2019 Spring Seminar Series
January 18, 2019
Variation in the Untranslated Genome and Susceptibility to Infections
Smita Kulkarni, PhD, Texas Biomedical Research Institute
January 25, 2019
Microbes under the Changing Climate
Sanghoon Kang, PhD, Baylor University
February 1, 2019
The Many Faces of Fig4: Targeting Lipids and Proteins with One Enzyme
Bethay Strunk, PhD, Trinity University
February 8, 2019
Mycobiome and Bacteriome Interactions: Role in Health and Disease
Mahmoud Ghanoum, PhD, Case Western University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
February 15, 2019
Phage and Dental Research in Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio
Yoon Hwang, PhD, Naval Medical Research Unit at San Antonio
February 22, 2019
Jump Around, Jump Around Transposable Element Activation in Tauopathy
Bess Frost, PhD, UT Health San Antonio
March 1, 2019
Autotaxin, a Regulator of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and CNS Repair
Babette Fuss, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University
March 8, 2019
Abdominal Candidiasis: Clinical Features and Studies of Pathogenesis and Antifungal Pharmacokinetics
Neil Cleancy, MD, University of Pittsburg
March 15, 2019
Spring Break
March 22, 2019
Gut Mycobiota Shapes Host Immunity and Inflammatory Diseases
Iliyan D Iliev, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College
March 29, 2019
no seminar
April 5, 2019
Plant Synthetic Biology for the Production of Compounds with Pharmaceutical Values
Ling Yuan, PhD, University of Kentucky
April 12, 2019
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Roles of Cryptococcal and Host Eicosanoids during Cryptococcal Infection
Natalia Castro-Lopez, PhD student, UTSA
April 19, 2019
How Do New Pathogens Evolve? People, Animals, and Environment
Stanley Maloy, PhD, San Diego State University
April 26, 2019
Brucellosis: New Vaccines to Control a Neglected Zoonotic Disease
Vemulapalli Ramesh, PhD, Texas A&M University
May 3, 2019
A Double Whammy: How Misfolded Tau Could Hijack Immune System To Propagate Itself and Trigger Neuroinflammation?
Kiran Bhaskar, PhD, University of New Mexico