Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Seminars will held virtually via Zoom on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. unless otherwise specified. If you are interested in additional University of Iowa seminars, please visit Carver College of Medicine's upcoming events.
For Zoom seminar information, please email kerry-jones@uiowa.edu or call 319-335-7810. Everyone is encouraged to participate free of charge.
| Date | Speaker | Host | Seminar Title/Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Timothy Wannier, PhD Harvard Medical School |
Microbiology and Immunology | Understanding recombineering mechanistically and expanding its use to diverse bacteria |
| Jan. 26 | Rich Roller, PhD University of Iowa |
Microbiology and Immunology | HSV assembly in the second golden age of herpesvirus genetics |
| Wed. Jan. 27 |
Boyuan Wang, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology **seminar at 2 p.m. |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Regulation of Metabolism and Viability of Bacteria by the Nucleotides (p)ppGpp and (p)ppApp |
| Mon. Feb. 1 |
Marcos De Moraes, PhD University of Washington |
Microbiology and Immunology | A novel family of mutagenic bacterial toxins with unprecedented DNA deaminase activity |
| Feb. 2 | Patrick Schlievert, PhD University of Iowa |
Microbiology and Immunology |
3T Bacterial Superantigen Diseases |
| Fri. Feb. 5 |
See-Yeun Ting, PhD University of Washington |
Microbiology and Immunology | Molecular mechanisms underlying interbacterial warfare |
| Feb. 9 | Zhao-Qing Luo, PhD Purdue University |
Mary Weber, PhD |
The mechanism and regulation of ubiquitination catalyzed by single bacterial enzymes |
| Wed. Feb. 10 |
Arden Perkins, PhD University of Oregon |
Microbiology and Immunology | Bacterial sensing, elimination, and manipulation of host-generated reactive oxygen species |
| Feb. 16 | Jorn Coers, PhD Duke University |
Mary Weber, PhD |
Interferon-inducible cell-autonomous immunity to bacterial pathogens |
| Feb. 23 | Bin He, PhD University of Iowa |
Lilly Radoshevich, PhD | Evolution of a Stress Response Transcription Factor in an Opportunistic Yeast Pathogen |
| Mar. 2 | Edward M. Campbell, PhD Loyola University - Chicago |
Li Wu, PhD | Cytoplasmic trafficking and nuclear import of HIV-1: Simple models ruined by simple experiments |
| Mar. 9 | Pulvermacher Seminar Deborah Hogan, PhD Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth |
Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Students | Evolution in the CF lung: Intergenotype and interspecies interactions |
| Mar. 16 | Tim Yahr, PhD University of Iowa |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Translational control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system gene expression: a tough nut to crack |
| Mar. 23 | Stephen Waggoner, PhD University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Co-hosted with Immunology |
Steve Varga, PhD |
Mindless killers, Machiavellian schemers, or master factotums: Re-defining the roles of NK cells in immunity |
| Mar. 26 | Eleftherios (Lefteris) Michailidis, PhD Rockefeller University *Seminar at 10 am |
Microbiology and Immunology | Modeling chronic Hepatitis B virus infections in hepatocyte systems |
| Mar. 30 | Priya Issuree, PhD University of Iowa |
Mary Wilson, MD | Dissecting the role of regulatory elements in epigenetic landscaping during infection |
| Mar. 31 | Rohrit Jangra, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Microbiology and Immunology | Discovery of host determinants of virus susceptibility by using BSL2 systems |
| Apr. 1 | Jessica Tucker, PhD University of California, Berkeley |
Microbiology and Immunology | Gammaherpesviruses Alter the Host tRNA Expression Landscape |
| Apr. 6 | Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD University of Iowa |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Pathogenesis of coronavirus infections including COVID-19 |
| Apr. 7 | Christopher Basler, PhD Georgia State University |
Microbiology and Immunology |
How and why emerging RNA viruses target importin alpha nuclear transport proteins |
| Apr. 8 | Eric Weaver, PhD University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
Microbiology and Immunology | In Search of Universal Influenza Vaccines: Modern Immunogen Design |
| Apr. 13 | Neal Hammer, PhD Michigan State University |
Craig Ellermeier, PhD | Close encounters: Staphylococcus aureus interactions with host-derived metabolites |
| Apr. 14 | Renfeng Li, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University |
Microbiology and Immunology |
Beyond apoptosis: Caspases switch off cellular restriction factors to reactivate a ubiquitous human tumor virus |
| Apr. 20 | Emily McMackin, PhD University of Iowa |
Tim Yahr, PhD | Global transcriptional regulators and the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system |
| Apr. 27 | No Seminar | ||
| May 4 | Philip Efron, MD University of Florida College of Medicine Co-hosted with Immunology |
Vladimir Badovinac, PhD | The Persistent Inflammation Immunosuppresion Catabolism Syndrome |
| May 11 | Michael A. Apicella Endowed Lecture Mark Stinski, PhD University of Iowa |
Michael Apicella, MD and Li Wu, PhD |
Discovering the CMV Promoter and the Major Immediate Early Genes of Human Cytomegalovirus |
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