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, Fall/Winter/Spring 2025-2026
Date | Speaker | Title | Institution |
| 09/23/2025 | Michael Fischbach | "Commensal vaccines" | Stanford |
| 09/30/2025 | Zach Howard | "A new tool for TB: Utilizing uLIPSTIC to identify T cell interactions during M. tuberculosis infection" | UCSF |
| 10/07/2025 | Antonio Pagán | "Macrophage Death in the Tuberculous Granuloma" | Stanford |
| 10/14/2025 | Seth Shipman | "Activation of an antiviral response by retron reverse transcribed DNA" | UCSF |
| 10/21/2025 | Thomas Moss | "A conserved Hsp70 phosphorylation regulates cell cycle progression after DNA damage" | UCSF |
| 10/28/2025 | Manuel Amieva | "Life in the Glands: Microscopic hideouts of H. pylori link long-term colonization to gastric cancer" | Stanford |
| 11/04/2025 | Adam Deutschbauer | "Characterizing microbes at scale with high-throughput genetics" | UC Berkeley |
| 11/11/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 11/18/2025 | David Russell | "Tuberculosis and why heterogeneity will always favor the pathogen" | Cornell |
| 11/25/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 12/02/2025 | James Chen | "Rv2571c: A Novel Determinant of Pyrazinamide Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis" | UCSF |
| 12/09/2025 | Cancelled | ||
| 12/16/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 12/23/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 12/30/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 01/06/2025 | Holiday | ||
| 01/13/2026 | Ruth Groza | "Deciphering host selection pressures shaping influenza host-switching" | UCSF |
| 01/20/2026 | John Schoggins | "Viral Inhibition by Innate Immune Effector Proteins" | UT Southwestern |
| 01/27/2026 | Franklin Zhong | "From the ribosome to the inflammasome, and back: Lessons on stress signaling and innate immunity" | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine |
| 02/03/2026 | Alex Whiteley | "Virus-like human genes: captured retroviruses in health and neurological disease" | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 02/10/2026 | Djenet Bousbaine | "Engineering Skin Bacteria for Needle-Free Topical Vaccination" | Stanford |
| 02/17/2026 | Claire Kokontis | "Multi-interface licensing of protein import into a phage nucleus" | UCSF |
| 02/24/2026 | Vatsan Raman | "Decoding and Engineering Bacteriophages Using Large-Scale Functional Genomics" | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 03/03/2026 | Tobias Hohl | "Immunologic and Ecologic Determinants of Antifungal Defense in the Lung and Gut" | Memorial Sloan Kettering |
| 03/10/2026 | Ming Hammond | "Studying bacterial signaling pathways and antibiotic peremeability, activity, and resistance in real-time in live cells" | University of Utah |
| 03/17/2026 | Priscilla Li-ning Yang | "Developing antiviral strategies that overcome the challenges of viral diversity" | Stanford |
| 03/24/2026 | Spring Break | ||
| 03/31/2026 | |||
| 04/07/2026 | Jenny Zhang | "A yeast co-cultured with bacteria must detox nitric oxide (NO) to survive" | UCSF |
| 04/14/2026 | Shenwei Zhang | "Eggerthella lenta evades bacteriophage through reversible mega-base-scale inversions of capsular polysaccharide gene clusters" | UCSF |
| 04/21/2026 | Wearn Xin Yee | "Phage Tn-Seq enables systematic discovery of essential and conditionally essential genes"
| UCSF |
| 04/28/2026 | Matt Nalley | "Precision Genetics and Epigenetic RNA silencing of transposable elements in a fungal meningitis pathogen" | UCSF |
| 05/05/2026 | Fahimeh Hajiahmadi | "A lytic transglycosylase heterodimer coordinates peptidoglycan remodeling in Neisseria meningitidis" | UCSF |
| 05/12/2026 | Chang Liu | "Dissecting HIV-1 capsid fitness constraints by deep mutational scanning" | UCSF |
| 05/19/2026 | Maayan Levy | "Toward the development of metabotherapy" | Arc |
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| 09/22/2026 | |||
| 09/29/2026 | Matt Lohse | "The 8-hydroxyquinoline family of antifungal agents inhibits coenzyme Q biosynthesis in fungi" | UCSF |
| 10/06/2026 | |||
| 10/13/2026 | Sebastian Winter | UC Davis | |
| 10/20/2026 | KC Huang | Stanford | |
| 10/27/2026 | Molly Ohainle | UC Berkeley | |
| 11/03/2026 | |||
| 11/10/2026 | Murat Can Kalem | UCSF | |
| 11/17/2026 | Jonathan Eisen | UC Davis | |
| 11/24/2026 | Holiday | ||
| 12/01/2026 | Huijuan Yan | UCSF | |
| 12/08/2026 | Mai Dvorak | UCSF | |
| 12/15/2026 | |||
| 12/22/2026 | |||
| 12/29/2026 |