Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
VGTI Seminar Series and Virology Journal Club is now streamed online. Please reach out to Cameron (marxmilc@ohsu.edu) if you would like a link to the live stream. Only available internally to OHSU.
Thursday November 7th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Webex only seminar
Topic: Effect of prior malaria exposure on the developing immune response to live-attenuated Plasmodium knowlesi vaccination in Rhesus macaques
Speaker: Gregory Boggy, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Past Seminars
Thursday October 25th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Targeting the SIV reservoir with mRNA vaccines and SMAC mimetics
Speaker: Ben Varco-Merth
Research Project Manager, Okoye Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 25th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Lenacapavir: Developing a Long-Acting Injectable for HIV Prevention
Visiting Speaker: Christoph Carter, MD, PhD
Director, Clinical Research
Gilead Sciences
Thursday, October 24th, 2024, 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: MHC-E restricted CD8+ T cell responses to cross-species, cross-stage antigens
Speaker: Brandon Wilder
Associate Professor
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 17th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Opportunities and challenges in clinical and preclinical assessment of long-acting technologies
Visiting Speaker: Andrew Owen, PhD FRSB FLSW FBPhS
Professor University of Liverpool, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Part of Institute of Systems, Molecular & Integrative Biology Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Thursday, October 10th, 2024, 9:30am
JNB-1100 Seminar room, and Webex online
Topic: Deciphering the Roles of the HCMV Chemokine Receptors in Viral Latency and Reactivation
Speaker: Samuel Medica
Graduate Student, Streblow Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday September 19th, 2024, 9:30am
JNB-1100 Seminar room, and Webex online
Topic: Generation of Chimeric Rhesus Rhadinovirus (RRV) Expressing Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) Envelope Glycoproteins Reveals Potential Transforming Properties of KSHV gL
Speaker: Ryan Estep, PhD
Staff Scientist, Wong Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday September 26th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Alphavirus transmission dynamics, emergence, and live attenuated vaccines
Visiting Speaker: Lark L. Coffey, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Microbology and Immunology
School of Veterinary Medicine
UC Davis, California
Tuesday September 16th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Vaccines and Therapeutics Against Emerging Viral Infections
Visiting Speaker: Tian Wang, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Texas, Galveston
Tuesday September 10th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNB-1100, Webex
Topic: Engineering human host defense proteins to combat infectious diseases
Visiting Speaker: John S. Albin, MD, PhD
Associate Director of Mycobacterial Research
Division of Infectious Diseases
Massachusetts General Hospital
Wednesday September 4th, 2024 10:30am
VGTI/ONPRC - Montagna Auditorium, Webex
Topic: Network Systems Biology: New Molecular Tools to Probe Health and Disease at OHSU
Speaker: Andrew Emili, PhD
Professor, Depts. of Chemical Physiology, Biochemistry & Biomedical Enineering
Division of Oncological Sciences, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU
Thursday June 20th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNRB-1100, Webex
Topic: Cellular mechanisms of Innate Immunity and Inflammation in the lung
Visiting Speaker: Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, PhD
Chief, Inflammation and Innate Immunity Unit
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Thursday June 27th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNRB-1100, Webex
Topic: A strategy blueprint to combat the superbug Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Visiting Speaker: Aleksandra Sikora, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, OHSU
Thursday June 13th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNRB-1100, Webex
Topic: Malaria and the Liver: Livers Role in Malaria Immunity
Speaker: Rowland Osii, PhD
Computational Biologist 2, VGTI – Wilder Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 6th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, JNRB-1100, Webex
Topic: Development of a Powassan Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Adjuvanted with Novel Toll-Like Receptor Agonists
Speaker: Michael Crawford
PhD student (PBMS), VGTI - Hirsch Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 16, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Searching for Suppression: spatial profiling in human and murine Tuberculosis
Visiting Speaker: Amanda J. Martinot, DVM, MPH, PhD, DACVP
E.A. Stevens Assistant Professor
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Thursday May 30, 2024 9:30am - Postponed to 6/27
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: A strategy blueprint to combat the superbug Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Visiting Speaker: Aleksandra Sikora, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University
Adjunct Associate Professor, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, OHSU
Thursday May 9th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Establishing the Initial Immunological Waypoints of Early-Stage Mycobacterium tuberculosis Under RhCMV and IV-BCG Vaccination using Single Cell RNASeq
Speaker: Daniel Ramirez
Computational Biologist 2, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 25th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Multiomic Investigation of RhCMV and BCG Vaccinations in Early-Stage Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infected Rhesus macaques
Speaker: GW McElfresh, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist 2, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 18, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Glycoimmunology to Combat Immune Dysfunction in Aging with Viral Infections
Visiting Speaker: Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD
Associate Professor, Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center
Immunology, Microenvironment and Metastasis Program,
Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, Wistar Institute
Thursday April 11th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Antibody-mediated CCR5 blockade for HIV Prevention
Speaker: Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, ONPRC – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 4th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Targeting TCF-1 to potentiate CD8 T cell function for off-ART HIV/SIV control
Speaker: Hiroshi Takata, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Okoye Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 28th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Modeling anti-retroviral therapy and liver inflammation in HIV/HBV co-infected rhesus macaques
Speaker: Sreya Biswas, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, ONPRC – Burwitz Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 21st, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Investigating the Structure and Influence of Glycoprotein Complex II and 8.1 to the Spread of Primate Rhadinoviruses
Speaker: Gavin Golas, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 14th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Webex only seminar
Topic: Liver Immune Dynamics in Rhesus macaques Following Live-attenuated Plasmodium knowlesi Vaccination
Speaker: Gregory Boggy, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 12nd, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Introduction and Discussion of Translational Medicine Vision
Visiting Speaker: Jessica Cowden, MD, MSPH, FAAP
Chief, Department of Retrovirology, AFRIMS
Thursday March 7th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Broadly active therapies to treat emerging coronavirus infections: Preparing for tomorrow's pandemics, today
Visiting Speaker: Timothy P. Sheahan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thursday February 27th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The Critical Role of Interleukin-6 in Protection Against Neurotropic Flavivirus Infection
Visiting Speaker: Tabassum Auroni, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Georgia State University
Thursday February 29th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Nonhuman primate models of HIV viral co-infections
Visiting Speaker: Megan O'Connor, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Washington
Thursday February 22nd, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Rhesus cytomegalovirus unique short segment encodes species-specific T-cell modulatory function.
