Time and Location
Wednesdays, 12:30 pm
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 1031
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA
Refreshments at 12:15 pm
2017 - 2018 Seminar Series
Wednesday, September 13, 2017:
Dr. Kate Jeffrey, Massachusetts General Hospital
Epigenomic regulation of host antiviral immunity
Wednesday, September 20, 2017:
Dr. Jonathan Abraham, Harvard Medical School
Neutralizing antibodies and viral hemorrhagic fevers
Wednesday, September 27, 2017:
Dr. Blossom Damania, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Modulation of Cell Signaling Pathways by KSHV
Wednesday, October 4, 2017:
Dr. Alejandro Balazs, Massachusetts General Hospital
Development of Vectored Therapy reveals “escapability” as a key feature of broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV
Wednesday, October 11, 2017:
Dr. Ana Fernandez-Sesma, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Immune evasion mechanisms of dengue virus: Feeling the STING
Wednesday, October 18, 2017:
Dr. Tom Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School, Immune Disease Institute
Imaging live-cell dynamics from molecules to organisms
Wednesday, October 25, 2017:
Dr. Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children’s Hospital
New tools to study virus-host interactions
Wednesday, November 1, 2017:
Dr. Laimonis Laimins, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
HPV and the DNA Damage Response
Wednesday, November 8, 2017:
Dr. Don Coen, Harvard Medical School
Fun with herpes
Wednesday, November 15, 2017:
Dr. Carolyn Coyne, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Antimicrobial signaling at the maternal-fetal interface
Wednesday, November 29, 2017:
Dr. James Chodosh, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Evolution of Human Adenovirus Species D
Wednesday, December 6, 2017:
Dr. Jonathan Kagan, Boston Children's Hospital
Initiation and regulation of antiviral immunity
Wednesday, December 13, 2017:
Dr. Ileana Cristea, Princeton University
Understanding the complexity of viral infection using proteomics
Wednesday, January 10, 2018:
Dr. Sylvie Le Gall, Ragon Institute, Harvard Medical School
The immunopeptidome in HIV infection
Wednesday, January 17, 2018:
Dr. Kartik Chandran, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Unraveling and inhibiting the cell invasion mechanisms of emerging RNA viruses
Wednesday, January 24, 2018:
Dr. Adolfo García-Sastre, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
NS1-driven influenza virus host tropism
Wednesday, January 31, 2018:
Dr. Stephen Harrison, Harvard Medical School
How viruses breach a membrane barrier to infect a cell
Wednesday, February 7, 2018:
Dr. Welkin Johnson, Boston College
Endless Forms Most Viral: Endogenous Retroviruses, Retroviruses, & the Tree of Life
Wednesday, February 14, 2018:
Dr. Lee Gehrke, Harvard Medical School
Moving on from Diagnostics to iPS cells and BSL3 viruses
Wednesday, February 21, 2018:
Dr. Aaron Schmidt, Harvard Medical School
Immunogen design strategies for rapidly evolving pathogens
Wednesday, February 28, 2018:
Dr. Karl Münger, Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Carcinogenic mechanisms of human papillomaviruses
Wednesday, March 7, 2018:
Dr. Priscilla Yang, Harvard Medical School
Chemical approaches to the study of viruses: from basic molecular mechanisms to validation of new mechanisms of pharmacological inhibition
Wednesday, March 14, 2018:
Dr. Jan Carette, Stanford University School of Medicine
**Seminar Canceled** Genetic dissection of viral pathogenesis and host defense **Seminar Canceled**
Wednesday, March 21, 2018:
Dr. Eva Harris, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
The flavivirusNS1 protein: Unraveling mechanisms of pathogenesis of dengue, Zika, and beyond
Wednesday, March 28, 2018:
Dr. Robert Garcea, University of Colorado Boulder
Nuclear Virus Factories in Polyomavirus-Infected Cells
Wednesday, April 4, 2018:
Dr. Daniel Lingwood, Massachusetts General Hospital
Activation and amplification a gene-encoded antibody development pathway that generates broad protection against influenza virus
Wednesday, April 11, 2018:
Dr. Kenneth Kaye, Brigham and Women's Hospital
KSHV LANA: Crossing the species barrier
Wednesday, April 25, 2018:
G4 Talks Joe Cabral (Knipe lab) Max Mertens (Knipe lab)
Wednesday, May 2, 2018:
G4 Talks Vinita Joshi (Allen lab) Matt Lim (Gygi lab)
Wednesday, May 9, 2018:
G4 Talks Maddy Jennewein (Alter lab) May Wang (Cunningham lab)
Wednesday, May 16, 2018:
G4 Talks Po-Ting Liu (Barouch lab) Phillip Tomezsko (Kuritzkes lab)
Wednesday, May 23, 2018:
G4 Talks Mike Ernandes (Kagan lab) Liang Wei Wang (Gewurz lab)
Wednesdays, 12:30 pm
Harvard Medical School
New Research Building
Room 1031
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA
Refreshments at 12:15 pm