Departmental Seminar Series Archives

 


SPRING 2024

January 9, 2024“Defining Key Mediators of the Progression of Pneumonic Plague”
Dr. Roger Pechous, University of Arkansas Medical School

Faculty Host: Dr. Md Motaleb

January 30, 2024
Moderna’s mRNA vaccine development programs  for Infectious Diseases”

Dr. Andrea Carfi, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Infectious Disease Research at Moderna

Faculty Host :Dr. Rachel Roper

February 6, 2024
Understanding antibiotic treatment failure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronic airway
infection”
Dr. Matthew Wolfgang, Associate Professor, Marsico Lung Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Faculty Host: Dr. Everett Pesci

February 13, 2024
Branching out: branched-chain amino acids as key metabolites in Staphylococcus aureus physiology and virulence.
Dr. Shaun Brinsmade, PhD,  Associate Professor, Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

March 12, 2024
“The roles of secondary lymphoid organ fibroblastic reticular cells in HIV-1 spread and latency”
Tomoyuki Murakami, Research Assistant  Professor, University of Michigan Medical School

Faculty Host; Isabelle Lemasson

March 19, 2024
“The strategic inundation of microprocessor in EBV-associated lymphoma”
Nathan Ungerleider, Assistant Professor, Tulane School of Medicine

April 9, 2024
“Life in Mucus: Vaginal Colonization by Group B Streptococcus”
Dr. Kelly Doran, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

April 23, 2024
Organization of a Multipartite Bacterial Genome
Dr. Xindan Wang, University of Indiana

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop



 

 

Fall 2023

August 29, 2023“Where am I and what should I do?
Insights on how the Lyme disease spirochete controls production of virulence proteins”
Dr. Brian Stevenson, Ph.D University of Kentucky

Faculty Host: Dr. Md Motaleb

September 12, 2023
“Cellular acquisition of inflammatory traits in Obesity”
Dr. Senad Divanovic, Cincinatti Children’s Hospital

Faculty Host: Akshaya Meher

September 14, 2023
“Sugar-coated, multidrug-resistant bacteria as targets for new antimicrobial therapeutics”
Dr. Laura Jennings , University of Montana

Faculty Host: Dr. Md Motaleb

September 26, 2023.
“Organization of a Multipartite Bacterial GenomeRescheduled for Spring
Dr. Xindan Wang, Indiana University

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

October 3, 2023
“Up in Smoke: Immunosuppression by cigarettes”
Dr. Jordan Metcalf, MD ,College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma

Faculty Host: Dr. Michelle Ratliff

October 5, 2023
Mechanisms Underlying Evolvability and Adaptation to Stress
Dr. Alexandra Deaconescu, Brown University

Faculty Host: Dr. Md Motaleb

October 10, 2023
How does this start?:Regulation, evasion, and therapeutic targeting of complement initiating proteases”

Dr.Brandon Garcia, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine

October 17, 2023Barcoding to Study Crohn’s Disease-Associated Microbial Interactions in Complex Community
Dr. Rachel Bleich, Appalachian State University

Faculty Host: Dr. Brandon Garcia

October 24 , 2023
 “Innate immune defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens and bacterial evasion strategies”
Dr. Sunny Shinn, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

November 14, 2023
“Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans Trans-Kingdom Interactions”
Dr. Danielle Garsin, University of Texas Health Science Center

Faculty Host: Dr. Brandon Garcia

November 28, 2023
Next Generation mRNA Vaccines
Dr. Heath Damron, West Virginia University

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

December 12, 2023“Scents of Danger – What infections reveal about olfactory immunity and CNS barriers
Dr. Ashley Moseman, Duke University

Faculty Host: Dr. Brandon Garcia

 

 SPRING 2023

March 7, 2023‘Navigating sticky situations: Unipolar adhesin production and control in a model pathogen’Dr. Clay Fuqua , Indiana University

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

March 28th, 2023“Induction of protective interferon-β responses in murine osteoblasts following Staphylococcus aureus infection.Dr. M. Brittany Johnson , UNC-Charlotte

Faculty Host: Dr. Brandon Garcia

April 11th, 2023“Secreted proteases have a biphasic impact on S aureus pathogenesis ”Dr. Les Shaw ,University of South Florida

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

April 18th, 2023
A Role for Adolescent Binge Alcohol Consumption in Pulmonary Inflammation: Alcohol and the Lung”
Dr. Vijay
Sivaraman, North Carolina Central University

Faculty Host: Dr. Rachel Roper

May 2nd, 2023
Response of Salmonella to Host-Specific Environmental Signals”
Dr. Craig Altier, Cornell University

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

May 9th, 2023“Chlamydial Inc proteins, the Yes, And Effector”Dr. Elizabeth Rucks ,University of Nebraska Medical Center

Faculty Host: Dr. Md Motaleb


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Fall 2022

September 6, 2022
“Soaking up Microbes in Sponge-Microbe Symbioses”
Dr. Cara Fiore, Appalachian State University

Faculty Host: Dr. Brandon Garcia

October 4, 2022
“Mechanism of Transcriptional Silencing and Anti-silencing in the bacterial pathogen, Shigella

