University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES SPRING 2019
Wednesdays at Noon—Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building (CRB)
January 16th January 23rd Peter Turnbaugh PhD Stanley M. Lemon, MD University of California San Francisco University of North Carolina School of Medicine “Domesticating human gut bacteria to gain “The ins and outs of hepatitis A: cell entry and mechanistic insights into the etiology and release of quasi-enveloped hepatoviruses” treatment of disease” January 30th February 6th Boris Striepen, PhD Co-sponsored by Penn CFAR University of Pennsylvania Douglas Kwon, MD, PhD “Cryptosporidium a leading cause of global child Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard mortality” “The virtue of simplicity: the vaginal microbiome, genital inflammation and HIV risk”
February 13th February 20th Matthew Bogyo, PhD Arturo Zychlinsky, PhD Stanford University Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology “NETs – the second function of chromatin”
February 27th March 6th Miriam Merad, MD, PhD To Be Determined Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Harnessing tumor myeloid cells to enhance cancer care” March 13th March 20th Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD Nita Salzman, MD, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Medical College of Wisconsin “Targeting metabolism to diagnose and treat “Enterococcus Colonization and Competition in the malaria” GI Tract” March 27th April 3rd Michael Starnbach, PhD Peter Palese, PhD Harvard Medical School Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Chlamydia Infection - A Strategy of Stealth” “Towards a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine”
April 10th April 17th Daniel DiMaio, MD, PhD Joshua J. Woodward, PhD Yale School of Medicine University of Washington “The ins and outs of human papillomavirus entry” “Cytosolic RECONnaissance: Host strategies for detecting bacterial cyclic dinucleotides” April 24th May 1st Marion Pepper, PhD David Veesler, PhD University of Washington University of Washington
May 8th May 15th Paul Duprex, PhD Janelle S. Ayres, PhD Boston University Medical Center Salk Institute for Biological Studies “Host-Microbe interactions: harnessing co- evolution to treat disease” May 22nd May 29th Aimee Shen, PhD Neal Nathanson Lecture Tufts University Charles M. Rice, PhD “Epigenetic Regulation and Germinant Sensing The Rockefeller University Mechanisms in Clostridium difficile”
For more information or if you would like to meet with any of the speakers, email [email protected].
Sponsored by the Department of Microbiology & NIH T32 Grants: AI007324 “Training in Virology”; AI007632 “Training in HIV Pathogenesis; AI055400 “Training in Emerging Infectious Diseases”; NS007180 “Training in Neurovirology”; PennCHOP Microbiolme Program; and CFAR (Penn Center for AIDS Research)