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).
April 3, 2020
Speaker: Jamal Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Davis
Lecture: “Engineering Particulate-Based Systems to Influence the Immune System” (PDF)
April 10, 2020
Speaker: Mary E. Kable, Ph.D., Research Molecular Biologist, USDA ARS WHNRC , Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California
Lecture: “Impacts of a Zinc Transporter on the Microbiota and Physiology of the Colon: Findings from a Znt7-/- Mouse Model” (PDF)
April 17, 2020
Speaker: Jacques Ravel, Ph.D., Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Associate Director for Genomics, Institute for Genome Sciences, Health Sciences Facility III, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Lecture: “OMICS Approaches to Study Host-Vaginal Microbiome Interactions” (PDF)
April 24, 2020
Speaker: Karen Ottemann, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Lecture: "Helicobacter Pylori Chemotaxis in the Stomach: Signaling Diversity and Niche Colonization" (PDF)
May 1, 2020
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Speaker: Ami Bhatt, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine and Genetics, Stanford University
Lecture: “From Precise Microbial Genomics to Precision Medicine” (PDF)
May 8, 2020
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Speaker: Michael Farzan, Ph.D., Co-chair and Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research Institute
Lecture: “A pathway to ART-free suppression of HIV-1” (PDF)
May 15, 2020
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Speaker: Luiz R. Goulart, Ph.D., Professor, Federal University of Uberlandia, Chair of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Theranostics and Nanobiotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Biochemistry, Head of the Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology
Lecture: “Peptide-based Specific Immunotherapy to Control Allergies” (PDF)
May 22, 2020
*The seminar is CANCELLED*
Speaker: Eugene Oltz, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Microbial Infection & Immunity, Samuel Saslaw Professor of Infectious Diseases, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Lecture: “Normal and Pathogenic Regulatory Circuits in Human Lymphoid Cells” (PDF)
May 29, 2020
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Speaker: Nichole Ginnan, Ph.D. Candidate , NSF GRFP Fellow , UC President's DY Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside
Lecture: “Pathogens, Plant Phenology, and Microbial Competition Impact the Structure and Function of the Citrus Microbiome” (PDF)
March 13, 2020
**Seminar is cancelled**
Speaker: Janine M. LaSalle, Ph.D., Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Lecture: “Mining the Perinatal Epigenome for Insights into Autism Risk and Multifactorial Health Disparities” (PDF)
March 6, 2020
Speaker: Sungjin Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Lecture: “Antibody-Dependent Memory-Like NK Cells” (PDF)
February 28, 2020
Speaker: Greg Brennan, D.V.M., Ph.D., Project Scientist, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Lecture: “Bimodal Adaptation of a Chimeric Poxvirus to Human Cells” (PDF)
February 14, 2020
Speaker: Peter Turnbaugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, of Microbiology and Immunology, G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
University of California
Lecture: "Eating for Two Trillion: Reciprocal Interactions between Diet and the Human Gut Microbiome" (PDF)
February 7, 2020
Speaker: Lewis Lanier, Ph.D., J Michael Bishop MD, Distinguished Professor, Chair, Microbiology and Immunology Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy University of California
Lecture: “Natural Killer Cells in Viral Immunity and Transplantation” (PDF)
January 31, 2020
Speaker: Bali Pulendran, Ph.D., Professor, Violetta L. Horton, Department of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine
Lecture: “Systems Biological Analysis of the Correlates and Mechanisms of Vaccination Induced Protection” (PDF)
January 17, 2020
Speaker: Mattthew Blango, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute
Lecture: "Aspergillus fumigatus elicits host-derived antifungal extracellular vesicles during infection" (PDF)
January 10, 2020
(Gladys Valley Hall Room 1047)
Speaker: Bridget M. Barker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Associate Director NAU ABSL3
Lecture: “Dust Devil or Fantastic Yeast? The Mysterious Life of Coccidioides” (PDF)
Contact the IOR, Dr. José V. Torres (jvtorres@ucdavis.edu), if you would like to meet with the speaker.
