Spring 2023
Ariangela Kozik, PhD, University of Michigan
Deciphering Microbial-Immune Relationships in Asthma - ZOOM ONLY
Hank Seifert, Ph, Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine
Evolution of diversification in the face of function – Lessons learned from the pilus antigenic variation system of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Lilly Radoshevich, PhD University of Iowa, Microbiology and Immunology
Exploring the role of ISGylation in pathogen spread
Seema Lakdawala, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Understanding Airborne Transmission of Emerging Respiratory Viruses
Ernie Fuentes, PhD, University of Iowa
Environmental Sensing by the S. aureus SrrAB Two‐Component System
Wenjun Ma, PhD, University of Missouri – Columbia
Understanding of Novel Bat Influenza Viruses and Beyond
Drew Kitchen, PhD, University of Iowa
Phylogenetic identification of pathogen origins across time and space
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD - Pulvermacher Seminar
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Impact of obesity on influenza
Stefan Pukatzki, PhD, City College of New York
The cholera bacterium secures a firm grip on competitiveness with a secret handshake
Kerry Empey, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Infant Host Immunity to Respiratory Syncytial Virus following Maternal Immunization
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
Ya-Chi Ho, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
Single-cell multiomics and expansion dynamics of HIV reservoir
Mike Sheedlo, PhD, University of Minnesota
Structural and Mechanistic Insight into the Clostridioides difficile Transferase
Larry Schlesinger, MD, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
The M. tuberculosis-macrophage encounter: From basic science discovery to a potential host-directed therapy for tuberculosis
James Konopka, PhD, Stony Brook University
Plasma membrane form and function in fungal pathogenesis
Sabrina Tan, MD, University of Iowa
Inflammatory Neuropathogenesis in Acute SIV Infection
Fall 2022
Steve Varga, PhD, University of Iowa, Microbiology and Immunology
Running Up That Hill: Working Towards New Interventions for Viruses and Cancer\\
Mary Weber, PhD, University of Iowa, Microbiology and Immunology
Investigation of the Chlamydia trachomatis type III secretome reveals diverse strategies for
Noah Butler, PhD, University of Iowa, Microbiology and Immunology
Eating is in my DNA: metabolic programming of adaptive immune cell function during malaria
Balaji Manicassamy, PhD, University of Iowa, Microbiology and Immunology
Genetic Approaches to Study Influenza Virus-Host Interactions
David Rudner, PhD, Harvard Medical School - Crawford Lecture
How Gram-positive bacteria monitor their cell walls for defects and catalyze their repair
Saurabh Chattopadhyay, PhD, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology
IRF3: a master regulator of infection and inflammationWatkze Aud III, BSB
Vincent Lee, PhD, University of Maryland
Pseudomonas aeruginosa signaling, RNA degradation and device associated infections
Daniel Schultz, PhD, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Evolution of antibiotic responses in complex dynamic settings
Michael Stolley, PhD, University of Minnesota, Microbiology and Immunology
Resident Memory T Cell Immunosurveillance of the Oral Mucosa and Periodontium
Adam Bailey, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Anticipating arterivirus emergence in humans
Aaron Mendez, PhD, University of California – Berkeley, Microbiology and Immunology
The host-virus showdown: Changing course on viral disruption of host gene expression
Amit Sharma, PhD, Ohio State University
Determinants of SHIV Replication in Macaque Lymphocytes
Xin Liu, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Microbiology and Immunology
Cellular crosstalk enables metabolic control of bacterial lung infection
Daniel Voth, PhD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Parasitism of Human Macrophages by the Q Fever Agent, Coxiella burnetii
Chun-Chieh (Jack) Hsu, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology
Virus-host arms race: Translational regulation in the antiviral responses and during SARS-CoV-2 infection
Scott Hensley, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
Development of multivalent mRNA vaccines to replace original antigenic sin with initial blessings of induced immunity
Daniel Czyz, PhD, University of Florida
Deciphering the role of bacteria on protein conformational diseases
Vicente Planelles, PhD, University of Utah School of Medicine
HIV Transcription and viral latency
Spring 2022
Matt Anderson, PhD, Ohio State University
An unusual mating system generates diversity in Candida albicans
Wendy Maury, PhD University of Iowa
The Role of Phosphatidylserine Receptors in Enveloped Virus Infection
Jacob Yount, PhD, Ohio State University
Roles of the innate immunity protein IFITM3 in influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 infections
Jeanne Salje, PhD, Rutgers University
he intracellular lifecycle of the obligate intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi
Christopher Vakulskas, PhD, Integrated DNA Technologies
sing fundamental bacterial tools to engineer CRISPR systems suitable for therapeutic genome editing
Kevin Legge, PhD, University of Iowa
Polyanhydride nanoparticle vaccines – a platform and strategy for robust immunity and “universal” protection against influenza virus
Adam Bailey, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
POSTPONED Exploring the extremes of flaviviral pathogenesis
Helen Lazear, PhD, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pulvermacher Seminar Protective and pathogenic effects of interferon lambda during viral infections
Al Klingelhutz, PhD, University of Iowa
Proinflammatory Responses in Fat Caused by Environmental Toxins or Viruses
Eugene Oltz, PhD, Ohio State University
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases
Wiring Schemes for Innate and Adaptive Lymphoid Cells
Jennifer Lund, PhD, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases
Regulation of tissue immunity in the context of infections
David Hendrixson, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Biosynthesis of High-Torque Polar Flagellar Motors in Bacterial Pathogens
Michael Lorenz, University of Texas, McGovern Medical School
n all sides: Interactions of Candida albicans with the host and bacterial flora
Andrea Sant, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology DH Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology
University of Rochester Medical School
T-Cell immunity to respiratory pathogens and vaccines
Nicholas Heaton, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine
Genetic approaches to understand and prevent respiratory viral diseases
Allison Williams, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
POSTPONED Atomic-level probing of the peptidoglycan biosynthetic machinery identifies a central hub and exposes a bacterial Achilles heel
Michael Chimenti, PhD, University of Iowa
Zoom Only Seminar Principles of experimental design and reproducible research in computationa
Fall 2021
Jon Houtman, PhD, University of Iowa
Effects of Glycerol Monolaurate on Human T Cell Activation
Kyle Floyd, PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Deciphering the Regulation of Vibrio cholerae Surface Colonization
Caroline Grunenwald, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Coping Mechanisms: Bacterial Stress Responses at the Host Pathogen Interface
Michael Gebhardt, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
RNA Binding Proteins and Regulatory RNAs of P. aeruginosa: It’s a small (RNA) world after all
Olena Shtanko, PhD, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Tunneling nanotubes as an alternate route of Ebola virus dissemination
Jay Vornhagen, PhD, University of Michigan,
Consternation over colonization: Klebsiella pneumoniae in the gut
Jung-Ho Shin, PhD, Cornell University
Exploiting bacterial stress responses to overcome antibiotic tolerance in pathogens
Melinda Brindley, PhD, University of Georgia
How PtdSer localization alters Virus Infectivity and Budding
J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, PhD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Covid-19: pathogenesis, prevention and treatment
Apollo Stacy, PhD, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Role of poly-microbial interactions in shaping health and disease
Simon Dove, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Controlling virulence gene expression: Tales from two pathogens
Ryan Zander, PhD, Blood Research Institute, Versiti
T Follicular Helper cell-derived IL-21 supports Effector CD8 T cell differentiation during chronic viral infection
Mary Weber, PhD, University of Iowa
Mechanisms of molecular mimicry: Insights on Chlamydia host cellular invasion and reprogramming
Kevin Brown, PhD, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Control of Toxoplasma Motility by Cyclic Nucleotide Signaling
Jian Zheng, PhD
The role of PLA2G2D-PGD2 in coronavirus infection and host immune response
Hillel Haim, MD, PhD, University of Iowa
Listening to the “noise” in virus systems to tailor therapeutics to patients and vaccines to populations
Sharmila Nair, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
Leveraging ZIKV and the immune system for treatment against Glioblastoma
Nathan Schmidt, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine
Gut microbiota dynamically regulate germinal center reactions and severity of malaria
Eric Dang, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Mechanisms of host manipulation and cytosolic sensing during pathogenic fungal infection
Craig Coopersmith, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
(Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases
Gut integrity in sepsis
Kyla Ost, PhD, University of Utah
Adaptive immunity shapes friendlier fungi in the gut
Huachao Huang, PhD
Rare cells, big effects: tuft cells in pulmonary inflammation
Spring 2021
Timothy Wannier, PhD, Harvard School of Medicine (faculty candidate)
Understanding recombineering mechanistically and expanding its use to diverse bacteria
Rich Roller, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa
HSV assembly in the second golden age of herpesvirus genetics
Boyuan Wang, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (faculty candidate)
Regulation of Metabolism and Viability of Bacteria by the Nucleotides (p)ppGpp and (p)ppApp
Marcos De Moraes, PhD, University of Washington (faculty candida
A novel family of mutagenic bacterial toxins with unprecedented DNA deaminase activity
Patrick Schlievert, PhD, University of Iowa
3T Bacterial Superantigen Diseases
See-Yeun Ting, PhD, University of Washington (faculty candidate)
Molecular mechanisms underlying interbacterial warfare
Arden Perkins, PhD, University of Oregon (faculty candidate)
Bacterial sensing, elimination, and manipulation of host-generated reactive oxygen species
Jorn Coers, PhD, Duke University
Bacterial sensing, elimination, and manipulation of host-generated reactive oxygen species
Bin He, PhD, University of Iowa
Evolution of a Stress Response Transcription Factor in an Opportunistic Yeast Pathogen
Edward Campbell, PhD, Loyola University – Chicago
Cytoplasmic trafficking and nuclear import of HIV-1: Simple models ruined by simple experiments
Deborah Hogan, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School (Pulvermacher Seminar)
Cytoplasmic trafficking and nuclear import of HIV-1: Simple models ruined by simple experiments
Tim Yahr, PhD, University of Iowa
Translational control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system gene expression: a tough nut to crack
Stephen Waggoner, PhD, University of Cincinnati (Co-sponsored with Immunology)
