Fall 2021
9/27/21 | Speaker: Sujan Shresta, PhD Seminar Title: Mechanisms Underlying Zika Virus-Dendritic Cell Interactions and Identification of a Zika Variant with Epidemic Potential Host: Coleen McNamara |
10/11/21 | Speaker: Ukpong Eyo, PhD Seminar Title: Microglia Regulate Neuronal and Vascular Function Host: Victor Engelhard |
10/18/21 | Speaker: Anne Sperling, PhD Seminar Title: Immune Responses in pulmonary fibrosis and lung injury Host: Coleen McNamara |
10/25/21 | Speaker: Jhansi Leslie, PhD Seminar Title: Western diet increases severity of Clostridioides difficile infection via neutrophils Host: Timothy Bullock |
11/1/21 | Speaker: Andrew C. Dudley, PhD Seminar Title: Vascular endothelium: a gateway and a highway during tumor progression Host: Timothy Bullock |
11/8/21 | Speaker: Carrie Cowardin, PhD Seminar Title: Uncovering the Role of the Maternal Gut Microbiome in Child Growth and Immunity Host: Coleen McNamara |
11/15/21 | Carter Lecture: Ananda Goldrath, Ph.D. Lecture Title: Transcriptional regulation of CD8 T cell immunity to infections and malignancies |
11/22/21 | Speaker: Kodi Ravichandran, BVSc, PhD Seminar Title: The many facets of apoptosis and efferocytosis Host: Timothy Bullock |
12/6/21 | Speaker: Esther Lutgens, MD, PhD Seminar Title: The immune checkpoint atlas of atherosclerosis: What to target when? Host: Coleen McNamara |
12/13/21 | Speaker: Ming Li, PhD Seminar Title: Immunological Mechanisms of Cancer Defense Host: Students |
Spring 2022
1/24/22 | Speaker:Benjamin Ungar, MD Seminar Title: Covid-19 in Atopic Dermatitis Patients Host: William Petri |
1/31/22 | Speaker: Alison Criss, PhD Seminar Title: Manipulation of human innate immunity by Neisseria gonorrhoeae Host: Timothy Bullock |
2/7/22 | Speaker: Amanda Jamieson, PhD Seminar Title: Mediating host tolerance and innate immune triage: The lung as a central regulator Host: Sarah Ewald |
2/14/22 | Speaker: Saskia Hemmers, PhD Seminar Title: Novel facets of IL-1R family member biology in neuro-inflammation Host: Sanja Arandjelovic |
2/21/22 | Speaker: Makoto Inoue, PhD Seminar Title: Impact of environmental and biological factors to multiple sclerosis disease in mice Host: John Lukens |
2/28/22 | Speaker: Keke Fairfax, PhD Seminar Title: Unwinding the role of helminth antigen driven reprogramming in host immunity Hosts: Sarah Ewald and Rebecca Pompano |
3/7/22 | Speaker: Arif Yurdagul, Jr., PhD Seminar Title: Nutrient Sensing of Apoptotic Cells by Macrophages Drives Inflammation Resolution Host: Sanja Arandjelovic |
3/14/22 | Speaker: Yury Miller, MD, PhD Seminar Title: The Inflammaraft: Reprogramming of plasma membrane in macrophages and microglia Host: Coleen McNamara |
3/21/22 | Speaker: Rahul Sharma, PhD Seminar Title: Alarmin in the pathogenesis and repair of acute kidney injury Host: Timothy Bullock |
3/28/22 | Speaker: Mariana Kaplan, MD Seminar Title: Neutrophils in the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases Host: Sanja Arandjelovic |
4/8/22 | Speaker: Rebecca Obeng, MD, PhD Seminar Title: Stem-like CD8 cells and the adaptive immune response in chronic diseases Hosts: Dean Kedes and Sarah Ewald |
5/2/22 | Speaker: Sergio Catz, PhD Seminar Title: Mechanistic and translational approaches in neutrophil-mediated inflammation Host: Sanja Arandjelovic |