Fall 2023 Seminars

The Fall seminar schedule will be in-person in room 2268 or via Zoom (if noted)

Date	Seminar Schedule, Fall 2023 Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology School of Medicine, WSU 11:30 am - 12:25 pm
08/29/23	MARGHERIO FAMILY CONFERENCE CENTER Speaker: Dr. John Powderly, Founder, Carolina BioOncology Institute Title: “Cancer: Public Enemy #1 and How Adaptive Autologous Cellular Immunotherapy will Cure it” Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang
09/05/23	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
09/12/23	NO SEMINAR
09/19/23	Speaker: Dr. Jim Lu, MD, Ph.D. Founder, CEO, and Medical Director for GoPath Laboratories Title: "From Pathology to Immunology and Beyond" Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang
09//26/23	Speaker: Dr. Duxin Sun, Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, Univ. of Michigan Title: "Why 90% of drug development fails and how to improve this?" Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari
09/29/23	FRIDAY BMI RETREAT (IN-PERSON)
10/03/23	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
10/10/23	Speaker: Dr. Tsan Sam Xiao, Professor, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University Title: "Fire Management: Activation and Regulation of Gasdermin" Host: Dr. Yuan He
10/17/23	FALL BREAK - NO SEMINAR
10/24/23	ZOOM SEMINAR Speaker: Dr. Timothy Hand, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, and Director of Univ. of Pittsburgh Gnotobiotic Core, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh Title: "Inter-generational Adaptive Immunity Against the Intestinal Microbiota" Host: Bhavita Bhaya for the Microbiology and Immunology students
10/31/23	Speaker: Dr. Margaret Petroff, Professor and Associate Chair, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University Title: "Knocking the AIRE out of Fertility: Central Immune Tolerance and Reproduction" Host: Bhavita Bhaya for the Microbiology and Immunology students
11/07/23	BMI (also of interest to IFG) Speaker: Dr. Hasan Korkaya, Associate Professor, Oncology & Co-Leader of the TMB program at KCI, WSU Title: "Immune Suppressive Myeloid Cells in Breast Cancer Tumor Microenvironment and Pre-metastatic Niches" Host: Dr. Eric Sebzda
11/14/23	Rescheduled from Winter, 2023 Speaker: Dr. Hanaa Hariri, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, WSU Title: "New pathways for metabolic organization at organelle contact sites" Host: Dr. Bharati Mitra
11/21/23	THANKSGIVING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
11/28/23	Speaker: Dr. Nat Moorman, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Univ. of North Carolina Title: READDI for the Next Pandemic Host: Dr. Ladislau Kovari
12/05/23	IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP
12/12/23	Speaker: Dr. Marta Gaglia, Associate Professor, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Hijacking the Host: Viral Mechanisms to Control Gene Expression and Anti-viral Responses Host: Dr. Philip Pellett
	December 11, 2023: LAST DAY OF CLASSES December 12, 2023: STUDY DAY December 13-19, 2023: FINAL EXAMS