Seminars
M&I/VETMI 7120 Seminar Series -- Current Semester
All M&I/VETMI 7120 seminars are held in-person on Fridays from 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM in LH3 (T1-003) unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
Role of Nociceptor Neurons in Host Defense and Inflammation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Isaac Chiu
Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: M&I Postdocs
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 7, 2025
Characterizing the Molecular Mechanisms of Ebola Virus Budding
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Will Wan
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, February 14, 2025
Exploring How to Develop Broad Neutralising Antibodies Against RNA Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Rowena Bull
NHMRC Investigator
Biomedical Sciences and The Kirby Institute
University of New South Wales, Australia
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 7, 2025
The Cellular Basis of Vaccine Efficacy: What Infections Failed to Teach Us
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ross Kedl
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 14, 2025
Upper Airway Immune Memory in Humans, Germinal Centers, and Vaccine Immunology
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shane Crotty
Professor and Chief Scientific Officer
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, March 21, 2025
"Papillomavirus Entry & Infection- Knowns & Unknowns"
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Location Change: Paddock Lecture Hall 2 (S1-165)
Dr. Samuel Campos
Associate Professor, Immunobiology
University of Arizona
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, March 28, 2025
Thymic Selection of an MHC-Restricted and Self-Tolerant T Cell Repertoire
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Alfred Singer
Branch Chief and Senior Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 11, 2025
Deciphering Immune-Epithelial Crosstalk in the Lung
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ruth Franklin
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, April 18, 2025
TBD
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Mariana Byndloss
Assistant Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University
Hosted by: Drs. John Parker & Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 25, 2025
Various Immune Cell Development, From the Embryo to Adults
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Momoko Yoshimoto
Professor
Western Michigan University
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, May 2, 2025
Function of the Human Non-Canonical Inflammasomes During Innate Immune Activation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Cornelius Taabazuing
Presidential Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, May 9, 2025
Illuminating the Integration of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Environmental Cue Response with its Metabolism
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shumin Tan
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. David Russell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, May 16, 2025
TBD
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Joseph Hyser
Associate Professor
Department of Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Other Seminars of Interest
Events sponsored by the Cornell Center for Immunology
Microbiology (CALS) Department Seminars
Virology Journal Club
BBS WIP - Wednesdays at 9am, contact Arla Hourigan (aj96) for more information
Microbiome Supergroup – 3rd Tuesday of the month, contact Professor Liz Johnson (elj54) for more information
M&I/VETMI 7120 Seminar Series -- Archives
Fall 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
Structure-Guided Design of Vaccines
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Rebecca DuBois
Professor and Chair of Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 6, 2024
Douglas D. McGregor Research Lecture
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Location Change: CVM VMC Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210) -- Time Change: 2:45 PM Eastern
Dr. George Yancopoulos
Regeneron Board Co-Chair
President and Chief Scientific Officer
Hosted by: BBS PhD Program
Friday, September 13, 2024
How Lessons From Animal Mucus Led to Glycan-Binding Broad Spectrum Antivirals
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Adam Braunschweig
Deputy Executive Officer, Graduate Program of Chemistry, CUNY
Professor, Hunter College and Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY
Hosted by: Dr. Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 20, 2024
Redox Regulation of Host-Microbe Interactions
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Stavroula Hatzios
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Yale University
Hosted by: Dr. Pamela Chang
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 27, 2024
Phylodynamic Reconstruction of Viral Outbreaks
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Louise Moncla
Assistant Professor of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Hosted by:
Drs. Sarah Caddy, Colin Parrish, and John Parker
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Drs. Hector Aguilar-Carreno and Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 11, 2024
The Two Antagonistic Pathways, Type I Interferon and Inflammasome/Gasdermin D, Control the Severity of Schistosome Immunopathology
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Parisa Kalantari
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 18, 2024
What's Self Got to do With It? Thymic Imprinting of T Cell Effector Function
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Heather Melichar
Associate Professor
McGill University
Hosted by: Dr. Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 25, 2024
Applying Bacterial Genetics to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Tuberculosis
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Sabine Ehrt
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, November 1, 2024
Bats as Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Pandemic-Potential Pathogens
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Raina Plowright
Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 8, 2024
Understanding and Preventing Early Life Infections: Challenges in CMV and HSV Infection
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Margaret Ackerman
Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, November 15, 2024
Themes and Variations of Stress-Signaling Alarmones in Bacteria
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jade Wang
Professor of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by: M&I Postdocs
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 22, 2024
Illuminating the Microenvironments That Shape the Immune Response
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Michael Gerner
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 6, 2024
Innate Immunity to Yersinia
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Igor Brodsky
Robert R. Marshak Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Cindy Leifer
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 13, 2024
Eliciting Humoral Immunity to Viral Infections
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Facundo Batista
Phillip and Susan Ragon Professor
Associate Director and Scientific Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Spring 2024
Friday, January 26, 2024
Turning Pathogens into Cell Biology Tools
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shaeri Mukherjee
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of California, San Francisco
Hosted by: Dr. Satoshi Kimura
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 9, 2024
Evolutionary Signatures of Disease Re-emergence
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ana Bento
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Public Ecosystem & Health
Friday, February 16, 2024
Neutralizing Antibodies Against Pathogenic Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Pamela Bjorkman
David Baltimore Professor of Biology & Biological Engineering
Merkin Institute Professor
Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Hosted by: Dr. Andrew Flyak
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 23, 2024
Ins and Outs of Double-Stranded RNA Viruses
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Kristen Ogden
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by:
Dr. Sarah Caddy
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Dr. Colin Parrish
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, March 1, 2024
Could We Prevent Pandemics By Stopping Spillover?