Mindless killers, Machiavellian schemers, or master factotums: Re-defining the roles of NK cells in immunity
Eleftherios (Lefteris) Michailidis, PhD, Rockefeller University (faculty candidate)
Modeling chronic Hepatitis B virus infections in hepatocyte systems
Priya Issuree, PhD, University of Iowa
Dissecting the role of regulatory elements in epigenetic landscaping during infection
Rohit Jangra, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (faculty candidate)
Discovery of host determinants of virus susceptibility by using BSL2 systems
Jessica Tucker, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (faculty candidate)
Gammaherpesviruses Alter the Host tRNA Expression Landscape
Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD, University of Iowa
Pathogenesis of coronavirus infections including COVID-19
Christopher Basler, PhD, Georgia State University (faculty candidate)
How and why emerging RNA viruses target importin alpha nuclear transport proteins
Eric Weaver, PhD, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (faculty candidate)
In Search of Universal Influenza Vaccines: Modern Immunogen Design
Neal Hammer, PhD, Michigan State University
Close encounters: Staphylococcus aureus interactions with host-derived metabolites
Renfeng Li, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University (faculty candidate)
Beyond apoptosis: Caspases switch off cellular restriction factors to reactivate a ubiquitous human tumor virus
Emily McMacklin, PhD, University of Iowa
Global transcriptional regulators and the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system
Philip Efron, MD, University of Florida (Co-sponsored with Immunology)
The Persistent Inflammation Immunosuppresion Catabolism Syndrome
Mark Stinski, PhD, University of Iowa (Apicella Endowed Lecture)
Discovering the CMV Promoter and the Major Immediate Early Genes of Human Cytomegalovirus
Fall 2020
Matt Welch, PhD, University of California - Berkeley
Mobilization of the cytoskeleton by microbial pathogens
Jie Sun, PhD,Mayo Clinic, Co-hosted with Immunology
A breath of fresh air: immune regulation of acute morbidity and chronic sequelae following respiratory viral infection
Open career panel discussion with:
Al Klingelhutz, PhD, Nicki Limoli, PhD, and Wendy Maury, PhD
Open discussions and Q/A with graduate students and postdocs. Faculty will share a brief self-introduction before the Q/A session.
Renée Tsolis, PhD, UC Davis School of Medicine
Effects of malaria and malnutrition on susceptibility to bacterial infection
Suresh de Silva, PhD, Shattucks Labs & Mary Mohrin, PhD,GenentechOpen discussions and Q/A with graduate students and postdocs about careers in biotech companies.
Jack Stapleton, MD, University of Iowa
Positive strand RNA virus T cell receptor interference: Do mechanisms alter T cell fate?
Sean Whelan, PhD, Washington University
A vesicular stomatitis virus vectored vaccine for SARS-CoV-2
Michael Johnson, PhD, University of Arizona
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Copper II
Peter Crompton, MD, MPH, NIH, Co-hosted with Immunology
Persistent asymptomatic malaria: host control or parasite ploy?
Blanton Tolbert, PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Structural biophysics of RNA interactions that contribute to viral replication
Christopher Basler, PhD, Georgia State University
Novel interactions and functions for filovirus VP30 proteins
Que Dang, PhD, NIAID, NIH
An open discussion and Q/A with graduate students and postdocs only about Science careers at NIH
Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD, University of California - Irvine
Longitudinal immunological profiling reveals determinants of COVID-19 disease severity
Carol Carter, PhD, Stony Brook University
Tsg101 Is Everywhere: Targeting Its Ubiquity* For Antiviral Drug Design
*Pun Intended
Spring 2020
Chester Joyner, PhD, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia
Immunology and Pathogenesis of Relapsing Plasmodium Infections
Roberto Cattaneo, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
The Three Strikes of Measles Virus: Immune System, Airway Epithelium, Brain
Hai-Hui “Howard” Xue, MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa
Ready T Cell Factor One: Chapter II
James Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Comparative Immunogenetics, University of Cambridge
Generalists and specialists: a new view of how MHC molecules work in health and disease
Jonathan Soboloff PhD, Assistant Dean, Faculty Affairs, Professor, Medical Genetics & Molecular Biology, Temple University – Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Role of STIM-dependent Ca2+ signals in T cell activation and differentiation
Laura-Isobel McCall, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
Contextualizing host-microbe interactions using chemical cartography
Neal Hammer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Staphylococcus aureus interactions with host-derived metabolites. CANCELLED
Michael Lorenz, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center
Small things considered: small protein mediators of Candida-host interactions CANCELLED
Dr. Simon Dove, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Co-transcriptional activities of RNA-binding proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa CANCELLED
Noah Butler, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa (ZOOM SEMINAR)
‘Hz’ peasy Plasmodium squeezy: how hemozoin constrains anti-malarial humoral immunity
Dr. Andrew Mehle, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology- University of Wisconsin – Madison
Influenza virus flips the script to convert antiviral factors into proviral effectors CANCELLED
Dominique Limoli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa (ZOOM SEMINAR)
War and Peace: Interspecies bacterial interactions during cystic fibrosis airway infection
Prakash Srinivasan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Malaria pathogenesis and structure-function guided vaccine design CANCELLED
