MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar Series

MICaB Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2019
Mondays at 12:00 p.m.

All seminars are held in:
1-125 Cancer & Cardiovascular Research Building (CCRB)
2231 6th St SE
(Across from TCF Stadium)

September 9: 1-125 CCRB
Paul Kubes, Ph.D.
"Imaging sterile injury and infection in vivo"
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Host: Bryce Binstadt (612) 625-2953

September 16: 1-125 CCRB
Kai Wucherpfennig, M.D., Ph.D.
"Mechanisms of resistance to cancer immunotherapy"
Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Host: Brian Fife (612) 624-2417

September 23: 1-125 CCRB
Amit Sharma, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Host: Alon Herschhorn (612) 301-2429

September 30: 1-125 CCRB
Stephen McSorley, Ph.D. *MICaB Alumni Invited Speaker*
"CD4 T cell responses to bacterial infection"
Center for Comparative Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, CA
Host: Dave Masopust (612) 625-4666

October 7: 1-125 CCRB
Craig Meyers, Ph.D.
“30 Years of Studying Human Papillomavirus: Basic Science to Translational”
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA
Host: Hinh Ly (612) 625-3358

October 14: 1-125 CCRB
Ryland Young, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Host: Gary Dunny (612) 625-9930

October 21: 1-125 CCRB
Joseph Mougous, Ph.D. **MICaB Student-Invited speaker**
Title: "The Big Consequences of Micro-Scale Warfare"
Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Host: Serina Robinson (robio916@umn.edu)

October 28: 1-125 CCRB
Anita Chong, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Section of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, IL
Host: Bruce Blazar (612) 624-3913

November 4: 1-125 CCRB 
Bridget Marie Barker, Ph.D.
“Dust devil or fantastic yeast? The mysterious life of Coccidioides”
Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612) 625-4979

November 11: 1-125 CCRB
Gwendalyn Randolph, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University of Medicine in St. Louis, MO
Host: Kris Hogquist (612) 625-1616

November 18: 1-125 CCRB
Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Ph.D.
“In vivo reverse genetics”
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Host: Hinh Ly (612) 625-3358

December 2: 1-125 CCRB
Joao Pereira, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Department of Immunobiology and Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Host: Mike Farrar (612) 625-0401

December 9: 1-125 CCRB
Elina Zuniga, Ph.D.
“Adaptations During Long-Term (Host-Pathogen) Relationships”
Division of Biological Sciences Section of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Host: Hinh Ly (612) 625-3358

December 16: 1-125 CCRB
Jessica Hamerman, Ph.D.
Title: TBA
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Host: Tanya Freedman (612) 301-8313