Events
Upcoming Seminars
(Tuesdays 2:00 pm from Feb 21, 2023)
Tuesday, March 14 - UTHSC
John Cox (jcox@uthsc.edu)
Title: Chlamydia trachomatis: An obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that makes
do with less
(In-person or Zoom)
Tuesday, March 21 - UCONN
Yazhini Ravi (ravi@uchc.edu)
Title: Cardiac Dysfunction in SARS-CoV-2
(In-person or Zoom)
Tuesday, March 28 - UTHSC
Tan Chalet (ctan5@uthsc.edu)
Title: Enhancement of Innate Immunity by an Immunostimulatory Supplement
(In-person or Zoom)
Tuesday, April 4 - UTHSC
Mallikarjun Bidarmath (mbidarim@uthsc.edu)
Title: COVID-19 Effects on Pregnancy and Prenatal & Postnatal Development
Mallikarjun Bidarmath (mbidarim@uthsc.edu)
Title: COVID-19 Effects on Pregnancy and Prenatal & Postnatal Development
Tuesday, April 11 - NCTR FDA
Jessica Hawes (Jessica.hawes@fda.hhs.gov)
TENTATIVE - Nonclinical Translation to Clinical Risk
(In-person or Zoom)
Tuesday, April 18 - UTHSC
Evan Williams (ewilli99@uthsc.edu)
Title: Neurotrophic Alphavirus-host interactions and what next-gen sequencing can
reveal about host responses and viral genetic
(In-person or Zoom
Tuesday, May 2 - University of Memphis
Jim Adelman (jim.alelman@memphis.edu)
Title: Tolerance of infection in a wild songbird: patterns, potential mechanisms,
and consequences for transmission
In-person or Zoom
Past Seminars
Spring 2023
Tuesday, February 28: Kui Li, PhD, UTHSC.
"Dissecting Host Genetic Factors Regulating Coronavirus Susceptibility and Disease"
Tuesday, February 21: Collen Jonsson, PhD, Regional Biocontainment Laboratory Director at UTHSC.
"New, fun, and exciting equipment and services at the RBL"
Fall 2022
Tuesday, November 29: Stacey Schultz-Cherry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH).
"Influenza in Vulnerable Populations"
Tuesday, November 22: Jacob Yount, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University,
College of Medicine.
"Innate immunity protein IFITM3 limits pandemic virus emergence and disease severity."
Tuesday, November 15: Susan Weiss, University of Pennsylvania. "Coronaviruses: History, Biology and Innate
Immune Antagonism"
Tuesday, November 8: Sarah Burris, FUJIFILM VisualSonics.
"High resolution multi‐modal imaging in preclinical models using the Vevo 3100/LAZR‐X"
"High resolution multi‐modal imaging in preclinical models using the Vevo 3100/LAZR‐X"
Tuesday, October 18: Michael Gale, PhD, Washington University.
"Innate immunity and control of RNA virus infection"
Tuesday, October 4: Martin Korte PhD, Technical University Braunshweig. "Long-term effects of immunostimulation
on synaptic plasticity and Neurodegeneration"
Tuesday, September 27: Klaus Schughart, PhD, Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry at UTHSC.
"The host response to viral infections in humans and mice "
Fall 2021
November 9: Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
"Targeting innate immunity and PANoptosis for the treatment of inflammatory and infectious
diseases"
October 26: Charles Dela Cruz, MD, PhD, Yale University.
"Type I and Type III Interferons in COVID‐19"
October 11: Tony Wang, Office of Vaccines and Research, FDA.
"Rational Design of a Live Attenuated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Candidate"
September 28: Joel Wertheim, PhD, associate professor of Medicine, UC San Diego.
“Current perspective of the origin of SARS-CoV-2”
September 7: Amber Smith, PhD, associate professor of Pediatrics. "COVID‐19 virtual patient cohort
suggests immune mechanisms driving disease outcomes"
Spring 2021
July 29: Marcus T. Cicerone, PhD, and Ronit Sharon-Frilling, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology.
"Viral Envelopment and Host Cell Membrane Remodeling Mechanisms Explored with Label-Free
Coherent Raman Microscopy"
April 20: Brandt D. Pence, PhD, assistant professor, College of Health Sciences, University
of Memphis.
"SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induced immunometabolic activation in monocytes which can
be blocked by metformin"
March 30: Colleen Jonsson, PhD, director of the RBL and ISHPS, and Amber Smith, PhD, associate
professor of Pediatrics.
"The Emergence and Importance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern"
March 9: Heather Smallwood, assistant professor of Pediatrics. "Clinical, immunological,
and virological characterization of COVID-19 in children and adults: updates from
the CIViC-19 study"