The Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity holds regular seminars with invited speakers from outside the institution, as well as researchers from Rush University.
2018-2019 academic year seminars schedule
Seminars are held in Cohn Research Building Auditorium Room 160 (1735 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60612), unless noted otherwise.
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 7, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Marisa Alegre, M.D., PhD Professor Department of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology The University of Chicago Chicago, IL | "New Insights into Transplant Rejection and Tolerance" |
| September 21, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Dionna Whitney Williams, PhD Instructor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, MD | "Beyond GPCR Signaling: B-arrestin as a Modulator of the Innate Immune Response" |
| October 5, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Susan Morgello, MD Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Neuroscience. Founder and Principal Investigator of the Manhattan HIV Brain Bank Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY | "HIV, Aging, and Neurogeneration" |
| October 19, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Eunsil Hahm, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Internal Medicine, RUSH Medical College Chicago, IL | "suPAR and ICOSL: Factors Affecting Renal Function" |
| November 9, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Gregory A. Smith, PhD Professor of Department of Microbiology-Immunology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL | "From Cold Sores to Encephalitis: Herpesvirus Invasion of the Nervous System" |
| November 13, 2018 Tuesday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Bianca Brundel, PhD Professor Department of Physiology VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands Host: Xun Ai, PhD | Office of Basic Biological Sciences (OBBS) Seminar Series: Please Note Room Change: |
| November 16, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Elena V. Batrakova, PhD Research Associate Professor UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Chapel Hill, NC | "Autologous Macrophages as Active Biocompatible Drug Delivery vehicles for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders" |
| November 30, 2018 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Kate Webster, PhD Director, Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs RUSH University | "Empowered Communication - How to Navigate Difficult Workplace Conversations" |
| January 18, 2019 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Benjamin Readhead, MBBS Assistant Research Professor Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona | “Interrogating the role of the brain virome in Alzheimer’s Disease” |
| March 1, 2019 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Scott Kitchen, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Director, UCLA Humanized Mouse Core Laboratory Division of Hematology/Oncology The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | “Antiviral CARs in Stem Cells: Can We Engineer HIV Immunity?” |
| March 15, 2019 Friday, 12-1 p.m. | Benjamin Murdock, PhD Research Investigator Department of Neurology University of Michigan | “Immunity in ALS: Targets & Potential Treatments” |
Please call the department at (312) 563-3455 or email our seminar coordinator, Maureen Richards, PhD, for additional information.