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FALL 2025 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 24<\/td>\nJohn Connor, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nVIM Department
\nBoston University CAMED<\/td>\n		The Amazing Power of Viral Genomic Analysis: From the Bench to Public Health and Back Again<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 1<\/td>\nRachel Fearns, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nVIM Department
\nBoston University CAMED<\/td>\n		Decision-making Mechanisms of Polymerases of the Non-segmented Negative Strand RNA Viruses<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 8<\/td>\nXueling Wu, PhD<\/strong>
\nBoston Medical Center<\/td>\n		Challenges for HIV Prevention: Broadly Neutralizing Antibody, Vaccine, and SIgA<\/td>\nManish Sagar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 15<\/td>\nBill Hanage, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nHarvard SPH<\/td>\n		Evolution of SARS-CoV2 – Seasonal or Not?<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 22<\/td>\nXingbin Ai, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nMass General Hospital\/Harvard<\/td>\n		Age-related RSV Infection at the Human Bronchial Epithelium Barrier<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 29<\/td>\nJohn Porco, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nChemistry Department
\nBoston University<\/td>\n		Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of Rocaglates and Derivatives<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 12<\/td>\nBen Wolozin, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nAnatomy & Neurobiology
\nBoston University CAMED<\/td>\n		RNA Epigenetics and the Translational Stress Response: Interfacing Between Neurodegeneration and Viral disease<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 19<\/td>\nMorgan Gilman, PhD<\/strong>
\nPharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
\nBoston University CAMED<\/td>\n		Molecular-Level Understanding of Human Pathogens to Inform\u00a0 Therapeutic Development<\/td>\nJohn Misasi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 3<\/td>\nBob Varelas, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nBiochemistry & Cell Biology
\nBoston University CAMED<\/td>\n		Mechanical Signaling in Lung Biology and Disease<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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SPRING 2025 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 15<\/td>\nBenjamin Winer, PhD
\nMemorial Sloan Kettering<\/td>\n		Plasma Membrane Abundance as a Biophysical Regulator of Myeloid cell Migration, Phagocytosis, and its role in Demyelination<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 22<\/td>\nTaru Dutt, PhD<\/a>
\nColorado State University<\/td>\n		Unveiling the Mechanism of Ectopic Germinal Center Formation in the Tuberculosis Lungs:\u00a0<\/span>Implications for Immune Therapies and Vaccine Strategies<\/em><\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 29<\/td>\nElizabeth Draganova, PhD<\/a>
\nEmory University<\/td>\n		Assembly and Inhibition of Herpesvirus Protein Machines<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 5<\/td>\nJonathan Kagan, PhD<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>Boston Children\u2019s Hospital<\/span><\/td>\n		Regulation of Innate Immunity<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu, Feb 6<\/td>\nHannah Brown Harding, PhD
\nMass General Hospital\/Harvard<\/td>\n		Fungal Pathogens Rewire Innate Immunity<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 12<\/td>\nNikolai Slavov, PhD<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>Northeastern University<\/span><\/td>\n		From Single-cell Proteomics to Molecular Mechanisms<\/td>\nAdam Hume<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 19<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 26<\/td>\nNathan Sherer, PhD<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>University of Wisconsin<\/span><\/td>\n		Dissecting HIV-1 RNA Regulation using Live Cell Imaging and RNA Capture Proteomics<\/td>\nHisashi Akiyama<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu, Feb 27
\n11:00 am<\/td>\n		Fumiaki Ito, PhD
\nUniv. of California, Los Angeles<\/td>\n		Visualizing Virus-host Molecular Arms Race with Cryo-EM<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 5<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 12<\/td>\nCancelled
\nJason Nomburg, PhD
\nGladstone Institutes, UCSF<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 19<\/td>\n<\/span><\/a>No Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 26<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2<\/td>\nJuan Fuxman Bass, PhD<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>Boston University<\/span><\/td>\n		Virus-host Cross-transcriptional Regulation<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 9<\/td>\nTuan Leng Tay, DSc<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>Boston University<\/span><\/td>\n		Microglia in Neuroinflammation: A Long-term Affair?<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon,
\nJune 23
\n12:30 pm<\/td>\n		Som Chatterjee, PhD<\/a>
\nUniversity of Maryland<\/td>\n		Non-classical Mechanisms of Broad-spectrum Beta-lactam Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and their Implication on Bacterial Pathogenesis<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 25<\/td>\nMichael Vahey, PhD<\/a>
\nWashington University<\/td>\n		Biophysical Mechanisms of Respiratory Viral Infection and Antiviral Immunity<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 7<\/td>\nLu Huang, PhD<\/a>
\nUniversity of Arkansas<\/td>\n		Cracking the Code of Protective Immunity in Tuberculosis: Metabolism and Beyond<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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FALL 2024 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 18<\/td>\nMaria Schumacher, PhD <\/a>
\nDuke University<\/td>\n		Guanine Nucleotide Signaling in Transcription<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 25<\/td>\nMichael Betts, PhD<\/a>
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n		My DOGMA ate your Assumptions about the HIV Reservoir<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2
\nLocation:
\nL110<\/td>\n		Student Invited Speaker
\nMichael Diamond, MD, PhD<\/a>
\nWashington University VIM<\/td>\n		Coronavirus Immunity: Imprinting effects and the Broadly Inhibitory Mucosal Vaccines<\/td>\nScott Adams<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 9<\/td>\nNancie Archin, PhD<\/a>
\nUniversity of North Carolina<\/td>\n		Chasing an HIV Cure: Addressing Sex Differences and Enhancing Latency Reversal<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 16<\/td>\nBenjamin tenOever, PhD<\/a>
\nNew York University, Langone<\/td>\n		Defensive Maneuvers: How Influenza A Virus Sustains its Pandemic Potential<\/span><\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 23<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 30<\/td>\nDaisy Leung, PhD<\/a>
\nWashington University<\/td>\n		Viral Immune Antagonism of Host Nuclear Functions<\/td>\nJohn Misasi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 6<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 13<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 20
\nLocation: L110<\/td>\n		Student Invited Speaker
\nCharles M. Rice ,PhD<\/a>
\nThe Rockefeller University<\/td>\n		A Cure for Hepatitis C, Now What?<\/td>\nAndrew Leal<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 27<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 4<\/td>\nFlorian Douam, PhD<\/a>
\nVIM, Boston University<\/td>\n		Illuminating the Immunopathology of Long-COVID using a Novel Humanized Mouse Model<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 11<\/td>\nMohsan Saeed, PhD<\/a>
\nBCB, Boston University<\/td>\n		Innate Immune Evasion: A Curious Case of a Coronaviral Ribonuclease<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Fall 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 27<\/td>\nKathryn Hanley, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/b>New Mexico State Univ.<\/td>\n		The Tortoise or the Hare? Within-Host Dynamics and Between-Host Transmission of Sylvatic Dengue, Zika and Yellow Fever Viruses<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nAnthony Griffith<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 4<\/td>\nChristopher Rice, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nPurdue University<\/b><\/td>\n		Awareness, Drug Discovery and Diagnostic Tools against Pathogenic Free-Living Amoebae<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRobert Davey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 11<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 18<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 25<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 1<\/td>\nChristelle Harly, PhD
\nNantes Universit\u00e9<\/td>\n		Transcriptional Control of Innate Lymphoid Cell Development<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 8<\/td>\nStudent Invited Speaker
\nShiv Pillai, PhD, MBBS<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Mass General Hospital<\/td>\n		Infection, T-B Collaboration, Memory and Disease<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nChristina Ennis<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 29<\/td>\nStudent Invited Speaker
\nCourtney Woolsey, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Texas Medical Branch<\/td>\n		Rapid-Acting and Durable Vaccines Against Priority Pathogens<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJacquelyn Turcinovic<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 6<\/td>\nMolly Ohainle, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/td>\n		HIV-CRISPR Screens Identify Intracellular Barriers to HIV Infection<\/td>\nVIM<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 13<\/td>\nMatthew Gagne, PhD
\nVaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		Mucosal Delivery of Vaccines and Therapeutic Agents for Enhanced Protection against COVID-19<\/td>\nNEIDL
\n& VIM<\/td>\n		Andy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Spring 2023 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 18<\/td>\nBrad Jones, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nWeill Cornell Medicine<\/td>\n		Silence and Resistance in HIV Reservoir Persistence<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 25<\/td>\nAdam Lauring, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Michigan<\/td>\n		How Host-level Processes Drive and Constrain the Evolution of New Viral Variants<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nManish Sagar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 1<\/td>\nMeg Younger, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nBoston University<\/td>\n		Non-Canonical Olfaction in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 8<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 15<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 1<\/td>\nAvinash Bhandoola, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nNIH<\/td>\n		Transcriptional Control of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cell Development<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 8<\/td>\nTBA<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 15<\/td>\nCelestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n		CMV<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and Cardiometabolic Disease in Persons Living with HIV<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nJennifer Snyder-Cappione<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 22<\/td>\nLiang Shan, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Washington University<\/td>\n		The CARD8 Inflammasome in HIV Pathogenesis and Viral Persistence<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a> and Andrew Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 29<\/td>\nJohn Misasi, PhD
\n<\/strong>NIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		Immune Recognition of Key Steps in Ebola Virus Entry<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nNancy Sullivan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 5<\/td>\nSukanya Narasimhan, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/b>Yale School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Blocking Tick Transmission of Pathogens: A Relentless Pursuit<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 12<\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nStephanie Seifert, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Washington State University<\/td>\n		Identifying Cryptic Animal Reservoirs for high Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nEllen Suder<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 19<\/td>\nNicole Kilian, PhD
\n<\/strong>Heidelberg University<\/td>\n		Malaria, Maurer’s clefts and Mummies<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nCatherine Costello<\/a> and
\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 26<\/td>\nViviana Simon, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Mt Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Sleep No More – Determinants of HIV Persistence<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a> and Andrew Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 3<\/td>\nS. Rameeza Allie, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Pennsylvania State University<\/td>\n		Resident Memory B Cells in the Frontline of Respiratory Immunity<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nJeffrey Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 10<\/td>\nMichelle Teplensky, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		Harnessing Nanomaterial Architecture to Program the Immune System<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday,