Speaker: Husam Taher, PhD
Staff Scientist, Frueh Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 15th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Is it possible to have a universal vaccine? The future of Vector-borne disease control
Visiting Speaker: Berlin Londono-Renteria, PhD
Assistant Professor, Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
Thursday February 8th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Transcriptomic Lymph Node Heterogeneity and Putative Viral Reactivation Markers in SIV+ Rhesus Macaques During Long Term ART-suppression and ATI
Speaker: Maanasa Kaza
Computational Biologist, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 1st, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The Kitchen Sink: combination immunotherapy to reduce the SHIV reservoir
Speaker: Gabby Webb, PhD
Staff Scientist, ONPRC – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday January 25th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Nimble: a novel tool to maximize and augment information from bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data
Speaker: Sebastian Benjamin
Research Assistant, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday, January 18th, 2024 9:30am - POSTPONED to 2/22/24
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: TBA
Speaker: Husam Taher, PhD
Staff Scientist, Frueh Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, January 11th, 2024 9:30am - POSTPONED TO 5/16/24
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Role of HCMV UL8 in the Wnt/ON-Notch/OFF switch required for efficient viral reactivation.
Visiting Speaker: Amanda J. Martinot, DVM, MPH, PhD, DACVP
E.A. Stevens Assistant Professor
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Thursday, January 4th, 2024 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Role of HCMV UL8 in the Wnt/ON-Notch/OFF switch required for efficient viral reactivation.
Speaker: Aaron Dirck, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Caposio Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, December 7th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Asthma is getting on your nerves: neuroimmune interactions in eosinophilic asthma
Speaker: Matthew G. Drake, MD, ATSF
Interim Division Chief | Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Principal Investigator | OHSU Asthma Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 30th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Alphaviral Replicons as Vaccine Vectors: Return of the “Franken-particle"
Speaker: Jack Schell, PhD
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Wilder Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 16th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Harnessing allogeneic T cell receptors that mediate HIV cure
Speaker: Octavia Hogaboam
PhD student (PBMS), Sacha Lab
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 9th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The Battle Inside: Cellular Lipids vs. Infections
Speaker: Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, MMI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 2nd, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Recap of Peru: same parasite, different monkeys, more ceviche
Speaker: Brandon Wilder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 26th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Impact of T cell-targeting mRNA SIV vaccines on post-ART viral control
Speaker: Ben Varco-Merth, PhD
Research Project Manager, VGTI - Okoye Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Monday October 24th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Controlled Human Malaria Infection in Semi-Immune Kenyan Adults (CHMI-SIKSA)
A Tool to Investigate Immunity to Malaria
Visiting Speaker: Francis Ndung'u, PhD
Principal Investigator, Immunology
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome
Thursday, October 19th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The Role of Chronic Inflammation in Vaccine Efficacy
Visiting Speaker: Timothy Schacker, MD
Executive Vice Dean, UMN Med School
Director, Program in HIV Medicine
Monday October 16th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Malaria, Epstein Barr Virus Infection and Risk for Endemic Burkitt's Lymphoma
Visiting Speaker: Sidney Ogolla, PhD
Assistant Principal Research Scientist
Kenya Medical Research Institute
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 9:30am - POSTPONED to 1/4/24
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: TBA
Speaker: Aaron Dirck, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Caposio Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, October 5th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: IFNγ-independent control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in rhesus macaques
Speaker: Daniel Barber, PhD
Senior Investigator, T lymphocyte Biology Section
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Thursday, September 28th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Deciphering the Role of US28 in HCMV Latency and Reactivation
Speaker: Samuel Medica
PhD Student, Streblow lab
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, September 21st, 2023 9:30am - Postponed to 12/7/23
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Asthma is getting on your nerves: neuroimmune interactions in eosinophilic asthma
Speaker: Matthew G. Drake, MD, ATSF
Interim Division Chief | Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Principal Investigator | OHSU Asthma Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Monday June 22nd, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Differential Type I interferon responses between HIV controllers and non-controllers after treatment interruption
Speaker: Julie Michell, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Monday June 12th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Curing Plasmodium liver infection with novel aspartyl protease inhibitors confers sterile immunity to malaria
Visiting Speaker: Justin Boddey, PhD
Associate Professor
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Thursday June 1st, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: A multi-model approach for exploring cross-reactive immunity to emerging alphaviruses
Speaker: Whitney Weber
PhD student (PBMS), Streblow Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, May 25th, 2023, 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Transgenic Rhesus Macaques: The Future of Animal Models for HBV and Other Liver Diseases
Speaker: Lauren Rust, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Burwitz Lab
Division of Pathobiology & Immunology
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 11th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Fungal/CARD9-signaling axis in regulation of autoimmunity in ankylosing spondylitis
Speaker: Ruth Napier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 4th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: A tale of two diseases: implications of Malaria on Epstein-Barr viral oncogenesis
Visiting Speaker: Gabriela Samayoa-Reyes, PhD
Assistant Research Professor,
Dept. of Immunology & Microbiology
University of Colorado
Thursday April 27th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Comparative Analysis of Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Signatures of Early Tuberculosis with Varying Vaccinations in NHPs
Speaker: GW McElfresh, PhD
Computational Biologist II, Bimber Lab
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 13th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Potency and breadth of neutralizing antibodies against wild-type yellow fever viruses in 17D-vaccinated subjects.
