Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
April 2025 Seminar
Speaker
Mike Criscitiello
Texas A&M University
When: Apr 25, 2025 - 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Where: 1010 PAIS
Dr. Criscitiello’s research merges immunology, genetics and evolution. A focus is the early natural history of the vertebrate adaptive immune system, with particular attention to lymphocyte antigen receptor genes (e.g., antibodies and T cell r...read more
March 2025 Seminar
Speaker
Bruna Jacobson, PhD
UNM Computer Science
When: Mar 28, 2025 - 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Where: 1010 PAIS
Dr. Bruna Jacobson is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. Her research goal is to understand the underlying mechanisms that drive biomolecular interactions. These interactions are vital to the l...read more
January 2025 Seminar
Speaker
Alison Kell, PhD
UNM Health Sciences Center
When: Jan 31, 2025 - 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Where: 1010 PAIS
The Kell lab studies the virus-host interactions in pathogenic Old World orthohantavirus infection, and their molecular mechanisms, that program innate and immunity and diffential disease outcome among reservoir rodent hosts and humans....read more
Seminars Archive
Uncovering the rules for cross-species virus infections using a "fibroblast zoo"
Ryan Langlois, PhD, University of Minnesota
Aug 30, 2024 - 12:00pm
Dietary enhancement of microbial tryptophan catabolism improves cancer immunotherapy efficacy
Marlies Meisel, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Apr 26, 2024 - 12:00pm
Evolutionarily conserved role of mTOR signaling in vertebrate limb and fin regeneration
Igor Schneider, Louisiana State University
Oct 27, 2023 - 12:00pm
Neuron-Toxoplasma gondii interactions: enabling host & parasite survival
Anita Koshy, PhD, University of Arizona
Nov 17, 2023 - 12:00pm
Evolution-proof infection control: is it possible to combine efficacy and evolutionary robustness?
Sam Brown, PhD, Georgia Tech
Apr 28, 2023 - 12:00pm
Microglia and the control of CNS infection
Tajie Harris, PhD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Feb 24, 2023 - 12:00pm
Heavy metal laden particulate dust disrupts intestinal epithelial stem cells and lineage differentiation
Julie In, PhD, UNM Health Sciences Center
Jan 27, 2023 - 12:00pm
Genome size and immunoglobulin loci architecture: Lessons from the axolotl
Jesus Martinez Barnetche, PhD, Centro de Investigación Sobre Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
Mar 31, 2023 - 12:00pm
October Seminar 2022
Jessica Osterhout, PhD, University of Utah School of Medicine
Oct 28, 2022 - 12:00pm
Infection Tropism, Disease Tolerance and Parasite Avirulence
George Yap, PhD, Rutgers University
Nov 18, 2022 - 12:00pm
September Seminar 2022
Corey Watson, PhD, University of Louisville, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Sep 30, 2022 - 12:00pm
April 2022 Seminar
Adriana Forero, PhD, Ohio State University College of Medicine
Apr 29, 2022 - 12:00pm
CXCR4 regulation of T cell responses in influenza infected lung
Judy Cannon, PhD, University of New Mexico HSC
Feb 25, 2022 - 12:00pm
Modeling the viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2
Ruy Ribiero, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nov 19, 2021 - 12:00pm
New roles for stroma-derived Notch signals in B cell homeostasis, positioning and function
Daniela Gomez Atria, University of Pennsylvania
Aug 27, 2021 - 12:00pm
Daily Forecasting of New COVID-19 Cases with Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification
William Hlavacek, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Jan 29, 2021 - 12:00pm
Perforin-2 pokes its way into mucosal immunology
De'Broski Herbert, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Apr 30, 2021 - 12:00pm
What sharks are teaching us about the evolution of adaptive immunity
Helen M. Dooley, PhD, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Mar 26, 2021 - 12:00pm
Vertebrate immune systems: Plenty to choose from
Thomas Boehm, Max Planck Institute
Oct 30, 2020 - 12:00pm
A gut feeling: New pathways of intestinal resistance against the opportunistic parasite Toxoplasma gondii
Lindsay Snyder, CETI, University of New Mexico
Sep 25, 2020 - 12:00pm
The γμ T cell: A uniquely mammalian T cell subset with an atypical T cell receptor structure.
