Where: BBRB 170 |
When: Tuesdays at Noon |
| SEPTEMBER 2017 | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| September 5 |
Dr. Cheri Stabler | University of Florida | Hubert Tse | Dr. Stabler's research centers on engineering translational biomaterial platform for cell therapies, particularly Type 1 diabetes. | |
| September 12 | David Wells Research Sympoium Lecture - Dr. Ellen Rothenberg | California Institute of Technology |
Students and Dr. Lund | The Rothenberg group studies the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for developmental lineage choice as hematopoietic stem cells differentiate into T lymphocytes. | |
| September 19 |
Dr. Kelly Doran | University of Colorado | David Briles | Her main research areas seek to understand and how bacteria penetrate the bloodbrain barrier to cause meningitis, as well as how bacteria colonize the female reproductive tract prior to causing disease. | |
| September 26 |
Dr. Deborah Hogan, co-sponsored by School of Dentistry |
Dartmouth School of Medicine | Hui Wu | We study how opportunistic pathogens adapt to host-associated environments, with a focus on the fungus Candida albicans, the bacterium and the microbes that they interact with in vivo. | |
| OCTOBER 2017 | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| October 3 |
Dr. Pamela Schwartzberg, MD, PhD | National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH | Dr. Fran Lund | Her laboratory's work has centered on the use of genetic, biochemical and cellular studies to understand T cell signaling, with a focus on pathways affected by primary immunodeficiencies. | |
| October 10 | Dr. Yizhi Jane Tao | Rice University | Dr. Todd Green | Our laboratory is interested in the catalytic mechanisms of viral RNA polymerases and in how RNA viruses exert regulation over RNA synthesis through polymerase interactions with viral and cellular factors. | |
| October 17 | Dr. Paul Bieniasz | Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center , The Rockefeller University | Jamil Saad | Dr. Bieniasz seeks to define how host gene products influence the replication of retroviruses, with an emphasis on human and primate immunodeficiency viruses. | |
| October 24 |
Dr. Sabine Ehrt, PhD | Cornell University | Michael Niederweis | To better understand the molecular basis for Mtb’sability to resist host defense mechanisms and the metabolic environment Mtb faces within its host. | |
| October 31 |
Dr. Solbodan Paessler | UTMB, Department of Pathology | Ilya Frolov | The research in my laboratory has focused on viral pathogenesis, vaccine development and on development of animal models to test new vaccine candidates and antiviral drugs. My main research interest is in understanding the mechanisms by which emerging RNA viruses cause encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever, or respiratory diseases. | |
| DECEMBER 2017 | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| December 5 |
Dr. Ivaylo Ivanov | Columbia University | Fran Lund | Our laboratory is interested in identifying specific examples of immunomodulatory interactions between commensals and the host as well as the underlying mechanisms. | |
| December 12 | HOLDING/ not currently avialable | ||||
| December 19 |
HOLDING / not currently avialable | ||||
| December 26 |
Not holding Seminar - week of Christmas break |
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| JANUARY 2018 | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| January 2 |
Not Holding Seminar - week of New Year's |
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| January 9 |
Dr. Avery August | Cornell University |
Amy Weinmann | We are interested in the role of Tyrosine Kinases (TKs) in regulating the immune response, with the goal of using this information to manipulate immune responses. We are specifically interested in the Tec families of nonreceptor TKs. | |
| January 16 | Dr. Sallie Permar | Duke University | Mark Walter | Dr. Permar's work focuses on maternal correlates of immune protection against vertical transmission of neonatal viral pathogens. | |
| January 23 |
Dr. Tanecia Mitchell | UAB, Department of Urology | Hubert Tse | Dr. Mitchell’s current research investigates the role of mitochondria and oxidative stress in immune cells from patients with kidney stone disease and interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome. It is Dr. Mitchell’s hope that her research will provide relevant scientific information to help understand, prevent, and/or treat renal diseases and urological disorders. | |
| January 30 | Dr. Yabing Chen | UAB, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology | Dr. Jamil Saad | Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) contributes significantly to the development of cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and pulmonary hypertension. Increased oxidative stress accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis and vascular calcification. Projects involve characterization of molecular signals that regulates osteogenic transcription factor Runx2 in vascular calcification, as well as mechanisms underlying Runx2 in modulating the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and vascular calcification. | |
