Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series
Each semester, we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. Seminars are held at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays unless otherwise noted. Location: BSB Auditorium 3 (Watzke).
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Fall 2026 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Host | Faculty Profile or Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 25 | Ryan Burdick, PhD | Alex Kleinpeter, PhD | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-burdick-68038911/?isSelfProfile=false |
| Sept. 1 | Lijun Rong, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago | Balaji Manicassamy, PhD | https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/microbiology/profiles/rong-lijun/ |
| Sept. 8 | Holiday - No Seminar | ||
| Sept. 15 | Jane Carlton, PhD, John Hopkins | Mary Wilson, MD, PhD | https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/1515/jane-m-carlton |
| Sept. 22 | M. Stephen Trent, PhD, University of Georgia | Michael Gebhardt, PhD | https://mib.uga.edu/directory/people/m-stephen-trent |
| Sept. 29 | Fabienne Paumet, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University | Mary Weber, PhD | https://www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/skmc/departments/microbiology/faculty-staff/faculty/paumet.html |
| Oct. 6 | Robbie Mailliard, PhD, University of Pittsburgh | Amanda Dudek, PhD | https://www.pmi.pitt.edu/people/ant-201 |
| Oct. 13 | Rong Hai, PhD, University of California - Riverside | Balaji Manicassamy, PhD | https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ronghai |
| Oct. 20 | Reserved for Faculty Recruitment | ||
| Oct. 27 | Reserved for Faculty Recruitment | ||
| Nov. 3 | Reserved for Faculty Recruitment | ||
| Nov. 10 | Sumit Chanda, PhD, Scripps Research | Li Wu, PhD | https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/chanda/ |
| Nov. 17 | David Evans, PhD, University of Wisconsin | Amanda Dudek, PhD | https://pathology.wisc.edu/staff/evans-david/ |
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Dec. 1 | Matthew Jorgenson, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | David Weiss, PhD | https://medicine.uams.edu/mbim/faculty/primary/matthew-jorgenson-ph-d/ |
| Dec. 8 | Reserved for Faculty Recruitment | ||