Seminars are on Tuesday mornings from 10-11am. Streaming and archived seminars are available for viewing with MyAccess credentials at the following links: Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2021, Fall/Winter/Spring 2022-23, Fall/Winter/Spring 2023-2024, Fall/Winter/Spring 2024-2025
Date | Speaker | Title | Institution |
| 9/24/2024 | Kai Trepka | "Expansion of a bacterial operon during cancer treatment ameliorates drug toxicity" | UCSF - Turnbaugh Lab |
| 10/1/2024 | Purvesh Khatri | "Redefining critical illness through host response" | Stanford |
| 10/8/2024 | Michel Tassetto | "Exploring the design principles of RNA-based adaptive immunity in metazoans" | UCSF - Andino Lab |
| 10/15/2024 | Soumaya Zlitni | "The Power of Small: Dual quorum-sensing control of purine biosynthesis drives pathogenic fitness of Enterococcus faecalis" | UCSF |
| 10/22/2024 | Michael Richard Howitt | "The Impact of Commensal Eukaryotes on Mucosal Immunity and the Bacterial Microbiota" | Stanford |
| 10/29/2024 | Michael Boucher | "Phenotypic landscape of a fungal meningitis pathogen reveals its unique biology" | UCSF - Madhani Lab |
| 11/5/2024 | Lisa Racki | "Polyphosphate condensates: the dark matter of bacterial chromatin" | Scripps College |
| 11/12/2024 | Victoria Prudent | "The strategy of the emergent pathogen Candida auris for skin colonization: Hidden niche and Immune modulation" | UCSF - Noble Lab |
| 11/19/2024 | Christina Homer | "Large-scale transcriptomics reveal a kexin protease required for virulence in the fungal pathogen Coccidioides" | UCSF- Sil lab |
| 11/26/2024 | Holiday | ||
| 12/3/2024 | Alex Gao | "Discovering new molecular functions in microbial anti-phage defense" | Stanford |
| 12/10/2024 | Cancelled | ||
| 12/17/2024 | Holiday | ||
| 12/24/2024 | Holiday | ||
| 12/31/2024 | Holiday | ||
| 1/7/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 1/14/2025 | Lark L. Coffey | "Evolutionary constraints on mosquito-borne alphaviruses and impacts on transmission dynamics, emergence, and vaccine development" | UC Davis |
| 1/21/2025 | Patty Champion | "Conserved mechanisms of protein translocation and regulation in pathogenic mycobacteria" | University of Notre Dame |
| 1/28/2025 | Ashley Wolf | "Interplay between the gut microbiome and infectious disease" | UC Berkeley |
| 2/4/2025 | M&I faculty candidate Hannah Ledvina | "Unlocking nature’s defenses: mechanistic insights into the bacterial immune system" | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 2/11/2025 | M&I faculty candidate Jacob Steenwyk | "Rooting the Animal Tree and Software for Evolutionary Informatics" | UC Berkeley |
| 2/18/2025 | Harmit Malik | "Rules of engagement: molecular arms races between host and viral genomes" | Fred Hutchinson |
| 2/25/2025 | Cancelled | ||
| 3/4/2025 | David Relman | "The response of the human microbiome to disturbance" | Stanford |
| 3/11/2025 | Alex Meeske | "Phage evasion of CRISPR-Cas immunity by molecular mimicry" | University of Washington |
| 3/18/2025 | Gautam Dantas | "Understanding, Predicting, and Remediating Perturbations to Microbiome-Pathogen-Host Interactions" | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 3/25/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 4/1/2025 | Chad Rappleye | "Metabolism of Histoplasma capsulatum enabling intraphagosomal proliferation" | The Ohio State University |
| 4/8/2025 | Michael Fischbach | Cancelled | Stanford |
| 4/15/2025 | Gerry Wright | New Antimicrobial Agents from Microbial Natural Products | McMaster University |
| 4/22/2025 | Monica Guo | Molecular mechanisms of chromosome organization: from single molecules to genomes | University of Washington |
| 4/29/2025 | Cancelled | ||
| 5/6/2025 | Thomas Bernhardt | Bacterial cell wall biogenesis and other tales from the cell surface | Harvard Medical School |
| 5/13/2025 | Cancelled | ||
| 5/20/2025 | Ranen Aviner | RNA Editing by ADAR1 Restricts Poliovirus Through Dual Disruption of Translation Initiation and Protein Coding | UCSF - CZ Biohub |
| 5/27/2025 |