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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ProK and Virology Trainee Seminar🦠 Microbiology Seminar🔬 Next week's seminars have been cancelled on 9/29 and 9/30 respectively

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 9/23/26 12-1PM *SCTR Rubenstein Auditorium* Laura Cook, PhD "Bacterial determinants of Streptococcal Carriage and Disease” www.lauracooklab.com

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProK and Virology Trainee Seminar Tuesday 9/22/2026 12 – 1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Lorenzo Serra, Price Lab Lorie Marchitto, PhD, Hahn Lab

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Today 9/16/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Janelle Arthur, PhD "Microbiome and inflammation-associated intestinal disease" arthurlab.weebly.com

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Special Seminar Sponsored by Institute for RNA Innovation Tuesday 9/15/2026 12 - 1 PM JMB CLASS OF 62* Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Virology Seminar Tuesday 9/8/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Guangda (Brian) Shi, Ph.D., Cherry Lab “Metabolic Regulation of Pyrimidine Antiviral Efficacy by Uridine Cytidine Kinase 2”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today! CRB/RRB Austrian Aud 12-1:30pm Or pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/9180726380... Meeting ID: 918 0726 3806 Passcode: 206374 (Recorded)

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Please join us for a Special Seminar/SRR Training featuring: Noam Auslander, PhD, from the Wistar Institute. “AI in our workflows: How should (and shouldn’t) we use chatbots in computational research?” Wednesday, June 24th CRB/RRB Austrian Aud 12-1:30pm

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Last in the semester Virology seminar: Tuesday 5/26/2026 12-1PM 209 Johnson Pavilion

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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" www.wistar.org/our-scientis...

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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/profile/myPr...

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Please note there will be no ProK seminar Monday April 27th

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 4/22/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Monica McCallum, PhD “Shape Shifting Molecules and Microbes” www.mccallumlab.com

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/21/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar🦠 Mon 4/20/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Tiffany Zarrella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dep of Biology, Georgetown Univ www.zarrellalab.org “Eavesdropping on microbial communities: how bacteria sense and respond to each other”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 4/14/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 4/13/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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-rese...

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Please note there will be no ProK seminar next Monday March 30🦠

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tomorrow! Join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses and the @PennCSSM for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. Thurs 3/26 10-4pm BRB Gaulton Aud Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter Hotez to give the keynote discussion.

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Next Week! Join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses and the @PennCSSM for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. Thurs 3/26 10-4pm BRB Gaulton Aud Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter Hotez to give the keynote discussion.

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 3/24/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Helena Winstone, PhD, Weiss Lab "Clade C MERS-CoV camel strains vary in protease utilization during viral entry”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 3/23/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Niharika Shukla, St. Geme and Yi-Wei labs "Elucidating the structures and functions of the Kingella kingae type IV pili-associated PilC proteins”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Next Week! Join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses and the @penncssm.bsky.social for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. Thurs 3/26 10-4pm BRB Gaulton Aud Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter Hotez to give the keynote discussion.

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 3/18/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Zachery Lonergan, PhD "Nitric Oxide: Molecular Tuner of Microbial Life" www.lonerganlab.org

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Virology Seminar💉 Today 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Mark Dittmar, CherryLab "Discovering antivirals against henipaviruses, a highly pathogenic genus of zoonotic paramyxoviruses" Jasmine Larrick,WeitzmanLab "Structural Investigation of Adenovirus Packaging: From Nuclear Compartments to Infectious Particles”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Please join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses and the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. Thurs 3/26 10-4pm BRB Gaulton Aud Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter J. Hotez to give the keynote discussion.

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 3/11/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Vincent Tam, PhD "Fueling Infection: How Lipid Metabolism and PPARα Reshape Host Immunity from Lung to Gut" medicine.temple.edu/directory/vi...

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Special Seminar Tue 3/10 12 PM John Morgan Reunion Aud Co-sponsored by Microbiology Department (PSOM) and Institute for Infectious & Zoonotic Diseases (PennVet) Dr. Kyle Frischkorn, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Microbiology “Publishing in Nature Journals”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 3/9/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Qianxuan (Sean) She, Moustafa Lab, co-mentored by Zackular and Planet “A bacterial phylogenomics toolkit for strain identification, genome profiling, and bacterial evolution simulation”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 3/4/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Randy Longman, MD, PhD "From Microbiome to Immunity: Precision Medicine Approaches for Inflammatory Bowel Disease" longmanlab.org

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 UPDATE Today 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Molly Paterson, PhD, Price Lab "Splicing inhibitors are novel therapeutics for EBV-driven lymphomas" Tamanna Srivastava, Cherry Lab “SARS-CoV-2 infection of gastrointestinal tissues is chronic and inflammatory”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 3/2/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Erin Theiller, Moustafa Lab “Unraveling the Epidemiological Dynamics of Staphylococcus epidermidis in Pediatric Bacteremia” David Gao, Mathijssen Lab "Selective Trapping of Bacteria in Porous Media by Cell Length"

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

PLEASE note: the Microbiology seminar with Amelia Escolano on Wednesday, February 25, has been postponed.

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 2/24/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Ekaterina Shipilova, Montaner Lab "Medications for opioid use disorder alter the distinctive metabolic patterns associated with HIV state and suppressive ART”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 PLEASE note: NO ProK seminar on Monday, February 23

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 2/11/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Sabra Klein, PhD "SeXX matters for respiratory virus pathogenesis" www.sabrakleinlab.org

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Monday 2/9/26 4-5PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Joel Babdor, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics “Exploring Microbiome Communities and Molecular Cues Shaping Baseline Immune Variations in health and disease”

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

NO Microbiology Seminar 🔬 on Wednesday 2-4-26

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 1/27/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Join Tamanna Srivastava from the Cherry Lab

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 1/21/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Sam Sternberg, PhD "RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity" www.sternberglab.org

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Penn Microbiology @pennmicro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 1/14/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Fabienne Paumet, PhD "Membrane fusion driven by a bacterial pathogen" www.jefferson.edu/academics/co...

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