Fall 2025 Seminars

9/10/2025 – MIC Seminar – Nikolay Dokholyan, PhD “NanoComputing Agents:  Hacking Cellular Behavior”

Nikolay V. Dokholyan, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

9/17/2025 – MIC Seminar: Keith Ireton, PhD “Manipulation of host cytoskeletal and membrane trafficking pathways by bacterial pathogens”

Keith Ireton, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Otago, NZ

9/24/2025 – MIC Seminar: Elizabeth White, PhD “Mechanisms of HPV-mediated carcinogenesis”

Elizabeth White, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Developmental, Molecular, and Chemical Biology
Tufts University School of Medicine

Host: Anna Cliffe, PhD
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

10/1/2025 – MIC Seminar: Nicole S. Maloney, MD, PhD “TBD”

Nicole S. Maloney, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Host: Graduate Students
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

10/8/2025 – MIC Seminar: Shwetal Metha, PhD “Mechanistic Insights into Drug Resistance and Therapeutic Response in Brain Cancer”

Shwetal Mehta, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute

Host: Roger Abounader, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

THU 10/16/2025 – MIC Seminar: Eric J. Wagner, PhD

Eric J. Wagner, PhD
Professor – Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Rochester

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco
Date: THURSDAY, October 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

10/24/2025– Annual Kadner Lecture in Microbiology: Luciano Marraffini, PhD

Luciano Marraffini, PhD
The Rockefeller University
Kayden Family Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Host: Uday Tak, PhD
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center

10/29/2025 – MIC Seminar: James Ross, PhD “TBD”

James Ross, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia

Host: Roger Abounader, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

11/5/2025 – MIC Seminar: Denise Stewart, Clear, Compelling, Communicative: Essential Public Speaking Skills for Scientists

Denise Stewart
Lecturer, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
University of Virginia

Hosts:  Jon Stafford
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

11/12/2025 – MIC Seminar: Graham Hatfull, PhD (U. Pittsburgh) “TBD”

Graham F. Hatfull, PhD
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences
Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology
HHMI Professor
University of Pittsburg

Hosts:  Uday Tak, PhD
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

11/19/2025 – MIC Seminar: Italo Tempera, PhD “TBD”

Italo Tempera, PhD
Associate Professor at the Wistar Institute

Host:  Sarah Dremel, PhD
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014