Seminars
MICaB Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Mondays at 12:00 noon
All seminars will be live streamed through the Zoom link below.
Hybrid In-person/Zoom seminars will be held in: 1-125 Cancer & Cardiovascular Research Building (CCRB) – 2231 6th St SE (Across from Huntington Bank Stadium) unless otherwise noted
Meeting ID: 971 2390 2854
Passcode: vH3x1F
January 22: Hybrid Seminar
“TBD”
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia
Host: Vaiva Vezys (vvezys@umn.edu)
January 29: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Jesse Williams, PhD (jww@umn.edu)
February 5: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Host: Kevin Lang, PhD (klang@umn.edu)
February 12: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Tyler Bold, PhD (tbold@umn.edu)
February 19: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Boston University, Boston, MA
Host: Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD (kbl@umn.edu)
February 26: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Host: Steve Jameson, PhD (james024@umn.edu)
March 11: Hybrid Seminar
Jeremy Rock, PhD
"TBD"
Immunology, Virology, and Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Host: Tony Baughn, PhD (abaughn@umn.edu)
March 18: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Associate Professor, Medicine - Nephrology, Stanford Medical School
Host:
March 25: VIRTUAL SEMINAR ONLY
"TBD"
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Host: Kyle Costa, PhD (kcosta@umn.edu)
April 1: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Ingunn Stromnes, PhD (ingunn@umn.edu)
April 8: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Host: Jannell Bazurto, PhD (jbazurto@umn.edu)
April 15: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Host: Tyler Bold, PhD (tbold@umn.edu)
April 22: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Immunology & Microbiology, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Host: Julia Willett, PhD (jwillett@umn.edu)
April 29: Hybrid Seminar
"TBD"
Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Tanya Freedman, PhD (tfreedma@umn.edu)
Jointly sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Center for Immunology.
Student Seminar Series
Spring Semester 2024
THURSDAYS, 12:00-1:00
Hybrid seminars held in 1-110 LRB/MTRF and available by live stream Zoom Link:
https://umn-private.zoom.us/j/91285410864?pwd=RlJxNjM2MG5jM2pZWlhXMHJiNnpNUT09
Meeting ID: 912 8541 0864
Passcode: 5J8zDt
JANUARY 18
Nathan Schuldt, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate
“The Unique Immunology of Pregnancy and Early Life”
Faculty Advocate: Bryce Binstadt
JANUARY 25
TBD
FEBRUARY 1
Terran Stenger, “Preclinical Testing of a Dual-Targeting NK Cell Engager for Ovarian Cancer”
Advisor: Jeff Miller
Charles Roll, Title: TBD
Advisor: Bryce Binstadt
Student Host: Cameron Banks
Faculty Reviewers: Daniel Bond, Geoff Hart, Scott McIvor
FEBRUARY 8
Grant Hickok, Title: TBD
Advisor: Ingunn Stromnes
Hannah Hillman, “The role of Trem2 in pro-resolving macrophage function in atherosclerosis”
Advisor: Jesse Williams
Student Host: Gabi Farulla-Bastian
Faculty Reviewers: Peter Southern, Kristina Burrack, Walt Low
FEBRUARY 15
Brigitte Flannery, “Investigating Arenaviral Innate Immune Antagonism”
Advisor: Hinh Ly & Yuying Liang
Paarth Dodhiawala, “Natural killer cells in pancreatic cancer: Untapped therapeutic potential”
Advisor: Jeff Miller
Student Host: Enoc Granados Centeno
Faculty Reviewers: Alon Herschhorn, David Largaespada
FEBRUARY 22
Daniella Vasquez Rico, “Delineating the structure and functional relevance of pyrazinamide susceptibility and resistance networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
Advisor: Tony Baughn
John Lozada, “Multi-omics approaches to inform NK cell therapy design and application”
Advisor: Frank Cichocki
Student Host: Annie Wilt
Faculty Reviewers: Yuying Liang, Bryce Binstadt, Kim Mansky
FEBRUARY 29
Adrianna Rivera-León, “Testing the role of microbial infection in the development of auto-antibodies to TI-IFNs”
Advisor: Kris Hogquist
Cara-lin Lonetree, “Improving adoptive T cell therapies for pancreatic cancer treatment”
Advisor: Ingunn Stromnes
Student Host: Rizwan Mahmud
Faculty Reviewers: Jeff Gralnick, Tyler Bold
MARCH 7- NO SEMINAR, SPRING BREAK
MARCH 14
Amanda Haeberle, Title: TBD
Advisor: Julia Willett
Caleb Kim, Title: TBD
Advisor: Tom Griffith
Student Host: Perianne Smith
Faculty Reviewers: Bruno Lima, Marc Jenkins, Bruce Blazar, Carol Lange
MARCH 21
Robert Maddox, Title: TBD
Advisor: Roberta O’Connor
Student Host: Trevor Tankersley
Faculty Reviewers: David Boulware, Subree Subramanian
MARCH 28
TBD
APRIL 4
MICaB Career Development Seminar
APRIL 11
TBD
Cancer Center Seminar Series
To view the Masonic Cancer Center Seminar Series, click here.
ALL SEMINARS ARE HELD:
In person or online via Zoom as noted.