Fall 2019
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Aug. 26 | Speaker: Michael Stadnisky, PhD CEO, Phitonex, Inc. Seminar Title: Syzygy Forces: Using Immune Cell Networks to Reverse Immune Suppression in Spaceflight and Melanoma Host: Timothy Bullock |
| Sept. 13 | Special BME/CIC Seminar Speaker: Sai Reddy, PhD ETH Zurich Seminar Title: Encoding and decoding specificity in antibody repertoires by deep learning Hosts: Thomas Barker and Victor Engelhard |
| Sept. 16 | Vijay Rathinam, DVM, PhD University of Conneticut Seminar Title: Innate Immune Surveillance of the Cytosol: Pyroptosis and Beyond Host: John Lukens |
| Sept. 23 | Norbert Leitinger, PhD University of Virginia Seminar Title: Metabolic Adaption of Macrophages to Heme Detoxification Host: Timothy Bullock |
| Sept. 30 | Nichol Holodick, PhD Western Michigan University Seminar Title: Aging of B-1a Cell Derived Natural Antibodies Host: Coleen McNamara |
| Oct. 14 | Speaker: Irving Coy Allen, MBA, PhD Virginia Tech Seminar Title: Deploying Novel Tumor Ablation Strategies to Engage the Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems in the Fight Against Cancer Host: Timothy Bullock |
| Oct. 28 | Speaker: Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD Vanderbilt University Seminar Title: Fueling T cells in inflammation and cancer Host. Timothy Bullock |
| Nov. 4 | Speaker: Tullia Bruno, PhD University of Pittsburgh Seminar Title: Distinct B cell signatures and tertiary lymphoid structures are driven by two etiologies in head and neck cancer Host: Victor Engelhard |
| Nov. 11 | Speaker, Eric Long, PhD NIHAID Title: Contribution of NK cells to protection from malaria supported by in vitro assays and field studies Host: Students |
| Nov. 18 | Speaker: Eva Frickel, PhD Francis Crick Institute Seminar Title: Immune-mediated control of Toxoplasma in human cells Host: Sarah Ewald |
| Dec. 2 | Speaker: Hui Zong, PhD Seminar Title: Cancer immunology at the unlikely place (brain) and time (premalignancy) Host: Victor Engelhard |
| Dec. 9 | Eric Huseby, PhD University of Massachusetts Seminar Title: Neonatal T cell development Host: Ulrike Lorenz |
| Dec. 16 | Speaker: Prajwal Gurung, PhD University of Iowa Seminar Title: RIPK2 in health and disease Host: John Lukens |
| Date | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Jan. 13 | Speaker: Michael Abt, MD Seminar Title: Immune-Microbiome Interactions Modulate Clostridium difficile Pathogenesis Host: Students |
| Jan. 27 | Speaker: Leonid Margolis, PhD NICHD Seminar Title: Extracellular Vesicles in Immunity to Viral Infection Host: Rebecca Pompano |
| Feb. 3 | Speaker: Christopher Hunter, BSc, PhD University of Pennsylvania Seminar Title: Tracking host-pathogen interactions for Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium Host: William Petri |
| Feb. 10 | Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu, PhD University of Virginia Seminar Title: Chemical Biology and Chemistry for Translational Lipid Biology and Beyond Host: Victor Engelhard |
| Feb. 24 | Speaker: Bimal Desai, PhD Seminar Title: Ion channels and Ca2+-signaling in Cell-Intrinsic Defenses Host: Tim Bullock |
| Mar. 9 | Carter Lecture - David Raulet, PhD |