Seminar Series (VME6933)

Every year in the fall and spring semesters, Infectious Diseases & Immunology hosts a weekly seminar series that brings speakers from a variety of disciplines to the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. These speakers present research and share expertise that dovetails with the mission of Infectious Diseases & Immunology and the broader missions of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the One Health initiative.

 

SPRING 2025 SEMESTER DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

(Time 11:45 AM- 12:45 PM)


Speaker: John Bostick, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology
University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine

Date: February 25th
Topic: New Tools for the Investigation of Neuro-Immune Crosstalk
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

Speaker: Anthony Maurelli, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health
University of Florida, College of Public Health & Health Professions

Date: March 11th
Topic: Wastewater Surveillance as an Epidemiological Tool for Infectious Disease Control
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

Speaker: Kuttichantran Subramaniam, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology
University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine

Date: March 25th
Topic: Decoding Microbial Mysteries: Next-Generation Sequencing in Pathogen Discovery and Characterization
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

Speaker: Jayati Basu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner
Case Western Reserve University, College of Medicine

Date: April 1st
Topic: POKing Myeloid Cell in Inflammation
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

Speaker: Julie Moore, PhD
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology
University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine

Date: April 8th
Topic: Oxidative Stress and Cell Death in the Syncytiotrophoblast: Exploration of Mechanisms in Malaria
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

Speaker: Seika Hashimoto-Hill, PhD
Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Date: April 15th
Topic: Intestinal Regulation of Host-Microbiota Dynamics During Health, Infection, and Inflammation
Location: Lecture Hall A/Zoom

 

Speaker: Yiquan Wang, PhD Candidate of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Date: April 22nd
Topic: Deciphering the Sequence-Function Relationship in Influenza Virus Evolution and Immune Response
Location: Lecture Hall B/Zoom

 

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