Andrea Sant, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Selective specificities and effector functions of CD4 T cells during protective immune responses to pathogenic organisms CANCELLED
Li Wu, PhD, DEO & Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa (ZOOM SEMINAR)
N6-methyladenosine modification of HIV-1 RNA: a mechanism of viral immune evasion
Patrik Engstrom, PhD - Zoom Seminar
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Moecular and Cell Biology, University of California - Berkeley
Posttranslational modifications at the host-pathogen interface
Carolyn Ibberson, PhD - Zoom Seminar
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biological Sciences - Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Techology
Insights into S. aureus infection physiology through -omics approaches
David Hershey, PhD - Zoom Seminar, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
Mechanical determinants of surface colonization in bacteria
Bradley Jones, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa (ZOOM SEMINAR)
Identification of Streptococcus sanguinis Adherence Factors that contribute to Bacterial Endocarditis
Thomas Burke, PhD - Zoom Seminar
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
Using Rickettsia as tools to investigate innate immunity, microbial pathogenesis, and human disease
Beiyan Nan, PhD - Zoom Seminar
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Texas A & M University
The origin of rod shape in bacteria
Adam Mailloux, PhD, Assistant Faculty Member in the Department of Immunology, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute (ZOOM SEMINAR)
Building the Next Generation of Adoptive T cell Therapy
June-Yong Lee, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University School of Medicine (ZOOM SEMINAR)
From Colitis to Cancer: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Regulation of Pathogenic Th17 Program
Georgios Karagiannis, DVM, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (ZOOM SEMINAR)
Chemotherapy-Induced Metastasis: Mechanistic Underpinnings and Translational Opportunities
Paulus Mrass, MD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico (ZOOM SEMINAR)
Illuminating immune responses by live imaging of inflammatory tissues
Fall 2019
Craig Ellermeier, Ph.D., University of Iowa, Associate Professor of Microbiology
Activation of Lysozyme Resistance in C. difficile
Jason Carlyon, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Anaplasma phagocytophilum cholesterol parasitism: nutritional virulence and a model host-directed therapeutic target.
Britt Glaunsinger, PhD., Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley
Controlling the message: herpesviral manipulation of the gene expression landscape
Matthew Olson, PhD., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Controlling the message: herpesviral manipulation of the gene expression landscape
Jason McLellan, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Structure-based Development of Interventions for Pneumoviruses
Galit Alter, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT & Harvard- CANCELLED
Joanne Engel, MD, PhD, Professor, Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease and Co-Director of the Integrative Microbiology Program, University of California San Francisco
Chlamydia is a Master Cell Biologist: The Secret Life of an Intracellular Pathogen
Xiaohui “Frank” Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Lehigh University
Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Characterization of Cell Adhesion and Viral Receptors
Lijun Rong, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois – Chicago
Small Molecule Entry Inhibitors of Filoviruses: Mechanisms and Therapeutics
Joseph Sodroski, MD, Professor, Departments of Immunology & Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School
Conformational States of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) Envelope Glycoprotein Trimer
Anice Lowen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine
Host Dependence of Influenza A Virus Reassortment and Collective Interactions
Mandy Ford, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Cell-Intrinsic Role of FcgRllB in Regulating CD8+ T Cell Immunity- Co-sponsored with Immunology
Jason Stumhofer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas Medical School Co-sponsored with Immunology
Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Co-sponsored with Immunology
Spring 2019
Gail Bishop, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Iowa
TRAF3 as a multi-faceted regulator of lymphocyte signaling and function
Robyn Klein, MD, PhD, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University
Hitchhiker's Guide to Alphavirus Entry at the BBB
Jerrold Weiss, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Iowa
A novel mechanism in Gram-negative bacteria conferring resistance to a host antibacterial enzyme
CO-SPONSORED BY IMMUNOLOGY, Robert Seder, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD
Intravenous Vaccination as a Paradigm for Inducing Tissue Resident T Cells and Protection Against Malaria, TB and Tumors
Lee-Ann Allen, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Iowa
Mechanisms and consequences of H. pylori-induced neutrophil plasticity
Petra Levin, PhD, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Bacteria versus the environment: growth, size, antibiotic tolerance & resistance
PULVERMACHER SEMINAR, Nina Salama, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Staying in shape: bacterial cytoskeleton-cell wall interactions in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori
Noah Butler, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Iowa
Regulatory circuits that constrain durable immunity against malaria
CO-SPONSORED BY IMMUNOLOGY, Maggie Feeney, MD, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of California, San Francisco
