Current Seminars

Spring seminars will be held every Wednesday at 1:00 pm in BSB Aud 1 Beisner unless otherwise specified.

Spring 2026 Schedule (PDF)

Date	Speaker Name
1/21/26 283 EMRB Seebohm	Wendy Maury, PhD Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa
Tues 1/27/26 3:00pm BSB Aud 3 - Watzke	Microbiology Seminar Samarchith Kurup, D.V.M., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Cellular Biology University of Georgia Seminar Title: Type-I interferons drive the control of malaria parasites in the liver
2/4/26	No Seminar
2/11/26	Stephanie Jost, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Duke University School of Medicine Seminar Title: Harnessing Adaptive NK Cells for Broad Antiviral Immunity via HLA-E Faculty Host: Sabrina Tan Co-sponsor: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
2/18/26	Priya Issuree, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases University of Iowa
2/25/26	Kalpaj Parekh, MBBS Nicholas P. Rossi Endowed Professor Chair and DEO, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery "Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction after lung transplantation: what have we learned from the ferret model?" University of Iowa
3/4/26	Derek Sant'Angelo, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology Virginia Commonwealth University
3/11/26	No Seminar
3/18/26	No Seminar - Spring Break
3/25/26	Mark Headley, PhD Assistant Professor Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Department of Immunology University of Washington Faculty Host: Kevin Legge Co-sponsor: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4/1/26	Silvia Uriarte, PhD Professor School of Dentistry University of Louisville Faculty Host: Aimee Potter Co-sponsor: UI School of Dentistry, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4/8/26	Dawn Newcomb, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Seminar Title: Sex differences in asthma pathogenesis across the lifespan Faculty Host: Dan Cook Co-sponsor: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4/15/26	Gang Xin, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology, The Ohio State University Seminar Title: The Neddylation is an post-translational modification checkpoint for effector CD8 T cells Faculty Host: Ryan Zander Co-sponsor: Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
4/22/26	Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD Emil R. Unanue Distinguished Professor Washington University - St. Louis Seminar Title: Peritoneal macrophages in host defense and repair Faculty Host: Wendy Maury Co-sponsor: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology and Immune Based Diseases
4/26/26	Anita Chong, PhD Professor Department of Surgery University of Chicago Student Invited Speaker Co-sponsor: Immunology NIH T32

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