Seminar Series

October

Speaker: David Furman, PhD
Title: Associate Professor & Director
Institution: Stanford University
Date: Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Science of Longevity: The Immune System Takes the Lead"

Speaker: Effie W. Petersdorf, MD
Title: Professor of Medicine
Institution: University of Washington
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Oct 16, 2024
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "Immunogenetics of allogeneic hematopoietic Cell Transplantation"

Speaker: Philip Scumpia, MD, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Medicine
Institution: UCLA
Date: Tuesday, Oct 29, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Dual role of IRF1 in antitumor immunity"

November

Speaker: Thomas (Tem) Morrison, PhD
Title: Professor of Immunology and Microbiology
Institution: University of Colorado
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Viral and Host Determinants of Arbovirus Viremia and Dissemination"

Speaker: Hiroshi Takayanagi, MD, PhD
Title: Professor of Immunology
Institution: University of Tokyo
Date: Friday, Nov 8, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 33-245

Talk Title: "Bone destruction in arthritis and osteoimmunology"

Speaker: John Greenland, MD, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Medicine
Institution: UCSF
Date: Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Epithelial and Immune Interactions Driving Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction"

December

Speaker: Steven Blum, MD
Title: Professor of Medicine
Institution: Harvard
Date: Tuesday, Dec 3, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Autoimmunity and anti-tumor immunity through the lens of checkpoint myocarditis"

Speakers: Dr. Michael Yeaman (Yeaman Lab) & Dr. Liana Chan (Yeaman Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Systems Epigenomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infection" & "Role of Vancomycin in Immune Memory Against MRSA Skin Infection"

January

CANCELLED Speaker: Alice Bertaina, MD, PhD
Title: Professor of the University Medical Line and Pediatrics Stem Cell Transplantation
Institution: Stanford University
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "Haploidentical Stem cell transplantation: you’ve always got a donor, why not always use it?"

Speaker: Paula Cannon, PhD
Title: Distinguished Professor of Microbiology
Institution: USC
Date: Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Engineering B cells for custom antibody production"

February

Speaker: Christina Camell, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Minnesota
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, Feb 4, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Macrophages, age-related inflammation, impaired metabolism, and a role for chromatin accessibility"

Speakers: Adil Bhat, PhD (Reed Lab) & Cole Peters, PhD (Nowicki Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Modulates Circulating T Follicular Helper and B Cell Dynamics, Facilitating Donor-Specific Antibody Production in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation" & "Engineering an Oncolytic Virus to Target PAX3-FOXO1 Expressing Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Cancers” 

Speaker: Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, MD, MSCI
Title: Associate Professor of Medicine & Molecular Microbiology
Institution: UCLA
Date: Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Local complement activation and regulation in the susceptibility to lung injury"

Speakers: Ivan Salladay-Perez (Covarrubias Lab) & Pablo Alvarez (Li Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Senescent macrophages accumulate in liver aging and liver steatosis" & "Breaking the barrier: Old World Alphaviruses exploit brain microvascular endothelial cell attachment for neuroinvasion"

March

Speaker: Elena Hsieh, MD
Title: Associate Professor of Immunology & Microbiology and Pediatrics
Institution: University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Date: Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Paving the Road to Precision Medicine, One Gene at a Time"

CANCELLED Speaker: Claudia Kemper, PhD
Title: Senior Investigator & Section Chief
Institution: NIH
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "TBA"

Speakers: Grasiela Torres (Covarrubias Lab) & Kristina Bergersen, PhD (Reed Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Exploring the Regulatory Network of Senescent Macrophage Metabolism" & "Differential Innate Immune Activation by Candida albicans and Implications in Heightened Risk of Candidemia Development During Acute Kidney Failure" 

Speaker: Darren J. Baker, PhD, MS
Title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Institution: Mayo Clinic
Date: Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Senescent cells promote tumorigenesis and metastasis"

Speaker: Montserrat C. Anguera, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Date: Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Investigating the female bias of lupus disease: mechanisms of X-Chromosome Inactivation"

April

Speaker: Tuli Mukhopadhyay, PhD
Title: Professor of Biology
Institution: Indiana University
Date: Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Small changes, Big consequences: Modulators of Alphavirus Assembly"

Speaker: Greg M. Delgoffe, PhD
Title: Associate Professor of Immunology & Director of the Tumor Microenvironment Center
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "Metabolic control of immunity in health and disease"

Speakers: Ken Dery (Kupiec Lab) & Nicole Wilkinson (Su Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "Human antigen R (HuR) regulation of Ceacam1 3'UTR  by therapeutic anti-sense oligos influences host immune responses in hepatic sterile inflammation" & "The Role of Xist in T Cell Function"

Speaker: Melissa G. Lechner, MD, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Institution: UCLA
Date: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Collateral Damage: Understanding and Managing Autoimmune Toxicities in Cancer Immunotherapy"

Speaker: Deepak Shukla, PhD
Title: Marion Schenk Esq. Professor and Associate Head for Research in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology and Bio-engineering
Institution: University of Illinois, Chicago
Date: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Decoding Host Factors that Make Herpes a Highly Effective Virus"

May

Speaker: Scott J. Hultgren, PhD
Title: Helen L. Stoever Professor of Molecular Microbiology
Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Organizing in partnership with: MPTG
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Antibiotic-sparing strategies to transform treatment of bacterial infections"

Speakers: Howard (Ho-Chung) Chen (Su Lab) & Zhenlan Yao (Li Lab)
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Research In Progress

Talk Titles: "UTX Epigenetically Imposes a Cytolytic Effector Program in Autoreactive Stem-like CD8+ T cell Progenitors" & "The Role of SARS-CoV2 N Protein in Macrophage Hyperinflammation and Cytokine Storm"

Speaker: Wendy Maury, PhD
Title: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Institution: University of Iowa
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105

Talk Title: "Defining Ebola virus tropism: defining target cells as the virus spreads throughout the body"

CANCELLED - Speaker: Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD, MBA
Title: President, Chief Executive Officer and Professor Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation,
Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Center for Sex-based Differences in the Immune System, Center for Vaccine Innovation
Institution: La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Organizing in partnership with: CTSI
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Location: In-person NRB Auditorium 132

Talk Title: "TBA"

JUNE

Speaker: Lili Yang, PhD
Institution: UCLA 
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Location: In-person CHS 23-105
Additional Information: Entrepreneurship Lecture

Talk Title: "Science to Startup: Building the Future of Cancer Immunotherapy"