As part of their training grant committment, each trainee gives two presentations during their grant cycle: a journal club and a presentation of their research. These seminars take place on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. The full schedule for the 2021-22 academic year is below.
Every year, trainees select a theme for the coming year. This year the theme is:
Development, treatment, prevention, and discovery: striving towards “one health”
Fall 2021 |
Host |
Meeting Type |
| 21-Sep | Margaret Thairu
“The infant gut resistome associates with E. coli, environmental exposures, gut microbiome maturity, and asthma-associated bacterial composition” |
Journal Club |
| 5-Oct | Dianiris Luciano-Rosario
“Using Plasmodium knowlesi as a model for screening Plasmodium vivax blood-stage malaria vaccine targets reveals new candidates” |
Journal Club |
| 19-Oct | Justin Massey
“Adaptive immunity induces mutualism between commensal eukaryotes” |
Journal Club |
| 2-Nov | Mark Horton
“Immunity to commensal skin fungi promotes psoriasiform skin inflammation” |
Journal Club |
| 16-Nov | Mary Hannah Swaney
“Genetically modifying skin microbe to produce violacein and augmenting microbiome did not defend Panamanian golden frogs from disease” |
Journal Club |
| 30-Nov | Morgan Giese
“Transmission of trained immunity and heterologous resistance to infections across generations” |
Journal Club |
Spring 2022 |
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| 1-Feb | Katie Schmit
“Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Vaccine against Critical Covid-19 in Adolescents” |
Journal Club |
| 15-Feb | Matthew Freeman | Seminar |
| 1-Mar | Mark Horton | Seminar |
| 29-Mar | Katie Schmit | Seminar |
| 5-Apr | Morgan Giese | Seminar |
| 19-Apr | Dianiris Luciano-Rosario | Seminar |
| 3-May | Mary Hannah Swaney | Seminar |
| 17-May | Justin Massey | Seminar |
| 31-May | Margaret Thairu | Seminar |