\nJune 13<\/td>\n		Harry Taylor, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>SUNY Upstate<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n		\n

Starve the Beast and Tame the Flame: Harnessing HIV and Inflammation by Targeting Immunometabolism<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

VIM<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 14<\/td>\nLaith N. AL-Eitan, MSc, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>Jordan University of Science and Technology<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n

The Middle East Falling Behind on Biosafety, Biosecurity and One Health Measures\u200b<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

NEIDL<\/td>\nDavidson Hamer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 21<\/td>\nFiliz Kormaz, PhD
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>UMass Medical Center<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n		\n

LOX-1-Dependent Regulation of Immunity and Metabolism in the Pneumonic Lung<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

VIM<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
July 19<\/td>\nPartha Biswas, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n		Comorbidities: New Challenges in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases<\/td>\nVIM<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 16<\/td>\nPriyadharshini Devarajan, PhD<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nUMass Medical Center<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n		Lessons from Influenza: Late Infection-Signals and Local Antigen Drive Development of TFH Effector, Cytotoxic CD4 Effectors and CD4 Memory for Durable Immunity<\/td>\nVIM<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2022 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date
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Oct 5<\/td>\nJennifer Gommerman, PhD
\n<\/strong><\/a>University of Toronto<\/td>\n		Fantastic IgA plasma cells and where to find them<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 12<\/td>\nLijun Rong, PhD<\/strong>
\n<\/a>University of Illinois at Chicago<\/td>\n		Small molecule entry inhibitors of emerging viruses, mechanisms and therapeutics<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRob Davey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 19<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 26<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2<\/td>\nLishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD<\/strong>
\n<\/a>Weill Cornell Medicine<\/td>\n		Biological parallels of the HIV and SARS CoV2 pandemics: Discovering vulnerabilities for intervention<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nJen Cappione<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 9<\/td>\nMohsan Saeed, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>BUSM
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/td>\n		Deciphering the determinants of Omicron pathogenicity<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 19<\/td>\nShailabh Kumar, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Stanford University
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Nanointerfaces for molecules to mosquitoes: Mapping vector-pathogen dynamics at the planetary scale<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 26<\/td>\nFaith Osier, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Imperial College London
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Fc-dependent IgG parasite clearance as a guide for vaccine development against
\nP. falciparum<\/em> malaria<\/td>\n		MICRO<\/td>\nJosiane Fofana<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue,
\nFeb 1
\n9 AM<\/td>\n		Adriana Tomic, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Oxford, UK
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		SIMON says: Revealing immunity to influenza using systems immunology<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue,
\nFeb 8
\n9 AM<\/td>\n		Yvon L. Woappi, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nHarvard Medical School
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Learning how to regenerate tissue from DNA viruses<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 9<\/td>\nConnie Chang, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Montana State University
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Single cell infection studies of influenza virus using droplet microfluidics<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 16<\/td>\nOliver Fregoso, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>University of California
\nLos Angeles
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Understanding the host DNA damage response in HIV replication and cure<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu,
\nFeb 17
\n9 AM<\/td>\n		Abraam Yakoub, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of North Dakota
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Virus and virus engineering in disease pathogenesis and therapy<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 23<\/td>\nJeffrey Grabowski, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>NIH\/NIAID
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/span><\/td>\n		Virus interactions with ticks: Tick cultures and translation towards countermeasure development<\/td>\nBME\/
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		John Connor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 9<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 16<\/td>\nHelen Lazear, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of North Carolina<\/td>\n		Vector-independent transmission of Zika virus and other flaviviruses<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 23<\/td>\nITP Student Invited Speaker
\nGordon Freeman, PhD
\n<\/a><\/strong>Dana Farber Cancer Center<\/td>\n		Cancer Immunotherapy: PD-1 and new targets<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nMegan Snyder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 30<\/td>\nClaudia Jakubzick, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nDartmouth Geisel School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Natural antibodies are the keys that start the engine to T cell-mediated antitumor immunity… and pulmonary macrophages<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 6
\n**NEIDL 1st Floor Conf. Room**<\/td>\n		Alexander Ploss, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nPrinceton University<\/td>\n		Looking under the hood of a killer virus: New insights into the molecular biology of hepatitis B virus<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 13<\/td>\nJie Sun, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a>University of Virginia<\/td>\n		Respiratory viral infection: From acute morbidity to chronic sequelae<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 20<\/td>\nMargaret Scull, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Maryland<\/td>\n		Mucin-mediated Defense Against Influenza Virus Infection<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nMohsan Saeed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 27<\/td>\nMicrobiology
\nStudent Invited Speaker
\nEmmie de Wit, PhD<\/strong>
\n<\/a>NIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		A rapid response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: Making past experiences count<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nCallie Donahue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu.
\nMay 26,
\n12.30 pm<\/td>\n		Tijana Ivanovic, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nBrandeis University<\/td>\n		Function of Shape in Biological Organization: A Case Study on Viral Adaptation<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 17<\/td>\nPablo Penaloza-MacMaster, PhD<\/strong><\/a>
\nNorthwestern University
\nFeinberg School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Enhancing Immunity after Viral Infection and Vaccination<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2021<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 20<\/td>\nDavid Martinez, PhD<\/strong>
\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/td>\n		\u201cImmunologic Approaches to Preventing and Treating Sarbecovirus Infections\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 27<\/td>\nTBA<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 3<\/td>\nCraig Cameron, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
\n*Virtual Presentation*<\/td>\n		“Antiviral Therapy: Towards the Personal and the Precise”<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 10<\/td>\nSebla Kutluay, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nWashington Univeristy<\/td>\n		“The Unexpected Role of HIV-1 Integrase in Particle Maturation”<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 17<\/td>\nAri Molofsky, MD, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, San Francisco<\/td>\n		\u201cWhat’s in a Niche? Type 2 ‘Allergic’ Lymphocyte Topography meets Function\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 24<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 1<\/td>\nShawn Lyons, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nBUSM<\/td>\n		\u201cThe RNA Biology of Stress Response\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 8<\/td>\nMike Kagey, PhD<\/a><\/strong>
\nLeap Therapeutics<\/td>\n		\u201cTargeting DKK1 in Oncology\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nJen Cappione<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Spring 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/b><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/b><\/td>\nTitle<\/b><\/td>\nProgram<\/b><\/td>\nHost<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 3<\/span><\/td>\nSamantha Bell, PhD.
\n<\/b>Texas A&M<\/td>\n		“Cytosolic Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em> Activates Potent Immune Responses”<\/td>\nMICRO<\/span><\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 10<\/span><\/td>\nKiera Clayton, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nRagon Institute<\/td>\n		\u201cMacrophages: Hide outs for HIV and drivers of inflammation\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 17<\/span><\/td>\nParisa Kalantari, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nTufts University<\/td>\n		“Molecular Pathways Restraining Immunopathology in Schistosomiasis”<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 24<\/span><\/td>\nRobert Abbott, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nLa Jolla Institute for Immunology<\/td>\n		“To B or not to B? The Story of B Cell Precursors and Complex Vaccine Antigens”<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 3<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 10<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 17<\/span><\/td>\nWilton Williams, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nDuke University<\/td>\n		“Fab-dimerized Glycan-reactive Antibodies are a Novel Structural Category of Natural Antibodies”<\/span><\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 24<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 31<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 7<\/span><\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nMichaela Gack, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nCleveland Clinic<\/span><\/td>\n		\u201cInnate Immune Regulatory Circuits and Antagonism by SARS-CoV-2\u201d<\/td>\nMICRO\/ITP<\/span><\/td>\nMichael Breen<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 14<\/span><\/td>\nSallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nWeill Cornell Medical Center<\/span><\/td>\n		“Rational Design of a Vaccine to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus: We are Halfway There”<\/span><\/td>\nITP<\/span><\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Fall 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/b><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/b><\/td>\nTitle<\/b><\/td>\nProgram<\/b><\/td>\nHost<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 7<\/span><\/td>\nBritt Glaunsinger, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/a>University of California,
\n<\/span>Berkeley<\/span><\/td>\n		 \u201cControlling the Message: Viral Restriction of Host Gene Expression\u201d<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/span><\/td>\nTonya Colpitts<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 14<\/span><\/td>\nBert Semler, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/a>University of California,
\nIrvine<\/span><\/td>\n		 \u201cExploitation of Nuclear Functions by Cytoplasmic RNA Viruses\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\nMohsan Saeed<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 21<\/span><\/td>\n Jason McLellan, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/a>University of Texas, Austin<\/span><\/td>\n		 \u201cStructure-Function Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Development of COVID-19 Interventions\u201d<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/span><\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 28<\/span><\/td>\nJoseph Zaia, Ph.D<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Boston University<\/span><\/td>\n		“Quantifying Changes in Spike Protein Glycosylation during Viral Evolution”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/span><\/td>\nRon Corley<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 4<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 11<\/span><\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 18<\/span><\/td>\nSebastian Joyce, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/a>Vanderbilt University
\nMedical Center<\/span><\/td>\n		“Taking Antigen Presentation to the Bazar!”