Immunity and Tolerance: The T cell Response to Human Malaria
Ellen Rothenberg, PhD, Professor of Biology, Caltech Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
Decoding the genomic regulatory program for T-cell commitment
Sam Campos, PhD, Associate Professor, Immunology, University of Arizona
Taking the STING out of persistent HPV infections
Frank Maldarelli, MD, PhD, NIH Center for Cancer Research, Head, Clinical Retrovirology Section
Transmission Dynamics of the Early HIV Epidemic in Washington D.C. and Beyond
Co-Sponsored by Immunology - Michaela Gack, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Interferon and TRIM-mediated antiviraldefense mechanisms
Michael Selsted, MD, PhD, Chair & Professor of Pathology, University of Southern California
Bioinspired immunomodulating peptides from Old World Monkeys: biology and therapeutic possibilities
Fall 2018
Jon Houtman, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Iowa
Effects of Glycerol Monolaurate on Human T Cell Activation
Yi Zhang, MD, PhD, Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Temple University
EZH2 Maintenance of Memory T Cell Precursors: Toward Clinical Translation
Sonja Best, PhD, Chief, Innate Immunity & Pathogenesis - Unit Rocky Mountain Labs, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Beyond retroviruses: Restriction of flavivirus replication by primate TRIM5α
APICELLA LECTURE - Steve Beverley, PhD, Chair of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, St. Louis
Origins and contributions of endogenous protozoal viruses to parasite virulence
Francis Impens, PhD, VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
Proteomics technologies to study host-bacteria interactions
Mandy Oglesby-Sherrouse, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland
Small RNA Regulation of Iron Homeostasis, Virulence, and Polymicrobial Interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Michael Franklin, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Montana State University, Center for Biofilm Engineering
Dormancy and Ribosome Hibernation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm cells
Robert Cramer, Jr, PhD, Assistant Professor of Fungal Pathogenesis, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Oxygen Stress Responses and Invasive Fungal Infection Disease Progression Mechanisms
Michael Mcheyzer-Williams, PhD, Professor, Department of Immunology & Microbiology, Scripps Research Institute
Deconstructing B cell memory one cell at a time
CO-SPONSORED BY IMMUNOLOGY - Jacob Kohlmeier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
The Rise and Fall of Lung Resident T cell Memory
Ira Blader, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University at Buffalo School of Medicine
Toxoplasma Infections of the Brain: Growth and Consequences
Phil Pellett, PhD. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, Wayne State University
Virus-host interactions: remodeling of secretory and endosomal systems by human cytomegalovirus
Patrick Sinn, PhD, Associate Research Professor of Pediatrics - Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, University of Iowa
Measles virus infection and spread in human airway cells
Spring 2018
Damian Krysan, Director Of the Division of Infectious Disease in Pediatrics, University of Iowa
Antifungal Drug Discover in the Academic Setting
Imtiaz Khan, George Washington University
CD8 T cell functionality during chronic toxoplasmosis: Role of CD4 help
Alexis Kalergis, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus
Paul Friesen, University of Wiscosin, Madison, WI
A novel mechanism by which DNA virus manipulates the host DNA dage response to promote remarkable replication
Richard Kuhn, Purdue Institute
Dengue and Zika viruses have a hard time growing up
Christine Peterson, University of Iowa
What's worse than Leishmania infantum infection? Infection with L. infantum and tick-borne pathogens!
Keun Seok Seo, Mississippi State University
Molecular Mechanism of Immunosuppression Induced by Superantigens
Ashraful Haque, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Brisbane, Australia
Using single-cell genomics, mathematical and computational modelling to examine host-parasite interactions in experimental malaria
Andrew Camilli, Tufts University, School of Medicine
Impact of Phages on Cholera and Development of Two Preventatives
Virginia Shapiro, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY
Regulation of T cell Development, Lineage Commitment and Maturation by HDAC3
Elina Zuniga, University of California - San Diego
Immune Adaptations During Chronic Viral Infection
Ileana Cristea, Princeton University
Dynamic proteome organization and host defense during herpesvirus infection
Fall 2017
Noah Butler, University of Iowa - Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Th1-like Plasmodium-specific memory CD4+ T cells unexpectedly support humoral immunity
Joe Sorg, Texas A & M
Dissecting the mechanism of Clostridium difficile spore germination
Laura Haynes, UConn Health (Co-sponsored with Immunology)
How aging impacts the response to influenza infection
Barbara Kazmierczak, Yale University
Should I stay or should I go?: "Virulence regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Kevin McIver, University of Maryland
Defining Group A Streptococcal Fitness Determinants Within In Vivo Environments
Ken Stedman, Portland State University
Viruses from Hell
Carolina Lopez, University of Pennsylvania (Co=sponsored with Immunology)
Lung infections; anti-viral immune responses
Imtiaz Khan, George Washington University (Cancelled - rescheduled Spring 18)
Shannon Kenney,University of Wisconsin - Madison
Epstein Barr Virus (EBV)
Tajie Harris, University of Virginia
Brain infections with Toxoplasma parasites
Jeffrey Gordon, MD, Washington University in St. Louis (Irving Crawford Lecture)
Gut microbiome
Kim Orth, U of TX, Southwestern Med. Ctr.
