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Penn Microbiology @PennMicro

University of Pennsylvania Department of Microbiology

Joined August 2016
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Last in the semester Virology seminar: Tuesday 5/26/2026 12-1PM 209 Johnson Pavilion
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First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture Featured Speaker: Susan Weiss, PhD "Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium" Date: Tues 5/19 Time: 12–1PM Location: JM Reunion Aud RSVP: micro.med.upenn.edu
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First Annual Helen Davies Memorial Lecture Featured Speaker: Susan Weiss, PhD "Coronavirus activation of interferon signaling pathways is critical for control of infection in the nasal epithelium" Date: Tues 5/19 Time: 12–1PM Location: JM Reunion Aud RSVP: micro.med.upenn.edu/
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Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 5/6/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Last Micro Seminar of Spring Semester! Amelia Escolano, PhD, The Wistar Institute “Rapid elicitation of a new class of neutralizing antibodies against the V3-glycan epitope of HIV-1" wistar.org/our-scientists/am…
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Virology Seminar 💉 5/5/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Clara Malekshahi, Moncla Lab “Wild Anseriformes Ecology is Driving the Dissemination of HPAI H5N1 in North America”   Jordan Ort, Hensley Lab “Immune history shapes cross-reactive antibody responses to H5N1 neuraminidase”
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Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/29/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Ricardo Rajsbaum, PhD "Regulation of immunity and virus Replication by the host ubiquitin system: Novel therapeutic opportunities" njms-web.njms.rutgers.edu/pr…
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Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/28/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Clayton Otter, Weiss Lab “What makes a common cold (corona)virus?” Helen Stillwell, Weiss Lab "West African clade C MERS-CoV camel viruses induce more robust innate immunity compared to wild-type in human cells”
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Please note there will be no ProK seminar Monday April 27th
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Penn Microbiology retweeted
Bushman Lab@bushmanlab
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Congrats to Ceylan Tanes, Shelley Buffenstein and the team on their fascinating study of the naked mole rat microbiome (PMID: 42012979). No change in the mole rat bacterial microbiome over decades. Notable differences associated with social structure and copraphagy.
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Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/22/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Monica McCallum, PhD “Shape Shifting Molecules and Microbes” mccallumlab.com/
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Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/21/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion
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Prokaryotic Seminar🦠 Mon 4/20/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Tiffany Zarrella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dep of Biology, Georgetown Univ zarrellalab.org/ “Eavesdropping on microbial communities: how bacteria sense and respond to each other”
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Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/14/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion
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Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 4/13/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion
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Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/8/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Matthias Schnell, PhD "Immunogenicity of an adjuvanted, combination inactivated rabies-vectored, Lassa fever vaccine in healthy adults: Interim results of a first-in-human Phase 1 trial"
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Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/7/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion James Regan, You Lab "Merkel cell polyomavirus tumor antigens transform dermal fibroblasts and drive tumor formation”
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Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/1/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Alumni Speaker Andrew Camilli, PhD "Genetic Analysis of the Arms Race Between Vibrio cholerae and Phages" gsbs.tufts.edu/faculty-resea…
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Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 3/31/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Andoni Nolasco-Ramirez, Cherry Lab “Bunyaviruses are Differentially Controlled by Protein Kinase R”
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Please note there will be no ProK seminar next Monday March 30🦠
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