Speaker: Flic Coulter, MSc
Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 6th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: STING as a Valuable Innate Immune Target
Speaker: Victor DeFilippis, PhD
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 30th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: A Rhesus Macaque Model of HIV/HBV Co-infection
Speaker: Sreya Biswas, PhD
Staff Scientist, Burwitz Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 23rd, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Vital Contributions of Glycoprotein Complex II to Rhesus Macaque Rhadinovirus
Speaker: Gavin Golas, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Wong Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 3rd, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Generation and Characterization of Chimeric Forms of Rhesus Rhadinovirus Expressing Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus gH and gL Glycoproteins
Speaker: Ryan Estep, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, Wong Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 16th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: RNA biology and RNA viruses: defining the interface
Visiting Speaker: Sara Cherry, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Nelson Lab
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday February 9th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Human Cytomegalovirus miRNAs inhibit Akt to promote reactivation from latency
Speaker: Nicole Diggins, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Nelson Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 2nd, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: MiR-142 Restricts Epstein - Barr virus Lytic Cycle by Modulating Mek/Erk Pathway
Speaker: Yan Chen, M.S.
Senior Research Assistant, Skalsky Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 26th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Using RhCMV to Break Tolerance: Recognition of Human Cancer by Unconventionally Restricted Rhesus Macaque CD8+ T Cells
Speaker: Ravi Iyer, PhD
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Frueh Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 12th, 2023 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Species specificity of cytomegalovirus vaccine-induced unconventional T cell responses
Speaker: Husam Taher, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, Frueh Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 8th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: HIV reservoir burden drives residual dysfunction of HIV-specific CD8 T cells on suppressive ART
Speaker: Hiroshi Takata, PhD
Staff Scientist, Trautmann Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 1st, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Flavivirus antivirals and vaccines
Speaker: Jessica Smith, PhD
Sr. Staff Scientist, Hirsch Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 10th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The VGTI Insectary and Associated Malaria Projects
Speaker: Maya Aleshnick
Sr. Research Project Manager, Wilder Lab
Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 3rd, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Targeting the Persistent SIV Reservoir on Follicular Dendritic Cells with anti-CD21 Treatment
Speaker: Chi Ngai Chan, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, Integrated Pathology Core
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 27th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Why Tuberculosis Wins? From Government Policies to Immune Perturbations
Visiting Speaker: Shashank Ganatra, M. B.B.S
Staff Scientist
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
San Antonio, Texas
Thursday October 20th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: AAV/bnAb therapy for combating perinatal HIV infection
Visiting Speaker: Mauricio Martins, PhD.
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
UF Scripps Biomedical Research, Jupiter, Florida
Thursday October 13th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Antibody-mediated CCR5 blockade for HIV prevention
Speaker: Helen Wu, PhD
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 6th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Paradigm shifts in developing broad-spectrum antivirals: A tale of two pandemic viruses
Visiting Speaker: François Jean, Ph.D.
Professor of Virology
Lead, Pillar 10, CoVaRR-net – Antiviral strategies & antiviral Therapeutics
Founder, UBC CL3 Facility for Infectious Disease and Epidemic Research (FINDER)
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
Thursday September 29th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Transducing Primary T Cells with Mamu-E Restricted TCRs.
Speaker: Jack Schell, PhD
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Wilder Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 22nd, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: HCMV interaction with Wnt-signaling pathway in latency and reactivation
Speaker: Aaron Dirck, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, VGTI - Caposio Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 30th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: The Kitchen Sink: Combination immunotherapy to reduce the SHIV viral reservoir
Speaker: Gabby Webb, PhD
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 23rd, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Persistence of HIV-specific T cells in the CNS after early initiation of antiretroviral therapy
Speaker: Julie Mitchell, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Trautmann Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 26th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Positive and negative regulators of MHC-E responses in RhCMV
Speaker: Nathan Vande Burgt, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 12th, 2022 11:00am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Targeting the SIV reservoir with anti-CD52 (alemtuzumab)
Speaker: Ben Varco-Merth, PhD
Research Project Manager, VGTI - Okoye Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 5th, 2022 11:00am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Layered viral influences on human immune adaptation
Postdoctoral Candidate: Kayla Holder, PhD
Memorial University
St. John’s Newfoundland, CA
Thursday May 5th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Mucosal memory T cells in breastmilk are modulated by SARS-CoV02 mRNA vaccination
Visiting Scientist: Whitney Harrington, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Washington
Thursday April 28th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Nimble: a lightweight and flexible tool to maximize information from scRNA-seq data
Speaker: Sebastain Benjamin
Research Assistant, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 21st, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Multimodal Analysis of Early Stage Tuberculosis in NHPs
Speaker: GW McElfresh, PhD
Computational Biologist, ONPRC – Bimber Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 31st, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Mechanistic insights into HCMV latency
Speaker: Meaghan Hancock
Assistant Professor, VGTI – Nelson Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 10th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Generation of Chimeric Forms of Rhesus Rhadinovirus for the Analysis of the Roles of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus gH and gL Glycoproteins in Infection and Immunity
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 3rd, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Adaptation of glycoprotein complex II of Rhesus Rhadinovirus for basic and translational studies of KSHV
Speaker: Gavin Golas, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 17th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Discovery & Development of Therapeutic Interfering Particles (TIPs): single-administration SARS-CoV-2 and HIV antivirals with high barriers to the evolution of resistance
Visiting Speaker: Leor Weinberger, PhD
William and Ute Bowes Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Cell Circuitry
Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Thursday February 10th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Seminar room, BD1-1100, Webex
Topic: Immune complexes as culprits of COVID-19 immunopathology
Visiting Speaker: Philipp Kolb, PhD
Group Leader, Institute of Virology
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
Thursday February 3rd, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Systems analyses of anti-tumor T cell responses
Visiting Speaker: Roger Geiger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
Thursday January 27th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Anti-flaviviral drug discovery
Speaker: Jessica Smith, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI – Hirsch Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday January 20th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Nuclear Imaging of HIV, COVID and Viral Immune Responses
Visiting Speaker: Timothy Henrich, MD, MMSc
Associate Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Thursday January 6th, 2022 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Human Cytomegalovirus miRNAs and UL8 play opposing roles on Wnt signaling during latency and reactivation in CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells
Speaker: Nicole Diggins, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar, VGTI – Nelson Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 16th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: T cell programming by the cytomegalovirus MHC class I homologue UL18
Speaker: Husam Taher, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 9th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Antimicrobial signaling at the maternal-fetal interface
Visiting Speaker: Carolyn Coyne, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University School of Medicine
Thursday December 2nd, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Persistence of CD8 T cell dysfunction on ART in people treated from chronic infection
Speaker: Hiroshi Takata, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Trautmann Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 11th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Spatial in situ approaches to understand viral persistence
Speaker: Michael Nekorchuk, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Estes Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 4th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Cap modification enhances immunogenicity of mRNA/SIV therapeutic vaccine
Speaker: Were Omange, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Okoye Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 21st, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Discovery and characterization of novel chemical activators of STING using a human knockin mouse model
Speaker: Jinu Abraham, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist, VGTI – DeFilippis Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 14th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: HCMV UL8 interacts with beta-catenin in the Wnt-signaling pathway
Speaker: Aaron Dirck, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Caposio Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 23rd, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Using RhCMV to Break Tolerance: Recognition of Human Cancer by MHC-E-Restricted Rhesus Macque CD8+ T Cells.