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Raina Plowright
Rudolph J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by:
Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 8, 2024
An Expanding Universe: Bile Acids in Mucosal Immune Regulation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Mark Sundrud
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Hosted by: Dr. Mandy McGeachy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 15, 2024
Molecular Evolution of RNA Viruses or What Can We Learn from Modern Comparative Sequence Analysis: Lessons from the Big Four (HIV-1, SARS-CoV2, IAV, HCV)
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Sergei Pond
Professor
Department of Biology
Temple University
Hosted by: Dr. Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Department of Public and Ecosystem Health
Friday, March 22, 2024
The Gates Medical Research Institute: Building a Non-Profit Biotech
Location: CVM Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210)
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jared Silverman
Head of Translational Discovery
Gates Medical Research Institute
Hosted by: Dr. David Russell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 29, 2024
Of Barriers and Viruses: Investigating Mechanisms Used by Viral Pathogens to Trigger Vascular Leak, Pathogenesis, and Promote Viral Dissemination
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Scott Biering
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Hosted by: Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, April 12, 2024
Restoring Diplomatic Relations with Microbes
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Ken Cadwell
T. Grier Miller Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 19, 2024
Immune-Mediated Mechanisms of Tissue Adaptation and Maladaptation
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Shruti Naik
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Department of Medicine
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Mandy McGeachy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 26, 2024
Antibodies and Their Receptors: Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Jeffrey Ravetch
Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Chair & Professor
Department of Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology
The Rockefeller University
Hosted by: Dr. Sarah Caddy
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 3, 2024
Interorgan Communication in Host Defense
Seminar included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Matt Waldor
Edward H. Kass Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 10, 2024
Human Antibodies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. James Crowe
Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Ann Scott Carell Chair
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 17, 2024
Far From Home: T Cell Migrating Through Non-Lymphoid Tissues
Seminar NOT included in the VETMI 7120 Course Schedule
Dr. Susan Schwab
Professor
Departments of Cell Biology and Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Dr. Colleen Lau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Fall 2023
Monday-Tuesday, August 28-29, 2023
Cornell Intercampus Vaccine Symposium
For more information, please click here.
Hosted by:
Dr. Hector Aguilar-Carreno (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Sallie Permar (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Friday, September 8, 2023
Tuberculosis As An Interferonopathy
Russell Vance, PhD
HHMI Investigator & Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Thursday, September 14, 2023 -- ADW-PAL Seminar
Decoding the Genomic Program to Generate T Cells
Location: CVM VMC Lecture Hall 5 (S1-212) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Ellen Rothenberg, PhD
Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology
Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
University of California, Berkley
*For more information, please click here.
Hosted by:
Dr. Brian Rudd (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Andrew Grimson (Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics)
Friday, September 29, 2023
Human Intestinal Enteroid Cultures as Models for Advancing Rotavirus Vaccines
Sasirekha Ramani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, FRCVS
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 -- BBS3 Seminar
Parasite Partners: Unveiling Pathogen Latency with Transgenic Allies
Location: CVM VMC Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (S1-210) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Chris Hunter, PhD
Mindy Halikman Heyer Distinguished Professor of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by:
Dr. Cindy Leifer (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Dr. Karla Garcia-Martinez
Friday, October 13, 2023
Visualizing and Manipulating Immunity with Light
Minsoo Kim, PhD
Dean's Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Hosted by: Dr. Deborah Fowell
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Friday, October 20, 2023
A Species-Level Strategy to Reveal Novel Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms
Luiz Sorio De Carvalho, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The Herbert Wertheim Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
University of Florida
Hosted by: David Russell, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 27, 2023
A Commotion in the Lung: Host-Pathogen Interactions in Tuberculosis
Michael Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.