Dr. Helen Wing, University of Las Vegas

Faculty Host: Dr. Marty Roop

October 11, 2022
“Tales of post-transcriptional control in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
Dr. Simon Dove, Harvard Medical School

Faculty Host:  Dr. Marty Roop

October 18, 2022
“Infection-induced autoimmunity in Lyme disease”
Dr. Robert Lochhead, Medical College of Wisconsin

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

November 1, 2022
In vivo expression technology identifies a novel lipase important for Borrelia burgdorferi survival in the mammalian host”
Dr. Mollie Jewett, University of Central Florida

Faculty Host:  Dr. Md Motaleb

November 8, 2022 Virtual Only
“Driving forces for meta-inflammation; adiposity, sex, and myelopoiesis”
Dr. Durga Singer , University of Michigan Medical School

Faculty Host: Dr Akshaya. Meher

November 15, 2022
“Using a scaffold to build a virus”
Dr. Caroline Teschke, University of Connecticut

Faculty Host: Dr. Rachel Roper

December 6, 2022
B Cells and Antibodies in Lung Injury and Repair: Lessons from COVID and Beyond
Dr. Jeffrey M. Sturek, MD, PhD, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Faculty Host: Dr. Akshaya Meher

 

Spring 2022

March 1, 2022
“Genomic editing of the oncogenic retrovirus HTLV-1”
Dr. Amanda Panfil, The Ohio State University

Faculty Host:  Dr. Isabelle Lemasson

March 8, 2022
Brucella small RNAs: From discovery to function”
Dr. Clay Caswell, Virginia Tech

Faculty Host:  Dr. Martin Roop

April 5, 2022
“Exploiting the unusual features of the Borrelia burgdorferi cell wall to understand the pathogenesis of Lyme disease”
Dr. Brandon Jutras, Virginia Tech University

Faculty Host:  Dr. Md Motaleb

May 10, 2022
“Probiotics & Pathogens: the role of the coral microbiome and disease”
Dr. Blake Ushijima, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

May 24, 2022
Bone appétit: Host-pathogen interactions during osteomyelitis”
Dr. Jim Cassat, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

Student Host:  CJ Booth

 

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Fall 2021

October 5, 2021
“Klebsiella pneumoniae’s Colistin Resistance is a Double-Edged Sword”
Ammar Zafar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wake Forrest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Faculty Host:  Dr. Marty Roop

October 26, 2021
“Meta-analysis of microbiome studies to predict preterm birth risk”
Benjamin Callahan, PhD, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

November 2, 2021
A twist in the tales of Borrelia on two different continents
Ryan Rego, PhD, Research Scientist, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

November 9, 2021
“Interferon lambda controls viral infection at anatomic barriers”
Helen Lazear, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

November 16, 2021
“Macrophages are “Stressed Out” in Tumors”
Stanley Huang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology,Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Faculty Host:  Dr. Akshaya Meher

November 30, 2021
“Harnessing host-parasite interactions to understand mechanisms of immune function”
Sarah Ewald,PhD, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Faculty Host:  Dr. Brandon Garcia

 

Spring 2021

February 16, 2021
“Complement activation in Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia”
Sanjay Khandelwal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC

March 9, 2021
“Differential Regulation of Innate Antiviral Immunity”
Kislay Parvatiyar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

March 23, 2021
“Role of Regulator T Cells in the Host Response to Borrelia burgdorfen”
Dean T. Nardelli, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

April 13, 2021
“The Vibrio-Squid Symbiosis as a Model System for Studying Interbacterial Competition”
Alecia Septer, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

April 27, 2021 (CANCELED)
“Antibacterial Combinations Discovery”
John Pace, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Mid-Atlantic Christian University, Elizabeth City, NC

May 11, 2021
”Scavenging for sulfur: Understanding the bacterial quest for alternative sulfur sources”
Holly Ellis, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ECU, Greenville, NC


Fall 2020

October 20, 2020
“Effects of moderate malnutrition on mucosal immunity and development of protective memory cells during malaria infection”
Michael Opata, PhD, Assistant Professor, Appalachian State, Boone, NC

November 3, 2020
“Regulated protein degradation in bacteria development and stress responses”
Peter Chien, PhD, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

November 10, 2020
“Obesity and B cell immunosenescence”
Daniela Frasca, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Miami SOM, Miami, FL


Spring 2020

January 28, 2020
“Regulation of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Depolymerase Synthesis in Streptomyces sp. SFB5A”
Stephen F. Baron, PhD, Professor, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA

February 18, 2020
“Complement evasion strategies of viruses”
Elisa Crisci, DVM MSc PhD, Assistant Professor, NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC

February 25, 2020 (RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 7)
“Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing, cooperation and conflict-mechanisms behind the math”
E. Peter Greenberg, PhD, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

March 17, 2020 CANCELED
“AAA+ Proteases Control Bacterial Growth and Stress Responses”
Peter Chien, Phd, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

March 24, 2020 CANCELED
“Natural IgM: Heparin- induced thrombocytopenia and beyond”
Sanjay Khandelwal, PhD, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC

April 7, 2020 CANCELED
“Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing, cooperation and conflict-mechanisms behind the math”
E. Peter Greenberg, PhD, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

April 28, 2020 CANCELED
“TBA”
Brandon Jutras, PhD, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA