Postdoc Research Seminars
Spring 2022
January 5th
Druga Neupane, PhD (Song)
"Role of balanced diets in the efficient transfer of maternal antibodies to newborns"
Malgorzata Rychlowska, PhD (Schang)
"Roles of PNKP and CDK1 in Zika virus replication and pathogenesis"
February 2nd
Gi Young Lee, PhD (Song)
"Salmonella Typhi’s secret to living well: bioinformatics-guided mapping of clinical missense mutations"
Greana Kirubaker, PhD (Russell)
"Investigating Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes involved during macrophage infections using CRISPR interference system"
March 2nd
Timothy Pierpont, PhD (August)
"Using Dirty Mice as a Unique Cancer Model?"
Erick Maosa, PhD (Song)
"Host-pathogen regulatory and metabolic pathways driving Salmonella Typhi persistence"
April 6th
Zachary Hilt, PhD (Rudd)
TBD
Hari Dulal, PhD (Song)
TBD
May 4th
HwaYoung Kim, PhD (Song)
TBD
Shaun Cross, PhD (Parker)
TBD
June 1st
Manyun Yang, PhD (Song)
TBD
Nelson Simwela, PhD (Russell)
TBD
Fall 2021
September 1st
Janelle Veazey, PhD (Rudd)
“Undernutrition impairs intracellular immune responses”
Gabrielle Le-Bury, PhD (Russell)
“Transcriptomic profiling of HIV-1 infected human
alveolar macrophages by scRNA-Seq”
October 6th
Javier Jaimes, PhD (Whittaker)
“Furin-mediated activation of the SARS-CoV-2 emerging variants is altered by mutations at the spike protein S1/S2 boundary”
November 3rd
Tri Nguyen, PhD (Song)
"The structural basis of Salmonella A2B5 toxin neutralization by antibodies"
Neva Watson, PhD (Rudd)
"Lin28b promotes innate functions in CD8+ T cells through rapid chromatin remodeling"
December 1st
Sohyoung Lee, PhD (Song)
"Salmonella Typhoid Toxin PltB Subunit and Its Nontyphoidal Salmonella Ortholog Confer Differential Host Adaptation and Virulence"
Abrrey Monreal, PhD (Aguilar-Carreno)
"A novel highly potent inhibitor of TMPRSS2-like proteases acts as a pan-SARS-CoV-2 prophylactic and therapeutic"