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		 Micro.\/
\nImmunol.<\/span><\/td>\n		Andy Henderson<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 25<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0No Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0No Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0No Seminar<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SPRING 2020\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date
\n<\/strong>Location<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 22
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Alejandro Balazs, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Ragon Institute\/MGH<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Escapability of HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies is the Major Driver of Therapeutic Efficacy<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 29
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		Facundo Batista, Ph.D.
\n<\/a><\/strong>Ragon Institute\/MGH<\/td>\n		Informing Vaccine by Defining the Rules of Antibody Responses<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Feb 5
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nCarolyn Coyne, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n
Antiviral Signaling at the Maternal-Fetal Interface<\/del><\/td>\n
NEIDL<\/td>\n
Mohsan Saeed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 12
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D.
\n<\/a><\/strong>St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/td>\n		Impact of Obesity on Influenza: From Disease Severity to Vaccine Efficacy<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nAnthony Griffiths<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 19<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 26
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Ann Palmenberg, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Rhinovirus C Isn’t the Common Cold<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nMohsan Saeed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 4
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D.<\/u><\/strong><\/a>
\nYale University<\/span><\/td>\n		RNA Agonists for Activating RIG-I Antitumor and Antiviral Responses<\/span><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 11
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nBarbara Rehermann, M.D.
\n<\/a><\/strong>NIDDK, NIH<\/td>\n		Natural Versus Laboratory World: Wild Mouse Microbiota Improve Host Fitness and Preclinical Models<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 18
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nDaniel Stetson, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Washington<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Regulation of Intracellular DNA Sensing<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nHans Dooms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 25
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nJason McLellan, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Texas, Austin<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Structure-based Development of Interventions for Pneumoviruses and Coronaviruses<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 1
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nDerek Walsh, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Northwestern University<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Why Nuclei Rotate During Cytomegalovirus Infection<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nAnthony Griffiths<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 8
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\nSallie Permar, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Duke University<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 15
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\n<\/strong>Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Princeton University<\/td>\n		The Long and Winding Road Toward Breaking the Barriers of Interspecies Transmission of Human Viral Pathogens<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nFlorian Douam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 29
\n670 Alb<\/td>\n		**C A N C E L E D**
\n<\/strong>STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nJennifer Lund, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Fred Hutchinson\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Cancer Research Center<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nKimberly Barker<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2019 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 25<\/td>\nJuan de la Torre, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Scripps Research Institute<\/td>\n		Bridging Basic and Translational Research to Combat Human Pathogenic Mammarenaviruses<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRob Davey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2<\/td>\nAlexander Bukreyev, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Texas Medical Branch<\/td>\n		Subversion of cell-mediated responses by Ebola virus<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 9<\/td>\nTijana Ivanovic, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Brandeis University<\/td>\n		Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 16<\/td>\nEric Calvo, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nNIH\/NIAID<\/td>\n		Mosquito salivary proteins as modulators of vertebrate vascular biology and pathogen transmission<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nTonya Colpitts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 23<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 30<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 6<\/td>\nJayne Danska, Ph.D.<\/a> <\/strong>
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/td>\n		Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease: Gene-Environment Interactions and the Gut Microbiome<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 13<\/td>\nTBA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 20<\/td>\nCatherine Adamson, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of St Andrews<\/td>\n		Exploring Viral Interferon Antagonists as Novel Antiviral Targets<\/td>\nMICRO<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 27<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 4<\/td>\nStefan Kaufmann, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology<\/td>\n		Infection and Immunity: At the Bench, Computer and Bedside<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 11<\/td>\nNancy Sullivan, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nNIH Vaccine Research Center<\/td>\n		Harnessing Immunity Against Ebola Virus<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nAnthony Griffiths<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Spring 2019 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date
\nLocation<\/strong><\/td>\n		Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 23<\/td>\nChristopher Basler, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Georgia State University<\/td>\n		New Insights into Host Interactions with Ebola virus VP30 and VP35<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 30<\/td>\nPriti Kumar, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nYale School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Balancing Pathology and Protection in Flaviviral Infections of The CNS<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 6<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 13<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 20<\/td>\nStephan Kissler, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nJoslin Diabetes Center<\/td>\n		Type 1 Diabetes: Genes, Environment, and More Genes<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nHans Dooms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 27<\/td>\nStefan Sarafianos, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nEmory University<\/td>\n		Targeting HIV and HBV with Novel Antivirals<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 6<\/td>\nKeith Jerome, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center<\/td>\n		Gene Therapy for Elimination of Persistent Viral Infections<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 13<\/td>\nJavier Irazoqui, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Medical Center<\/td>\n		The Novel Transcription Factor TFEB Integrates Metabolism, Innate Immunity, and Neural Signaling<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nLee Quinton<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 20<\/td>\nMatthias G\u00f6tte, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Alberta<\/td>\n		Active Site Inhibitors of Viral Polymerases: From HIV to Ebola<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 27<\/td>\nPaul Maglione, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nPulmonary Center, BUSM<\/td>\n		Unraveling the Variable in Common Variable Immunodeficiency<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 3<\/td>\nRESCHEDULED TO\u00a0<\/span>
\nOctober 9, 2019<\/span>
\nTijana Ivanovic, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nBrandeis University<\/td>\n		Mechanism and Inhibition of Influenza Virus Membrane Fusion<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 10<\/td>\nYa-Chi Ho, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nYale School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Single-cell Transcriptional Landscape Reveals Aberrant HIV-1 Host Interactions upon Latency Reversal<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 17<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 24<\/td>\nSTUDEDNT INVITED
\nDonna Farber, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong>Columbia University<\/td>\n		Functional Regulation and Tissue Adaptation of Human T Cells<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nKim Barker<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 1<\/td>\nDanielle Clark, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nAustere environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESCO)<\/td>\n		The Host-Response to Severe Infection: Acute Disease and Long-Term Sequelae<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nNahid Badelia<\/a><\/span>
\nand
\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date
\nLocation<\/strong><\/td>\n		Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 26
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Douglas Brackney, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nConnecticut Agricultural Experimental Station<\/td>\n		Navigating Anatomical Barriers to Transmission: An Arboviruses Tale<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nTonya Colpitts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 3
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		C A N C E L L E D<\/strong>
\nSlava Epstein, Ph.D.<\/del><\/strong><\/a>
\nNortheastern Universit<\/del>y<\/td>\n		<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/del><\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/del><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 10
\nL311<\/td>\n		Andrew Emili, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		“Mind the Gap<\/em>: Mapping the Interaction Interface Between the Proteome and Metabolome”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 17
\nL311<\/td>\n		Hisashi Akiyama, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nBoston University
\nSchool of Medicine<\/td>\n		“HIV Infection and Innate Immune Responses in Myeloid Cells”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nTom Kepler<\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 24
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		William Bishai, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nJohns Hopkins
\nSchool of Medicine<\/td>\n		“M. tuberculosis<\/em> host Subversion: Dampening a DAMP”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 31
\nL311<\/td>\n		Lei Jin, Ph.D., M.Sc.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Florida<\/td>\n		“STING in Lung Innate and Adaptive Immunity”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 7
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Peter Daszak, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nEcoHealth Alliance<\/td>\n		“Forecasting Pandemics and the Global Virome Project”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJerry Keusch<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 14
\nL311<\/td>\n		Irene Salinas, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Center for Evolutionary & Theoretical Immunology<\/td>\n		“Olfactory Sensory Neurons Trigger Ultra-Fast Antiviral Immune Responses in Bony Fish”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nTom Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, Nov 16
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Wataru Kamitani, D.V.M., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nResearch Institute for Microbial Diseases
\nOsaka Univeristy<\/td>\n		“Viral RNA Recognition by Coronavirus nsp1”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRob Davey<\/a>
\nand
\nJerry Keusch<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 21<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 28
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Samuel Behar, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School<\/td>\n		“Tuberculosis: Recognizing the Problem”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 5
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Mark Denison, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nVanderbilt<\/td>\n		“Inducing Infidelity as an Antiviral Strategy for MERS and Emerging Coronaviruses”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SPRING 2018 MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 17<\/td>\nMary (Peggy) Crow, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nWeil Cornell Medical College<\/td>\n		Triggers of Systemic Autoimmune Disease: Do Virus-Like Elements Play a Role?<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 24<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday,
\nFeb 1 @
\n11:00 AM<\/td>\n		STUDENT INVITED
\nErica Ollmann Saphire, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>The Scripps Research Institute<\/td>\n		Antibodies Against Ebola and Lassa \u2013 It took a Village<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nTessa Cressey<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 7<\/td>\nJoseph Craft, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nYale School of Medicine<\/td>\n		T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 14<\/td>\nAlan Rothman, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong><\/a>University of Rhode Island<\/td>\n		Protective and Pathological Immune Mechanisms in Dengue<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nTonya Colpitts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 21<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 28<\/td>\nC A N C E L L E D
\nPardis Sabeti, M.D., D. Phil.<\/del><\/a><\/strong>
\nBroad Institute<\/del><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 7
\nLocation:
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nMayo Clinic<\/td>\n		The Secret Life of Measles Virus: Cytoplasm Transfer and RNA Recombination<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 14<\/td>\nRESCHEDULED TO MAY 2 DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 21<\/td>\nRESCHEDULED TO
\nJUNE 13, 2018
\n<\/strong>Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a><\/del>
\n<\/strong>Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 28<\/td>\nOwen Pornillo<\/strong><\/a>s, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Virginia School of Medicine<\/td>\n		Structural Biology of Retroviral Capsid Recognition and Restriction<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 4<\/td>\nPaul Spearman, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nCincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center<\/td>\n		HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trafficking and Particle Assembly<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 11<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 18<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 25<\/td>\nDaniel Cifuentes, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		miR-144\/451 Cluster: The Trojan Horse of Hematopoietic microRNAs<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2<\/td>\nCatharine Bosio, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nNIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		Manipulation of Host Cell Metabolism as a Mechanism of Virulence for\u00a0<\/span>Francisella tularensis<\/em><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 9<\/td>\nBalaji Manicassamy, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Chicago<\/td>\n		Viral and Host Determinants of Avian H5N1 Influenza Virus Pathogenesis<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16<\/td>\nRobert Stahelin, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nPurdue University
\nCollege of Pharmacy<\/td>\n		Lipid-Dependent Assembly and Budding of Filoviruses<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 23<\/td>\nC A N C E L L E D
\nCarl Ware, Ph.D.<\/del><\/a><\/strong>
\nSanford Burnham Prebys<\/del>
\nMedical Discovery Institute<\/del><\/td>\n		<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 30<\/td>\nFlorian Douam, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Princeton University
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		Elucidating Immunological Mechanisms Regulating Flavivirus Infection\u00a0<\/span>in vivo<\/em><\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 13<\/td>\nHector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nCornell University College of Veterinary Medicine<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n		Glycoprotein Team Burglary: Entry and Egress of the Deadly Zoonotic Henipaviruses<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date
