| SEPTEMBER | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Month and Day | Speaker Name | Institution Name | Host Name | This is the speakers area of interests. | Title of their talk |
| Sept. 1, 2020 | |||||
| Sept. 8, 2020 | Masakazu Kamata | UAB, Microbiology | Hui Hu | How viruses or malignant cells establish and maintain prolonged infections or uncolntrolled cell division | "The limitations and promise of anti-HIV CAR-T cell therapy" |
| Sept 15, 2020 | Wells Lecturer June Round | University of Utah School of Medicine | Fran Lund | Understanding how T cell intrinsic Toll like receptor signaling governs T cell repsonses and how this impacts host tolerance toward the microbiota. Indentification and characterization of novel host genes within mucosal T cells regulated by the microbiota. Undertand how specific commensal organisms are able to regulate the host adaptive immune system and impact disease states | "Microbiota-immune interactions that regulate intestinal health" |
| Sept. 22, 2020 | |||||
| Sept. 29, 2020 | Casey Weaver | UAB, Anatomic Pathology | John Kearney | mechanisms by which CD4 T cells control adative immunity | "Specialization of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cells in Intestinal Barrier Defense" |
| OCTOBER | ||||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title | |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Terje Dokland | UAB, Microbiology | Peter Prevelige | uses a hybrod approach combing cryo-EM and three-dimensional reconstruction to study the structures of viruses, bacteria and protiens involved in viral and bacterial pathogenicity | "Cryo-electron microscopy: recent developments and impact on biomedical research at UAB" | |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Stewart New /John Kearney | UAB, Microbiology | John Kearney | Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the developemnt of diverse B cell repertoire | "Effects of neonatal microbial exposure on innate-like B cell development" | |
| Oct 20, 2020 | Jessica Scoffield | UAB, Microbiology | understand the mechanisms used by the oncogenic human gamma-herpes virus Epstein Barr virus to establish and maintain a life-long latent infection and how dysregulation of this long-term infection can lead to the development of malignancies |
"Exploring commensal-pathogen interactions fo airway microbes" | ||
| Oct 27, 2020 | Carrie Coleman | UAB, Microbiology | ?Sunnie Thompson | defining the mechanisms by whihc transcription factors contribute to the cellular differentiation and function in the immune system |
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| NOVEMBER | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Nov.3, 2020 | No speaker, election day | ||||
| Nov. 10, 2020 | Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo | Univ of Rochester Medical Center | John Kearney | focused on developmental aspects of infant systemic and mucosal immune system relatating to mechanisms behind development of food allergy, atopic dermititis and the whole atopic march | "What have the studies among the Old Order Mennonites taught us about allergic diseases?" |
| Nov. 17, 2020 | Fran Lund |
UAB, Microbiology | Carlos Orihuela | understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune cell activation, focusing on the molecular mechanisms controlling the organization and dynamics of immune cell receptors and the functional significance for immune cell activation through the development of cutting edge optical microscopy | "Inflammatory cytokine mediated control of effector and memory B cell development and function" |
| Nov. 24, 2020 | No seminar | ||||
| DECEMBER | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Elena Frolova | UAB Microbiology | Allan Zajac | understanding of alphavirus pathogenesis at the moleculuar and cellual levels via investigating the functions of virus-specific nonsturctural and sturctural protiens in virus replicationj and inhibition of cellular antiviral reponse |
"Intrinsically disordered domains of alphavirus nsP3 orchestrate assemebly of replication complexes\ |
| Dec. 8, 2020 | Elliot Lefkowitz | UAB, Microbiology | understandn of microbial genomics and evolution by developing adn utilizing computational tools and bioinformatic techniques to mine sequence and other data for significan patterns characteritic of function and/or evloution | "The Microbiome, Parkinson's Disease, SARS-CoV-2, etc.:Biology, to Data, to Bioinformatics, to Knowledge, and back to Biology" | |
| Dec. 15, 2020 | Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta | Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Eric Ubil | Mechanisms by which tumors co-opt the imune system to facilate emergence and progression of cancer escpecially pancreatic cancer | "B cell-mediated immunomodulation in cancer" |
| Dec. 22, 2020 | No seminar | ||||
| Dec. 29, 2020 | No seminar | ||||
| JANUARY | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Jan. 5, 2021 | Hubert Tse | UAB, Microbiology | understand the synergy of oxidative stress and autoimmune destruction of insulin-secreting pancreatic beta-cells in Type 1 diabetes | "Antiviral responses trigger mouse and human Type 1 diabetes" | |
| Jan. 12, 2021 | Michael Johnson | Univ of Arizona College of Medicine | Michael Gray | investigate how bacteria maintain homeostasis within the metal milieu, determinig how metals are processed, response during metal sensing and the role host plays in this process durring infection, understanding how bacteria interact with metals during infections | "Something old, Something new, Something Borrowed, Copper II" |