Rob Miller, CETI, University of New Mexico
Aug 28, 2020 - 12:00pm
Immunity and therapeutics against Ebola, corona, and hantaviruses
Steven Bradfute, PhD, University of New Mexico Health Science Center
Apr 24, 2020 - 12:00pm
Salmonid Immunoglobulins: From Genomics to Repertoire Sequencing
Susana Magadan Mompo, PhD, Universidade de Vigo
Feb 28, 2020 - 12:00pm
'Ring vaccination' as an effective and robust strategy used by innate immune response against viral infections
Ruian Ke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sep 20, 2019 - 12:00pm
Illuminating the dark matter of the microbiota metabolome
Noah Palm, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
Nov 22, 2019 - 12:00pm
Immune evasion and transmissible cancer: A case study in Tasmanian devils
Andrew Storfer, PhD, Washington State University School of Biological Sciences
Sep 13, 2019 - 12:00pm
Toxoplasma gondii exploits the host Wnt/β-catenin pathway to successfully establish intracellular infection
Cameron Ranken, CETI & UNM Biology
Apr 26, 2019 - 12:00pm
The developmental layers of the CD8+ T cell response to infection
Brian Rudd, Cornell University, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
Apr 05, 2019 - 12:00pm
Retinoid signaling regulates intestinal immune responses required for host resistance to Citrobacter rodentium
Lindsay Snyder, Penn State University, Dept of Vet and Biomedical Sciences
Oct 05, 2018 - 12:00pm
Histocompatibility without the MHC: How a cnidarian distinguishes self from not-self
Matthew Nicotra, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh
Oct 26, 2018 - 12:00pm
New metabolic pathways that alter lifespan and aging in S. cerevisiae and C. elegans
Mark McCormick, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UNM
Jan 26, 2018 - 12:00pm
Climate warming and the disruption of plant-microbe symbioses
Jennifer Rudgers, PhD, University of New Mexico
Oct 27, 2017 - 12:00pm
Innate immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Christina Stallings, Washington University School of Medicine
Mar 30, 2018 - 12:00pm
The neuroimmunological niche of Toxoplasma infection
Emma Wilson, PhD, University of California, Riverside
Nov 17, 2017 - 12:00pm
Using plant pathogen effectors as evolved probes to understand the plant immune system
Marc Nishimura, PhD, Colorado State University
Sep 29, 2017 - 12:00pm
Exploring Epigenetic Regulation as a Predictor of Immune Activity in Human Disease
Brian O'Connor, PhD, National Jewish Health
Sep 01, 2017 - 12:00pm
Designing Indefinitely Scalable Systems: Lessons from Immunology
Melanie Moses PhD, Department of Computer Science
Feb 23, 2018 - 12:00pm
Parasite Biology and Cancer Immunotherapy
David Bzik, PhD, Dartmouth School of Medicine
Feb 24, 2017 - 12:00pm
Through the looking glass: host-parasite coevolution and sex
Curt Lively, PhD, Indiana University
Mar 24, 2017 - 12:00pm
A quest for TH2 signaling mediators in lamprey (with a detour by fish)
Jean-Louis Boulay, Departement of Biomedicine, University of Basel
Nov 21, 2016 - 12:00pm
Understanding the Environmental Molecular Dialog to Improve Immune Status in Vertebrates
Jorge Galindo-Villegas, PhD, Cellular, Histology, and Molecular Biology Department at Murcia University
Sep 30, 2016 - 12:00pm
A world full of wonder, under the sea: Marine mammal microbiomes
Elizabeth Bik, PhD, Research associate, Stanford University School of Medicine
Oct 28, 2016 - 12:00pm
Molecular investigation of parasitic nematode infection
John Hawdon, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University
Aug 26, 2016 - 12:00pm
Fall Seminar
Alejandro Aballay, Ph.D., Director, Center for Host-Microbial Interactions (CHoMI), Duke University Medical Center
Nov 04, 2016 - 12:00pm
