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).
fall 2020:
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:
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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