| Jan.19, 2021 | Jan Novak | UAB, Microbiology | renal diseases and autoimmune diseases (IgA nephropathy and other chronic diseases of teh kidney), cancer and mucosal infections including sexually transmitted diseases such as those cuased by HIV | "Glycosylation in Health and Disease: The Emerging Field of Glycomedicine" | |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Michael Imperiale | Univ of Michigan | Sunnie Thompson | Molecular biology of BK polyomavirus, infection, persisitence and replication | "Control of BKPyV replication: From Persistence to Reactivation" |
| FEBRUARY | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Todd Green | UAB, Microbiology | Terje Dokland | cystallographic studies of proteins involved in polynucelotide synthesis for negative strans RNA viruses | "Structural Studies of Autoantibodies with Specificity for Aberrant Glycoproteins" |
| Feb. 9, 2021 | Jeremy Foote | UAB, Microbiology |
Evaluating the roles of B cells and Antibody in Pancreatic Cancer Progression |
"Divergent roles for IgM and class switched antibody isotypes in pancreatic tumorigenesis" | |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | Kenneth Oestreich | Virginia Tech Carilion | Beatriz Leon | defining the mechanisms by which transcription factors contribute to the cellular differentiation and function in the immune system | "Regulation of T Helper cell differentiation programs by Ikaros zinc finger transcription factors" |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Beatriz Leon-Ruiz | UAB, Microbiology | Dendritic cells in controlling TH2 polarization in allergy and immunity | "Sensitization to inhalant allergens: the role of dendritic cells" | |
| MARCH | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Mar. 2, 2021 | Bertram M Marx Lecturer Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Fran Lund | Molecular biology of influenza viruses and sveral other negastive strand RNA viruses | " Virus-host interactions as a guide to virus basic biology and antiviral development " |
| Mar. 9, 2021 | Herta Steinkellner | Univ of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | Jan Novak | understanding the molecular and cellular processes involved in the expession of recombinant proteins in plants in order to use optimally for the production of biopharmaceuticals | "Plant based Antibody Expression and Glycan Engineering" |
| Mar. 16, 2021 | Mark Walter | UAB, Microbiology | Peter Prevelige | Elucidating crystal stuctures of cytokines bound to their cell surface receptors | "Evaluation of type-I IFN subtypes: auto-antibodies and mechanisms of receptor engagement" |
| Mar. 23, 2021 | Christopher Klug and Jeremy Foote | UAB, Microbiology | Each Other | understand the underlying mechanisms regulating hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and how normal HSC developmental programs are subverted in the context of acute myeloid leukemia and determine requirements for antibody-driven, pancreatic tunor-specific immunity using mouse models closely recapitulate syngenic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma disease progrssion observed in patients | 'The role of the antibody reponse in pancreatic cancer progression" |
| Mar. 30, 2021 | Alexander Rosenberg | UAB, Microbiology | Elliot Lefkowitz | bioinformatics, B Cell repertoire Sequencing, Data Visualization | "Developing Bioinformatics Tools for Immunology" |
| APRIL | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| Apr. 6, 2021 | Rodney King | UAB, Microbiology | development and maintenance of humoral immunity, | "Deconvoluting the heterogeneity within naturla and acquired antigen-specific B cell repertoires" | |
| Apr. 13, 2021 | Janet Yother | UAB, Microbiology | streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharides, genetics and pathogenesis | "Streptocccus pneumoniae capsules: paradigms for bacterial polysaccharide biosynthesis" | |
| Apr. 20, 2021 | Nicholas Lennemann | UAB, Microbiology | regulation of Postive-Stranded RNA Virus infection by Host factors of the Endomembrane System | "ER protien regulation of flavivirus infection" | |
| Apr. 27, 2021 | Joel Glasgow | UAB, Microbiology | understanding Mycobactium Tuberculosis peristence and pathogenesis | "Hydrogen sulfide binds and activates the sensor kinase DosS to regulate gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis" | |
| MAY | |||||
| Date | Name | Institution | Host | Area of Interest/Recent Publications | Title |
| May 4, 2021 | Heather Bruns | UAB, Microbiology | Immunology and microbiology education for medical professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, T cell-meidated reponses in allergy and inflammation | "Forward Thinking & Backward Design: The undergraduate Immunology am at UAB" | |
| June 1, 2021 | Amy Weinmann | UAB, Microbiology | molecular mechanisms that regulate T cell differentiation programs | ||
| May 18, 2021 | Paul Turner | Yale University | Terje Dokland | to study evolutionary genetics and genomic of microbes, especially the ability of viruses to adapt or not to the changes in their biotic and abiotic environments | "Leveraging evolutionary trade-offs and phage selection pressues to reduce bacterial pathogenicity" |
| May 25, 2021 | Hui Hu | UAB, Microbiology | Tfh cell differentiation and humural immunity adn negative regulatory pathoways on controlling T cell quiescence and repsonses | ||