\n<\/strong>Location<\/strong><\/td>\n		Speaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 27
\nL504<\/td>\n		Gregory Melikian, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Emory University<\/td>\n		Mechanistic Studies of Virus Entry and Restriction by Host Membrane Proteins<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday,
\nSept 29
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Mark Harris, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Leeds<\/td>\n		The Hepatitis C Virus Protein: Function and Regulation<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 4
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Jason Rock, PhD.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		Stem Cells and Lung Repair\/ Regeneration<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 11<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 18
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Scott Weaver, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Texas Medical Branch<\/td>\n		Vaccines for Emerging Urban Arboviruses: Chikungunya and Zika<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 25
\nL504<\/td>\n		Joseph Craft, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Yale University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		T-Cell Dependent Humoral Immunity<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 1
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		James Whitney, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nRagon Institute<\/td>\n		Therapeutic Development for Zika Virus Infection<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 8<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15
\nL504<\/td>\n		Zandrea Ambrose, PhD.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n		Nevertheless it Persisted: HIV Drug Resistance Impacts on PrEP and Antiretroviral Therapy<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 29
\nL504<\/td>\n		Michael Niederweis, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/td>\n		The Necrosis-Inducing Toxin of\u00a0Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em><\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 6<\/td>\nMohsan Saeed, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Rockefeller Univeristy<\/td>\n		Creating a Suitable Host Environment for Virus Replication<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 13
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Jason Botten, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Vermont<\/td>\n		Virus Particles: Host Machinery Critical for their Formation and Infectivity<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SPRING 2017 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 11<\/td>\nJuan Fuxman Bass, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		“Protein-DNA Interaction Networks to Study Function and Disease”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 18<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 25<\/td>\nGalit Alter, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nRagon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard<\/td>\n		“Defining Novel Correlates of Humoral Immunity to TB”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 1<\/td>\nChristine Cheng, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		“Epigenetic Variability from Individuals to Single Cells”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 8<\/td>\nMark Shlomchik, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n		“T, B and DC: Keys to SLE”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 15
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Robert Davey, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Texas Biomedical Research Institute<\/td>\n		“Ebola Virus Teaches Autophagy New Tricks”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 22<\/td>\nJennifer Gommerman, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/td>\n		“B Cells in MS – Friend or Foe?”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 1<\/td>\nNancy MacIver, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nDuke University Hospital<\/td>\n		“Nutrition and Leptin in T Cell Metabolism”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 8
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Tony Wang, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>SRI International<\/td>\n		“Coming from the Blood: Unraveling the Mystery of Zika Virus Dissemination”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley
\n<\/a>and
\nJohn Porco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, Mar 13
\nLocation:
\nNEIDL<\/td>\n		Julian Hiscox, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Liverpools<\/td>\n		“Delineating the Role of the Host and Co-infections in Ebola Virus Disease and its Outcome”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 15<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 22<\/td>\nPaul Bieniasz, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Rockefeller University<\/td>\n		“Host Defenses Against Ancient and Modern Retroviruses”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 29<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Apr 4 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nTonya Colpitts, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of South Carolina School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Discovery of Arbovirus Transmission Factors & Vector-Virus Host Interactions”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor
\n<\/a>and
\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 5<\/td>\nFrancois Villinger, D.V.M, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<\/td>\n		“Dynamics of Virus and Host Cells: Use of Novel Tools to Follow Host\/Viral Interactions\u00a0in vivo<\/em>“<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 12
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Kartik Chandran, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlbert Einstein College of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Unraveling and Inhibiting the Cell Invasion Mechanism of Ebola Virus”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 19<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 26<\/td>\nCarlos<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Orihuela, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham<\/td>\n		“Necroptosis in the Lungs and Heart during Bacterial Pneumonia”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, May 1<\/td>\nRenee WY Chan, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/td>\n		“Rhinovirus Infection and Their Receptors in the Human Respiratory Airways”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 3<\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nJeffrey Bluestone, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of California San Francisco<\/td>\n		“Immunobiology of Tregs in Autoimmunity and Cancer”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nMichelle Fleury<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 10<\/td>\nCarla Greenbaum, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nBenaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason<\/td>\n		“Disease Modifying Therapy in T1D… What do we Know Now and What do we Need to Know”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 17 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nBrett Lindenbach, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Yale School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“The Machinery of Flaviviridae Replication, Assembly, and Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor
\n<\/a>and<\/span>
\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 24 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nGerald T Keusch, M.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		“National Academy of Medicine Report on Therapeutic and Vaccine Clinical Research during the West Africa Ebola Outbreak: What went wrong and What went right”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 31<\/td>\nDavid Lamb, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Swansea University Medical School<\/td>\n		“Cytochrome P450 Genes in Viruses”<\/td>\nITP<\/td>\nDavid Sherr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 14 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nVincent Munster, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>NIH, NIAID<\/td>\n		“The Ecology of Emerging Viruses: From Host Reservoir to Disease”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, June 29
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Michael Kurilla, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Director, Office of Biodefense, Research Resources, and Translational Research
\nDMID, NIAID, NIH DHHS<\/td>\n		“Infectious Disease Outbreak Response: Reactive, Proactive, Hyperactive, and Mostly Unattractive”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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FALL 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, Aug 31
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>Rocky Mountain Laboratories
\nNIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		\u201cComparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Reservoirs vs. Disease Models\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Sept 6
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Michael Holbrook, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Integrated Research Facility
\nNIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		\u201cEvaluation of Aerosol Models of Nipah Virus Infection\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, Sept. 8
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		David Safronetz, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Manitoba<\/td>\n		“Field and Laboratory Investigations on Lassa Virus”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 28<\/td>\nXueling Wu, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nAaron Diamond AIDS Research Center<\/td>\n		“Sequential Development of Neutralizing Antibodies and their Associated Envelope Antigens in SHIVSF162P3N<\/sub>-Infected Rhesus Macaques”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nManish Sagar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 5
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Jeremy Luban, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Massachusetts Medical School<\/td>\n		“Molecular Characterization of Clade-Defining Mutations from the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 12<\/td>\nTimothy Schacker, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Minnesota<\/td>\n		“Lymph Node Fibrosis and HIV: Implications for the Cure and Beyond”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 19<\/td>\nSanjay Ram, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Medical Center<\/td>\n		“Can we Trap “the Clap” by Sugar-Coating it?”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 26<\/td>\nStephen P. Goff, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nColumbia University<\/td>\n		“Retroviral Silencing: Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Regulation”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Anthony Griffiths, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Texas Biomedical Research Institute<\/td>\n		“Advanced Development of Filovirus Countermeasures Yields Insights into Viral Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a> \/ Ron Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 9<\/td>\nMichael Starnbach, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Harvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Manipulating the Immune Response to Chlamydia trachomatis<\/em>“<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 16<\/td>\nArturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Johns Hopkins School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Thoughts into the Origin of Microbial Virulence”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday,
\nNov 18 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Estefania Rodriguez Burgos, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>Heinrich Pette Institute<\/td>\n		“Humanized Mice to Study Viral Persistence and Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 23<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 30<\/td>\nMichael Gilmore, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nHarvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Multidrug Resistant Enterococci: From Paleozoic Origin to Leading Hospital Pathogen”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndrew Taylor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 7 Location; NEIDL<\/td>\nCharles Shoemaker, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nTufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine<\/td>\n		“Camelid VHH-Based Neutralizing Agents (VNAs) as Unconventional and Versatile Disease Therapeutics”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Samuelson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 14<\/td>\nEgil Lien, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Medical Center<\/td>\n		“Lessons from Highly Virulent Bacteria: Evasion and Activation of Innate Immunity by Plague”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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SPRING 2016 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 13
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Richard Webby, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/td>\n		“Transmission of Influenza Viruses at the Human-Animal Interface”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 20<\/td>\nUlrich von Andrian, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Harvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Vaccination to Prevent Mucosal Infections”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nMunir Mosaheb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 27<\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nGabriel Victora Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nWhitehead Institute<\/td>\n		\u201cClonal and Cellular Dynamics in Germinal Centers\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nKaitlin Sawatzki<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 3<\/td>\nSean Whelan, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Harvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Structure, Function and Inhibition of Large Proteins of Negativesense RNA Viruses – Single Polypeptide Chains that Catalyze Every Step of mRNA Transcription”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 10<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 17<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, Feb. 22
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Michael Katze, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Washington<\/td>\n		“Computational Biology, Genomics, (Epi)Genetics, and Systems Approaches: Unlocking the Mysteries of Deadly Virus Diseases in the 21st Century”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 24<\/td>\nNo Seminar
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday,
\nFeb 26<\/td>\n		Julie Overbaugh, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center<\/td>\n		“HIV Prevention: A Basic Science Perspective”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 9<\/td>\nXu Yu, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nHarvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Immune Recognition of HIV-1 in Dendritic Cells form Elite Controllers”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 16<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 23<\/td>\nRaul Andino, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of California San Francisco<\/td>\n		“Virus Evolution during Acute Infection: Population Dynamics and Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 30<\/td>\nDouglas Green, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital<\/td>\n		“LC3-associated Phagocytosis: Noncanonical Autophagy at the Interface of Innate Immunity, Inflammation, and Aging”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nHans Dooms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 6<\/td>\nArlene Sharp, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nHarvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Control of Antibody Responses by T Follicular Regulatory Cells”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nHans Dooms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 13<\/td>\nMichael Emerman, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center<\/td>\n		“The Evolution and Function of HIV Restriction Factors”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 20<\/td>\nPamela Schwartzburgh, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nNational Human Genome Research Institute, NIH<\/td>\n		“Tuning T cell Responses”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 27<\/td>\nTrevor Siggers, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston University<\/td>\n		“Examining the Specificity of Immune Regulators using Protein-binding Microarrays”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 4<\/td>\nMatthias Schnell, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Thomas Jefferson University<\/td>\n		“Rabies Virus-based Vaccine Platform Against Emerging Infectious Diseases”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 11<\/td>\nRonald Germain, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>NIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		“Imaging Immunity: Developing a Spatiotemporal Understanding of Host Defense”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 18<\/td>\nAnita McElroy, M.D., Ph.D.
