MMI 291 Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Microbiology and Immunology
Current Theme: Interdisciplinary Research
All seminars are held Fridays at 12:10 PM at 1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF Main Auditorium).
January 11, 2019
MedSci 180C
Speaker: Sumathi Sankaran Walters, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of California Davis
Journal Club Session: “Introduction to Microbiology & Immunology Research” (STUDENTS ONLY)
January 18, 2018
Speaker: Sungjin Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California, Davis
Journal Club Session: “Cutting Edge: Antibody-Dependent Memory-like NK Cells Distinguished by FcR ƴ Deficiency” (STUDENTS ONLY)
January 25, 2019
Speaker: Judith A. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture: “Brucella: a master manipulator of intracellular defenses”
February 1, 2019
Speaker: Marcelo Kuroda, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, SVM: Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California, Davis
Lecture: “Understanding the role of macrophages in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in HIV/AIDS using the nonhuman primate model”
February 8, 2019
Speaker: David Segal, Ph.D., Professor, Genome Center, University of California, Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, MIND Institute, School of Medicine
Lecture: “A Center for Interventional Genetics” (PDF)
February 15, 2019
Speaker: Frank R. Sharp, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis
Lecture: “Lipopolysaccharide from Gram negative bacteria causes Alzheimer's Disease and White Matter Hyperintensities” (PDF)
February 22, 2019
Speaker: Stephen C. Noctor, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MIND Institute, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and The Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
Lecture: TBA
March 1, 2019
Speaker: Mark Krasnow, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry, Stanford University
Lecture: TBA
March 8, 2019
MedSci 180C
Speaker: Yan Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, San Antonio, Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Health
Lecture: “Interfering with interferons: immunology lessons learned from poxiviruses”
March 15, 2019
Journal Club Session (STUDENTS ONLY)
April 5, 2019
TBA
April 12, 2019
Speaker: Alejandro Aballay, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Oregon Health Sciences University
Lecture: TBA
April 19, 2019
TBA
April 26, 2019
TBA
May 3, 2019
Speaker: Michail S. Lionakis, M.D., Sc.D., Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Lecture: TBA
May 10, 2019
TBA
May 17, 2019
Speaker: Anthony R. Richardson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Lecture: TBA
May 24, 2019
TBA
May 31, 2019
TBA
November 15, 2019
Speaker: Carolyn Coyne , Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
Lecture: TBA
Fall Quarter 2018 (CRN # 31401)
September 28, 2018
Speaker: Prasanna Jagannathan, M.D., Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University
Lecture: “Immunologic consequences of early life malaria exposure and prevention” (PDF)
October 5, 2018
Speaker: Susan Lynch, Ph.D., Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Lecture: “Canary in the Coalmine: The Neonatal Gut Microbiome and Childhood Atopy and Asthma” (PDF)
October 12, 2018
Speaker: Shota Atsumi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis
Lecture: “Microbial chemical production from carbon dioxide” (PDF)
October 19, 2018
No Class – 12th Annual Host Microbe Interactions Retreat in Tahoe City, CA
October 26, 2018
Speaker: James B. Whitney, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lecture: "Therapeutic development for HIV-1 and emerging diseases" (PDF)
November 2, 2018
Speaker: Luxin Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis
Lecture: “One emerging food safety concern: the formation of viable-but-nonculturable and sublethally-injured cells” (PDF)
November 9, 2018
Speaker: Jeroen Saeij, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis
Lecture: “Systemic identification of Toxoplasma virulence factors” (PDF)
November 23, 2018
No Class – Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30, 2018
Speaker: Brian D. Strahl, Ph.D., Oliver Smithies Investigator, Professor & Vice Chair, Faculty Director, Peptide Synthesis and Arraying Facility, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of North Carolina
Lecture: “Transcriptional control by readers and writers of the Histone Code” (PDF)
December 7, 2018
Speaker: Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Ph.D., Member, Department of Infectious Diseases, Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Lecture: “Influenza in High Risk Populations” (PDF)
Contact the IOR, Dr. José V. Torres (jvtorres@ucdavis.edu), if you would like to meet with the speaker.
February 22, 2019