Seminar Series

Seminars are on Tuesday mornings from 10-11am. Streaming and archived seminars are available for viewing with MyAccess credentials at the following links: Fall 2015Winter 2016Spring 2016Fall 2016Winter 2017Spring 2017Fall 2017Winter 2018Fall 2018Winter 2019Spring 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  

UC Davis

1/21/2025 Patty Champion   University of Notre Dame
1/28/2025 Ashley Wolf  

UC Berkeley

2/4/2025      
2/11/2025      
2/18/2025 Harmit Malik   Fred Hutchinson
2/25/2025      
3/4/2025 David Relman   Stanford
3/11/2025 Alex Meeske   University of Washington
3/18/2025 Gautam Dantas   Washington University in St. Louis
3/25/2025 Holiday    
4/1/2025 Chad Rappleye   The Ohio State University
4/8/2025 Michael Fischbach   Stanford
4/15/2025 Gerry Wright   McMaster University
4/22/2025 Monica Guo

 

University of Washington

4/29/2025

 

   
5/6/2025 Thomas Bernhardt   Harvard Medical School
5/13/2025      
5/20/2025 Bert Semler   UC Irvine
5/27/2025