Seminars in Infection & Immunity
All seminars will be held virtually until further notice.
Spring 2021
Friday, February 12, 2021
Measles Virus: Endgame (?)
Benhur Lee, MD
Professor
Ward-Coleman Chair of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hosted by: Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 19, 2021
COVID-19: Using chemogenomics to discover antivirals
Sara Cherry, PhD
Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Penn Medicine
Hosted by: John Parker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, February 26, 2021
Understanding & developing low-immunogenic biomaterials
Shaoyi Jiang, PhD
Robert S. Langer ’70 Family & Friends Professor
Meining School of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Hosted by: Avery August
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 5, 2021
Modulation of innate immunity by arboviruses: Feeling the STING
Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hosted by: Hector Aguilar-Carreno
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 12, 2021
Gene regulatory mechanisms that assemble the T-cell identity
Ellen Rothenberg, PhD
Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Caltech
Hosted by: Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 19, 2021
Engineering combination therapies for M. tuberculosis
Bree Aldridge, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University
Hosted by: David Russell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, March 26, 2021
Optimizing T cell activation in inflamed tissues
Deborah Fowell, PhD
Department Chair
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Friday, April 2, 2021
Chemical virology, a powerful approach to learn about viral entry, gene expression, replication, and pathogenesis
Luis M Schang, MV, PhD
Professor of Chemical Virology
Baker institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Friday, April 9, 2021
Epigenetics mechanisms of trained innate immunity
Musa Mhlanga, PhD
Professor
Division of Chemical & Systems Biology
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Hosted by: David Russell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, April 16, 2021
Innate immune defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens
Sunny Shin, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
email: bcv8
Friday, April 30, 2021
Regulation of Inflammatory Responses
Katherine A Fitzgerald, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine
UMass
Hosted by: Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 7, 2021
TBD
Fiona Powrie, PhD
Professor of Musculoskeletal Science
Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
Principal Investigator in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit
Fellow of Wadham College
University of Oxford
Hosted by: Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, May 14, 2021
TBD
Marion Pepper, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology
University of Washington
Hosted by: Deb Fowell
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Fall 2020
Friday, September 4, 2020
Many pathways: a TNF family receptor that influences the microbiome, tissue function and mucosal immunity
Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
President & Chief Scientific Officer
Division of Development Immunology
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Hosted by: Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 11, 2020
Inside Out: regulation of macrophage innate immunity and inflammation
Cynthia Leifer, PhD
Associate Professor of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Hosted by: Ted Clark
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 18, 2020
Pathogenicity Islands from Tn7 Elements: Safe Sites, Mobile Plasmids, CRISP/Cas and Beyond
Joe Peters, PhD
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department of Microbiology
Cornell University
Hosted by: Jeongmin Song
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, September 25, 2020
Integrating T cell signals: Lessons from primary immunodeficiencies
Pamela Schwartzberg, MD, PhD
Chief, Cell Signaling and Immunity Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Hosted by: Avery August
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 2, 2020
Crosstalk of innate immune receptors with the microbiota and adaptive immunity in autoimmunity and cancer
Jenny Ting, PhD
William Rand Kenan Professor
Department of Genetics
Director, Center for Translational Immunology
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hosted by: Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 16, 2020
Imaging and imagining bacterial flagella
Eric Sundberg, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Jeongmin Song
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 23, 2020
Control of viral infection by inhibitory natural killer cell receptors
Wayne Yokoyama, MD
Sam and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine
Pathology and Immunology and director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Washington University School of Medicine
Hosted by: Gary Koretzky
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, October 30, 2020
Long-term Immunity...the Key to Normalcy
Susan Kaech, PhD
Professor and Director
SALK
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
NOMIS Chair
Hosted by: Cybelle Tabilas
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 6, 2020
Protective and pathogenic T cell responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Daniel Leo Barber, PhD
Chief
T-Lymphocyte Biology Section
NIAID/DIR
Hosted by: Brian VanderVen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 13, 2020
Immunologic regulation of immunity, inflammation and cancer
Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Jill Roberts Institute for Research in IBD
Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Cornell University
Hosted by: Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, November 20, 2020
Polyparasitism in school-aged children living in schistosomiasis endemic focus of Muyuka-Cameroon: a cross sectional study on infection outcomes and determinants
Irene Ule Ngole Sumbele, PhD
Associate Professor
Medical Parasitology
University of Buea
Hosted by: Gary Whittaker
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Friday, December 4, 2020
T cell differentiation and dysfunction in tumors
Andrea Schietinger, PhD
Assistant Member
Immunology Program
Sloan Kettering Institute
Hosted by: Brian Rudd
Department of Microbiology & Immunology