MMI 291 Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Microbiology and Immunology

March 13, 2020

Speaker: Janine M. LaSalle, Ph.D., Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Lecture: TBA

March 6, 2020

Speaker: Sungjin Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Lecture: TBA

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)