Penn Microbiology

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.

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”

NO Micro Seminar 3/25 🔬

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.

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

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

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 Hotez to give the keynote discussion.

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/vinc…

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”

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”

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

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”

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 3/3/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Join Molly Paterson from the Price Lab

Prokaryotic Seminar 🦠 Mon 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"

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

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 2/24/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Join Ekaterina Shipilova from the Montaner Lab

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

Virology Seminar 💉 Tuesday 2/17/26 12-1 PM 209 Johnson Pavilion Join Rachel Erickson and Amber Abbott from the Bates and Weitzman Labs

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

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”