| March 2018 |
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| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| March 6 |
Dr. Emma Teixeiro-Pernas | Univseristy of Missouri School of Medicine | Beatriz Leon-Ruiz | In my lab we wish to understand the mechanisms that drive the generation of efficient memory T cells. |
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| March 12* |
Dr. Rakesh Patel | UAB, Department of Pathology | Michael Gray | We are interested in understanding what regulates the reactivity and function of reactive species and pursue this aim in the following contexts: interactions of nitric oxide and nitrite with red blood cells during normal physiological conditions and during inflammation associated with Sepsis and ischemia-reperfusion injury and the anti-inflannatry effects of dietary antioxidants | |
| March 20 | Dr. Andre Ballesteros-Tato | UAB, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology | Dr. Beatriz Leon-Ruiz | The focus of the research in my laboratory is to study the cellular interactions, the environmental cues and the molecular mechanisms that control the differential capacity of distinct populations of dendritic cells (DCs) to regulate effector, memory T cell responses and T follicular helper (Tfh) cell differentiation in different models of infection and autoimmune disease. In addition, we are studying the role of Tfh cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE or Lupus) and Rheumatoid arthritis (RA). | |
| March 27 |
Dr. Hao Shen | University of Pennsylvania | Allan Zajac | We have a long-standing interest in basic questions related to generation of effective immune responses, mechanisms of protective immunity, and the establishment of long-term immunological memory. | |
| APRIL 2018 |
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| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| April 3 |
Dr. Carlos Oriheula, PhD | Department of Microbiology, UAB | Fran Lund | Dr.Orihuela's research focus has been the host-pathogen interactions responsible for the development of invasive pneumococcal disease (i.e transition of the bacteria from nasopharynx to lungs, lungs to bloodstream, bloodstream to tissues and central nervous system). Most recently this includes exploring how advanced age impacts innate immunity and characterization of the cardiotoxic events that occur during IPD. | |
| April 10 |
Dr. Max Nibert, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School | Elliot Leftkowitz | We are interested to define the biochemical and biophysical mechanisms by which non-enveloped viruses penetrate the cellular membrane barrier during entry. | |
| April 17 |
Dr. Diane Mathis | Harvard Medical School | Students in the graduate student Immunology Theme / Dr. Louis Justement | Our lab works in the broad fields of T cell differentiation and tolerance/autoimmunity, translating mechanistic studies on mouse models to normal and diseased humans. | |
| April 24 |
Dr. Javier Campos-Gomez | Southern Research | Fran Lund | His main research interest is in the field of infectious diseases, where he is focused on developing bacteriophage based therapies to treat or prevent viral and bacterial infectious diseases. This includes engineering filamentous phages for targeting and containing multidrug resistant and reemerging bacterial diseases and the use of phages as platforms to display antigens of important pathogens with vaccines purposes. | |
| May 2018 |
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| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| May 1 |
Dr. Alice Prince | Columbia University | Carlos Orihuela | Our laboratory studies the interaction of the host and bacterial pathogens. We have focused upon the host response to bacterial components and how this response is activated and regulated in both the airway and skin. | |
| May 8 |
Dr. Hai-hui Xue | Iowa University | Dr. Hui Hu | We are interested in transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of T cell development and mature T cell responses to infections. Our current focus is on Tcf1 and Lef1 transcription factors in the Tcf/Lef family, their interacting partners including the - and -catenin coactivators and TLE corepressors. | |
| May 15 |
Dr. Jainmei Leavenworth | UAB, Department of Neurosurgery | Jamil Saad or Fran Lund | Her main research interest is to understand the mechanisms of self-tolerance, focusing on molecular and cellular elements that regulate effector and regulatory cell subsets of the immune response. Her long-term goal is to seek effective strategies for cancer immunotherapy using mouse models and specimens from patients with malignant tumors, including gliomas. | |
| May 22 |
Dr. Vincent Racaniello | Columbia University | Meagan Jenkins Eric Carlin Virology Graduate Students | Our research focuses on the interaction of viruses with the innate immune system, viral pathogenesis, and viral discovery in wild animals. | |
| May 29 |
Dr. Michael Gray | UAB, Department of Micrbiology | Jamil Saad | We are particularly interested in the molecular biology of the symbiotic and probiotic bacteria that make up the healthy microbiome. Our current research focuses on the bacterial response to reactive chlorine stress. | |