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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
 
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"
 
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"
Mar 10, 2023