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 “Deciphering healing pathways in the gut by learning the LINGO“

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 “The Integrator Complex: Broad Regulator of RNAPII Transcription and Target of HSV-1”

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: Peggy A. Cotter, Ph.D. “Secretion and function of the Bordetella Two Partner Secretion pathway protein FhaB: A historical perspective”

Peggy A. Cotter, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

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) “From Petri Dish to Patient: Mycobacteriophages and their therapeutic potential”

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