Infectious Disease Genomics Speakers
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Fall 2018 seminar series
| Date | Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 12th, 2018 | Kathryn A. Knoop, Ph.D. | Gut Mechanisms of Neonatal Sepsis | Pediatrics |
| November 9th, 2018 | Guoyan Zhao, Ph.D. | Intestinal Virome Changes Precede Autoimmunity in Type I Diabetes-susceptible Children | Neuroscience |
| December 14th, 2018 | Yin Cao, ScD, MPH | Studying the human microbiome and health in prospective studies | Surgery, Public Health Sciences Division |
Spring 2018 seminar series
| Date | Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 9th, 2018 | Gregory A. Storch, M.D. | Host nasal and blood gene expression in acute viral respiratory infection | Pediatrics |
| March 9th, 2018 | Scott Hultgren, Ph.D. | UTI Complexity Results from Diversity at the Bacterial-Host Interface | Center for Women’s Infectious Disease |
| April 13th, 2018 | Sebla B. Kutluay, Ph.D. | An unexpected role for HIV-1 integrase protein in particle maturation | Molecular Microbiology |
| May 11th, 2018 | William H. McCoy IV, M.D., Ph.D. | Taking Back Acne: a journey from bedside to bench | Medicine, Division of Dermatology |
Fall 2017 seminar series
| Date | Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 13th, 2017 | Mario Feldman, PhD | Selfish plasmids take control of MDR bacteria weaponry | Molecular Microbiology |
| November 17th, 2017 | Jeffrey Henderson, M.D. Ph.D. and Anne Robinson | Virulence-associated metal ion interactions in extraintestinal pathogenic E.coli | Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Program |
| December 8th, 2017 | Indira U. Mysorekar, PhD | Navigating the placental fortress with microbial friends and foes | Obstetrics and Pathology & Immunology; Centre for Reproductive Health Services |
Fall 2016 seminar series
September 9, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Megan T. Baldridge, MD, PhD | Norovirus Regulation by the Microbiome and Interferon-lambda | Medicine, Infectious Disease and Center for Genome Sciences |
| Scott Handley, PhD | Analysis of Viromes and Bacterial Microbiomes in IBD and AIDS | Pathology and Immunology |
October 14, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| David L. Sibley, PhD | Comparative Genomics of Toxoplasma Reveals Pathogenesis Determinants | Molecular Microbiology |
| Larissa Thackray, PhD | Oral antibiotic treatment exacerbates the disease severity of multiple flaviviruses | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
November 11, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce A. Rosa, PhD | Taxonomic, genetic and functional gut microbiome assemblages in humans infected with STHs | McDonnell Genome Institute |
| Haina Shin, PhD | Neutrophils and HSV-2 Pathogenesis | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
December 9, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Eldin Jasarevic, PhD | Transmission of stress signals: Neurodevelopmental programming through host-microbe interactions | Center for Host-Microbial Interactions, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania |
Spring 2016 seminar series
February 12, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Christina Ahn Hickey, M.D., M.A | Microbial Interactions at the Host Epithelial Interface | Pediatrics |
| Thad Stappenbeck, M.D., Ph.D | Microbial Metabolic Influences on Host-Microbial Interactions | Pathology and Immunology |
March 11, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Brad Ozenberger, Ph.D | TBA | McDonnell Genome Institute |
| Bob Fulton | TBA | McDonnell Genome Institute |
April 8, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| David Sibley, Ph.D | TBA | Molecular Microbiology |
| Avraham Beigelman, M.D., MSCI | The role of infectious agents in asthma inception | Pediatrics |
May 13, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Kau, M.D., Ph.D | Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Identifying Immune-Microbiota Interactions that Impact Human Health | Medicine |
| George Turabelidze M.D., Ph.D | Application of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Disease Outbreak Investigations: Successes and Challenges | Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services [DHSS] |
June 10, 2016
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Lori Holtz, M.D., M.S.P.H. | Exploring the Dynamic Ecology of the Infant Gut | Pediatrics |
| Matthew A Wyczalkowski, Ph.D | Visualization of Virus Integration Events in TCGA Whole Genome Data | McDonnell Genome Institute |
Fall 2015 seminar series
October 9, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Gautam Dantas, PhD | Networks of exchanging antibiotic resistomes in commensal, environmental and pathogenic bacteria | Pathology and Immunology |
| Molly Stout, MD, MSCI | The vaginal microbiome and preterm birth | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
November 13, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel F. Hoft, MD, PhD | Mucosal and systemic BCG vaccinations induce distinct molecular signatures in human CD4+ T cells | Internal Medicine and Molecular Microbiology, (SLU) |
| Rich Di Paolo, PhD | In Depth Sequencing to Identify Expanded T and B Cell Receptors After Vaccination | Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, (SLU) |
December 11, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Eva Istvan, PhD | Comprehensive analysis of resistance development in the malaria parasite | Medicine |
| Todd Wylie | ViroCap: Enhanced virome sequencing using targeted sequence capture | Pediatrics |
Spring 2015 seminar series
February 6, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Reid Townsend, M.D., Ph.D. | Proteomics and ID biomarkers: capabilities, caveats and challenges | Medicine |
March 6, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Robyn Klein, M.D., Ph.D. | West Nile virus encephalitis and post-infectious cognitive dysfunction – cancleled | Medicine |
| Michael Diamond,M.D.,Ph.D. | Modeling Host Responses to Understand West Nile Virus Infection | Pathology and Immunology |
