CBMG SEMINARS
The CBMG department hosts seminars in the Fall and Spring semester of each academic year. All on-campus seminars are held in BRB 1103 on Fridays from 12-1pm. All webinars are held on Zoom on Fridays from 12-1pm. Information on past seminars including schedules, speaker information and recorded seminars can be found below.
For questions regarding registration, recordings, etc, please contact Priyanka (pvengata@umd.edu).
spring 2021:
Dr. Olena Vatamaniuk
Date of Webinar: 5/7/21
Title: "The Role of Copper in Plant Fertility: a Journey from Model Plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Branchypodium distachyon to Wheat"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Eric Skaar (Vanderbilt University)
Date of Webinar: 4/23/21
Title: "The intersection of nutrition and infection at host-microbe interface"
Recorded Seminar Link: Seminar not recorded.
Dr. Jeffrey DeStefano (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 4/16/21
Title: "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pathogen-Specific Aptamers"
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
Dr. Jiqiang (Lanny) Ling (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 4/2/21
Title: "Lost in translation: role of ribosomal fidelity in bacteria-host interactions"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Najib El-Sayed (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 3/26/21
Title: "On Trypanosomatid Regulomes and Infectomes"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Tamara O'Connor (Johns Hopkins University)
Date of Webinar: 3/5/21
Title: "Legionella - Master of the Long Con"
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
Dr. Margaret Scull (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 2/26/21
Title: “Rhinovirus C Infection in Human and Mouse Cells”
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
Dr. John Moult (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 2/19/21
Title: "An AI solution to the protein folding problem: what is it, how did it happen and some implications"
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
Dr. James Munro (University of Massachusetts)
Date of Webinar: 2/12/21
Title: "Imaging virus replication with single-molecule FRET"
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
Dr. Jonathan Leshin (USPHS/FDA)
Date of Webinar: 1/29/21
Title: "The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - America's Health Responders"
Recorded Seminar Link: Webinar not recorded.
fall 2020:
Dr. Margaret Kielian (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Date of Webinar: 12/11/20
Title: Making and breaking nucleocapsids: New approaches to study alphavirus assembly and RNA packaging
Recorded Seminar Link: Updated after seminar.
Dr. Yuxing Li (UMD School of Medicine and IBBR)
Date of Webinar: 12/4/20
Title: Antibody and Vaccine: The Discovery and Re-design
Recorded Seminar Link: Seminar not recorded.
Dr. Stephen Mount (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 11/20/20
Title: "Understanding CAGGTGAGT and other signals"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here.
Dr. Kim Davis (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Date of Webinar: 11/13/20
Title: "Keeping the stress to a minimum: Cooperation between subpopulations of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis during infection"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Charles Delwiche (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 11/6/20
Title: "Molecular Phylogenetics of Algae and the Origin of Plants"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here.
Dr. Jose Feijo (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 10/30/2020
Title: "Evolution and Functional Regulation of Plant Glutamate Receptors"
Recorded Seminar Link: Contact Priya for link and password
Dr. Monica Mugnier (John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Date of Webinar: 10/16/2020
Title: "Using high-throughput sequencing to understand the Trypanosoma brucei host-pathogen interface"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Jennifer Philips (Washington University, St. Louis)
Date of Webinar: 10/23/2020
Title: "Immune Evasion Mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis"
Recorded Seminar link: Seminar not recorded
Dr. Roy Mariuzza (University of Maryland & IBBR)
Date of Webinar: 10/9/20
Title: "Structural basis for T cell recognition of cancer neoantigens"
Recorded Seminar link: Contact Priya for link and password.
Dr. Daniel Stein (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 10/2/2020
Title: "My 40 year Journey with Neisseria gonorrhoeae"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Zhongchi Liu (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 9/25/2020
Title: "Establishing diploid wild strawberry as a model to investigate asexual reproduction and fleshy fruit development"
Recorded Seminar link: Contact Priya for link and password.
Dr. Carolyn Coyne (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
Date of Webinar: 9/18/2020
Title: "Antimicrobial signaling at the maternal-fetal interface"
Recorded Seminar Link: Click here.
Dr. Jonathan Dinman (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 9/11/2020
Title: "Targeting Programmed -1 Ribosomal Frameshifting in COVID-19"
Recorded Seminar link: Contact Priya for link and password.
Spring 2020:
Dr. Caren Chang (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 6/26/2020
Title: "ACC, a non-proteinogenic aminoacid: the case for a novel plant hormone"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here.
Dr. Sougata Roy (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 6/18/2020
Title: "Synaptic signal transmission in non-neuronal cells through cytonemes - who let the cytonemes out?"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here.
Dr. David Mosser (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 6/12/2020
Title: "A personal history of macrophage biology" Recorded Seminar link: Click here
Dr. Kevin McIver (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 6/5/2020
Title: "Blame the Media; the host as a growth environment for pathogens"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here
Dr. Wenxia Song (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 5/29/2020
Title: "Asymptomatic to symptomatic infection - Adaptation of Neisseria gonorrhea to the human female reproductive tract"
Recorded Seminar link: Contact Priyanka for link.
Dr. Norma Andrews (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 5/22/2020
Title: "Exocytosis of lysosomes - what for?"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here
Dr. William Snell (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 5/15/2020
Title: "Using the green alga Chlamydomonas to study conserved mechanisms of ciliary signaling and sexual reproduction"
Recorded Seminar link:
Click here
Dr. Volker Briken (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 5/8/2020
Title: "Mycobacterium tuberculosis mediated manipulation of the host cell inflammasome"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here
Dr. Antony Jose (University of Maryland)
Date of Webinar: 5/1/2020
Title: "Rethinking Heredity"
Recorded Seminar link: Click here