SEPTEMBER | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
9/4/18 |
Andries Steyn | UAB, Microbiology | Joel Glasgow | Understand the mechanisms of M. tuberculosis virulence | Translational Research for Tuberculosis Elimination in Durban, South Africa: 3D Imaging, Lung Architecture and Basic Science |
9/11/18 | Susan Bellis | UAB, CDIB |
Allan Zajac | role of ras-directed integrin sialyayion in tumorigenesis/metastasis. Hyposialyation of b1 integrins the increased adhesiveness of differentiated monocytic cells. Integrin-mediated adheision of osteoblasts to implant materials. | Novel role for glycans in imparting stem-like cancer cell characteristics that promote tumor initiation and progression |
9/18/18 | Haitao Guo | Indiana Univ | George Luo | viral pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus and antiviral discovery | HBV cccDNA: How It's Made? |
9/25/18 | Elina Zuniga | Univ of Cal San Diego | Allan Zajac | Studies cellular and molecular aspects of immune responses during acute and chronic viral infections to determine general principals of antiviral immunity, immune-evasion, persistence and pathogenesis | Immune Adatations During Chronic Viral Infections |
OCTOBER | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
10/2/18 | Jeffrey Bluestone | Univ of Cal San Fran | Rachel Jimenez | T cell activation and immune tolerance in autoimmunity & organ transplantation. Adapted the animal studies using biologics and cell based therapies to develop therapeutics that can be used in humans with autoimmunity & under conditions of allotransplant rejection | Treg biology to understand and treat disease |
10/9/18 | Robert Davey | Boston University | Ilya Frolov | identificaation of cellular factors important for establishing infection by filovirus and bunyaviruses, also developed high throughput screening techniques of Ebloavirus | Understanding macropinocytosis through the lens of Ebloa virus |
10/16/18 | Jens Wrammert | Emory Vaccine Center | Rodney King | Understanding of human and macaque B cell responses following infection (dengue, cholera) or vaccination (influenza and SHIV/HIV) | Single Cell Analyses of Human B Cell Responses |
10/18/18 | Ivaylo Ivanov | Columbia University | Fran Lund | identifying specific examples of immunomodualry ineractions between commensals and host as well as the underlying mechanisms | Research Overview |
10/22/18 | James Driscoll | University of Cincinnati | Special Seminar | development of practical, clinically-relevant strategies to overcome drug resistanct in cancers | Proeasome Function in Healthy and Disease States |
10/23/18 | No Microbiology Seminar this week | ||||
10/24/18 | Botond Igyártó | Baylor University | Special Seminar at 10am in BBRB 170 | Role of different dendritic cell ( DC) subsets in induction of humoral immune responses, generation of DC-vaccines targetting different cancers, Neuro-dendritic cell interactions, in vivo re-prgramming of DCs for therapeutic purposes | "Dendritic Cell Biology - Born to Regulate and Be Regulated" |
10/29/18 | Henry Wan | Mississippi State University | Special Seminar | host-pathogen interactions and the environment-pathogeninteractins using intergrativ approaches, such as molecular biology, ecll biology, animalmodels, computation modeling, machine learning, evolutionary biology, epidemiolgy, genomics, and glycoproteomics approaches | "Seasonal Influenza Vaccine: not easy shot to get" |
10/30/18 |
NOVEMBER | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
11/6/18 | |||||
11/13/18 | Susana Valente | Scripps Research Institute | Jamil Saad / CFAR | Discovery and characterization of molecular interactions occurring within a host cell that are critical for HIV replication - identified interactions can be tailored to develop therapeutic targets and provide novel antiviral approaches | "Silencing the HIV-1 reservoir" |
11/20/18 | Thanksgiving wk | No seminar held | |||
11/27/18 | Asma Hatoum-Aslan | Univ of AL | Michael Gray | uses tools of biochemistry and molecular genetics to unravel the mechanisms of small RNA-mediated pathways and enable the development of novel and anti-microbial therapeutics | "CRISPR-Cas10 immunity in staphylococci: Mechanisms and applications" |
DECEMBER | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
12/4/18 | Li Wu | The Ohio State University | Virology faculty recruit | molecular mechanisms of HIV replication and retorviral pathogeneisis, cel-toell HIV-1 transmission and HIV-1 restriction on primary myeloid cells | "How does the host protien SAMHD1 restrict HIV-1 infection and antiviral immunity?" |
12/5/18 | Laurie Krug | Stony Brook University | Virology faculty recruit | molecular determinants of virus-host interactions during chronic infections caused by human gammaherpesviruses: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi’s sarcoma associated-herpesvirus (KSHV) | "Gammaherpesviruses armed to combat uracils: Impact of uracil DNA glycosylase and dUTPase in pathogenesis and genomic stability" |