James P. Luby, M.D. Professorship in Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cancelled: Friday, November 3, 2023
Mapping the Landscape of Virus-Host Interactions with Multiscale Imaging Approaches
Collin Kieffer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 -- BBS3 Seminar
CD19 CAR T Cells: A Paradigm for the Living Drug Concept
Location: CVM VMC Lecture Hall 5 (S1-212) -- Time: 4:00 PM Eastern
Michel Sadelain, PhD
Stephen and Barbara Friendman Chair
Director, Center for Cell Engineering
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hosted by: James Cockey (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Friday, November 17, 2023
Immune Imprinting Affects Influenza Virus and SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility
Scott Hensley, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Director, Penn-CEIRR
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, FRCVS
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 1, 2023
Specificity Matters: T Cell Responses to Infections and Tumors
Paul Thomas, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 8, 2023
Infectious Disease Forum: Reverse Zoonosis
Location: CVM VMC Murray Lecture Hall 1 (S1-166)
Hosted By:
Dr. Kristina Ceres (Department of Poplulation Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences)
Dr. David Russell (Department of Microbiology & immunology)
Dr. Brian VanderVen (Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
Spring 2023
Friday, January 27, 2023
Immune Control of Gut Mucus-Associated Commensals
Craig Maynard, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 3, 2023
Teaching the Teachers: Crosstalk Between Thymocytes and Thymic APCs
Lauren Ehrlich, PhD
Associate Professor
Lorene Morrow Kelley Fellow
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Department of Oncology, Dell Medical School
University of Texas at Austin
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 10, 2023
Investigating and Expanding the Structures and Functions of Secretory Antibodies
Beth Stadtmueller, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 17, 2023
Tissue-specific Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Immunity
Amanda Poholek, PhD
Director of the Health Sciences Sequencing Core at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 24, 2023
Understanding Birnaviridae Replication, Pathogenicity, and Antigenicity
Andrew Broadbent, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal & Avian Sciences
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
University of Maryland
Hosted by: Colin Parrish, PhD
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 3, 2023
Receptor Usage by Hantaviruses
Rohit Jangra, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Louisiana State University Health at Shreveport
Hosted by: John Parker, BVMS, PhD
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 10, 2023
Rotavirus Host Restriction Through the Lens of the Reverse Genetics System
Siyuan Ding, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hosted by: Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, MRCVS
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 17, 2023
Unraveling The Secrets of the Stem Cell Secretome
Gerlinde Van de Walle, PhD
Associate Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 31, 2023
Looking Under the Hood: The Metabolic Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Kyu Rhee, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 14, 2023
Mechanisms Regulating the Immune-Vascular Interplay During Neuroinflammation
Location Change: Lecture Hall 2 (S1-165)
Jorge Alvarez, BSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathobiology
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Mandy McGeachy, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 21, 2023
Microbes, Metabolites, and Mucosal Immunity
Kathy McCoy, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
University of Calgary
Killam Memorial Chair
Scientific Director | International Microbiome Centre
Hosted by: Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 28, 2023
NK Cells in Host Immunity
Joseph Sun, PhD
Professor of Immunology and Director
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program
Weill Cornell Medical College
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 5, 2023
Does A Dangerous Cousin Make You Dangerous? Assessing the Pathogenic Potential of Newly Discovered Filoviruses
Elke Muhlberger, PhD
Director of Integrated Science Services
National Emerging Infectious Dieseases Laboratories (NEIDL)
Professor of Microbiology
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Boston University
Hosted by: M&I Graduate Students
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 12, 2023
Convergent Evolution of Human Hepatitis C Virus bNAb Lineages with Diverse VH Genes
This seminar is not part of the VETMI 7120 course.
Justin Bailey, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Attending Physician
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hosted by: Andrew Flyak, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 26, 2023
CD8+ T Cell Immunity: New Tools To Answer Old Questions
This seminar is not part of the VETMI 7120 course.
Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Fall 2022
Friday, September 16, 2022 -- Virtual
Fantastic IgA Plasma Cells and Where to Find Them
Jennifer Gommerman, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Tissue-specific Immunity
Department of Immunology
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Hosted by: Cindy Leifer, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Please contact Taylor Trask (tt488@cornell.edu) for the Zoom information.
