Michael Gale, PhD, University of Washington
Innate immunity in RNA virus infection (Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-based Diseases)

Alice Telesnitsky, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School
How HIV-1 selects its genome: a tail of two nucleotides 

Andrea Marzi, PhD, NIH
Pathogenesis of filoviruses                 

Zongdi Feng, PhD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Quasienveloped viruses: the what, the how, and the why                             

Vera Tarakanova, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin
The gammaherpesvirus-host love/hate relationship (Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-based Diseases)   

Denise Monack, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford School of Medicine
Battles for gut resources and niches: How Salmonella induces superspreader hosts
Michael Apicella Endowed Lecture                   

Jennifer Walker, PhD, University of Texas-Houston, McGovern Medical School
Elucidating Host-Pathogen Interactions that Dictate Recalcitrance in Medical Device-associated Infections
Dr. Sarah Pulvermacher Graduate Student Seminar      

James Earnest, PhD, Emory University
The diversity of antibody responses to arbovirus infection at the individual and population levels 

Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Role of ORF6 of SARS-CoV-2 as an interferon antagonist (Co-sponsored with the Center for Immunology and Immune-based Diseases)                           

Aimee Potter, PhD, University of Virginia (UVA)
Integrating Systems biology approaches to dissect Neisseria gonorrhoeae metabolism, pathogenesis, and antimicrobial resistance at the host-pathogen interface

Sarah Dremel, PhD, NCI
CircRNA biogenesis and function during herpesvirus infection                     

Sebla Kutluay, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
Rules that govern packaging and repackaging of the HIV-1 genome                         

Aravinth Jayabalan, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Virus-Host Battle at Stress Granules: Insights from Alphavirus Macrodomain"                             

Sizun Jiang, PhD, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research
Spatial-omics to Interrogate Host-Disease Interactions                    

Hwan Kim, PhD, Stony Brook University
Tick Transmission and pathogenesis of Rickettsia amblyommatis

Amanda Dudek, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
"A Tale of Two Models: Developing an HIV cure and investigating immune control using gene editing"

Christine Suetterlin, PhD, University of California-Irvine
"Arms race between Chlamydia and its host cell"