12/11/18 | Toru Takimoto | University of Rochester |
Virology faculty recruit | molecular mechanisms of paramyxovirus assembly, assembly of influenza A viruses, role of influenza virus polymerase in host adaptation | "Strategies of host adaptation of influenza A viruses" |
12/17/18 | Jesse Erasmus | Infectious Disease Research Institute | Virology faculty recruit | engineering RNA molecules with viral-derived functions provides fundable opportunities to study basciu aspects of virus replication in an application-driven manner with clear pathways to the clinic | " Exploiting virus replication for the development of platform technologies" |
12/18/18 | |||||
12/25/18 | Christmas Day | No seminar held |
JANUARY | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
1/1/19 | New Year’s Day | No seminar held | |||
1/8/19 | Laty Cahoon | University of Illinois, Chicago |
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"Gram positive secretion: don't leave the cell without a chaperone!" | |
1/9/19 | Carrie Coleman | University of Colorado | Virology Faculty Recruit | understand the mechanisms used by oncogenic gammaherpesviruses, MHV68 and EBV to setablish and maintain a life-long latent infection | "EBV Type 2 infection of T cells: an alternative strategy for viral persistence" |
1/14/19 | Masakazu Kamata | University of California, Los Angeles | Joint CCC/Microbiology Faculty recruit | "Developing Novel Immunological Cure Strategies for HIV-1 Infection" | |
1/15/19 | Joshua Woodward | University of Washington | Hui Wu | Focused on elucidataing the interactons of bacterial pathogens with their hosts using Listeria monocytogenes. Also interested in interrogating the mechanisms of cytosolic immuno-surveellance as well as the roles of c-di-AMP in bacterial physiology | "Cytosolic RECONnaissance : Host strategies for detecting bacterial cyclic dinucelotides" |
1/16/19 | Wenhan Zhu | University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center | Bacteriology Faculty Recruit | molecular interactions that shape the interaction between the host adn the intestinal microbiota in particular when this interaction is perturbed during episodes of intestinal inflammation | "Metabolic interactions in the inflamed intestine" |
1/22/19 | Arturo Casadevall | John Hopkins Univ | David Chaplin | Understand how hosts defend against Crptococcus neoformans and how its virulence contributes to disease, alos interested in devising antibody-based countermeasures to protect against anthrax | "Thoughts on the origin of virulence" |
1/23/19 | Sergey Novitskiy | Vanderbilt University | Joint CCC/Microbiology Faculty recruit | dissect interactions of adenosine collaborative work converge tuissue microenvironments, TGFB pathowats and their conjoint impact on inflammation and tunorigenesis | " Role of Adenosine in TGF-beta Effects in Cancers" |
1/29/19 | Irene Salinas rescheduled to April 16th UAB closed due to weather | Univ. of New Mexico | Jiri Mestecky | Evolution of immune repsonses, mucosal immunity of fish, host-parasite interactions, aqua culture, fish diseases, modulation of fish immune repsonosed by commensal microorganisms ontogeny of fish immune system | "Antiviral neuroimmune interactions at the nasal epithelium of teleost fish" |
FEBRUARY | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
2/4/19 | Christina Camell | Yale School of Medicine | Immunology Faculty Recruit | understanding the role of adipose tissue macrophages and how thye survive the tissue to promote tissue homeostasis, and changes that occur with aging and the contribution to age-related metabolic dysfunction | "Tissue resident macrophages drive adipose dysfunction during aging" |
2/5/19 | Elizabeth Sztul | Univ of Ala, Birmingham | Allan Zajac | molecular mechanisms that regulate the delivery of proteins to their cellualr sites of action, how intracellualr membrane traffic is controlled, devleop technology that will selectively slow down degrative sorting of clinically relevant proteins | "Hijacking hosts transport factors for poliovirus replication" |
2/12/19 | Ilhem Messaoudi Powers | Univ of Cal Irvine | Louis Justement | viral pathogenesis, host defense, modulation of immunity by nutrition and aging, impact of the microbiome on immunity | "Impact of pregravid obesity on maternal and fetal immunity" |
2/19/19 | Nichole Broderick | Univ of Conn | Mike Gray | study impacts of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria on host development physiology, and health using a variety of molecular, genetic and genomic approaches using Drosophila melanogaster | "Immunity at the interface of Drosophila-microbiome interactions" |
