First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture
Featured Speaker:
Susan Weiss, PhD
"Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium"
Date: Tues 5/19
Time: 12–1PM
Location: JM Reunion Aud
RSVP: https://t.co/F5ZZXby0qq
First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture
Featured Speaker:
Susan Weiss, PhD
"Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium"
Date: Tues 5/19
Time: 12–1PM
Location: JM Reunion Aud
RSVP: https://t.co/5biXA5dnHj
Microbiology Seminar 🔬
Wednesday 5/6/26 12-1PM
CRB Austrian Auditorium
Last Micro Seminar of Spring Semester!
Amelia Escolano, PhD, The Wistar Institute
“Rapid elicitation of a new class of neutralizing antibodies against the V3-glycan epitope of HIV-1"
https://t.co/BMZlbU9kPE
Virology Seminar 💉
5/5/26 12-1 PM
209 Johnson Pavilion
Clara Malekshahi, Moncla Lab
“Wild Anseriformes Ecology is Driving the Dissemination of HPAI H5N1 in North America”
Jordan Ort, Hensley Lab
“Immune history shapes cross-reactive antibody responses to H5N1 neuraminidase”
Virology Seminar 💉
Tuesday 4/28/26 12-1 PM
209 Johnson Pavilion
Clayton Otter, Weiss Lab
“What makes a common cold (corona)virus?”
Helen Stillwell, Weiss Lab
"West African clade C MERS-CoV camel viruses induce more robust innate immunity compared to wild-type in human cells”
Congrats to Ceylan Tanes, Shelley Buffenstein and the team on their fascinating study of the naked mole rat microbiome (PMID: 42012979). No change in the mole rat bacterial microbiome over decades. Notable differences associated with social structure and copraphagy.
Prokaryotic Seminar🦠
Mon 4/20/26 4-5PM
209 Johnson Pavilion
Tiffany Zarrella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dep of Biology, Georgetown Univ
https://t.co/yzoIFVxOeK
“Eavesdropping on microbial communities: how bacteria sense and respond to each other”