MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar Series
MICaB Seminar Series
Mondays at 12:00 p.m.
Hybrid In-person/Zoom seminars will be held in 1-125 Cancer & Cardiovascular Research Building (CCRB)
**Please note Virtual only/Hybrid***
Recurring Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 922 8322 9698 Passcode: XWQ5JW
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January 24
Virtual via Zoom
January 31
Virtual via Zoom
"Cellular, molecular and epistatic control of microbiota, pathogens and colorectal cancer"
Gianna Hammer, PhD
Department of Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Host: Kris Hogquist, PhD
February 7
Virtual via Zoom
"TBD"
Sofia Casares, PhD
Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Host: Pam Skinner, PhD
February 14
Virtual via Zoom
"Innate inflammatory events & effector cells during Mtb infection"
**Student Invited Speaker**
Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, PhD
Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIH, NIAID, LCIM
host: Vaiva Vezys, PhD
February 21
Hybrid
“The human genetic and immunological determinants of life-threatening COVID-19”
**Dr. Paul Cleary Autoimmunity and Infection seminar**
Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
Professor, Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Host: Paul Cleary, Professor emeritus
February 28
Virtual via Zoom
“Reprogramming the Immune Response Through Molecular Engineering”
Jamie Spangler, PhD
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Host: Bruce Blazar, PhD
March 14
Hybrid
"TBD"
Edouard Vannier, PharmD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical School
Host: Roberta O’Connor
March 21
"Choreography of Thymocyte Central Tolerance""
Lauren Ehrlich, PhD
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Cancer Prevention and Research Insitute of Texas, Austin, TX
Host: Tanya Freedman, PhD
March 28
"Beyond reverse transcription initiation -- Structure and function characterization of HIV-1 primer binding site"
Xiao Heng, PhD
Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Host: Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD
April 4
Virtual via zoom
"Regulation of the immune response through lymphoid tissue microanatomy"
Michael Gerner, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Washington
Host: Marc Jenkins, PhD
April 11
"Respiratory viral infection: from acute morbidity to chronic sequelae"
Jie Sun, PhD
Division of Infectious Disease and International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Host: Hinh Ly, PhD
April 18
Virtual via zoom
"Principles of resolving and non-resolving inflammation"
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Host: Steve Jameson, PhD
April 25
"Inferring in-human commensal biology by reconstructing within-person bacterial evolution"
*Greg R. Germaine Frontiers in Science Lecture*
Tami Lieberman
Institute For Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Cambridge, MA
Host:Anthony Baughn, PhDMark Herzberg, PhD
May 2
Hybrid
""Neuronal Control of Cutaneous Inflammation""
Daniel Kaplan, MD, PhD
Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Host: David Masopust, PhD
Jointly sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Center for Immunology. To schedule time with a speaker, please contact his or her host.
Up-to-date information can be found at https://med.umn.edu/micab/news-events-micab/intived-seminars