Seminars

The Winter seminar schedule will be in-person in room 2268 or via Zoom (if noted) (in-person seminars will not have a Zoom option)

Date

Seminar Schedule, Winter 2024
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology
School of Medicine, WSU
11:30 am - 12:25 pm

1/09/2024

Immunology Focus Group

1/16/2024

ZOOM SEMINAR. 3 PM EST. NOTE CHANGE IN TIME!!!

Speaker: Dr. Maureen O’Malley, Sydney, Australia
Title: The Concept of Balance in Microbiome Research
Host: Dr. Matthew Jackson

1/23/2024 Speaker: Dr. Chelsey Spriggs, Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, and Cell & Developmental Biology, U-M Medical School, Univ. of Michigan 
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Phil Pellett
1/30/2024

ZOOM SEMINAR

Speaker: Dr. Briana Bibel, Visiting Professor of Biochemistry, St.Mary’s College of California
Title: Developing and Teaching a Biochemical Intuition
Host: BMB graduate students

2/6/2024

IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP

Speaker: Dr. Katie Kokolus
Title: Chemokine Modulation as an aPD-1 Sensitizing Strategy
Host: Jennifer Jacob, PhD, Oncology

2/13/2024

Speaker: Dr. Denise Kirschner, Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School 
Title: A Systems Biology Approach to Understanding the Immunobiology of Tuberculosis Infection and Treatment
Host: Bhavita Bhaya and Microbiology and Immunology students

2/20/2024

Speaker: Dr. Roger Lippe, University of Montreal 
Title: TBA
Host: Pellett lab and Taylor Vensko

2/27/2024

Speaker: Dr. Chelsey Spriggs, Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, and Cell & Developmental Biology, U-M Medical School, Univ. of Michigan 
Title: Deciphering the Mechanisms of DNA Viral Entry
Host: Dr. Philip Pellett

3/5/2024

IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP

Speaker: Alex Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Title: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Tumor-Immune Crosstalk Leading to Clinical Translation Opportunities
Host: Dr. Jennifer Jacob and Dr. Wei-Zen Wei

3/12/2024 SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR
3/19/2024 Speaker: Dr. Charles Ofria, Michigan State University
Title: The Theory and Practice of Digital Evolution: Biological Complexity, Artificial Intelligence, and Evolutionary Medicine Host: Dr. Kevin Theis
3/26/2024

Zoom Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Hu Ying Shen, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, Texas
Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Sporadic Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections
Host: Dr. Li Li

4/2/2024

IMMUNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP

Speaker: Dr. Dohun Pyeon
Title: Human Papillomavirus-Driven Cancer Immune Evasion in Head and Neck Cancer
Host: Dr. Jennifer Jacob

4/9/2024

Speaker: Dr. Jason Perry, Gilead Sciences
Title: TBA
Host: BMB graduate students

4/16/2024

Speaker: Dr. Richard Pilsner, Obstetrics and Gynecology, WSU School of Medicine
Title: TBA
Host: BMB Graduate Students

4/23/2024

Speaker: Dr. Britney Winterberger, Senior Project Director, International Business Unit of Innovative Drugs, Tigermed America LLC., Colorado
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Jianjun Wang

4/30/2024

Speaker: Dr. Karl Klose, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas at San Antonio 
Title: TBA
Host: Ravipaul Singh and Dr. Jeff Withey

 

April 22, 2024 LAST DAY OF CLASSES

April 23, 2024 STUDY DAY

April 24 – April 30, 2024 FINAL EXAMS


View our previous seminars.

View our previous and current Orten Lectures.

View our previous and current Vera Fay Righthand Seminars.