Speaker: Ravi Iyer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 16th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Conventional and unconventional immune mechanisms for malaria vaccine development
Speaker: Brandon Wilder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, VGTI – Wilder Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 9th, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Long-term ART-free SIV remission following allogeneic HSCT in Mauritian cynomolgus macaques
Speaker: Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 24, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: CXCR3+ Tfh and B cell activation in the lymph node in acute HIV infection mediates HIV-specific antibody development
Speaker: Julie Mitchell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Trautmann Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 17, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Role of the US28 homologs Rh214-220 in promoting MHC-E responses
Speaker: Nathan Vande Burgt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 27, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: The Kitchen Sink: Combination immunotherapy to reduce the SHIV viral reservoir
Speaker: Gabby Webb, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 20, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Rhesus Immunome Reference Atlas (RIRA): A multi-tissue single-cell landscape of immune cells
Speaker: Eisa Mahyari, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist, ONPRC - RA, Bimber & Conrad Labs
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 13, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Defining the total body CD4+ T Cell distribution in rhesus macaques
Speaker: Carly Starke, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Estes Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 6, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Establishing a chronic hepatitis B infection in rhesus macaques
Speaker: Sreya Biswas, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI - Burwitz Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 22, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: The CD8 T cell response to viral infections
Visiting Speaker: Amelia Pinto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Thursday April 1, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Hepatitis B and C co-infection: a tale of two viruses
Visiting Speaker: Jake Liang, MD.
NIH Distinguished Investigator and the Chief of Liver Diseases Branch and Deputy Director of Translational Research, NIDDK, NIH
Thursday March 25, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Genome Wide CRISPR/Cas9 MicroRNA Screens for Modulators of Epstein-Barr Virus Lytic Reactivation
Speaker: Rodney Kincaid, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Skalsky Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 11, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Exploration of STING as a vaccine adjuvant target
Speaker: Dylan Boehm, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – DeFilippis Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 18, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Utilization of a vIRF/miRNA Mutant Rhesus Rhadinovirus as a Vector for Foreign Antigen Expression in vivo
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 4, 2021
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Modulation of Innate Immune Signaling Pathways by Herpesviruses
Visiting Speaker: Blossom Damania, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean of Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Department of Pharmacology, UNC School of Medicine
Thursday January 14, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Mechanisms of CTL Resistance in HIV Reservoir-Harboring Cells
Visiting Speaker: R. Brad Jones, PhD
Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Thursday January 7, 2021 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Vaccine development for human herpesvirus 8 utilizing pioneering models of rhesus Rhadinovirus
Speaker: Gavin Golas, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 17, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Modulating STAT activation to promote clearance of the HIV latent reservoir
Visiting Speaker: Alberto Bosque, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor
George Washington University, Department of Microbiology
Immunology and Tropical Medicine
Thursday December 10, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Anti-flaviviral compound discovery
Speaker: Jessica Smith, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI – Hirsch Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 3, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Oregon
Speaker: Benjamin Bimber, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Genetics and Pathobiology
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 12, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Anti-CCR5 antibody for HIV prevention
Speaker: Xiao Chang
Graduate Student, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 5, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Cytomegaloviral determinants of CD8+ T cell programming based on a recombinant full length RhCMV
Speaker: Husam Taher, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 29, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: HCMV UL8 function and effect on cell signaling
Speaker: Chi Chan, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Estes Lab
Oregon Health and Science UniversityThursday October 15, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: HCMV UL8 function and effect on cell signaling
Speaker: Aaron Dirck, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Caposio Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 8, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: A platform for discovery and characterization of novel agonists of the STING pathway
Speaker: Jinu Abraham, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – DeFilippis Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 24, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Amino acid specificity dictates sensitivity and resistance of Quinolinone compounds against alphaviruses
Speaker: Nicole Haese, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Streblow Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 17, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Non-ADCC effector functions of bNAb 10E8v4 mitigate viremia in SHIV challenged macaques
Speaker: David Spencer, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Haigwood Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 25, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: A brief update on our SARS-CoV2 efforts
Speaker: Jack Schell, PhD
Senior Research Associate, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 18, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: The humoral immune response in early treated HIV infected Thai infants
Speaker: Julie Mitchell, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Trautmann Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 11, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Memory HIV-specific CD8 T cells generated in acutely treated people are long-lived and endowed with potent recall responses
Speaker: Hiroshi Takata, PhD
Staff Scientist, VGTI – Trautmann Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 4, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in SIV-infected, cART-suppressed macaques
Speaker: Helen Wu, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 28, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic: The Kitchen Sink: Combination immunotherapy to reduce the SHIV viral reservoir
Speaker: Gabby Webb, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 21, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic:
Speaker: William Messer, MD
Assistant Professor, MMI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 16, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic:
Speaker: Mariya Shapiro
Graduate Student, ONPRC – Haigwood
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday April 9, 2020 9:30am
VGTI – Virtual Seminar, Webex
Topic:
Speaker: Nathan Vande Burgt, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Frueh
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 27, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room – West Campus
Topic: B cell responses to HA-stem from novel influenza vaccines
Visiting Speaker: Adrian McDermott, PhD
Chief, Vaccine Immunology Program
National Institute of Health
Thursday February 20, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room – West Campus
Topic: Assessing the effects of Rhesus Macaque Rhadinovirus (RRV)-Encoded miRNAs during in vivo infection
Speaker: Ryan Estep, PhD
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – Wong Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 13, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: A novel class of small molecule agonists of the cGAS-STING innate signaling pathway
