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.

January 13, 2023

Speaker: Marina E. De León Ph.D. Candidate, Jonathan Eisen Lab, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Genome Center, UC Davis

Title: “The Taxonomy and Genomic Analysis of Select Pigment Producing Bacteria” (PDF)


January 20, 2023

Speaker: Sara Suliman, M.P.H., Ph.D., Assistant Professor In-Residence, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, UC San Francisco at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Title: "A Journey of understanding risk of TB disease" (PDF)


February 17, 2023

Speaker: Ryan Bruneau, Ph.D. Candidate, Rothenburg Lab, Immunology Graduate Group, UC Davis

Title: "Cowpox Viruses: A Zoo Full of Viral Diversity and Lurking Threats" (PDF)


February 24, 2023

Speaker: Alexander Franz, Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri

Title: "Genetic strategies to control mosquito-borne arbovirus transmission in the field" (PDF)


March 3, 2023

Speaker: Carl Basbas, Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology Graduate Group, Richard Pereira Research Lab, UC Davis

Title: "Antimicrobial Resistance in California Dairy Cattle Populations: Impacts on Microbiota and Pathogenic Bacteria" (PDF)


March 10, 2023

Speaker: Shai Bel, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University

Title: "Autophagy controls mucus secretion from intestinal goblet cells by alleviating ER stress" (PDF)


March 17, 2023

Speaker: Beau Parry, Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology Graduate Group, Renée Tsolis Research Lab, UC Davis

Title: "Brucella abortus relies on nutrient deprivation to coordinate T4SS and effector expression" (PDF)

April 7, 2023

Speaker: Bing Chen, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Rosalind Franklin Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital, Division of Molecular Medicine


April 14, 2023

Hosted by Microbiology Graduate Group DEI Committee

Speaker: Karine A. Gibbs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley


April 21, 2023

Liver Research Day via the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology


April 28, 2023

Speaker: Jacob D. Estes, Ph.D., Director and Professor, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Affiliate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University


May 5, 2023

Speaker: Abdullah Madany, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Mind Institute


May 12, 2023

Hosted by Microbiology Graduate Group DEI Committee

Speaker: Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley


May 19, 2023

Speaker: Kathryn A. Hanley, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University


May 26, 2023

Speaker: Christopher Gaulke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, University of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


June 2, 2023

Speaker: Wenhan Zhu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Contact the IOR, Dr. José V. Torres (jvtorres@ucdavis.edu), if you would like to meet with the speaker.