Getting in and getting out: A vibrio invasion
Walther Mothes, Yale School of Medicine
HIV-1 entry and neutralization
Spring 2017
Pete Chandrngsu, Cornell University (faculty candidiate)
Zinc-ing responsibly: Novel insights into zinc homeostasis and intoxication in Bacillus subtilis
Mark Weber, National Institute of Health (NIH) (faculty candidate)
Chlamydia Inc.: The business of hijacking the host
Lilliana Radoshevich (faculty candidate)
Linking ISG15 to the ER: Lessons from Listeria infection
Hongbaek Cho, Harvard University (faculty candidate)
New lesson from classic antibiotics: learning and exploiting the lethal mechanism of beta-lectam antibiotics
Stephanie Shames, Yale University, (faculty candidate)
Identification of novel Legionella pneumophila effector phenotypes using high-throughout analysis of targeted mutant libraries
Matt Evans, Department of Microbiology, Mr. Sinai
Deep insertional mutagenesis of the Zika virus genome
Peter A. Jorth, California Institute of Technology, (faculty candidate)
Regional isolation drives bacterial diversification during chronic cystic fibrosis infections
John McCormick, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Western University, Ontario, Canada
Streptococcus pyogenes: Human pathogen or 'super' commensal
Jonathan Lai, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Protein engineering strategies for the development of viral immunotherapies & vaccines
Sarah Gaffen, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Oh to be seventeen again: IL-17 receptor signaling in fungal immunity and autoimmune disease
Sang-Moo Kang, Center for Inflammation Immunity & Infection, Georgia State University (Co-sponsored with Immunology)
"Vaccines against respiratory viruses and adjuvants"
Ronald Breaker, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University
"Riboswitches: Nature's chemical sensors and switches made of RNA"
Hui Hu, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama
Tfh cell differentiation and Tfh help to GC responses
Barney Graham, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Health (NIH)
RSV Vaccine Development: A Paradigm for Structure-Based Vaccine Design
Special Microbiology Seminar: Robert Faris, PhD, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIH/NIAID
Prions and mitochondrial dysfunction: consequence or coincidence?
Tuli Mukhopadhyay, Department of Biology, Indiana University
The tale of TF in Alphavirus assembly: What does it do?
Fall 2016
David Weiss, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Using fluorescemt proteins to illuminate bacterial cell division and pathogenesis
Chioma Okeoma, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
BST-2 at the nexus of viral pathogenesis and cancer
Marvin Whiteley, Department of Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin
The role of community composition and biogeography in polymicrobial infection
Andrew Goodman, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University
Microbiome offense and defense
Hongbo Chi, Immunology Department, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
mTOR signaling and metabolic control of T cell fate decisions
Aloysius J. Klingelhutz, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Why immortalize fat cells? Uncovering the roles of toxins in adipose dysfunction and type II diabetes
Andreas Bäumler, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine
The pyromaniac inside you: salmonella metabolism in the host gut
Hai-Hui Xue, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Choice and fidelity for a T lymphocyte
Jason Barker, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
Lipopolysaccharide structural heterogeneity and the host-pathogen interface
Judith White, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia
Mechanism and inhibition of ebolavirus entry
Vladimir Badovinac, Department of Pathology & Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa
Impact of polymicrobial sepsis on CD8 T cell immunity
Lee-Ann H. Allen, Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, University of Iowa
Neutrophil plasticity in Helicobacter pylori infection
Joanna B. Goldberg, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Pseudomonas aeruginosa EF-Tu Trimethylation and Pathogenesis
Katherine L. Knight, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago
Anti-inflammatory effect of commensal-derived exopolysaccharide
Tim Hoover, Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens
Control of flagellum biogenesis in Helicobacter pylori
Spring 2016
Andres Vazquez-Torres, Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Antioxidant defenses of thioredoxin independent of canonical thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase enzymatic activity
Hillel Haim, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Identifying the order that underlies randomness in HIV-1 evolution at the patient and population level
Susan Hafenstein, Professor of Medicine & Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine
Transformative advance in cryo-EM used to explore virus-host interactions
Aimee Shen, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont
Clostridium difficile spore formation and germination
Samantha King, Pediatrics, Ohio State University
Streptococcus oralis utilizes a novel mechanism of sequential adherence to host glycans
Rita Tamayo, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina
Regulation of flagellum and cytotoxin biosynthesis in Clostridium difficile
Heather Allen, Research Microbiologist at USDA-ARS
Collateral effects of antibiotics on the swine gut microbiota
Christopher Snyder, Thomas Jefferson University
Co-sponsored with Immmunology (T cell responses against persistent viral infections)
Ian Hewson, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
The sea star microbiome orchestra: Old players on a new stage
Susan K. Pierce, PhD, Chief, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIH/NIAID
The immune response to malaria: What malaria knows about the immune system that Immunologists don't
Thomas Gallagher, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Loyola University Chicago
MERS Coronavirus - Cell Entry
Fall 2015
John V. Williams, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Why Pulmonary CD8 T Cells Won't Fight, Fight, Fight for Iowa
Blaise R. Boles, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Fold modulating function: Functional amyloids produced by Staphylococcus aureus
Dorian McGavern, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Real-time insights into the regulation of sterile vs. antimicrobial CNS immunity
