CIDD

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State. Infectious disease scientists working across multiple scales to improve health. 📸: Joyce Jose.

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🌸 The Wait is Over! 🌸

Our Spring 2025 CIDD Seminar Schedule is here. Featuring talks from @Megan_Stanifer, @LB_Barreiro, @nmideo, @FoxandtheFlu, @TAlexPerkins, @KaurTweets, @shanice_webb, and many more!

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Thursday, December 11, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Dana Hawley, Professor of Biological Sciences from Virginia Tech, will present "When history repeats itself: effects of prior pathogen exposure on the ecology and evolution of a songbird pathogen".

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Thursday, December 4, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, CIDD graduate students will present their research.

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Thursday, November 6, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Joao Pedra, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present "From Arthropod Immunology to Artificial Intelligence: a Journey Into Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases".

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Thursday, October 30, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Jessica Metcalf, Professor of Ecology and Evolution from Princeton University, will present "Infection dynamics and vaccination in a changing world".

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Thursday, October 2, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–David Kennedy, Associate Professor of Biology from Penn State, will present "Anticipating the evolution of pathogen resistance and new diseases ."

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Monday, September 29, from noon to 1:00 p.m., welcome Kara Fikrig to CIDD and hear what her lab is up to,

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Thursday, September 25, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–Ryan Smith, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology from Iowa State University, will present "Mosquito immune cells and vector competence: A tale of two pathogens."

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Monday, September 22, from noon to 1:00 p.m., hear from Isabella Cattadori, Professor of Biology at Penn State, on new working ideas on infection and nutrition.

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Thursday, September 18, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–Katherine Restori, Assistant Research Professor from Penn State, will present "Preexisting immunity to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets."

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Monday, September 15, from noon to 1:00 p.m., hear from Beth McGraw, Biology Professor and Department Head, and Shannon Cruz, Assistant Professor of Arts and Communications on STIs (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis) and Penn State wastewater.

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#CIDDSeminar April 31, 2025, Megan Stanifer, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine will present key antiviral cytokines in controlling intestinal barrier formation and protection from enteric viruses.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 24, 2025, Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Associate and Hanna Gray Fellow at Duke University will present on metabolites and nutrients as key modulators of microbiota selection and plant health.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 17, 2025, Rupinder Kaur, Assistant Research Professor, Departments of Biology and Entomology (Bordenstein Lab), Pennsylvania State University, will present on decoding mechanisms of insect-microbe symbiosis to advance vector control strategies.

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Monday, April 14, 2025, Eddie Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology Faculty of Medicine and Health Fellow at the University of Sydney, will present on redefining virus evolution and emergence using metatranscriptomics.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 10, 2025, Mercedes Pascual, Professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, New York University, will present on hyper-diversity, strain structure, and tipping points in a host-pathogen system.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 3, 2025, Megan Greischar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, will present on using models to reveal ecology and parasite adaptation within the host.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, March 27, 2025, Alex Perkins, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, will present on sustainable control of dengue.

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, March 20, 2025, Scott Carver, Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia, will present on sarcoptic mange in wombats.

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#CIDDSeminar: CIDD graduate students Victoria, Christina, and Jack will present their research this Thursday, March 6, 2025!

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#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, February 27, 2025, Spencer Fox, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Georgia, will present on refining outbreak forecasting into a public health decision-making tool.