\n<\/strong><\/a>Emory University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Immune Responses to Highly Pathogenic Viruses–Do They Help or Harm the Host?”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 25<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday, June 3 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nMarshall Bloom, M.D<\/strong>.<\/a>
\nNIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		“The Enigmatic Biology of Vector-borne Flaviviruses”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 8
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\n		Darryl Falzarano, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>International Vaccine Centre
\nUniversity of Saskatchewan<\/td>\n		“Development of Animal Models and Countermeasures for Emerging Viruses”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 15
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\n		Pedro F C Vasconcelos, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Technologia para Hemorrhagicas Virais
\nBel\u00e9m-Par\u00e1, Brasil<\/td>\n		“Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil: Present Situation and Perspectives”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nHoracio Frydman<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 22
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\n		Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Heinrich Pette Institute<\/td>\n		“Correlates of Immunity to Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses in Humans and Animal Models”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 29
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\n		Alyson A. Kelvin, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong><\/a>Immune Diagnostics and Research<\/td>\n		“Viral Pathogenesis and Transmission in the Mother-Infant Dyad: From Influenza to Zika”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 31
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/span><\/td>\n		Joseph B. Prescott, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>NIAID\/NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories<\/td>\n		“Comparative Immunology of High-Consequence Zoonotic Viruses: Natural Reservoirs vs. Disease Models”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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FALL 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nProgram<\/strong><\/td>\nHost<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 16
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Cesar Munoz-Fontela, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Heinrich Pette Institute<\/td>\n		\u201cEbola Virus Immunology: A Tale of Mice and Humans\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 23<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 30<\/td>\nEmily Nelson<\/strong> and Judy Yen
\n<\/strong>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cEbola Virus Diagnostics in Sierra Leone\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 7
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Kathleen A. McDonough, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>New York Department of Health<\/td>\n		\u201cKeeping up with the Neighborhood: Environmental Gene Regulation in M. tuberculosis<\/em>\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 14<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 21<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 28<\/td>\nGregory Viglianti, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cBiosafety \u2013 It\u2019s Everybody\u2019s Business\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 4
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Benhur Lee, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nMt. Sinai<\/td>\n		\u201cHenipaviruses: Not that Rare, Much more Diverse, Still too Dangerous?\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 11<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 18<\/td>\nLydia Lynch, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nBrigham and Women\u2019s Hospital<\/td>\n		\u201cObese NK Cells Lack Energy to Kill\u201d<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, Nov 19 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nGary Kobinger, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Public Health Agency of Canada<\/td>\n		\u201cA Decade of Ebola Work in the Field and on Vaccine and Therapeutics Culminating with the Biggest Outbreak and Real Solutions\u201d<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 25<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2<\/td>\nRonald Swanstrom, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of North Carolina
\nSchool of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cThe Evolution of Macrophage-Tropic HIV-1 and its Role in Virus-Host Interactions\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, Dec 3 Location: NEIDL<\/td>\nHeinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>NIH\/NIAID<\/td>\n		“Vaccines for Highly Pathogenic Viruses”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9<\/td>\nTheresa T. Lu, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Weill Medical College of
\nCornell University<\/td>\n		\u201cRegulating the Lymph Node Vascular-Stromal Compartment to Modulate Immunity\u201d<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 16<\/td>\nRanjan Sen, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nLaboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, NIH<\/td>\n		\u201cCoordinating Genetics and Epigenetics to Assemble Antigen Receptor Genes\u201d<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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SPRING 2015 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/b><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/b><\/td>\nTitle<\/b><\/td>\nProgram<\/b><\/td>\nHost<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 7<\/td>\nVijay Kuchroo, D.V.M., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital
\nHarvard Medical School<\/td>\n		\u201cUnexpected Targets and Triggers of Autoimmunity\u201d<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 14
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Amanda Jamieson, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Brown University<\/td>\n		“Tolerance of Polymicrobial Infections of the Lung: Innate Immune Response and the Microbiome”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJerry Keusch<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 21<\/td>\nCarl Novina, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
\nHarvard Medical School<\/td>\n		\u201cEnhanced microRNA Activity is a Novel Oncogenic Function of eIF4F\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, <\/b>Jan 22<\/td>\nImmunology Faculty Candidate
\nWilliam Kaiser, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Emory University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cCell Death Pathways in Host Defense (The Good), Inflammation (The Bad), and the Developmental Failure (The Ugly)<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday,<\/b>
\nJan. 26<\/td>\n		SEMINAR CANCELLED<\/a><\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 28<\/td>\nSEMINAR CANCELLED
\n<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/td>\n		Microbiology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday,<\/strong> Feb 3
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/strong><\/td>\n		Pathology\/NEIDL Faculty<\/strong> Candidate<\/strong>
\nJames Brien, Ph.D.
\nWashington University
\nSchool of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Immune Recognition and restriction of Re-emerging Flaviviruses”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 4<\/td>\nRamnik Xavier, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Massachusetts General Hospital<\/td>\n		“Autophagy and Check Points in Mucosal Immunity”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 11<\/td>\nSEMINAR CANCELLED<\/a>
\n<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 18<\/td>\nAndrew Luster, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Harvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“Imaging Chemokine Function in Disease”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 25<\/td>\nImmunology Faculty Candidate
\nAnthony Rongvaux, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Yale University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Studying Innate Immunity using Mouse and Humanized Mouse Models”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 4<\/td>\nRebecca Dutch, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Univeristy of Kentucky<\/td>\n		“Human Metapneumovirus Entry, Assembly, and Spread”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, Mar 5<\/td>\n Immunology Faculty Candidate
\nAmelia Pinto, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\n<\/strong> Washington University
\nSchool of Medicine<\/td>\n		“The Impact of Type I Interferon on Flavivirus Disease”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/a>Thomas Kepler<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 11<\/td>\nStudent Invited Speaker
\nMichael Katze, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/strong>University of Washington<\/td>\n		“Systems Virology: Can we help stop the Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola Epidemics”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nKate Sawatzki<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday, Mar 16 @ 11:00 AM<\/strong><\/td>\nImmunology Faculty Candidate
\nByron Au-Yeung, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of California San Francisco<\/td>\n		\u201cA Chemical-Genetic Approach to Control Zap 70 Activity Enables Quantitative and Temporal Control of T Cell Receptor Signaling\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 18
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Matthew Frieman, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Maryland<\/td>\n		“SARS and MERS Coronavirus: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 25<\/td>\nDario Vignali, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n		“Targeting Tregs in Tumors”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nHans Dooms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 1<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 8<\/td>\nZandrea Ambrose, PhD.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n		“Live-Cell and Super Resolution Imaging of Post-Entry Steps of HIV-1 Infection”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, Apr 9<\/td>\nImmunology Faculty Candidate
\n<\/strong><\/b>Pablo Penaloza, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Harvard Medical School<\/td>\n		“The Roles of CD4 T Cells during Chronic Viral Infection”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nThomas Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 15
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D<\/a>.