Christopher Waters, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Cyclic di-GMP: A global regulatory maestro that orchestrates the adaptation of bacteria to changing environments
Melissa B. Lodoen, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine
Host-Parasite Interactions, Immunity, and Pathogenesis
Moriah L. Szpara, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University
Variability, adaptation, and evolution in alpha-herpesviruses
Matthew Wargo, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont
Pseudomonas detection of host-derived amines using a particular sub-family of AraC-like regulators
Alexander R. Horswill, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The social life of Staphylococci
Catharine Bosio, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Building a Better Mousetrap: Using Classic Immunology to Develop Effective Tularemia Vaccines
Katherine P. Lemon, The Forsyth Institute
Nose Picking for Progress: Mining the Nasal Microbiome for New Insights into Pathobionts
Elsa Bou Ghanem, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine
The role of neutrophils and extracellular adenosine in shaping host resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae lung infection
Drew Kitchen, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Evolutionary genetics reveal the shared history of humans and our parasites and pathogens
Mishtu Dey, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa
Structural enzymology of mononuclear non-heme iron enzymes
Elsa Bou Ghanem, Molecular Microbiology Program, Tufts University
The role of neutrophils and extracellular adenosine in shaping host resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae lung infection
Qi Yang, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Development and function of innate lymphoid cells
Aaron G. Schmidt, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Immuno-viral archaeology: Uncovering history of antigen exposure and mechanisms of antibody affinity maturation
Spring 2015
George Dimopoulos, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University
The mosquito microbiota in disease transmission
Margaret Kielian, Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Enveloped virus entry: Mechanisms and regulation of membrane fusion
Tom Bobik, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Iowa State University
Bacterial microcompartments, widespread prokaryotic organelles for metabolic optimization
Victor J. DiRita, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan
Campylobacter colonization mechanisms in a natural host model
Shaden Kamhawi, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
The influence of vector-derived factors on Leishmania transmission and disease progression
Kevin B. Urdahl, Department of Immunology, University of Washington
Understanding and overcoming the barriers to T cell mediated immunity against tuberculosis
Ilya V. Frolov, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama Birmingham
Let's make our knowledge of virus-host interactions useful. Engineering of alphaviruses with programmed phenotypes
Pradeep Singh, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington
Regional lung evolution produces bacterial diversity during cystic fibrosis infections
Martin L. Moore, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Interaction of the respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein with epidermal growth factor receptor
Thomas J. Braciale, Department of Pathology, University of Virginia
Dendritic cells and the control of antiviral effector and memory T cell responses during respiratory virus infection
Steve Melville, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Looking at Type IV pili at the cellular and atomic level
Lauren O. Bakaletz, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Extracellular DNA-associated DNABII proteins as a target for disruption of biofilms formed by nontypeableHaemophilus influenzae
Fall 2014
Robin G. Lorenz, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama Birmingham
The role of p-glycoprotein in intestinal inflammation
Guido Silvestri, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University
Target cell restriction in AIDS pathogenesis and eradication
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University
Multiple Glycoprotein Functions of a Deadly CONTAGION: Nipah Virus
Steven M. Varga, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Consequences of CD8 T Cell Memory to RSV
E. Peter Greenberg, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington
Microbial social engineering: Control of cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Gregory A. Smith, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University
Alphaherpesviruses in the spotlight: a neuroinvasive nanomachine in action
Matthew C. Wolfgang, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina
Reciprocal regulation of cyclic AMP signaling drives acute and chronic virulence phenotypes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Zuoan Yi, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The regulation of T cells in specialized tissue microenvironments
M. Suresh, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin
Signaling and Transcriptional Basis of T-Cell Memory
Ann M. Stock, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University
Insights into Two-Component System Architecture from Phosphorylation Profiling: Enough is Enough
Hilde Cheroutre, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Mucosal T cells: Same Players Different Strategies
Joseph Dillard, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin
Breaking down the wall: Peptidoglycan degradation and the pathogenesis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Wendy Maury, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The Role of TIM Proteins in Ebola Virus Infection
Gabriel Nunez, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan
Linking Pathogen Virulence, the Microbiota and Immunity
Spring 2014
Pamela Hall, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of New Mexico
Pharmacological disruption of agr quorum sensing in Staphylococcus aureus protects against skin and soft tissue infection
David Weiss, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University
CRISPR/Cas-mediated endogenous gene regulation is required for bacterial innate immune evasion
Kim Lewis, Department of Biology, Northeastern University
Persisters and the quest for a biofilm-sterilizing antibiotic
Christine Petersen, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa
Lessons from a Tropical Disease in the Midwest
Jenny Gumperz, Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Linking NKT cells to Inflammation
