Jessica Ashbaugh, a graduate student in Professor Thomas Malek’s and Associate Professor John Bethea’s laboratories, will present “The Role of IL7R in Autoimmunity of the CNS.” Her talk will be followed by Michelle Ratliff, a graduate student in Professor Richard Riley’s lab, who will present “Regulation of B Lymphopoiesis in Aging.” The lectures will occur on Monday, March 8 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Louis Gonzalez, graduate student in Eckhard Podack’s laboratory, will present “Characterization of NSG-hu mice” on Monday, February 22 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Josh Heiber, graduate student in Professor Glen Barber’s laboratory, will present “Characterization of Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as an Oncolytic Vector” on Monday, February 15 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Patrick Bavoil, professor and chair of the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, will present “A Well Kept Secretome: The Polymorphic Membrane Protein Family of Chlamydia Trachomatis” on Friday, February 12 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Suzanne Hower, graduate student in assistant professor Kenneth Fields’s laboratory, will present “Evidence that CT694 is a Novel Chlamydia trachomatis T3S Substrate Capable of Functioning During Invasion or Early-Cycle Development” on Thursday, February 11 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Wasif Khan, professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Integrating BCR, TLR, and BAFF-R Signaling in B Lymphocyte Development and Activation” on Thursday, February 18 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Conference Room 6018.

Lesley De Armas, graduate student in the laboratory of Eckhard Podack, professor and chair of Microbiology and Immunology, will present “Characterization of Perforin2, a Novel Pore-forming Protein in Macrophages” on Monday, February 8 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Maitee Urbieta, graduate student in Professor Robert Levy’s laboratory, will present “Regulatory T cells and Hematopoiesis in Bone Marrow Transplantation” on Monday, February 1 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Michail V. Sitkovsky, professor and Eleanor W. Black Chair of Immunophysiology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and director of the New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute at Northeastern University, will present “Hyperoxic Reversal of Hypoxia-Adenosinergic Immunosuppression in Lung Metastases” on Thursday, December 3 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Room 3109. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Please join us on Monday, November 23, at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109, for the seminar, “HIV Drug Resistance,” by  Walter A. Scott, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, microbiology and immunology. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.

Please join us on Monday, November 30, at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, room 3109, for the seminar, “Islet Transplantation,” presented by  Norma S. Kenyon, professor of surgery, medicine, microbiology and immunology, and biomedical engineering. For more information or to add your name to the distribution list, please contact Ilse Duarte at iduarte@med.miami.edu.