Thursday, October 19, 2023
| Dr. Li Qiang | Associate Professor, Department of Medicine,
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University |
| Seminar Title: | “Deciphering the decline of metabolic elasticity in aging and obesity” |
| Host: | Dr. Beiyan Zhou |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, September 14, 2023
| Dr. Isaac Chiu | Associate Professor, Department of Immunology
Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School |
| Seminar Title: | “Pain and nociception in barrier tissue immunity and host defense” |
| Host: | Skylar Wright, GSIV, MD/PhD Program |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, May 11, 2023
| Dr. Feng Shao | Investigator and Deputy Director
National Institute of Biological Sciences – Beijing, China |
| Seminar Title: | “Activation of antitumor immunity by bacteria-derived signals: Pyroptosis & beyond” |
| Host: | Dr. Jianbin Ruan |
| Time: | 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 27, 2023
| Dr. Linda Cauley | UConn Health
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology |
| Seminar Title: | “How cytotoxic T lymphocytes stalk their prey” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 20, 2023
| Dr. Min Dong | Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School Associate Professor |
| Seminar Title: | “C. difficile toxin B receptors and intragenic-recombination-driven diversification” |
| Host: | Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 23, 2023
| Dr. Qing Deng | Purdue University
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences |
| Seminar Title: | “Engineering Chimeric Antigen Receptor Neutrophils for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy” |
| Host: | Dr. Zhichao Fan |
| Time: | 1:00-2:00 pm |
| Location | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, November 17, 2022
| Dr. Cammie Lesser | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Medicine (Microbiology) |
| Seminar Title: | “Bacterial delivery systems from agents of pathogenesis to vectors for novel therapeutics” |
| Host: | Dr. Vijay Rathinam |
| Time: | 1:00-2:00 pm |
| Location | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, November 3, 2022
| Dr. Beiyan Zhou | Department of Immunology – UConn Health |
| Seminar Title: | “Developing Novel Computational Strategies to Capture Macrophage Actions” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, October 20, 2022
| Dr. Howard L. Kaufman | Harvard University
Clinical Associate, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Oncology Associate, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary Lecturer in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| Seminar Title: | “Oncolytic Viruses for the Treatment of Cancer” |
| Host: | Dr. Kepeng Wang |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, October 6, 2022
| Dr. Emanuela M. Bruscia | Department of Pediatrics – Yale University School of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Monocyte-derived macrophages drive lung tissue remodeling in cystic fibrosis” |
| Host: | Dr. Zhichao Fan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, September 8, 2022
| Dr. Pei-Yong Shi | University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston |
| Seminar Title: | “SARS-CoV-2 Biology and Countermeasure Development” |
| Host: | Dr. Penghua Wang |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
| Dr. Trude Helen Flo | Centre of Excellence in Molecular Inflammation Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Seminar Title: | “Host-cell killing by Mycobacterium tuberculosis” |
| Host: | Dr. Vijay Rathinam |
| Time: | 10:30 am |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Kimberly Young – kyoung@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 21, 2022
| Dr. Tsan Sam Xiao | Department of Pathology – Case Western Reserve University |
| Seminar Title: | “Catching Fire: Inflammatory Responses Mediated by Caspases and Gasdermins” |
| Host: | Dr. Jianbin Ruan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Kimberly Young – kyoung@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 7, 2022
| Dr. Manuela Raffatellu | Department of Pediatrics – University of California, San Diego |
| Seminar Title: | “Mucosal Immunity during Salmonella Infection” |
| Host: | Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja |
| Time: | 1:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Kimberly Young – kyoung@uchc.edu |
Thursday, September 9, 2021
| Dr. Louise D’Cruz | Department of Immunology – University of Pittsburgh |
| Seminar Title: | “Adipose Tissue Resident Tregs: Friend of Foe in Obesity?” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 12:00 pm |
| Location: | Webex & by Invitation due to safe social distancing |
| Contact: | Kimberly Young – kyoung@uchc.edu |