exploring the T Cell Epigenome: Poised Genes and T Cell Memory”	Ronald Corley
Feb. 7	NO SEMINAR
Feb. 14	NO SEMINAR
Feb. 21	NO SEMINAR
Feb. 28	Surachi Supattapone. M.D., Ph.D., D. Phil. Dartmouth Medical School	“Cofactors in Prion Propagation”	Rachel Fearns
Mar. 7	STUDENT SEMINAR Gary Guy Bushkin (Samuelson Lab)andChadene Zack (Fearns Lab)	“Identification of Beta-Glucan in the Oocyst Walls of Toxoplasma and Eimeria”and”Investigating a New Model of Transcription Initiation in Respiratory Syncytial Virus”
Mar. 14	STUDENT SEMINAR Daniele Cary (Henderson Lab)andLaura Dickey (Fearns Lab)	“Dysregulation of Tissue Resident Macrophages During HIV Infection”and”RSV’s Relationship with Stress Granule and Processing Body Proteins”
Mar. 21	Mark Heise, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“Bugs in the System: Using Systems Genetics to Study Virus-Host Interactions”	John Connor
Mar. 28	STUDENT DEBATE Kristie Hilliard vs. Emily Nelson (Facilitator: Barb Nikolajczyk)	“Is Type 2 Diabetes a Mis-Classified Autoimmune Disease?”
Apr. 4	STUDENT DEBATE Fadie Coleman vs. Suzanne Geer (Facilitator: Andy Henderson)	“Will There Ever be an HIV Vaccine?”
Apr. 11	Zahra Zakeri, Ph.D. City University of New York	“Viral Manipulation of Cell Death Machinery”	Elke Mühlbeger
Apr. 18	NO SEMINAR
Friday, Apr. 22	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Timothy Hanley Department of Microbiology “The Effects of Nuclear Receptor and Toll-like Receptor Crosstalk on HIV-1 Replication in and Transmission by Macrophages and Dendritic Cells”
Apr. 25	Qiang Zhou, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley	“New Insights into the Control of HIV-1 Transcription: When Tat Meets the 7SK snRNP and Super Elongation Complex (SEC)”	Andrew Henderson
May 2	STUDENT SEMINAR Ryan McClure (Genco Lab) and Andrew Platt (Wetzler Lab)	“Examining sRNA Mediated Regulation in Neisseria“ and “Lymphocyte Responses to Porin Adjuvanted Vaccines”
May 9	NO SEMINAR
May 16	Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch	”The Fever from the Forrest: Prospects for Continued Emergence of Sylvatic Dengue Virus and Impact on Public Health”	Caroline Genco
Friday, June 10, 11:00 am	DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Daniel Green Department of Microbiology “CD4 Regulation of T Cell Migration”
Wednesday, June 29, 3:00 pm	Debi P. Sarkar, Ph.D. University of Delhi	“Cellular Signaling in Virus-Host Interactions: Regulation of Fusion Mediated Entry of Sendai Virus”	Sibaji Sarkar