Shan-Lu Liu, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, University of Missouri
New Cellular Factors Modulating Viral Infections
S. Celeste Morley, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
Immunodeficiency as a movement disorder: impaired immunity in mice deficient for L-plastin
Robert Schleif, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
The Bottom Line on the Regulatory Protein AraC (240 Person-years of work)
Dennis W. Metzger, Center for Immunology & Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College
Influenza and Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Mechanisms
George A. O'Toole, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
To Build a Biofilm
Daniel Zurawski, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Defining an appropriate strain and developing animal models to study Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis and novel antimicrobials
Ekaterina Heldwein, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University
Herpesviruses on the way out: what structures and biophysics can tell us
Fall 2013
John Kirby, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Chemosensory regulation of microbial communities
William Goldman, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina
The Progression of Pneumonic Plague
Craig Ellermeier, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
A Bacterial Receptor for Lysozyme Controls σ Factor Activation and Lysozyme Resistance
Wilmara Salgado-Pabón, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Molecular Pathogenesis of Staphylococcal Infective Endocarditis
Steven McElroy, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa
Untangling the Role of Bacteria in Development of Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Keji Zhao, Laboratory of Epigenome Biology, National Heart Lung & Blood Institute
Epigenetic regulation of T cell differentiation
Erhard Bremer, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology, University of Marburg, Germany
The big fight of a small bacterium with osmotic challenges - cellular stress responses to a ubiquitous cue
Peter Crompton, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Unraveling the Mechanisms of Naturally-Acquired Immunity to Malaria
Felipe Diaz-Griffero, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Innate immunity against HIV-1
David Farrar, Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Interfering with allergic diseases
Douglas B. Weibel, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin
Studying bacterial cell division and chromosome segregation using small molecules
Carol Duffy, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama
Don't kill the messenger! Does the HSV-1 VP22 protein promote translation by preventing mRNA cleavage by a viral nuclease?
Blaise Boles, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
Bacterial Functional Amyloids
Jyoti Misra Sen, Immune Cells and Inflammation Section, National Institute on Aging
T cell factor-1 regulated T cell development and function
Kartik Chandran, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The lysosomal transporter Niemann-Pick C1 is a critical intracellular receptor for Ebola virus
Donna Farber, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center
Tissue compartmentalization of T cell responses in mice and man
Spring 2013
Keith Jarosinski, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Herpesvirus-induced oncogenesis and transmission
Shelley M. Payne, University of Texas at Austin
Shigella pathogenesis: Life in the intracellular environment
Michael Schmidt, Medical University of South Carolina
Bacteria, Burden and Bundles: How Copper Surfaces Enhance Patient Safety
John Butler, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
B cell and repertoire development in swine: a challenge of current paradigms
Daniel C. DiMaio, Yale University
Traptamers: artificial transmembrane proteins that inhibit HIV
John-Demian Sauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The role of inflammasome activation in the induction of cell mediated immunity
Morgan Huse, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Lipid-based patterning of the cytoskeleton at the immunological synapse
Arturo Casadevall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University
Thoughts on the origin of microbial virulence
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi, National Cancer Institute
Morphogenesis of large structures during development
Stokes Peebles, Vanderbilt University
IL-13 modulation of Th17 cytokine responses
Michael S. Diamond, Washington University in St. Louis
New insights into innate and adaptive immune responses against flaviviruses and alphaviruses
Fall 2012
Timothy L. Yahr, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The Pseuomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system: to be on or not to be on, that is the question
Mark R. Denison, Vanderbilt University
Coronavirus RNA proofreading: a novel determinant of evolution, replication, and pathogenesis
Craig D. Ellermeier, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Activation of ECF sigma factors in response to cell envelope stress in Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium difficile
Valley Stewart, University of California, Davis
Transmitter phosphatase control of two-component signal transduction
Jeffrey Rathmell, Duke University
Lymphocyte metabolism in immunity and leukemia
Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Pathogenesis of RNA viruses: Fat mice and a viral enterotoxin
William Shafer, Emory University
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance expressed by Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Implications for pathogenesis
Dennis E. Ohman, Virginia Commonwealth University
All Stressed Out: Adaptation of a Stress Response System in Pseudomonas for Pathogenesis in Cystic Fibrosis
Victor J. Torres, New York University Langone Medical Center
Staphylococcus aureus bi-component toxins: pore-forming toxins involved in the disarmament of the host surveillance system
Thomas G. Bernhardt, Harvard Medical School
The ABCs of bacterial cell division
Carolyn Hovde Bohach, University of Idaho
Cattle: The silent reservoir of E. coli O157:H7
Allan Zajac, University of Alabama Birmingham
Tuning CD8 T cell responses
Tammy L. Kielian, University of Nebraska Medical Center
S. aureus biofilms: identifying mechanisms of immune evasion and strategies for therapeutic intervention
Patrick M. Schlievert, PhD, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Glycerol Monolaurate-Coenzyme Q Based Formations as Topical Microbicides