Spring 2025 Seminars
1/8/2025 – MIC Seminar: Nicole Kirk (Park Lab) and Harish Narasimhan (Sun Lab)
Host: Rekosh/Kedes
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: Rekosh/Kedes
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, 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
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 – MIC Seminar: Judith Agudo, PhD
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 1014
2/19/2025 – MIC Seminar: Sree Kolli (Rutkowski Lab) and Aman Mangalamurti (Lukens Lab)
Host: Rekosh/Kedes
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 TBD
Host: Rekosh/Kedes
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: Rekosh/Kedes
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014
3/12/2025 – hold
Location: Pinn Hall 1014
3/19/2025 – MIC Seminar: Yunquin Li, PhD
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: Rekosh/Kedes
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: Rekosh/Kedes
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014
4/9/2025 – MIC Seminar: Nicholas Mantis, PhD
Nicholas Mantis, PhD
Chief, Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology
Division of Infectious Diseases
Wadsworth Center
New York State Dept. Health
Host: MIC Student Seminar – Claire Fleming
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014
4/16/2025 – MIC Seminar: Marco Tigano, PhD
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) and Nadia Holness (Ewald Lab)
Host: Rekosh/Kedes
Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1014
4/30/2025 – MIC Seminar: Eyo Upkong, PhD
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
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 – NO MIC Seminar
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
(this date is very close to graduation weekend – it might be difficult to find hotel)