Spring 2025 Seminars

1/8/2025 – MIC Seminar:  Nicole Kirk (Park Lab) and Harish Narasimhan (Sun Lab)

Host: David Rekosh, PhD
Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

1/15/2025 – MIC Seminar:  Kexin Xu, PhD “Epigenetics in cancer: functions and therapeutic potentials”

Kexin Xu, PhD
Professor
Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

1/22/2025 – MIC Seminar: Samantha D’Spain (Derre Lab) and Emily Byrd (Kendall Lab)

Host: Dean Kedes, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

1/29/2025 – MIC Postdoctoral Seminar: Godfrey Dzhivhuho, PhD and Leandro Fernández-García, PhD

Godfrey Dzhivhuho, PhD  (Research Scientist, Hammarskjold-Rekosh Lab)
“HIV and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of RNAs With Retained Introns: A Model System and Therapeutic Potential”

Leandro Fernández-García, PhD (Research Associate, Garcia-Blanco Lab)
“Non-conventional translation initiation of Dengue virus mRNA”

Host: David Rekosh, PhD
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

2/5/2025 – MIC Seminar: Jessica Tucker, PhD “Transfer” of power between host and herpes: tRNA regulation during gammaherpesvirus infection

Jessica Tucker, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology

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

2/12/2025 – CANCELLED MIC Seminar: Judith Agudo, PhD “Immune evasion of stem cells and cancer stem cells”

Judith Agudo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology
Harvard Medical School

Host: Kristin Anderson, PhD
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center

2/19/2025 – CANCELED MIC Seminar: Aman Mangalamurti (Lukens Lab) and Tania Strilets (Garcia-Blanco Lab)

Host: David Rekosh, PhD
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

2/26/2025 – MIC Seminar: Abigail Whitford (Cliffe Lab) and

Sree Kolli (Rutkowski Lab)

Host: Dean Kedes, PhD, MD 
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

3/5/2025 – MIC Seminar: Yadeliz Serrano-Matos (Cowardin Lab) and Audrey Putelo (Rutkowski Lab)

Host: Dean Kedes, PhD, MD
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

3/12/2025 – Cell Biology/MIC Seminar: Gerald Shadel, PhD “Mitochondrial stress signaling in disease, aging and immunity”

Gerald Schadel, PhD
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory
Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science
Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging

Hosts: Laura E. Newman, PhD, David Kashatus, PhD
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Location: Pinn Hall 1014

3/19/2025 – MIC Seminar: Yunqing Li, PhD “Targeting epigenetic immune determinants for triple-mut Astrocytoma”

Yunquin Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Host: Roger Abounader, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

3/26/2025 – MIC Seminar: Evan Lamb (Criss Lab) and Carly Wagoner (Bullock Lab)

Host: David Rekosh, PhD
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

4/2/2025 – MIC Seminar: Ana Royo-Marco (Lukens Lab) and Kathy Nowak (Price/Harris Labs)

Host: Dean Kedes, PhD, MD
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

4/9/2025 – MIC Seminar: Jean Celli, PhD “Remodeling of host vesicular transport by bacterial effectors: Strengths in numbers”

Jean Celli, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont

Host: Herve Agaisse, PhD
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

4/16/2025 – MIC Seminar: Marco Tigano, PhD “Mitochondrial Control of Innate Immunity and its Significance for Human Health”

Marco Tigano, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology & Genomic Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University

Host: Anna Cliffe, PhD and David Kashatus, PhD
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

4/23/2025 – MIC Seminar: Casey Bauchle (Lu/Zong Labs) Asmaa Mohamed, PhD (K. Anderson Lab)

Host: David Rekosh, PhD
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

4/30/2025 – MIC Seminar: Eyo Ukpong, PhD “Exploring Microglial P2RY12 Contributions to Infection”

Eyo Upkong, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
University of Virginia

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

5/7/2025 – MIC Seminar: Demián Cazalla, PhD “A viral noncoding RNA is a master regulator of gene expression that defines host cell identity and function”

Demián Cazalla, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine

Host: Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

5/14/2025 – MIC Seminar: Aman Mangalamurti (Lukens Lab) and Tania Strilets (Garcia-Blanco Lab)

Host: Dean Kedes, PhD, MD 
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014

5/21/2025 – MIC Seminar: Nicholas J. Mantis, PhD “The Immunology of Lyme Disease”

Host: MIC Graduate Students 
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014