Speaker: Sara Botto, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – DeFilippis Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 6, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Structural biology as a tool for HIV-1 and Malaria vaccine design
Visiting Speaker: Maria Pancera
Principal Staff Scientist and Research Associate
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
Thursday January 30, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Blockade of CD21 and its effect on SIV infection in Rhesus macaques - Preliminary results
Speaker: Chi Chan, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Estes Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday January 23, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Characterization of a Novel Small Molecule STING Agonist that Displays Allele-Specific Activity
Speaker: Jinu Abraham, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI – DeFilippis lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday January 16, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Identifying novel host-virus interactions using systems approaches
Visiting Speaker: Finn Grey
Group Leader, Roslin Institute
University of Edinburgh, UK
Thursday January 9, 2020 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Antibody-mediated CCR5 blockade recapitulates the CCR5 deficiency-mediated protection from sexual HIV acquisition
Speaker: Xiaolan Chan
Graduate Student, VGTI - Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 12, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: TBA
Speaker: L. Ravi Iyer
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI – Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 5, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Single-cell RNA-seq identifies broadly cross-reactive vaccine-induced CD8 T-cells
Speaker: Benjamin Bimber, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Research Genetics
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Thursday November 21, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: The role of RCMV-encoded chemokines R129 and R131 in viral entry
Speaker: Iris Jones
Graduate Student, VGTI - Streblow Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 14, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Using an engineered full length RhCMV BAC as a model to help design HCMV-based vaccine vectors
Speaker: Husam Taher, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Frueh Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 31, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Playing Favorites? HCMV Infection of Distinct Hematopoietic Stem Cell Populations Results in Differential Outcomes During Latency and Reactivation
Speaker: Lindsey Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI - Nelson Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 24, 2019 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Search for small molecule inhibitors of Chikungunya Virus
Speaker: Nicole Haese, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Streblow Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 24, 2019 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Unraveling the MHC-E-restricted T-cell Response after RhCMV Vaccination
Speaker: Shaheed Abbdulhaqq, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Streblow Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 6th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: What do HIV particles look like with respect to Tat?
Visiting Speaker: Opeyemi Samson Adeniji, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Candidate
University of Texas Health San Antonio, UTHSA
Thursday May 23rd, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Single-dose bNAb cocktail or abbreviated ART post-exposure regimens achieve tight SHIV control without adaptive immunity
Speaker: Mariya Shapiro
Graduate Student, ONPRC - Haigwood Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 16th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: KSHV vs. oxidative stress + Iron: leveraging ferroptosis
Speaker: Jean Gustin, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI - Moses Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 18th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: SIV-specific CD8+ T cells are clonotypically distinct across lymphoid and tissues
Visiting Speaker: Carly Starke
Georgetown University
Thursday March 21st, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus as a boosting vector
Speaker: Jack Schell, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, VGTI - Frueh Lab
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 7th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: The IL-15 superagonist N803 drives SHIV-specific CD8+ T cells into B cell follicles in ART-suppressed rhesus macaques
Speaker: Gabriela Webb, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 28th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: From promise to reality: The art and science of adjuvant systems
Visiting Speaker: Jay Evans, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Translational Medicine, University of Montana,
President and CEO, Inimmune Corporation, Missoula, Mont.
Thursday February 7th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in Mauritian cynomolgus macaques: SIV reservoir impacts and opportunistic virus-associated complications
Speaker: Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 31st, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Function of the rhesus Rhadinovirus CD200 homologue and it's effects during viral infection
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 17th, 2019 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: CyCMV vaccination of Mauritian cynomolgus macaques induces unconventional CD8+ T cells
Speaker: Justin Greene, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 13th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Characterization of TCR clonotype and transcriptional phenotype of unconventional MHC-E restricted T-cells at the single-cell level
Speaker: Benjamin Bimber, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Research Genetics
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Thursday December 6th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: HCMV and inflammasome: Dark side vs light side
Speaker: Sara Botto, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 29th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: An iL-1 receptor antagonist and a caspase-1 inhibitor mitigate rat cardiac transplant ischemia and reperfusion induced inflammation
Speaker: Iris Archer
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 16th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Discovery of radical cure drugs for P.vivax latent infection
Visiting Speaker: Erika L. Flannery, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Investigator III, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases
Emeryville, California
Thursday November 8th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: A recombinant, fully human anti-chikungunya virus monoclonal antibody is efficacious in a NHP model of disease
Speaker: Nicole Haese, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Tuesday November 6th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Dissecting the host cell death programs that impact on tuberculosis pathogenesis reveals new avenues for therapeutic intervention
Visiting Speaker: Michael D. Stutz, Ph.D.
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Thursday November 1st, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Priming and inhibition of unconventional CD8+ T cell responses by RhCMV based vaccine vectors
Speaker: Daniel Malouli, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 25th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: A secreted viral Fc gamma receptor binding protein contributes to immune evasion by cowpox virus
Speaker: L. Ravi Iyer, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 11th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: RhCMV 68-1 induced MHC-E-Restricted T-cells violate epitope and MHC-restriction paradigms
Speaker: Shaheed Abdulhaqq, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday September 27th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - West Campus
Topic: Latent HCMV infection of CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells impairs myelopoiesis and stem cell engraftment in humanized BLT mice via up-regulation of TGFβ
Speaker: Lindsey Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Friday July 27th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - 1100
Topic: Discovering novel host-pathogen interactions using systematic approaches
Visiting Speaker: Finn Grey, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Roslin Institute
University of Edinburgh, UK
Wednesday July 11th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - 1100
Topic: Into the unknown: Investigating the pathophysiology of zika virus
Visiting Speaker: Tyler M. Sharp, Ph.D.
