Events
The lineup for Fall 2023 seminars will be coming soon.
Past Seminars
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"