Upcoming Center Seminars
July 2025
Date:
Monday, July 28, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Online: Zoom Meeting
Password: 161771
Speaker:
Renée M. Tsolis, PhD
Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Chair, Microbiology Graduate Group
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Title: Mechanisms of invasive salmonellosis: co-morbidities and host susceptibility
Speaker’s Research Interests: For the past 25 years, the Tsolis lab has utilized intracellular bacteria, particularly Salmonella, Brucella, and more recently Chlamydia, to study functioning of the host innate immune system as well as how microbial communities at mucosal surfaces protect against infection. One question the lab has been addressing is how host phagocytes detect subversion of their physiology by injected virulence factors of intracellular pathogens, which led to discovery of a new function for NOD1 and NOD2 in sensing endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by Chlamydia and Brucella. The lab’s work on Salmonella has advanced our understanding of how underlying comorbidities prevalent in the developing world, such as malaria and malnutrition, compromise phagocyte functions required for containment of infection to the gastrointestinal tract, thereby increasing susceptibility to disseminated infection. Most recently, the lab has focused on animal modeling to generate a model to study typhoid fever, an infection that is strictly restricted to humans. This will be the focus of the seminar.
August 2025
Date:
Monday, August 25, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Arthur "Art" Beyder, MD, PhD, AGAF
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Associate Professor, Medicine and Physiology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
September 2025
Date:
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Hashem B. El-Serag, MD, MPH
Vice President, Learning Health System
Margaret M and Albert B Alkek Professor
and Chair, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
October 2025
Date:
Monday, October 06, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Wen-Xing Ding, PhD, FAASLD
William Warner Abercrombie Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
November 2025
Date:
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Folasade (Fola) P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil
Associate Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
Director, Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program
Associate Director, UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Staff Gastroenterologist, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
December 2025
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Howard Hang, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Immunology & Microbiology and Chemistry
Scripps Research
La Jolla, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
January 2026
Date:
Monday, January 26, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Carolina Tropini, Ph.D., P. L. Eng.
Assistant Professor
Canada Tier 2 Research Chair, Quantitative Microbiota Biology for Health Applications
Alan Bernstein CIFAR Fellow
School of Biomedical Engineering & Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
March 2026
Date:
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 7:30 – 8:30 am, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: TBD
Speaker:
Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD
Professor of Medicine
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
April 2026
Date:
Monday, April 27, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Samar H. Ibrahim, M.B.Ch.B, NASPGHAN-F, AASLD-F
Consultant, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology
Director, C-SiG Pilot and Feasibility Program
Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
May 2026
Date:
Monday, May 18, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Biomedical Sciences Department
School of Medicine
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
June 2026
Date:
Monday, June 29, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker: TBD
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
July 2026
Date:
Monday, June 27, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker: TBD
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD
August 2026
Date:
Monday, August 31, 2026, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Pacific Time, Hybrid Meeting
Location: Leichtag - 107 (Lecture Room)
Speaker:
Scott T. Magness, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology & Physiology
North Carolina State University Joint Departments of Biomedical Engineering
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Title: TBD
Speaker’s Research Interests: TBD