Lt. Cmdr., US Public Health Service
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Thursday June 28th, 2018 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - 1100
Topic: Proteomics-driven Antigen Discovery for Development of Vaccines against Gonorrhea
Visiting Speaker: Aleksandra E. Sikora, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacoproteomics,
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy,
Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR
Thursday May 31st, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Nonhuman lymphocryptoviruses: Using the relatives to investigate Epstein-Barr virus
Speaker: Frederick Wang, M.D.
Professor, Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, Clinical Virology Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
Thursday May 17th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: HCMV miRNAs interfere with cellular signaling pathways essential for viral modulation of hematopoiesis
Speaker: Meaghan Hancock, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Friday May 14th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Rational design of vaccines enabled by high resolution genomic maps
Visiting speaker: Ren Sun, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular & Medicine Pharmacology, Bio-engineering
Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Associate Vice Provost, International Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Friday May 11th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Genetic analysis of the HIV reservoir
Visiting Speaker: Sarah E. Palmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney, NSW Australia
Thursday May 10th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Toll-like receptor 9 Enhancement of antiviral immunity in chronic HIV-1 infection (Teach)
Speaker: Mariane Schleimann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Estes Lab
Fulbright Visiting Scientist
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday May 3rd, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Mauritian cynomolgus macaques: SIV reservoir impacts and virus-associated complications
Speaker: Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI - Sacha Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Friday April 27th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Immunological insights and tools to design the next-generation malaria vaccine
Visiting Speaker: Brandon Sack, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Center for Infectious Disease Research
Seattle, WA
Thursday April 26th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Generating complementing cell lines for attenuated CMV vectors
Speaker: Jinu Abraham, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI - DeFilippis Lab
Oregon Health and Science University
Friday April 13th, 2018 10:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Understanding HIV/SIV latency and reactivation
Visiting Speaker: Miles Davenport, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Head Infection Analytics Program
Kirby Institute, Sydney Australia
Thursday March 29th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Teaching non-CMV vectors how to elicit MHC-E responses
Speaker: Jack Schell, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 22nd, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: The human IL-15 superagonist ALT-803 activates NK and memory T cells and drives SIV-specific CD8+T cells into B cell follicles
Speaker: Gabby Webb, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 15th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Regulation of B-Cell receptor signaling by EBV microRNAs
Speaker: Yan Chen, M.S.
Research Assistant, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 8th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Targeting the cGAS-Sting pathway with a small molecule agonist
Speaker: Bryan Gall, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday March 1st, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Search for Chikungunya replication inhibitors
Speaker: Nicole Haese, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 22nd, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: CANCELED
Speaker: Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 15th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Deciphering the function of the rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV) vCD200 homologue and its role during viral infection
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday February 8th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Germinal centers: The gammaherpesvirus vs. host battlefield
Visiting Speaker: Vera Tarakanova, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Thursday February 1st, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Mucosal associated invariant T Cells respond to mycobacterial and viral infection in nonhuman primates
Speaker: Justin Greene, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday January 18th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: A replication-defective human cytomegalovirus vaccine for prevention of congenital infection
Visiting Speaker: Tong-Ming Fu, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories
West Point, PA
Thursday January 11th, 2018 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Inflammasome, IFN and HCMV: Two peas in a pod and the third wheel
Speaker: Sara Botto, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday December 21st, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Rhesus rhadinovirus disrupts PML-nuclear bodies in a viral interferon regulatory factor dependent manner
Speaker: Laura Springgay
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 14th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Beyond retroviruses: restriction of flavivirus replication by TRIM5a
Visiting Speaker: Sonja Best, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Chif, Innate Immunity and Pathogenesis Section
Lab of Virology, NIAID, NIH, Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Hamilton, MT
Thursday December 7th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: An IL-1 Receptor antagonist and a Caspase-1 inhibitor mitigate rat cardiac transplant ischemia and reperfusion induced inflammation
Speaker: Iris Jones
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 30th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Novel immune-based strategies targeting viral persistence in SIV-infected macaques
Visiting Speaker: Mirko Paiardini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Emory University school of Medicine
Atlanda, Georgia
Thursday November 16th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Viral inhibitors of unconventional CD8+ T cell response priming
Speaker: Daniel Malouli, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday November 9th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Dynamic control of HBV replication: contribution of HIF1 and the autophagic pathway
Visiting Speaker: Nicholas Duchemin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular Biology
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday November 2nd, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Immune evasion by cowpox using a secreted FcR-binding protein
Speaker: Ravi Iyer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 19th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Zika virus regulation of innate immunity through NF-kB antagon
Speaker: Jessica Smith, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 12th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: KSHV manipulation of host iron homeostasis
Speaker: Jean Gustin, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday October 5th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Latent HCMV infection of CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells impairs myelopoiesis and stem cell engraftment in humanized BLT mice via up-regulation of TGFβ
Speaker: Lindsey Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday September 28th, 2017 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: HCMV miR-US22 down-regulation of Egr-1 is necessary for viral reactivation in CD34+ HPC
Speaker: Iliyana Mikel, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health and Science University
Thursday June 22nd, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: A secreted viral FcgR-binding protein contributes to immune evasion by cowpox virus
Speaker: L. Ravi Iyer, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday June 15th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: The zika virus uniquely infects a key placental barrier cell because it associates with Gas6
VGTI Faculty Candidate: Hyeryun Choe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Infectious Diseases
The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
Wednesday June 14th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Toward sustained, effective, and universal protection from HIV-1
VGTI Faculty Candidate: Michael Farzan, Ph.D.
Co-Chairman and Professor, Immunology and Microbiology
The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida
Thursday June 8th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Sequencing and expressing paired full-length T-Cell receptors from MHC-E-restricted T-Cells
Speaker: Shaheed Abdulhaqq, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 25th, 2017 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - OHSU West Campus
Topic: ELQ-300 for rreatment and prevention of malaria, resistance is futile
Speaker: Mike Riscoe, Ph.D.
