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.

September 29, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom

Speaker: Timothy J. Henrich, M.D., M.M.Sc., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Division of Experimental Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Title: "Seeing is Believing: Multimodal Molecular Imaging Reveals Chronic Viral Persistence and Impaired Immune Responses in HIV and SARS- CoV-2 Infection" (PDF)


October 13, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom

Speakers: Renée Tsolis, Ph.D., Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, University of California, Davis
Satya Dandekar, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, University of California, Davis


October 20, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom

Speaker: Taiyi (Diana) Kuo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis


November 3, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom
Hosted by Microbiology Graduate Student Group

Speaker: Forest Rohwer, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, San Diego State University


November 17, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom

Speaker: Lishomwa Ndhlovu, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Immunology, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Weill Cornell Medicine


December 1, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom

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


December 8, 2023

Hybrid GBSF/Zoom
Hosted by Microbiology Graduate Student Group

Speaker: E Peter Greenberg, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington

April 7, 2023

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

Title: “Cryo-EM structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein” (PDF)


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

Title: “Social dynamics in bacterial swarms” (PDF)


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

Title: “The Power of Spatial Imaging Approaches to Understand HIV Reservoirs and Cure Strategy Outcomes” (PDF)


May 5, 2023

Speaker: Abdullah Muhammad Madany, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Ashwood Lab Medical Microbiology and Immunology and MIND Institute, UC Davis School of Medicine

Title: “Prenatal and postnatal environmental exposures and the etiology of autism spectrum disorders” (PDF)


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

Title: “Unraveling Lanthanide Transport, Storage, and Usage in bacteria" (PDF)


May 19, 2023

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

Title: “Monkey in the Middle: Within-Host Dynamics and Transmission of Dengue and Zika Virus in Native and Novel Non-Human Primate Hosts” (PDF)


May 26, 2023

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

Title: "Commensal iron acquisition modifies host nutritional immunity during Salmonella infection." (PDF)

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)

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