Fall 2017 Seminars

12-19-2017- Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Dr. Min Wu, M.D. Professor of Immunology & Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of North Dakota
Title: Can non-coding RNA's Regulate Inflammation in Bacterial Infection
Host: Dr. Harley Tse

12-12-2017           
Speaker: John Guatelli, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Title:"How HIV-1 Vpu and Nef Co-op Endosomal Trafficking Pathways to Evade Host Immunity."
Host: Dr. Raghavendar Thipparthi

11-28-2017 - Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Wook-Jin Chae, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine
Title: Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1): A new immunomodulator of inflammatory diseases.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse     

11-14-2017         
Speaker: Yuru Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago,
College of Medicine
Title: Regulation of alveolar type II Cells in in the repair of lung injury.           
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang 

10-31-2017 -Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Heather M. Gibson, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Title: Genetic Linkage analysis and immunoPET imaging to identify regulators of immunotherapy response.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse   

10-17-2017 - Faculty Candidate
Speaker: Eric Sebzda, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. Division of Molecular Pathogenisis, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr, Nashville, TN.
Title: Targeting immune regulators to treat autoimmunity and cancer.
Host: Dr. Harley Tse   

10-10-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
Speaker:  Shari Pilon-Thomas, Ph.D., Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
Title: Adoptive Cell Therapy with Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Host: Wei-Zen Wei, PhD

10-03-2017 - Orten Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Michael Levin, Professor, Vannevar Bush Chair
Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems           
Title: Rewriting bioelectrical pattern memories for the control of growth and form: exploiting somatic primitive cognition for regenerative medicine.
Host: BMI graduate students and Dr. Domenico Gatti

9-26-2017           
Speaker:David Crich, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, WSU
Title:  "Shaping Next Generation Aminoglycoside Antibiotics for Treatment of Multidrug Resistant Diseases.
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

9-12-2017           
Speaker:Joseph Brunzelle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team, Argonne, IL
Title:"Structural Biology and LS-CAT at the Advanced Photon Source."
Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari

9-05-2017 - IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
Speaker: Xiaoping Zhong, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University
Title: Signal control of invariant T cell development and function
Host: Dr. Qing-Sheng Mi, Henry Ford Health System