\n<\/b>University of Texas Medical Branch<\/td>\n		“Flaviviral Host Factors: A Love-Hate Relationship”<\/td>\nNEIDL<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 22<\/td>\nJune Round, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Utah<\/td>\n		“Redefining Self: How Commensal Microbes Influence Immunity and Health”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 29<\/td>\nDouglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td>\n		“Getting More from your Mice: Systems Analysis of in vivo<\/em> Inflammatory Pathophysiology”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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FALL 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/b><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/b><\/td>\nTitle<\/b><\/td>\nProgram<\/b><\/td>\nHost<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday,
\nSept 8
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Thomas Hoenen, Ph.D.<\/b>
\nRocky Mountain Laboratories<\/td>\n		\u201cReverse Genetics as a Tool For Studying the Biology of Ebolaviruses\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 24<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“The Process of Dying: Thanatogenesis in Inflammatory Lesions – A Common Pathway and a Therapeutic Target”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Monday,
\nSept 29<\/td>\n		Avery August, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nCornell University<\/td>\n		\u201cTuning T Cell Behavior\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 1<\/td>\nMarc Jenkins, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Minnesota<\/td>\n		\u201cTracking the Activation of CD4+ T Cells During Infection\u201d<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 8<\/td>\nJoyce Wong, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University<\/td>\n		“Biomaterial Strategies to Detect and Treat Cardiovascular Disease”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 15<\/td>\nEllen Rothenberg, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>California Institute of Technology<\/td>\n		“Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Early T-cell Lineage Commitment”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 22<\/td>\nTheodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nThe Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center<\/td>\n		“Breaking Barriers: HIV-1 Induced AIDS in Monkeys”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 29<\/td>\nThomas Kepler, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Human B Cell Lineage Dynamics in Chronic Infection and Repeated Immunization”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nDavid Sherr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Ekaterina Heldwein, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Tufts University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Mechanisms of Host Manipulation by Herpesviruses”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 12<\/td>\nSenad Divanovic, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Cincinnati<\/td>\n		“Immunopathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nBarb Nikolajczyk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 19<\/td>\nRamon Bonegio, M.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“The Role of Endogenous TLR Signaling in Immune Complex Glomerulonephritis”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nDavid Sherr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 26<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 3<\/td>\nJonathan Karn, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Case Western Reserve University<\/td>\n		“Molecular Mechanisms of HIV Latency and the Search for a Cure”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 10<\/td>\nKevin Francis, Ph.D.
\n<\/b>Perkin Elmer FellowElena Dubikovskaya, Ph.D.
\n<\/strong>\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Switzerland<\/td>\n		“Recent Advances in Preclinical Imaging of Infectious Diseases and Inflammation”<\/td>\nInflammation<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 17 Location: NEIDL<\/strong><\/td>\nHideki Ebihara, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nNIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		“In vitro<\/em> and in vivo<\/em> Approaches to Unraveling the Mechanisms for Replication and the Pathogenesis of Ebola and Marburg Viruses”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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SPRING 2014 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS, INFLAMMATION, AND IMMUNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/b><\/td>\nSpeaker<\/b><\/td>\nTitle<\/b><\/td>\nProgram<\/b><\/td>\nHost<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 15<\/td>\nShannon Turley, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Dana Farber Cancer Institute\/Harvard<\/td>\n		“Regulation of Leukocyte Function and Territoriality by Lymphoid Stroma”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 29<\/td>\nMargaret Lowe
\n<\/b>University of California San Francisco<\/td>\n		“When Worlds Collide: Identification of a Novel Endogenous Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand, Cinnabarinic Acid, that Drives Th22 Differentiation”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nDave Sherr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 5 <\/b><\/td>\n*C A N C E L E D*<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 12<\/td>\nJeffrey Browning, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University Medical School<\/td>\n		“Lymphotoxin-LIGHT Pathway Regulates the Interferon Signature in Rheumatoid Arthritis”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 19
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		David Wentworth, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>J. Craig Venter Institute<\/td>\n		“Genomics and Pathogenesis of Emerging\/Zoonotic Viruses”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 26<\/td>\nDISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR<\/b>
\nChadene Tremaglio<\/td>\n		“Investigating Respiratory Syncytial Virus Transcription: Evidence for Alternative Initiation Events and Small RNA Synthesis”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 5<\/td>\nAndrew Camilli, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Tufts University<\/td>\n		“A Vibrio cholerae<\/i>\/Phage Arms Race in the Context of Human Infection”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 12<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 19 Location: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\nChristina Spiropoulou, Ph.D.
\n<\/b>Centers for Disease Control<\/td>\n		“Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 26<\/td>\nMichael Carroll, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston Children\u2019s Hospital\/Harvard<\/td>\n		“Regulation of Lupus-antigen Specific B Cells by Follicular Dendritic Cells”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nJeff Browning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2 <\/b><\/td>\nLiisa K. Selin, M.D., Ph.D.<\/b><\/a>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts
\nMedical Center<\/td>\n		“Heterologous Immunity and T Cell Crossreactivity During Viral Infections”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nDave Sherr<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 9
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Michael Holbrook, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>National Institutes of Health<\/td>\n		“Immunological Mechanisms of Yellow Fever Virus Pathogenicity”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 16<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 23<\/td>\nThomas Braciale, MD, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Virginia Medical School<\/td>\n		“Respiratory Dendritic Cells and the Control of Anti-viral Effector and Memory T Cell Responses”<\/td>\nImmunology<\/td>\nLee Quinton<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 30
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Ralph Isberg, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Tufts University<\/td>\n		“Aggravation and Madness: Understanding Intracellular Growth by a Robust Bacterial Pathogen”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday,
\nMay 1 @ 11:00 am<\/td>\n		Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nUniversity of Louisville<\/td>\n		“Evolutionary Mechanisms of RNA Virus Host Switching”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 7
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/b><\/td>\n		Anita Goel, M.D., Ph.D.<\/b><\/a>
\nNanobiosym<\/td>\n		“Harnessing Nanobiophysics for Next Generation Pathogen Detection”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nGerald Keusch<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 14<\/td>\nDonna Farber, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Columbia University<\/td>\n		“Tissue Compartmentalization of T Cell Responses: From Mouse Models to Humans”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 21<\/td>\nNo Seminar
\n<\/b>Dr. Jenkins rescheduled to
\nOctober 1, 2014<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 28 @ 12:00 noon<\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER
\nKatherine Fitzgerald, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Massachusetts Med Ctr<\/td>\n		“Long Non-Coding RNA and Regulation of Inflammatory Gene Expression”<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nMunir Mosaheb<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 11 @ 12:00 noon<\/td>\nJohn Misasi,<\/b> M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nChildren\u2019s Hospital Boston<\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cHost Factors for Filovirus Entry\u201d<\/td>\nMicrobiology<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 23<\/td>\n*POSTDOC INVITED SPEAKER*
\n<\/b>John Schoggins, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>UT Southwestern Medical School<\/td>\n		\u201cUnraveling the Complexity of the Interferon Antiviral Response\u201d<\/td>\nJudith Olejnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 30<\/td>\nStudent Seminars
\n<\/b>Fadie Coleman
\n(Mizgerd Lab)
\nand
\nKristie Hilliard
\n(Quinton Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cRobust NF-kB Responses by Alveolar Macrophages Potentiate Anti-pneumococcal Defense During Pneumonia\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cThe Liver Response to Pneumonia: More than Just a Biomarker\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 7<\/td>\nWilson Wong, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nBiomedical Engineering
\nBoston University<\/td>\n		“Engineering T Cells for Cancer Therapy”<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 14<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 21
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		W. Evan Johnson, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Computational Biomedicine
\nBU School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Pathoscope: Species Identification and Strain Attribution with Unassembled Sequencing Data”<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday,
\nOct 23 @
\n1:00 PM<\/td>\n		DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR<\/b>
\nDaniele Cary<\/td>\n		“RON Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, a Negative Regulator of Inflammation, is Decreased during Simian Immunodificiency Virus Associated Central Nervous System Disease”<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 28<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 4<\/td>\nKarin Strijbis, Ph.D.
\n<\/b>Ploegh Lab
\nWhitehead Institute, MIT<\/td>\n		“Commensal or Pathogen? Immune Responses to the Yeast Candida albicans<\/em>“<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 11<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 18<\/td>\nStudent Seminars
\n<\/b>Krishna Moody
\n(Marshak-Rothstein Lab)
\nand
\nEmily Nelson
\n(M\u00fchlberger Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cFcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking\u201d
\nand
\n“Post-Transcriptional Regulation of RNA During Ebola Virus Infection”<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 25
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Megan L. Shaw, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Microbiology
\nMt. Sinai Hospital<\/td>\n		“Exploring Novel Targets for Influenza Antivirals”<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2<\/td>\nWalther Mothes, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Microbial Pathogenesis
\nYale University<\/td>\n		“Seeing is Believing – Visualizing Individual Steps of the Retroviral Life Cycle”<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 9
\nLocation: NEIDL<\/td>\n		Christopher Sassetti, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Microbiology & Physiological Systems
\nUMASS Medical School<\/td>\n		“Bacterial and Host Determinants of Tuberculosis Disease”<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SPRING 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 14<\/td>\nPinghua Liu, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nDepartment of Chemistry, BU<\/td>\n		\u201cConditional Knockout by Chemically Controlled Selective Degradation of mRNA and Protein\u201d<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 21<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 28<\/td>\nC A N C E L L E D
\nMartin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>NIAID, National Institutes of Health<\/td>\n		\u201cMechanistic Spatially Resolved Modeling of Cellular Signaling Pathways\u201d<\/td>\nTom Kepler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 4<\/td>\nStudent Seminars
\n<\/b>Kaitlin Sawatzki
\n(Bossart Lab)
\nand
\nGregory Wasserman
\n(Jones Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cEvaluating the Role of T Cells in Nipah Virus Pathogenesis\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cAlternative microRNA Utilization Regulates Cytokine Expression During Acute Bacterial Infection\u201d<\/td>\n		Greg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 11<\/td>\nNo Seminar
\n<\/b>Graduate Student Recruitment Day<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 18<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday
\nFeb 19<\/td>\n		Brian Bird, D.V.M., M.S.P.H., Ph.D.