Friday, September 23, 2022
Ambiguous Anti-Viral Antibodies
Sarah Caddy, MA, VetMB, PhD, DACVM, MRCVS
Assistant Professor
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 14, 2022
Edosomal Entry of Herpes Simplex Virus
Anthony Nicola, PhD
Professor of Virology
Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Hosted by: Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 21, 2022
Control of Salmonella Virulence by Chemical Signals of the Intestine
Craig Altier, PhD
Professor
Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 28, 2022
Extracellular DNA in Immunity and Autoimmunity
Boris Reizis, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Samuel A. Brown Professor
Department of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Hosted by: Colleen Lau, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 4, 2022
To the Tune of c-di-GMP: Biofilm-mediated Flea Borne Transmission of the Bubonic Plague
Viveka Vadyvaloo, PhD
Associate Director & Associate Professor
Paul Allen School for Animal Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Hosted by: Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 18, 2022
Integrated Approaches to Gastrointestinal Nematode Control
Raffi Aroian, PhD
Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hosted by: Dwight Bowman, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 2, 2022 -- Virtual
Clonal Dynamics of the Recall Antibody Response
Gabriel Victora, PhD
Laurie and Peter Grauer Associate Professor & Head
Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics
The Rockefeller University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, DPhil (PhD)
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Please contact Taylor Trask (tt488@cornell.edu) for the Zoom information.
Spring 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022
Leveraging early life immunity to end pandemics
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD
Nancy C. Paduano Professor and Chair
Weill Cornell Medicine
Pediatrician-in-Chief
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Hosted by: Gary Whittaker, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 4, 2022
The Battle of Leuven against SARS-CoV2 and Dengue
Johan Neyts, PhD
Professor of Virology
School of Medicine & Dentistry
University of Leuven Belgium
Hosted by: Luis Schang, MV, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 11, 2022
Regulation of Herpesvirus Transcription during Productive and Latent infection
Joel D. Baines, VMD, PhD
James Law Professor of Virology
Emeritus
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 18, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 virus –host interactions
Adolf Garcia-Sastre, PhD
Director Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute
Professor, Microbiology
Professor, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Professor, Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine
Icahan School of Medicine
Hosted by: Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 25, 2022
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) drives refractory responses of breast carcinomas to immune checkpoint blockade therapies
Anushka Dongre, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, D. Phil.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 4, 2022
The class II fusion machinery: specific chaperones for folding and fusion activation
Félix Rey, PhD
Professor
Head of Structure
Department of Virology
Institut Pasteur
Hosted by: Theodore Clark, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 11, 2022
Discovering Reactive and Dominant Immune Archetypes in Cancer
Max Krummel, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California San Francisco
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, D. Phil.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 18, 2022
Myeloid cell control of tumor specific immunity
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
Director of the Precision Immunology Institute
Director of the Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, D. Phil.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 25, 2022
Chromatin Loops and Transcriptional Control of HSV-1 in Neurons
Donna Neumann, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
McPherson Eye Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hosted by: Luis Schang, MV, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Postponed from Friday, April 15, 2022
Edward Pearce, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center School of Medicine
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Bloomberg School of Public Health
John Hopkins University
Hosted by: Theodore Clark, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 22, 2022
Immunity and social behavior through the prism of functional mycobiota exploration
Iliyan D. Iliev, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology in Medicine
Co-director Microbiome Core Lab
Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Hosted by: Cynthia Leifer, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Postponed from Friday, April 29, 2022
Turning (to) the soil for parasite cures: Bt vs. Intestinal Nematodes
Raffi V. Aroian, PhD
Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hosted by: Dwight Bowman, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Fall 2021
Friday, September 10, 2021
Tracking of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Lineages Through Wastewater Surveillance
Marc Johnson, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine
Hosted by: Volker M. Vogt, PhD
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 17, 2021
CD8 T cell Responses to Infection
Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota
Hosted by: Cybelle Tabilas & Kaley Wilburn
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 24, 2021
The National Cancer Institute: Leading Cancer Research in 2021 and Beyond
Norman E. Sharpless, MD
Director
National Cancer Institute
Hosted by: Robert Weiss
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Friday, October 1, 2021-virtual
RNA-mediated control of the type I interferon response
Sara Macias, PhD
Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Chancellor's Fellow
Institute of Immunology and Infection Research
The University of Edinburgh
Hosted by: John Parker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 15, 2021
Deciphering the chemical crosstalk of host-gut microbiome interactions
Pamela Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, D. Phil.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 22, 2021-virtual
How do immune responses differ in inflamed human tissues and tumors?
Martin Prlic, PhD
Associate Member
Vaccine & Infection Disease Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Affiliate Associate Professor
Department of Immunology, University of Washington
Hosted by: Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 29, 2021-virtual
Putting the spotlight on the molecular choreography of viral RNAs
Alex Borodavka, PhD
Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
Hosted by: John Parker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 12, 2021
The immune system in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: one cell at a time
Andrew Grimson, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetic
College of Arts & Sciences
Cornell University
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 19, 2021
Emerging deadly viruses and their glycoproteins-From viral entry to vaccines and antivirals
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Deborah Fowell, D. Phil.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 3, 2021
Investigating CD8 T cell responses against cancer and self in engineered animal models
Nikhil Joshi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology
Yale School of Medicine
Hosted by: Cybelle Tabilas & Kaley Wilburn
Department of Microbiology & Immunology