Professor, MMI, OHSU
Research Career Scientist, Portland VA
Thursday May 18th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Progress towards a neutralizing antibody-based HIV vaccine
Visiting Speaker: Dennis Burton, Ph.D.
Co-Chair and Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology,
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Thursday May 4th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Dasatinib blocks translation of CHIKV sg mRNA
Speaker: Rebecca Broeckel
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 20th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Viral inhibitors of unconventional T cell responses
Speaker: Travis Whitmer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Friday April 14th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus in Beaverton
Topic: HIV dissemination and immune evasion through virological synapses
Visiting Speaker: Benjamin K. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease;
Associate Professor of Microbiology, and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY
Thursday April 13th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus in Beaverton
Topic: Innate and antigen-specific NK cell modulation of HIV/SIV infections
Visiting Speaker: Keith Reeves, Ph.D.
Director, Flow Cytometry Core, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research
Director, Harvard CFAR Advanced Technologies Core
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Thursday April 6th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Nucleic acids immunity in microbial defense: Sensing and signaling
Visiting Speaker: Xiao-Dong Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
Thursday March 30th, 2017 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - ONPRC West Campus
Topic: Interactions of the HIV-1 matrix protein with membranes, nue
Speaker: Eric Barklis, Ph.D.
Professor, SM.MMBI Admin
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 9th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Epstein-Barr virus nuclear organization during latency and reactivation
Visiting Speaker: JJ Miranda, Ph.D.
Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
Assistant Professor in Residence, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
University of California
Thursday March 2nd, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Interfering with interferons: Immunology lessons learned from poxviruses
Visiting Speaker: Yan Xiang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
University of Texas
Thursday February 23rd, 2017 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - ONPRC West Campus
Topic: Chemical tools for studying mycobacterium tuberculosis
Speaker: Kimberly Beatty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, SM.BME-Beatty
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 16th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: MR1 restricted MAITs respond to mycobacterial and viral infection in NHP
Speaker: Justin Greene, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 9th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room – OHSU West Campus
Topic: The case of the missing ribosomes & other tales of immuno-protein translation
Visiting Speaker: Jonathan Yewdell, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Cellular Biology Section
Laboratory of Viral Diseases
NIAID, NIH
Thursday February 2nd, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Rhesus rhadinovirus disrupts PML-nuclear bodies in a viral
interferon regulatory factor dependent fashion
Speaker: Laura Springgay
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Friday January 27th, 2017
VGTI Seminar Room – OHSU West Campus
Topic: It runs in the family: the machinery of flavivirus replication and assembly
Visiting Speaker: Brett Lindenbach, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis
Department of Comparative Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Thursday January 26th, 2017 9:30am
Montagna Auditorium - OHSU West Campus
Topic: A nonhuman primate model of hully MHC-matched allogeneic stem cell transplantation - Understanding the mechanisms of HIV cure in Timothy Brown
Speaker: Jonah Sacha, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 19th, 2017 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Now you sEe me, MHC-E in CMV-infected cells
Speaker: Marieke Verweij, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 15th, 2016 9:30am - Canceled
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: The role of immunotherapy in curing HIV infection
Visiting Speaker: Steven Deeks, M.D.
Professor in Residence, School of Medicine
University of San Francisco, CA
Thursday December 1st, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Human cytomegalovirus induces virus-specific cellular and humoral
Immune Responses in Humanized BLT Mice
Speaker: Lindsey Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 17th, 2016 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Viral determinants of unconventional T-cell priming
Speaker: Klaus Frueh, Ph.D.
Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 10th, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Effects of rhesus rhadinovirus and viral CD200 on gene expression during in vivo infection
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 3rd, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Non-human primate cytomegaloviruses as a model system for CMV evolution and species specificity
Speaker: Daniel Malouli, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 27, 2016 12:00pm - Montagna Auditorium
Topic: Canceled
Speaker: Kimberly Beatty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, SM.BME-Beatty
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 20, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Innate immune response to zika virus
Speaker: Jessica Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 13, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Modulation of RhCMV tropism using miRNA targeting reveals the cell types responsible for unconventional T cell responses
Speaker: Meaghan Hancock, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 6, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Controlling SIV infection in rhesus macaques: Vaccines and cellular therapies
Visiting Speaker: Jack Schell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate, Seattle's Children's Research Institute
Wednesday Sept 14, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Maternal antibody protection against congenital cytomegalovirus infection
Visiting Speaker: Sallie Permer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Wednesday Sept 7, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Zika and WNV infections in humans: What is the difference?
Visiting Speaker: Clayton Wiley, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Director of Neuropathology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Thursday June 16, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Cellular microRNA miR-424-5p inhibits dengue virus infection by repressing virally-induced E3 ubiquitin ligases
Speaker: Ashleigh Murphy
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health &Science University
Thursday June 23, 2016 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - OHSU West Campus
Topic: The JME model and novel therapies for multiple sclerosis
Speaker: Ashlee Moses, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday June 9, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Cellular microRNA miR-424-5p inhibits dengue virus infection by repressing virally-induced E3 ubiquitin ligases
Speaker: Ashleigh Murphy
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health &Science University
Thursday June 9, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Search for compounds that inhibit Alphavirus replication
Speaker: Daniel Streblow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday June 6, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Characterization of MHC-E maturation in MCV-infected cells
Speaker: Marieke Verweij, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 26, 2016 12:00pm
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Large DNA tumor viruses in a small RNA world
Speaker: Rebecca Skalsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday May 19, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Novel strategies for targeting innate immune responses to influenza
Visiting Speaker: Stefanie Vogel, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland, Baltimore MD
Thursday May 12, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: A non-human primate model of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Speaker: Benjamin Burwitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health &Science University
Thursday May 5, 2016 9:30am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Harnessing the power of CMV as a vaccine vector: What is the optimal combination of safety, immunogenicity, and protection?