\n<\/b>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cRift Valley Fever Virus: A Killer on the Move and New Ways to Stop it\u201d<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a> and
\nJack Murphy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 25<\/td>\nStudent Seminar
\n<\/b>Suzanne Geer
\n(Gummuluru Lab)
\nand
\nEmily Nelson
\n(Muhlberger Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cDifferences in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Interactions with Dendritic Cells\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cPost-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA by Ebola Virus VP30\u2033<\/td>\n		Greg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 4<\/td>\nJeroen Saeij, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td>\n		\u201cSusceptibility to Infection: A Complex Interplay Between Host and Parasite Genotypes\u201d<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 11<\/td>\nUlla Hansen, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Department of Biology, BU<\/td>\n		\u201cTranscription Factor LSF: Achilles Heel for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?\u201d<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 18<\/td>\nHinh Ly, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/td>\n		\u201cHost-Pathogen Interaction in Lassa Fever Virus Infection\u201d<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a> and
\nJack Murphy<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday,
\nMar 19
\n@2:00 pm<\/td>\n		DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR<\/b>
\nLaura Dickey<\/td>\n		\u201cRespiratory Syncytial Virus Interactions with Host Cell RNA-Processing Structures and Proteins\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 25<\/td>\nStudent Seminar
\n<\/b>Krishna Moody
\n(Marshak-Rothstein Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cFcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking\u201d<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 1<\/td>\nMichael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Washington University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cNew Insight into Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Alphavirus Infection\u201d<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 8<\/td>\nJ. Victor Garcia-Martinez, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/td>\n		\u201cHumanized Mice Models of Viral Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention\u201d<\/td>\nAndy Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 15<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 22<\/td>\nColleen Jonsson, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Louisville<\/td>\n		\u201cStrategies and Discoveries in Small Molecules: From Hits<\/i> to Leads<\/i> for Treatment of RNA Virus Infections\u201d<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 29<\/td>\nStudent Debate
\n<\/b>Michelle Fleury & Ludy Registre
\n(Facilitator: John Connor)<\/td>\n		\u201dTregs in HIV Infection: Friend or Foe?\u201d<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 1 @
\n1:00 pm<\/td>\n		Volker Thiel, Ph.D.<\/a><\/b>
\nSt Gallen, Switzerland <\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cCoronaviruses: Large RNA Viruses with Growing Impact\u201d<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 6<\/td>\nPhilip J. Santangelo, Ph.D.
\n<\/a><\/b>Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University<\/td>\n		\u201cInterrogating RSV Infections with Single Molecule Sensitive Probes\u201d<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 13<\/td>\n*STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER*
\nJames E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D.
\n<\/a><\/b>University of California, Davis<\/td>\n		\u201cRole of Cholesterol in HIV Infection and Pathogenesis\u201d<\/td>\nFadie Coleman<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, May 22 @ 12:00 noon<\/td>\nProfessor Theo Geijtenbeek
\n<\/a><\/b>University of Amsterdam<\/td>\n		\u201cC-Type Lectin Receptors in Infection and Immunity\u201d<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday,
\nMay 28 @ 12:00 noon<\/td>\n		DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
\n<\/b>Andrew Platt<\/td>\n		\u201cCharacterization of Responses Induced by N. meningitidis <\/i>PorB and its use as a Vaccine Adjuvant\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 3<\/td>\nRuslan Afasizhev, Ph.D.
\n<\/b>Boston University Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cMitochondrial Cryptogene Expression and RNA Editing Machines of Trypanosomes\u201d<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, June 6 @ 12:00 noon<\/td>\nQUALIFYING EXAM SEMINAR
\n<\/b>Munir Mosaheb<\/td>\n		\u201cExamining the Role of Varying Antigen Presenting Cell Types in PorB Adjuvant Activity\u201d<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, June 27 @ 2:00 pm<\/td>\nDISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR
\n<\/b>Ryan McClure<\/td>\n		\u201cHost and Pathogen Response to Gonococcal Infection: A Global Analysis\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FALL 2012 SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept. 17<\/td>\nRichard C. Condit, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Florida<\/td>\n		\u201cStructure and Assembly of the Poxvirus Virion\u201d<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a> \/ John Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept 24<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 1<\/td>\nStudent Seminar
\n<\/b>Chadene Tremaglio
\n(Fearns Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cInvestigating RSV Transcription: Evidence for an Alternative Initiation Event at the Viral Promoter that Generates small RNAs\u201d<\/td>\nGreg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 8<\/td>\nNo Seminar – Holiday<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Oct 9 @
\n1:00 PM<\/td>\n		***Dissertation Defense***
\n<\/b>Erin Hodges
\n\u201cCharacterization of the S2 Isolate
\nof Vesicular Stomatitis Virus<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 15<\/td>\nBjoern Reinhard, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Professor of Chemistry
\nBoston University<\/td>\n		“Rationally Designed Nanoparticles as Tools in Biomedical Research and Imaging”<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 22<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 29<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Fellow Seminars
\nCANCELLED due to Hurricaine<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5<\/td>\nTaekjip Ha, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Professor of Physics
\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/td>\n		“Single Molecule Views of Antiviral Signaling”<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 12<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 19<\/td>\nStudent Seminars
\n<\/b>Ryan McClure
\n(Genco Lab)
\nand
\nAndrew Platt
\n(Wetzler Lab) <\/b><\/td>\n		“Analysis and Characterization of the Global Gonococcal Transcriptome”
\nand
\n“Transcriptome Analysis of a Multi-Injection Vaccine Schedule Reveals a Non-Linear Response to the Adjuvant PorB”<\/td>\n		Greg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 26<\/td>\nManish Sagar, M.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Associate Professor of Medicine
\nSection of Infectious Diseases
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of HIV-1 Present Early After Transmission”<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 3<\/td>\nGerald Pier, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Professor of Medicine
\nChanning Laboratory<\/td>\n		“A Microbial Achilles Heel: Poly-N-acetyl Glucosamine is a Ubiquitously Expressed Vaccine Target on Bcaterial, Fungal and Protozoan Pathogens”<\/td>\nJay Mizgerd<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 10<\/td>\nStudent Seminars
\n<\/b>Fadie Coleman
\n(Mizgerd Lab)
\nand
\nKristie Hilliard
\n(Quinton Lab)<\/td>\n		“Meaningful Variation in the Activation of Macrophage NF-\u03baB Responses by Pneumococcus”
\nand
\n“Liver-Derived Proteins Facilitate Pulmonary Inflammatory Injury during the Acute Phase of Pneumonia”<\/td>\n		Greg Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 17<\/td>\nHans Dooms, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Assistant Professor of Medicine
\nArthritis Center\/Rheumatology Section
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“How to Forget bad T cell Memories while Keeping the Good Ones”<\/td>\nRon Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday Jan. 6<\/td>\nMehul S. Suthar, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>University of Washington<\/td>\n		\u201cRIG-I Like Receptor Regulation of Viral Infection and Immunity\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Jan. 17<\/td>\nHideki Ebihara, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>NIAID, NIH<\/td>\n		“Molecular Determinants of Filovirus Virulence in Small Animal Models”<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan. 23<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan. 30<\/td>\nStudent Qualifying Exam Seminars
\nKristie Hilliard<\/strong>
\n<\/b>and
\nEmily Nelson<\/strong><\/td>\n		“The Hepatic Acute Phase Response Regulates Pulmonary Inflammation and Injury During Pneumonia”
\nand
\n“Regulation of mRNA Stability by Ebola Virus VP30”<\/td>\n		Gregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday Feb. 2<\/td>\nHai-Hui (Howard) Xue, M.D., Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Iowa<\/td>\n		\u201cBack with the Wnts: Their Novel Roles in T Cell Biology<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 6<\/td>\nStudent Qualifying Exam Seminars
\nFadie Coleman<\/strong>
\nand
\nSuzanne Geer<\/strong><\/td>\n		“Influence of Macrophage NF-kB Activation on the Outcome of Pneumococcal Pneumonia”
\nand
\n“HIV Appropriates Host Lectins to Facilitate Capture and Dissemination by DCs”<\/td>\n		Gregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 13<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Feb. 15, in
\nL201\/203<\/td>\n		Louise D\u2019Cruz, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, San Diego<\/td>\n		\u201cTranscriptional Regulation of Natural Killer T Cell Development and Homeostasis\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 20<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 27<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 5<\/td>\nDorian McGavern. Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nNINDS, NIHI<\/td>\n		“Dynamics of Immunity to Acute and Persistent Viral Infection”<\/td>\nPaul Duprex<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 12<\/td>\nMatthew Jones, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Widespread Uridylation of microRNA is Governed by Zcchc11 in vivo<\/em>“<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, Mar. 14, in L201\/203<\/td>\nJanelle Ayres, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>University of California, Berkeley<\/td>\n		“Friend or Foe? Host Tolerance of Pathobionts in Health and Disease”<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 19<\/td>\nStudent Seminar<\/strong>
\nRyan McClure<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Genco Lab
\nand
\nAndrew Platt<\/strong>
\nWetzler Lab<\/td>\n		“An In Depth Conversation Between the Human Pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae <\/em>and the Host as Revealed by Global Transcriptome Analysis”
\nand
\n“Antigen Uptake and Migration by APCs is Enhanced by PorB”<\/td>\n		Gregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 26<\/td>\nJonathan Towner, Ph.D<\/strong>
\n<\/b>CDC<\/td>\n		“Ecology of Ebola and Marburg Viruses”<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlberger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 2<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 9<\/td>\nRonald Iorio, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>UMass Medical Center<\/td>\n		“Diversity of Paramyxovirus Fusion Triggering Mechanisms”<\/td>\nGregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Apr. 10
