Thursday, June 5, 2025
| Dr. Saumendra N. Sarkar | Professor, Program in Oncology
Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Specialized function of Interferon-stimulated genes during infection and cancer” |
| Host: | Dr. Vijay Rathinam |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 24, 2025
| Dr. Keith Syson Chan | Professor and Director, Translational Research at Methodist Urology
Program Lead, Innovative Therapeutics at Neal Cancer Center Houston Methodist Research Institute |
| Seminar Title: | “Exploiting cell death-induced biology for maximizing immunogenicity and therapy response” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson- anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 10, 2025
| Dr. Nandini Acharya | Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology,
Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology |
| Seminar Title: | “Nociceptors: Drivers of Immune Suppression in Glioblastoma” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson- anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 3, 2025
| Dr. Robert Binder | Professor of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh |
| Seminar Title: | “Fundamental Pathways in Immunosurveillance of Cancer” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson- anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 27, 2025
| Dr. Ronen Sumagin | Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine, Lurie Cancer Center |
| Seminar Title: | “Neutrophils trafficking and function in inflammation and cancer” |
| Host: | Dr. Zhichao Fan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 13, 2025
| Dr. Maureen Cox | Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
| Seminar Title: | “Neuronal control of immune functions in the lymph node” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson- anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 6, 2025
| Dr. Dongsheng Cai | Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Director, Einstein Institute for Neuroimmunology and Inflammation Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Hypothalamic immune signaling and aging” |
| Host: | Dr. Beiyan Zhou |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, November 21, 2024
| Dr. Peter Cresswell | Professor of Immunobiology
Yale School of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Adaptations of the MHC class I processing pathway in bats” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson – anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, November 7, 2024
| Dr. Hongyuan R. Yang | Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Seminar Title: | “The trafficking and storage of lipids in human diseases” |
| Host: | Dr. Penghua Wang |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, October 24, 2024
| Dr. Xue Sean Li | Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center
Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences |
| Seminar Title: | “The Biology of Sex and Cancer” |
| Host: | Dr. Jianbin Ruan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, September 12, 2024
| Dr. Thomas S. Griffith | Professor, Department of Urology, University of Minnesota |
| Seminar Title: | “Investigating sepsis-induced immune dysfunction” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, July 25, 2024
| Jixi Li, Ph.D. | Professor, School of Life Science, Fudan University, China |
| Seminar Title: | “Targeting programmed cell death to regulate inflammatory diseases” |
| Host: | Dr. Jianbin Ruan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Solkoske – solkoske@uchc.edu |
Thursday, June 6, 2024
| Sasan Jalili, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “From Microfluidics to Macrofluidics: Engineering tools to interrogate the host immunity, microbiome and their crosstalk” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, May 30, 2024
| Dr. Jill E. Slansky | Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “T cell responses to self/tumor antigens” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson – anderson@uchc.edu
Chelsie Bergstrom- cbergstrom@uchc.edu |
Thursday, May 9, 2024
| Kodi Ravichandran, BVSc, PhD | Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Chief, Division of Immunobiology Department of Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Eating a good apoptotic meal: Lessons from phagocytes” |
| Host: | Dr. Vijay Rathinam |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, April 11, 2024
| John MacMicking, Ph.D. | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Professor, Departments of Microbial Pathogenesis and of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Yale Systems Biology Institute |
| Seminar Title: | “Host Cell Defense: New Nanomachines for Immunity to Infection” |
| Host: | Dr. Jianbin Ruan |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 28, 2024
| Silke Paust, Ph.D. | Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine |
| Seminar Title: | “Influenza Virus Immunity and Immunotherapy” |
| Host: | Dr. Anthony Vella |
| Time: | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 21, 2024
| Xiu-Feng Henry Wan, Ph.D. | Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine
University of Missouri |
| Seminar Title: | “Impact of antigenic variation in vaccine components on effectiveness of repeated influenza vaccination” |
| Host: | Dr. Penghua Wang, Associate Professor |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, March 7, 2024
| Richard G. Vile, Ph.D. | Professor of Immunology, Director, Gene and Virus Therapy Program,
Director, Immuno-oncology Program Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN |
| Seminar Title: | “Oncolytic Viruses in Cancer Immunotherapy: Delivering Heat or Distraction?” |
| Host: | Dr. Kepeng Wang, Assistant Professor |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, December 14, 2023
| Dr. Anita S. Chong | Professor of Surgery
University of Chicago, Department of Surgery |
| Seminar Title: | “Resolving allogeneic conflict in transplantation and pregnancy” |
| Host: | Dr. Pramod K. Srivastava |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Patricia Anderson – anderson@uchc.edu |
Thursday, December 7, 2023
| Dr. Frank Menniti | Chief Science Officer, MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. Ryan Research Professor of Neuroscience, Ryan Institute for Neuroscience Adjunct Professor of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island |
| Seminar Title: | “Dendritic cell recruitment in Alzheimer’s disease” |
| Host: | Dr. Stefan Brocke |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
Thursday, November 30, 2023
| Dr. Ivan Zanoni | Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Childrens Hospital in Field of Immunology Harvard Medical School Research Faculty, Division of Immunology, Division of Gastroenterology Boston Children’s Hospital |
| Seminar Title: | “Innate immunity controls inflammation” |
| Host: | Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja |
| Time: | 1:00 – 2:00 pm |
| Location: | Low Learning Center |
| Contact: | Julie Michaud – jumichaud@uchc.edu |
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 |