Seminars & Meetings

The Department of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series

The series will take a new direction this academic year.  The seminars will be conducted on Thursdays from 12pm-1pm.   However, one Thursday of the month will be reserved for a Department of Microbiology & Immunology Faculty Meeting respectfully.  The seminars will be broken down into three categories:  Faculty Seminars,  Guest Speaker Seminars, & Research in Progress Seminars.

All seminars will be IN-PERSON and will be held in Bluemle, Room 101 for the 2024/2025 academic year.

NOTE: All faculty are with the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) at Thomas Jefferson University, unless otherwise noted.

10/31/2024 Faculty

Dr. Botond Igyarto

Exploring Mechanisms of Dendritic Cell-Mediated Adaptive Immunity in Steady-State Conditions

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

11/7/2024 Guest Speaker

Dr. Behdad (Ben) Afzali Khoshkbijari, MD, PhD, FRCP

Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Complements to the Chef: Cooking Up Healing with Local Immune Factors

Host:  Dr. Claudio Giraudo

Location Bluemle, Room 101

11/14/2024 Research in Progress

Gerald O'Connor/Zachary Walter

Hosts:  Dr. Kim/Dr. Ramage

C10ORF99 regulates the colon epithelial barrier in both GPR15-dependent and independent ways

ATP hydrolysis by the Orthoflavivirus NS3 helicase is regulated by the Motif-VI loop

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

11/21/2024 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
11/28/2024 CANCELLED THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
12/5/2024 Faculty

Dr. Sangwon Kim

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

12/12/2024 Research in Progress

Sergey Panteleev/Zachary Hutchins

Hosts:  Dr. Sykulev/Dr. Mishra

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

12/19/2024 Research in Progress

Samita Kafle/Nathan Ryan

Hosts:  Dr. Sigal/Dr. Abraham

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

12/26/2024 CANCELLED CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
1/2/2025 CANCELLED NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY
1/9/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
1/16/2025 Faculty

Dr. Holly Ramage

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

1/23/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre

Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences

Host:  Dr. Matthias Schnell

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

1/30/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Matthew Welch

Professor, Frances H. Williams Chair in Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology

Host:  Dr. Fabienne Paumet

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

2/6/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
2/13/2025

Research in Progress

Jessica McCord/Carly Smith

Hosts:  Dr. Snyder/Dr. Freeman

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

2/20/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Stefan Feske

Jeffrey Bergstein Professor of Medicine, Department of Pathology

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Host:  Dr. Adriana Mantegazza

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

2/27/2025 Faculty

Dr. Adriana Mantegazza

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

3/6/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
3/13/2025 Faculty

Dr. Matthias Schnell

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

3/20/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Karen Edelblum

Associate Professor, Pathology, Molecular and Cell Based Medicine

Mount Sinai, New York

Host:  Dr. Sangwon Kim

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

3/27/2025 Research in Progress

Daniel Netting/Miao Cao

Hosts:  Dr. Mantegazza/Dr. Snook

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

4/3/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
4/10/2025 Faculty

Dr. Luis Sigal

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

4/17/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Marco Colonna

Robert Rock Belliveau Professor, Pathology & Immunology

Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis

Host:  Dr. Yuri Sykulev

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

4/24/2025 Research in Progress

Tien Bui/Jacob Myers

Hosts:  Dr. Rahman/Dr. Schnell

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

5/1/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
5/8/2025 Research in Progress

Jihae Choi/Vincent Cooper

Hosts:  Dr. Kim/Dr. Igyarto

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

5/15/2024 Guest Speaker

Dr. Craig Maynard

Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pathology, University of Alabama

Host:  Dr. Sangwon Kim

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

5/22/2025 Research in Progress

Jackie Flynn/Mary O'Mara

Hosts:  Dr.  Capparelli/Dr. Ramage

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

5/29/2025 M&I Faculty Meeting Faculty Meeting
6/5/2025 Research in Progress

Juliana Benitez/Mohini Nakhale

Hosts:  Dr. Sigal/Dr. Abraham

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

6/12/2025 Guest Speaker

Dr. Hernandez Moura Silva, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biology

Core Member Ragon Institute MIT and Harvard

Host:  Dr. Carolina Rezende Melo da Silva

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101

6/19/2025 CANCELLED JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY
6/26/2025 Research in Progress

Melissa Molho/Sabrine Ben Hamed

Hosts:  Dr. Ramage/Dr. Schnell

Location:  Bluemle, Room 101