Speaker: Emily Marshall, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health &Science University
Thursday April 28th, 2016 12:00pm
Montagna Auditorium - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Lymphatic vessels and cutaneous immunity: From vaccinia to melanoma
Speaker: Amanda Lund, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 14th, 2016 9:20am
VGTI Seminar Room - OHSU West Campus
Topic: Src family kinase inhibitors block CHIKV and VEEV protein synthesis
Speaker: Rebecca Broeckel
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Friday April 1st, 2016 9:00am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Resident memory CD8 T Cells: Distribution and function
Speaker: David Masopust, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Thursday March 31st, 2016 12:00pm - Montagna Auditorium
Topic: HCMV entry glycoproteins
Speaker: David Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 31st, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Manipulationg T Cell tolerance to self and chronic viral antigens
Speaker: Vaiva Vezys, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Minnesota Medical School
Thursday March 10th, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: RhCMV strain 68-1 vaccine-elicited T cells targeting SIV and influenza
Speaker: Helen Wu
Graduate Student, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 25th, 2016 12:00pm - Montagna Auditorium
Topic: Interferon stimulated immunity to enteric viral infection
Speaker: Tim Nice, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday, February 18th, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: The role of host and viral factors in human cytomegalovirus protein synthesis
Visiting Speaker: Nathaniel Moorman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Carolina
Friday, February 12th, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Pathogen recognition and control of RNA virus
Visiting Speaker: Michael Gale, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology
University of Washington
Thursday Feburary 11th, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Human cytomegalovirus suppresses human hematopoietic stem cell engraftment following stem cell transplant in humanized BLT-NSG mice
Speaker: Lindsey Crawford, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 28th, 2016 12:00pm - Montagna Auditorium
Topic: Episode VII: Targeting flavivirus-host cell interactions
Speaker: Alec Hirsch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday January 7th, 2016 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Designing a CMV based vaccine to fight major human infectious diseases
Speaker: Daniel Malouli, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 17th, 2015 12:00pm - Montagna Auditorium
Topic: Defining the immune microenvironment in patients with acute myeloid leukemia
Speaker: Evan Lind, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 10th, 2015 9:30an - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Innate immune modulation by RRV viral interferon regulatory factors
Speaker: Laura Springgay
Graduate Student, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday December 3rd, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Cowpox virus, Fc receptors and naive T cell activation in vitro
Speaker: Ravi Iyer
Graduate Student, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday November 19th, 2015 12:00pm - Malinow Meeting Room
Topic: Better living through innate immunity
Speaker: Victor DeFilippis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Monday November 16th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Chronic viral infections associated with autoimmunity
Visiting Speaker: Melodie Weller, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, NIH
Bethesda, MD
Thursday November 12th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: EGFR signaling and latency: Therole of HCMV miRNAs
Speaker: Meaghan Hancock, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Monday November 9th, 2015 - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Immune therapy approaches to HBV cure
Visiting Speaker: Ulrike Protzer, M.D.
Professor, Institute of Virology
Munich, Germany
Thursday November 5th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Development of in vivo model to assess the contributions of the rhesus macaque rhadinovirus CD200 homologue to viral reactivation
Speaker: Ryan Estep, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, VGTI
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 29th, 2015 12:00PM - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Selectin’ the right destination: Mechanisms of CD8+ T cell rrafficking and localization
Speaker: Jeffrey Nolz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 22nd, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Combination adenovirus and protein vaccine prevents infection after heterologous clade C SHIV mucosal challenge
Speaker: Delphine Malherbe, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, ONPRC
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday October 15th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: KHV latent infection and gene expression during latency
Visiting Speaker: Ling Jin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Thursday October 8th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: How a common everyday virus like Epstein-Barr virus can predispose for multiple sclerosis
Visiting Speaker: Marc Horwitz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of British Columbia
Thursday October 1st, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: T cell inactivation by poxviral B22R proteins
Speaker: Dina Alzhanova, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Wednesday July 22nd, 2015 10:00am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: What CD8+ T cells see in vaccinia virus
Visiting Speaker: David Tscharke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Research School of Biology
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Thursday June 11th, 2015 10:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Novel lipid-based nanoparticles for delivery of RNA therapeutics
Visiting Speaker: Gaurav Sahay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, OSU/OHSU College of Pharmacy
Tuesday June 16th, 2015 10:00am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Characterizing HIV-1 reservoirs
Visiting Speaker: Sarah E. Palmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney Australia
Thursday May 7th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: HCMV-encoded microRNA modify the endocytic recycling pathway
Speaker: Iliyana Mikell, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 23rd, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: HCMV as a vaccine vector: Two prototypes
Speaker: Sjoerd van den Worm, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday April 9th,2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Rhesus cytomegalovirus manipulation of MHC class II antigen presentation
Speaker: Luke Uebelhoer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 26th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Discovering novel therapeuticsfor chikungunya virus
Speaker: Rebecca Broeckel
Graduate Student, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 19th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Recombinant adenoviral vectorexpressing HCV NS4 induce protective immune responses in a mouse model of vaccinia-HCV virus infection: a dose and route conundrum
Speaker: Shakti Singh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow Candidate
Thursday March 12th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: High frequency MHC-E-restrictedCD8+ T cell responses in rhCMV/SIV vaccines
Speaker: Helen Wu
Graduate Student, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday March 5th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Allogeneic stem celltransplantation in Mauritian cynomolgus macaques
Speaker: Benjamin Burwitz, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 19th, 2015 7:00pm - Marquam Hill
Topic: Ending an Epidemic: OHSU's Hunt for an HIV Vaccine
Speaker: Louis Picker
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Thursday February 19th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Safety and efficacy of pp71-deleted rhCMV vaccine vectors: a tale of attenuation and persistence
Speaker: Emily Marshall, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Thursday February 5th, 2015 9:30am - VGTI Seminar Room
Topic: Natural killer cell evasion by rhesus cytomegalovirus
Speaker: Elizabeth Rowland
Graduate Student, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Oregon Health & Science Universit