Current Seminars

Fall seminars will be held every Wednesday at 1:00 pm in 283 EMRB - Seebohm unless otherwise specified.

Fall 2025 Schedule (PDF)

Date	Speaker Name
26-Aug	Mary Weber, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa Seminar Title: Molecular Mechanisms of Cell-Autonomous Immune Evasion by Chlamydia
2-Sep	Adam Mailloux, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
9-Sep	Nick Lukacs, PhD Stobbe Professor of Pathology, Director, Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center University of Michigan Seminar Title: Early life viral infection alters innate immunity and Lung disease Host: Kevin Legge & Jennifer Bermick Co-sponsor: Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine
16-Sep	TBD
23-Sep	TBD
30-Sep	TBD
7-Oct MERF 2117	Rich DiPaolo, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Saint Louis University School of Medicine Seminar Title: Engineering Immune Tolerance Through Precision Cytokine Signaling Host: Kevin Legge Co-sponsor: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
14-Oct	Weiguo Cui, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology Northwestern University Seminar Title: Transcriptional regulation of T cell exhaustion Host: Vlad Badovinac Co-sponsor: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
21-Oct	Andrew Monteith, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology University of Tennessee – Knoxville Seminar Title: Fueling the Fire: Metabolic Stress Rewires Neutrophil Defense During Infection Host: Aimee Potter Co-sponsors: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
28-Oct	Catherine A. Blish, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine Seminar Title: NK cell regulation of antibody responses Host: Amanda Dudek Co-sponsors: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4-Nov	Bing Li, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology University of Iowa
11-Nov	Noah Butler, PhD Roy J. Carver Chair in Biosciences Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics University of Iowa Seminar Title: Cellular metabolism shapes immunity against malaria
18-Nov	TBD
25-Nov	No Seminar - Fall Break
2-Dec	Daniel Hawiger, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Saint Louis University Host: Ashutosh Mangalam Co-sponsor: Department of Pathology
9-Dec	Ryan Zander, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
16-Dec	Mary Wilson, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology University of Iowa

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