\n@ 1:15 PM<\/td>\n		Scott Gray-Owen, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Univeristy of Toronto <\/strong><\/td>\n		“The Pathogenic Neisseria: Dancing with Humans<\/td>\nLee Wetzler<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 16<\/td>\nNo Seminar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 23<\/td>\nChristopher Aiken, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n		“Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5alpha”<\/td>\nRahm Gummuluru<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 30<\/td>\nStudent Debate<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Munir Mosaheb, Kaitlin Sawatzki, and Gregory Wasserman
\n(Facilitator: Katharine Bossart)<\/td>\n		“Should the Controversial H5N1 Studies be Published?”<\/td>\nGregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 7<\/td>\nSTUDENT INVITED SPEAKER<\/strong>
\nJohn K. Rose, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Yale University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“New Approaches to Vaccines for Old and New Plagues”<\/td>\nChadene Zack<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 14<\/td>\nValentina Perissi, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Boston University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		“Dissecting GSPS2 Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Roles: A Novel Protective Strategy Against Hyper-Inflammatory Responses”<\/td>\nGregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 20
\n@ 10:00 AM<\/td>\n		Dissertation Defense Seminar<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Nathaniel Green<\/td>\n		“TLR7 Dependent and Independent Responses of Autoreactive B Cells to Nucleic Acid Containing Immune Complexes”<\/td>\nGregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
June 25
\n@ 1:00 PM<\/td>\n		Dissertation Defense Seminar<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Guy Bushkin<\/td>\n		“The Glycobiology of Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, <\/em>and Eimeria”<\/em><\/td>\nGregory Viglianti<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FALL 2011 SEMINAR SERIES<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept. 19<\/td>\nTed Ross, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of Pittsburgh<\/td>\n		\u201cInfluenza in the Young and Aged: Infection, Vaccination and Overcoming Viral Diversity\u201d<\/td>\nStephanie Oberhaus<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sept. 26<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR
\nErin Hodges
\n<\/b>Connor Lab
\nand
\nKristina Schmidt
\n<\/b>M\u00fchlberger Lab<\/td>\n		\u201cS2 VSV Shows a Unique Transcriptional Phenotype that Leads to Viral Attenuation\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cLocation and Relocation: Filovirus Nucleocapsids, Stress and Being Green\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 3<\/td>\nID Faculty Candidate
\nManish Sagar, MD<\/a>
\n<\/b>Brigham & Women\u2019s Hospital\/Harvard<\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dSelection and Antibody Susceptibility During Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission\u201d<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 10<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 17<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR
\nNathaniel Green
\n<\/b>Marshak-Rothstein Lab
\nand
\nKrishna<\/b> Moody
\n<\/b>Marshak-Rothstein Lab<\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dIt\u2019s all About the -OH. The Difference Between RNA- and DNA-immune Complexes for Stimulating B Cells\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cFc\u03b3RIIB Engagement Modulates the Trafficking of Immune Complexes\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 24<\/td>\nID Faculty Candidate
\nChristopher Woelk, PhD<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of California San Diego<\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dMachine Learning Approaches to Combat Infectious Diseases\u201d<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct. 31<\/td>\nAlexander Poltorak, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Tufts University<\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dGenetic Studies of Innate Immunity in Wild Mice\u201d<\/td>\nIgor Kramnik<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov. 7<\/td>\nID Faculty Candidate
\nJohn Love, MD, PhD
\nBeth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center<\/b><\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dThe Human Cathelicidin LL-37 Induces Group A Streptococcus Resistance to Killing by Multiple Human Cell Types\u201d<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov. 14<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR
\nDaniele Cary
\n<\/b>Henderson Lab
\nand
\nLaura Dickey
\n<\/b>Fearns Lab<\/td>\n		\u201cIntrinsic Mechanisms that Limit HIV Expression in Macrophages and T Cells\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cRSV\u2019s Relationship with Cellular Decapping Protein 1\u2033<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov. 21<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR
\nGuy Bushkin
\n<\/b>Samuelson Lab
\nand
\nChadene Zack
\n<\/b>Fearns Lab<\/td>\n		\u201cCharacterization of Oocyst Wall Proteins of Toxoplasma and Eimeria\u201d
\nand
\n\u201cEvidence for an Alternate RNA Initiation Site Associated with Transcription at Nucleotide 3 of the RSV Leader Region in Wildtype Virus Infection\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov. 28<\/td>\nBrandon Xia, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Boston University<\/td>\n		\u201cThree-Dimensional View of Protein Networks\u00a0Within and Between Species\u201d<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec. 5<\/td>\nPricilla Yang, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>Harvard Medical School\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cChemical Approaches to the\u00a0Study of Viruses\u201d<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, Dec. 20<\/td>\nJoeo H. Pedra, Ph.D.<\/a>
\n<\/b>University of California, Riverside<\/td>\n		\u201cPathogen Immune Evasion at the Vector-Host Interface\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SPRING 2011 SEMINAR SERIES<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan. 10<\/td>\nKathleen McDonough, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nWadsworth Center<\/strong>
\nNew York State Department of Public Health<\/strong><\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cFrom White Plague to Black Death: A Wide Spectrum of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in M. tuberculosis<\/em> and Y. pestis<\/em>\u201d<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday,
\nJan. 18<\/td>\n		Immunology Faculty Candidate<\/strong>
\nLauren Zenewicz, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Yale University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cGut Instincts: Interleukin-22 and Mucosal Immunity\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan. 24<\/td>\nThomas Kepler, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Duke University School of Medicine<\/td>\n		\u201cB Cells, Bats, and Barcodes: Next Gen Sequence Analysis for Immunology\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan. 31<\/td>\nImmunology Faculty Candidate<\/strong>
\nJacob Kohlmeier, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Trudeau Institute<\/td>\n		\u201cGeneration and Recall of T Cell Memory Following Respiratory Infection\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday,
\nFeb. 3 @ 12:30 PM<\/td>\n		Immunology Faculty Candidate<\/strong>
\nArtem Barski, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nNHLBI, NIH<\/strong><\/b><\/td>\n		\u201cExploring the T Cell Epigenome: Poised Genes and T Cell Memory\u201d<\/td>\nRonald Corley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 7<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 14<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 21<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 28<\/td>\nSurachi Supattapone. M.D., Ph.D., D. Phil.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/b>Dartmouth Medical School<\/td>\n		\u201cCofactors in Prion Propagation\u201d<\/td>\nRachel Fearns<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 7<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR<\/strong>
\nGary Guy Bushkin<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Samuelson Lab)andChadene Zack<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Fearns Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cIdentification of Beta-Glucan in the Oocyst Walls of Toxoplasma and Eimeria\u201dand\u201dInvestigating a New Model of Transcription Initiation in Respiratory Syncytial Virus\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 14<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR<\/strong>
\nDaniele Cary<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Henderson Lab)andLaura Dickey<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Fearns Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cDysregulation of Tissue Resident Macrophages During HIV Infection\u201dand\u201dRSV\u2019s Relationship with Stress Granule and Processing Body Proteins\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 21<\/td>\nMark Heise, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/td>\n		\u201cBugs in the System: Using Systems Genetics to Study Virus-Host Interactions\u201d<\/td>\nJohn Connor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar. 28<\/td>\nSTUDENT DEBATE<\/strong>
\nKristie Hilliard vs. Emily Nelson<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Facilitator: Barb Nikolajczyk)<\/td>\n		\u201cIs Type 2 Diabetes a Mis-Classified Autoimmune Disease?\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 4<\/td>\nSTUDENT DEBATE<\/strong>
\nFadie Coleman vs. Suzanne Geer<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Facilitator: Andy Henderson)<\/td>\n		\u201cWill There Ever be an HIV Vaccine?\u201d<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 11<\/td>\nZahra Zakeri, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nCity University of New York<\/td>\n		\u201cViral Manipulation of Cell Death Machinery\u201d<\/td>\nElke M\u00fchlbeger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 18<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday,
\nApr. 22<\/td>\n		DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR<\/strong>
\nTimothy Hanley<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Department of Microbiology
\n\u201cThe Effects of Nuclear Receptor and Toll-like Receptor Crosstalk on
\nHIV-1 Replication in and Transmission by Macrophages and Dendritic Cells\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr. 25<\/td>\nQiang Zhou, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of California at Berkeley<\/td>\n		\u201cNew Insights into the Control of HIV-1 Transcription: When Tat\u00a0 Meets the 7SK snRNP and Super Elongation Complex (SEC)\u201d<\/td>\nAndrew Henderson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2<\/td>\nSTUDENT SEMINAR<\/strong>
\nRyan McClure<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Genco Lab)
\nand
\nAndrew Platt<\/strong>
\n<\/b>(Wetzler Lab)<\/td>\n		\u201cExamining sRNA Mediated Regulation in Neisseria<\/em>\u201c
\nand
\n\u201cLymphocyte Responses to Porin Adjuvanted Vaccines\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 9<\/td>\nNO SEMINAR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16<\/td>\nNikos Vasilakis, Ph.D.<\/strong>
\n<\/b>University of Texas Medical Branch<\/td>\n		\u00a0\u201dThe Fever from the Forrest: Prospects for Continued Emergence of Sylvatic Dengue Virus and Impact on Public Health\u201d<\/td>\nCaroline Genco<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday,
\nJune 10,
\n11:00 am<\/td>\n		DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR<\/strong>
\nDaniel Green<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Department of Microbiology
\n\u201cCD4 Regulation of T Cell Migration\u201d<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday,
\nJune 29,
\n3:00 pm<\/td>\n		Debi P. Sarkar, Ph.D.
\n<\/a><\/strong>University of Delhi<\/td>\n		\u201cCellular Signaling in Virus-Host Interactions: Regulation of Fusion Mediated Entry of Sendai Virus\u201d<\/td>\nSibaji Sarkar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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