MMI 291 Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Microbiology and Immunology
Current Theme: Interdisciplinary Research
All seminars are held Fridays at 12:10 p.m. at 1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF Main Auditorium).
Please note: All MMI 291 seminars will continue via Zoom.
Fall Quarter 2024
September 27, 2024
Speaker: Don Gammon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, W.W. Caruth Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, Department of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Title: “Poxviruses Reveal the "FEAR" in You!” (PDF)
October 4, 2024
Speaker: Terza Brostoff, D.V.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Title: “Feline Infectious Peritonitis: A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Vaccination” (PDF)
October 11, 2024
Speaker: Ching-Hsien Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California Davis
Title: “From Cancer to Fibrosis: Deciphering Immune Microenvironments and Therapeutic Pathways" (PDF)
October 25, 2024
Speaker: Bruce W. Draper, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
November 1, 2024
Speaker: Allen C. Gao, M.D., Ph.D., Ralph de Vere White Professor, Director of Urologic Research, Department of Urologic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
November 15, 2024
Speaker: Harikrishna Nakshatri, B.V.Sc., Ph.D., Marian J. Morrison Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Professor of Surgery and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
November 22, 2024
Speaker: Robert ‘Bob’ Canter, Division Chief, Surgical Oncology, Professor of Surgery, Sarcoma Services, University of California, Davis
December 6, 2024
Speaker: Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Co-leader Molecular Oncology Program UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Contact the IOR, Dr. José V. Torres (jvtorres@ucdavis.edu), if you would like to meet with the speaker.