April 3, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Hilary Reno, M.D., Ph.D. | Epidemiology of STIs and Bacterial Vaginosis in the St. Louis region. | Medicine |
| Amanda Lewis, Ph.D. | Influence of the vaginal microbiota on susceptibility to urogenital infection: who matters and why? | Molecular Microbiology |
May 1, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Shabaana Khader, Ph.D. | Tuberculosis Pathogenesis: From mouse to man. | Molecular Microbiology |
| Thomas C. Bailey, M.D. | Tuberculosis (and non-TB) Clinical Basics and Challenges | Medicine |
June 5, 2015
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie A. Fritz, M.D. | Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Community. | Pediatrics |
| Todd Wylie | MRSA: Tools for primary genome characterization. | Pediatrics |
Fall 2014 seminar series
October 3, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Presti, M.D., Ph.D. | HIV: Viral and Host Genetics | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Kristine Wylie, Ph.D. | Genomics of the human virome | Pediatrics |
November 7, 2014
| Presenters | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Manary, M.D. and Kathie Mihindukulasuriya, Ph.D. | The effect of supplementation of resistant starch on gut health in rural Malawian children | Pediatrics (WashU) and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (SLU) |
December 5, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Vince Magrini, Ph.D. | The short and long of NGS | McDonnell Genome Institute |
| David Larson, Ph.D. | NGS analysis and applications | McDonnell Genome Institute, Division of Oncology |
Spring 2014 seminar series
January 10, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Carry-Ann Burnham, Ph.D. | Emerging Technologies in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory | Pathology and Immunology |
February 7, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| William Powderly, M.D. | Challenges in systemic fungal infections – can Genomics help? | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Tamara Doering, M.D., Ph.D. | Capsule regulation in the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans: from transcriptional network modeling to altered virulence | Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences |
March 7, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Fischer, Ph.D. | Systems Biology of a Missouri Lung Fluke Helps to Develop New Diagnostics for Paragonimiasis Globally | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Edward Pearce, Ph.D. | Macrophage heterogeneity in liver inflammation due to schistosomiasis | Siteman Cancer Center |
April 4, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Wang, Ph.D. | Discovery and characterization of novel viruses | Pathology & Immunology |
| Jacco Boon, Ph.D. | Genomics of influenza virus pathogenesis | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
May 2, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Elaine Mardis, Ph.D. | Translating the Cancer Genome | Institue for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital |
| Maxim Artyomov, Ph.D. | Network analysis of parallel metabolic transcriptional data reveals global rewiring during divergent macrophage polarizations | Pathology & Immunology |
June 6, 2014
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Erik Dubberke, M.D., MSPH | Clostridium difficile Infection and Role of the Fecal Microbiome | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Yanjiao Zhou, M.D., Ph.D. | Phenotypic and Genomic Survey of Clostridium difficile Strains in Non-outbreak Setting | The Jackson Laboratory |
Fall 2013 seminar series
October 4, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Phillip Tarr, M.D. and Barbara Warner, M.D. | The Neonatal Microbiome: A New Vista on Enteric Biology | Pediatrics |
November 1, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| James Fleckenstein, M.D. | Molecular Pathogenesis and Vaccinology of Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Makedonka Mitreva, Ph.D. | Gut microbiome dynamics of humans infected with gastrointestinal parasites | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease & McDonnell Genome Institute |
December 6, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Beverley, PhD. | Leishmania genomics: perspectives using in and out-groups on theemergence and nature of vertebrate parasitism | Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences |
| Wesley Warren, Ph.D. | Dipteran genome resources for host vector genetic investigation | McDonnell Genome Institute |
Spring 2013 seminar series
February 14, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Rick Wilson, Ph.D. | – | Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital |
| Gary Weil, M.D. | – | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
March 1, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Storch, M.D. | Fever in Children – Overview and Virology | Pediatrics |
| Kristine Wylie, Ph.D. | Fever in Children – Sequence Analysis of the Virome | Pediatrics |
April 5, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Eva Istvan, Ph.D. | Target Discovery in Plasmodium falciparum | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Vince Magrini, Ph.D. | A TechD Perspective: NGS overview and potential applications | McDonnell Genome Institute |
May 3, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey Henderson, M.D., Ph.D. | Genomic and Metabolomic Studies of Uropathogens at Barnes-Jewish Hospital | Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease |
| Yanjiao Zhou, M.D., Ph.D. | The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease | The Jackson Laboratory |
June 7, 2013
| Presenter | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|
| William Shannon, Ph.D., MBA | Adventures in the Statistics of Infectious Disease Genomics | Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences |
| George Weinstock, Ph.D. | Adventures in Infectious Disease Genomics | The Jackson Laboratory |