2/26/19 | Malcolm Winkler | Indiana Univ Bloomington | Carlos Orihuela Bacterials Path Group | Understand signal transduction, regulatory mechanisms, and suprmolecular complexes that mediate the stress responses, metabolism, cell structure and pathogenesis of S. pneumoniae | " Dynamica and Regulation of Peptidoglycan Cell Wall Synthesis in the Superbug Streptococcus pneumonia" |
MARCH | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
3/5/19 | Dr. Angela Wilks had to cancel, will be rescheduled in 2019-2020 |
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3/12/19 | Marx Lecture: Daniel Littman | NYU School of Medicine | Fran Lund | Microbiota-regulated immunity, epigenetic regulation of T cell differentiation, and mechanisms of retroviral pathogenesis | "Dissecting immune system regulation by commensal microbes" |
3/19/19 | Troy Randall | UAB, Clinical Immunology/Rheumatology | Beatriz Leon | how local lymphhoid tissues develop and function in the respiratory tract, understand the development funtion of unusual lymphoid tissues in teh peritoneal and leural cavitiies, how CD40 signaling controls CD8 T cell responses t virese and tumors, local control of autoimmune/inflammatory T and B cell responses | "Pulmonary immunity to influenza" |
3/26/19 |
APRIL | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
4/2/19 | Marc Lipsitch, had to cancel , hopefully will be rescheduled next year | Harvard | David Briles | the effect of naturally acquired host immunity, vaccine-induced immunity and other public health inteverntions (e.g.antimicrobial use) on the population biology of pathogens andthe consequences of changing pathogen populations for human health | |
4/9/19 | Sallie Permar | Duke Univ Medical Center | Mark Walter | focuses on maternal correclates of immune protection against vertical transmission of neontal pathogens | "Next Gerneration Vaccines to Prevent Congenital CMV Infection" |
4/16/19 | Irene Salinas | Univ. of New Mexico | Jiri Mestecky | Evolution of immune repsonses, mucosal immunity of fish, host-parasite interactions, aqua culture, fish diseases, modulation of fish immune repsonosed by commensal microorganisms ontogeny of fish immune system | "Antiviral neuroimmune interactions at the nasal epithelium of teleost fish" |
4/17819 | Eric Ubil | Univ. Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Microbiology / CCC/ Pathology/ Hem/Onc Faculty recruit | Studying the role of the Tyro3/Axl/Mer (TAM) family of receptor tyrosine kinases incancer-mediated immune suppression, Discovered that tumors secrete Pros1 (a TAM ligand) and effectively reduce the ability of the innateimmune system to mount an anti-tumor response, Identified the molecular mechanism of tumor-mediated suppression of macrophages | "Enhanced Anti-Cancer Therapy by Targeting the Pros1:Mcarophage Mer Axis" |
4/23/19 | David Bedwell | UAB, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Charles Turnbough | understand the mechanistic details of translation termination in eukaryotes and use to develope therapeutic stategies for a range of genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and lysosomal storage disease | "Suppression of Nonsense Mutations to Treat Genetic Diseases" |
4/30/19 | Graham Hatfull | University of Pittsburgh | N'toia Hawkins Virology Grad Students |
using mycobacteriophages to understand mycobacterial genetics | "Diversity, Defense, and Collusion: The complex dynamics of Actinobacteriophages and their hosts" |
MAY | |||||
Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
5/7/19 | David Wells Memorial Lecturer: Alexander Rudensky | Sloan Kettering Institue | Fran Lund - | understanding moclecular mechanisms governing the differentiation and function of CD4 T lymphocytes and their role in immunity and tolerance | "Many faces of T regulatory T cells" |
5/13/19 | Henrique Borges da Silva | University of Minnesota | CCC / Microbiology Faculty recruit | understanding how extracellular nucelotides regulate the immune system | "Extracellular ATP sensing mediates CD8 T cell immune repoinses to infection and tumor" |
5/21/19 | Rebecca Lamason | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Uday Tak & Ashleigh Riegler | How bacterial pathogens usurp host cell function to gain insights into both host cell biology and pathogenensis | "Bacterial pathogens hijack host machinery to promote cell-to-cell spread" |
5/28/19 | Linda Hendershot | St. Jude | John Kearney | Control of the synthesis and assembly of secretory proteins in the ER, regulation of immunoglobulin transport, elucidation of ER stress-induced signal transduction pathways, role of the ER stress response in regulating tumor chemosensitivity | "Protein Folding in the ER: life and death decisions for BiP substrates" |