ProK and Virology Trainee Seminar🦠 Microbiology Seminar🔬 Next week's seminars have been cancelled on 9/29 and 9/30 respectively

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 9/23/26 12-1PM *SCTR Rubenstein Auditorium* Laura Cook, PhD "Bacterial determinants of Streptococcal Carriage and Disease” lauracooklab.com/

ProK and Virology Trainee Seminar Tuesday 9/22/2026 12 – 1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Lorenzo Serra, Price Lab Lorie Marchitto, PhD, Hahn Lab

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Today 9/16/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Janelle Arthur, PhD "Microbiome and inflammation-associated intestinal disease" arthurlab.weebly.com/

Special Seminar Sponsored by Institute for RNA Innovation Tuesday 9/15/2026 12 - 1 PM JMB CLASS OF 62* Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Today 9/9/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Pranam Chatterjee, PhD "Designing Programmable Biologics with Generative Sequence Models" chatterjeelab.com/

Virology Seminar Tuesday 9/8/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Guangda (Brian) Shi, Ph.D., Cherry Lab   “Metabolic Regulation of Pyrimidine Antiviral Efficacy by Uridine Cytidine Kinase 2”

Today! CRB/RRB Austrian Aud 12-1:30pm Or pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/91807… Meeting ID: 918 0726 3806 Passcode: 206374 (Recorded)

Please join us for a Special Seminar/SRR Training featuring: Noam Auslander, PhD, from the Wistar Institute. “AI in our workflows: How should (and shouldn’t) we use chatbots in computational research?” Wednesday, June 24th CRB/RRB Austrian Aud 12-1:30pm

Last in the semester Virology seminar: Tuesday 5/26/2026 12-1PM 209 Johnson Pavilion

First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture Featured Speaker: Susan Weiss, PhD "Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium" Date: Tues 5/19 Time: 12–1PM Location: JM Reunion Aud RSVP: micro.med.upenn.edu

First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture Featured Speaker: Susan Weiss, PhD "Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium" Date: Tues 5/19 Time: 12–1PM Location: JM Reunion Aud RSVP: micro.med.upenn.edu/

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 5/6/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Last Micro Seminar of Spring Semester! Amelia Escolano, PhD, The Wistar Institute “Rapid elicitation of a new class of neutralizing antibodies against the V3-glycan epitope of HIV-1" wistar.org/our-scientists/am…

Virology Seminar 💉 5/5/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Clara Malekshahi, Moncla Lab “Wild Anseriformes Ecology is Driving the Dissemination of HPAI H5N1 in North America”   Jordan Ort, Hensley Lab “Immune history shapes cross-reactive antibody responses to H5N1 neuraminidase”

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/29/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD "Regulation of immunity and virus Replication by the host ubiquitin system: Novel therapeutic opportunities" njms-web.njms.rutgers.edu/pr…

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/28/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Clayton Otter, Weiss Lab “What makes a common cold (corona)virus?” Helen Stillwell, Weiss Lab "West African clade C MERS-CoV camel viruses induce more robust innate immunity compared to wild-type in human cells”

Please note there will be no ProK seminar Monday April 27th

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/22/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Monica McCallum, PhD “Shape Shifting Molecules and Microbes” mccallumlab.com/

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/21/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion