Previous Seminar Series
Every Wednesday, the Department of Microbiology & Immunology welcomes renowned scientists from across the scientific community to present their research findings to the students, faculty, and visitors of the department. The seminars are held weekly on Wednesdays from 12 noon to 1 PM in room 301 of the Hammer Health Sciences Building.
Fall 2023 Seminars
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Ken Cadwell | Sep. 20th, 2023 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Igor Brodsky | Sep. 27th, 2023 | Yiping Han |
| Alan Cowman | Oct. 4th, 2023 | David Fidock |
| Nathaniel Landau | Oct. 11th, 2023 | Stephen Goff |
| Gabriel Victora | Oct. 18th, 2023 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Paul Turner | Nov. 8th, 2023 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Charles Rice | Nov. 15th, 2023 | Rose Lecture | Hachung Chung |
Spring 2023 Seminars
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Janelle Ayres | Jan. 18th, 2023 | Nicholas Arpaia |
| Ellen Rothenberg | Jan. 25th, 2023 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Karla Satchell | Feb. 1st, 2023 | Yiping Han |
| Marco Colonna | Feb. 8th, 2023 | Riccardo Dalla-Favera |
| Susan Schwab | Feb. 22nd, 2023 | Tony Huang |
| Agnel Sfeir | Mar. 8th, 2023 | Lorraine Symington |
| Mark Anderson | Mar. 22nd, 2023 | Megan Sykes |
| Michael Reth | Apr. 19th, 2023 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Brenda Bass | Apr. 26th, 2023 | Hachung Chung |
| Christina Stallings | May 3rd, 2023 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Geeta Narlikar | May 17th, 2023 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Stephen Girardin | May 24th, 2023 | Ryan Gaudet |
| E. John Wherry | June 21st, 2023 | Parker Lecture |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph Baric | Oct. 26th, 2022 | Parker Lecture |
| Daniel Goldberg | Nov. 16th, 2022 | Rose Lecture |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Rotem Sorek | Feb. 2nd, 2022 | Microbiology & Immunology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics |
| Erika Pearce | Mar. 23rd, 2022 | Microbiology & Immunology |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Dan R. Littman | Oct. 6th, 2021 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Craig Cameron | Nov. 17th, 2021 | M&I |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Mohamed S. Donia | Feb. 3rd, 2021 | Riccardo Dalla-Favera |
| Eran Elinav | Feb. 24th, 2021 | Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Elaine Fuchs | Mar. 3rd, 2021 | Parker Lecture |
| Lorenz Studer | Mar. 10th, 2021 | Hachung Chung |
| Natoli Gioacchino | Apr. 7th, 2021 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Barbara Kazmierczak | Sep. 30th, 2020 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Sebastian Lourido | Oct. 14th, 2020 | David Fidock |
| Hao Wu | Oct. 21st, 2020 | Shan Zha |
| Chuan He | Nov. 18th, 2020 | Lei Ding |
| Jingfang Zhu | Dec. 2nd, 2020 | Tony Huang |
| Joao Pereira | Dec. 9th, 2020 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Carla Rothlin | Jan. 22nd, 2020 | Donna Farber |
| Reuben S. Harris | Feb. 12th, 2020 | Vincent Racaniello |
| John Mekalanos | Mar. 4th, 2020 | Rose Lecture |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Keeney | Jan. 23rd, 2019 | Lorraine Symington |
| Julie Blander | Feb. 6th, 2019 | Donna Farber |
| Gerald Shadel | Feb. 13th, 2019 | Hans-Willem Snoeck |
| Matthew Bogyo | Feb. 20th, 2019 | David Fidock |
| Nancy Speck | Feb. 27th, 2019 | Lei Ding |
| Russell Vance | Mar. 6th, 2019 | Nicholas Arpaia |
| Ananda Goldrath | Mar. 27th, 2019 | Steve Reiner |
| Eric Pamer | Apr. 3rd, 2019 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Ralph Baric | Apr. 24th, 2019 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Gioacchino Natoli | Postponed | Sankar Ghosh |
| Hao Shen | May 8th, 2019 | Yiping Han |
| Ana Fernandez-Sesma | Sep. 19th, 2019 | Sagi Shapira |
| Warren Leonard | Sep. 25th, 2019 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Arne Beck | Oct. 16th, 2019 | Stephen Goff |
| Richard Locksley | Oct. 23rd, 2019 | Yufeng Huang & Steve Reiner |
| Albert Bendelac | Nov. 6th, 2019 | Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Daniel Durocher | Nov. 13th, 2019 | Lorraine Symington |
| Jayanta Chaudhuri | Dec. 4th, 2019 | Uttiya Basu |
| Julie Pfieffer | Dec. 11th, 2019 | Anne Moscona |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Hunter | Jan. 24th, 2018 | Steven Reiner |
| Pamela Silver | Feb. 7th, 2018 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Marcel van den Brink | Feb. 28th, 2018 | Megan Sykes |
| Alan Engelman | Mar. 21st, 2018 | Stephen Goff |
| Andreas Aguilera | Apr. 4th, 2018 | Uttiya Basu |
| Ira Mellman | Fri., Apr. 6th, 2018 | Parker Lecture |
| Stefan Kappe | Apr. 18th, 2018 | David Fidock |
| Nancy Speck | Apr. 25th, 2018 | Lei Ding |
| Vishwa Dixit | May 2nd, 2018 | Rose Lecture |
| Christian Jobin | May 9th, 2018 | Yiping Han |
| Jordan Orange | Sep. 26th, 2018 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Bruce Blazar | Oct. 10th, 2018 | Megan Sykes |
| Rachel Green | Oct. 17th, 2018 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Mark Goulian | Nov. 14th, 2018 | Stephen Goff |
| Raul Andino | Nov. 28th, 2018 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Thaddeus Stappenbeck | Dec. 5th, 2018 | Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Richard Gregory | Dec. 19th, 2018 | TBD |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Fadi Lakkis | Feb. 8th, 2017 | Donna Farber |
| Jeff Rathmell | Feb. 15th, 2017 | Steve Reiner |
| Erica Ollmann Saphire | Mar. 1st, 2017 | Anne Moscona |
| Virginia Zakian | Mar. 8th, 2017 | Lorraine Symington |
| Pamela Silver | Mar. 15th, 2017 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Paul Allen | Mar. 22nd, 2017 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Gwen Randolph | Apr. 5th, 2017 | Hans-Willem Snoeck |
| Eugene Oltz | Apr. 26th, 2017 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Gabriel Nunez | May 3rd, 2017 | Christian Schindler |
| Iannis Aifantis | May 17th, 2017 | Lei Ding |
| Lieping Chen | May 24th, 2017 | Riccardo Dalla-Favera |
| Akiko Iwasaki | June 7th, 2017 | Parker Lecture |
| Ming Li | Sep. 13th, 2017 | Sankar Ghosh |
| John O' Shea | Sep. 20th, 2017 | Christopher Schindler |
| K. Christoper Garcia | Sep. 27th, 2017 | Arnold Han |
| Rachel Clark | Oct. 4th, 2017 | Donna Farber |
| Douglas Golenbock | Nov. 1st, 2017 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Ruben Gonzalez | Nov. 15th, 2017 | Max Gottesman |
| Rachel Green | Dec. 6th, 2017 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Sean Whelan | Dec. 13th, 2017 | Anne Moscona |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Heitman | Jan. 27th, 2016 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Stanley Lemon | Feb. 3rd, 2016 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Sean Morrison | Feb. 24th, 2016 | Lei Ding |
| Zemer Gitai | Mar. 2nd, 2016 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Wayne M. Yokoyama | Mar. 30th, 2016 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Steven F. Ziegler | Apr. 6th, 2016 | Donna Farber |
| Rick Fairhurst | Apr. 13th, 2016 | David Fidock |
| Michel Sadelain | Apr. 20th, 2016 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Frederick W. Alt | May 4th, 2016 | Uttiya Basu |
| Sankar Adhya | May 11th, 2016 | Max Gottesman |
| Christophe Benoist | May 18th, 2016 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Yasmine Belkaid | June 1st, 2016 | Parker Lecture |
| Melanie Ott | Sep. 14th, 2016 | Stephen Goff |
| Douglas Green | Sep. 21st, 2016 | Steve Reiner |
| Richard Blumberg | Sep. 28th, 2016 | Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Susan Rosenberg | Oct. 5th, 2016 | Max Gottesman |
| David Relman | Oct. 12th, 2016 | Yiping Han |
| Alexander Hoffmann | Oct. 19th, 2016 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Daniel E. Goldberg | Oct. 26th, 2016 | David Fidock |
| Michael Diamond | Nov. 2nd, 2016 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Joseph Sun | Nov. 9th, 2016 | Donna Farber |
| Johannes Walter | Dec. 14th, 2016 | Lorraine Symington |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Gajewski | Jan. 21st, 2015 | Megan Sykes |
| Rafael Casellas | Feb. 4th, 2015 | Uttiya Basu |
| Nathaniel Landau | Feb. 18th, 2015 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Hans-Reimer Rodewald | Feb. 25th, 2015 | M&I and CSCI |
| Thomas Petes | Mar. 11th, 2015 | Lorraine Symington |
| Eric Meffre | Mar. 18th, 2015 | Donna Farber |
| Arlene Sharpe | Mar. 25th, 2015 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Greg Barton | Apr. 1st, 2015 | Boris Reizis |
| Erika Pearce | Apr. 8th, 2015 | Steve Reiner |
| Stephen Nutt | Apr. 29th, 2015 | Ulf Klein |
| Craig Thompson | May 13th, 2015 | Parker Lecture |
| Max Cooper | May 20th, 2015 | Uttiya Basu |
| Michael Karin | June 24th, 2015 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Miguel Soares | July 1st, 2015 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Blossom Damania | Oct. 14th, 2015 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Susan Kaech | Oct. 21st, 2015 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Laurence Turka | Nov. 4th, 2015 | Megan Sykes |
| Tina Henkin | Nov. 11th, 2015 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Aderem | Jan. 29th, 2014 | Christian Schindler |
| David Hafler | Feb. 5th, 2014 | Hans-Willem Snoeck* |
| Thomas Kristie | Feb. 12th, 2014 | Saul Silverstein |
| Ron Germain | Feb. 19th, 2014 | Sagi Shapira |
| Dan Gottschling | Feb. 26th, 2014 | Fred Chang |
| Suzanne Walker | Mar. 5th, 2014 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Cornelis Murre | Mar. 12th, 2014 | Ulf Klein |
| Dan Littman | Mar. 19th, 2014 | Parker Lecture |
| Jef Boeke | Apr. 2nd, 2014 | Uttiya Basu |
| Thomas Shenk | Apr. 16th, 2014 | Rose Lecture |
| Christoph Goodnow | Apr. 23rd, 2014 | Riccardo Dalla-Favera |
| Marc Feldmann | May 28th, 2014 | Donna Farber* |
| Diane Mathis | June 4th, 2014 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Robert Roeder | Sep. 24th, 2014 | Max Gottesman |
| J.C. Zuniga-Pflucker | Oct. 1st, 2014 | Hans-Willem Snoeck |
| Marc Feldmann | Oct. 8th, 2014 | Donna Farber |
| John Coffin | Oct. 29th, 2014 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Caroline Harwood | Nov. 5th, 2014 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Marc Jenkins | Dec. 3rd, 2014 | Steve Reiner |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Marco Colonna | Jan. 23rd, 2013 | Boris Reizis |
| Christopher Glass | Jan. 30th, 2013 | Christian Schindler |
| Dario Vignali | Feb. 6th, 2013 | Megan Sykes |
| Sue Jinks-Robertson | Feb. 13th, 2013 | Lorraine Symington |
| David Artis | Feb. 27th, 2013 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Ruslan Medzhitov | Mar. 6th, 2013 | Parker Lecture |
| Terry Dermody | Mar. 13th, 2013 | Saul Silverstein |
| Jason Cyster | Mar. 27th, 2013 | Steve Reiner |
| Yong-Jun Liu | Apr. 10th, 2013 | Kang Liu |
| Fiona Powrie | Apr. 24th, 2013 | Ivaylo Ivanov |
| Michael Neuberger | May 1st, 2013 | Uttiya Basu |
| Anjana Rao | May 8th, 2013 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Jeffrey Ravetch | Jun. 11th, 2013 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Nicholas Restifo* | Sep. 25th, 2013 | Megan Sykes |
| Elizabeth Winzeler | Oct. 2nd, 2013 | David Fidock |
| Neil Hunter | Oct. 9th, 2013 | Lorraine Symington |
| Didier Trono | Oct. 16th, 2013 | Stephen Goff |
| L. David Sibley | Oct. 23rd, 2013 | David Fidock |
| Beatrice Hahn | Oct. 30th, 2013 | Stephen Goff |
| Kenneth Murphy | Nov. 6th, 2013 | Boris Reizis |
| Alan Grossman | Nov. 13th, 2013 | Max Gottesman |
| Garry Nolan | Nov. 20th, 2013 | Matt Hayden |
| Maria Jasin† | Dec. 4th, 2013 | Lorraine Symington and Richard Baer |
| *Co-sponsored by Columbia Center for Translational Immunology †Co-sponsored by the Herbert Irving Cancer Center | ||
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Frederick W. Alt | Jan. 25th, 2012 | Uttiya Basu |
| Michel Nussenzweig | Feb. 8th, 2012 | Kang Liu |
| Leo Lefrancois* | Feb. 15th, 2012 | Sankar Ghosh/Megan Sykes |
| C. David Allis | Feb. 22nd, 2012 | Parker Lecture |
| Ranjan Sen | Feb. 29th, 2012 | Sankar Ghosh/Ulf Klein |
| Lewis Lanier† | Mar. 7th, 2012 | Matt Hayden/Anthony Ferrante |
| Mitch Kronenberg* | Mar. 21st, 2012 | Megan Sykes/Sankar Ghosh |
| Christine Jacobs-Wagner | Mar. 28th, 2012 | Fred Chang |
| Andrew Camilli | Apr. 4th, 2012 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Mark M. Davis | Apr. 11th, 2012 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Ferric Fang | Apr. 18th, 2012 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Scott Hultgren | May 9th, 2012 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Nina Bhardwaj | June 6th, 2012 | Christian Schindler |
| John Boothroyd | Sep. 19th, 2012 | Rose Lecture |
| Richard Ebright | Sep. 26th, 2012 | Max Gottesman |
| Bonnie Bassler | Oct. 3rd, 2012 | Jonathan Dworkin/Ivalyo Ivanov |
| Saeed Tavazoie | Oct. 10th, 2012 | Max Gottesman |
| Kevin Tracey | Oct. 17th, 2012 | Matt Hayden |
| Harmit Malik | Oct. 24th, 2012 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Ioannis Aifantis | Nov. 14th, 2012 | Ulf Klein |
| Margaret McFall-Ngai | Nov. 28th, 2012 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| *Co-sponsored by Columbia Center for Translational Immunology †Co-sponsored by the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center | ||
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert "Skip" Virgin | Jan. 19th, 2011 | Stephen Goff |
| Charles Rice | Jan. 26th, 2011 | Stephen Goff |
| Alexander Tarakhovsky | Feb. 2nd, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh |
| William Paul | Feb. 9th, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh/Boris Reizis |
| Jorge Galan | Feb. 16th, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Richard Gourse | Mar. 2nd, 2011 | Max Gottesman |
| Ralph Isberg | Mar. 9th, 2011 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Philippe Sansonetti | Mar. 30th, 2011 | Parker Lecture |
| Roberto Kolter | Apr. 6th, 2011 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Evgeny Nudler | Apr. 13th, 2011 | Max Gottesman |
| Peter Cresswell | Apr. 20th, 2011 | Stephen Goff |
| Thomas Look | Apr. 27th, 2011 | Ulf Klein |
| Vijay Kuchroo | May 4th, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Thomas Wellems | May 11th, 2011 | David Fidock |
| Jenny Ting | May 18th, 2011 | Christopher Schindler |
| Laurie Glimcher | June 6th, 2011 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| Roger A. Greenberg | Sep. 28th, 2011 | Lorraine Symington |
| Brett Finlay | Oct. 5th, 2011 | Ivaylo Ivanov/Jonathan Dworkin |
| Mark Schlissel | Oct. 12th, 2011 | Uttiya Basu/Sankar Ghosh |
| Seth Darst | Oct. 19th, 2011 | Max Gottesman |
| Barry Sleckman | Oct. 26th, 2011 | Uttiya Basu |
| Stephen Smale | Nov. 2nd, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Pippa Marrack | Nov. 9th, 2011 | Kang Liu |
| Art Weiss | Nov. 16th, 2011 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Akiko Iwasaki | Nov. 30th, 2011 | Kang Liu |
| Speaker | Date | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Losick | Jan. 27th, 2010 | Jonathan Dworkin |
| Alan Sher | Mar. 3rd, 2010 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Adolfo Garcia-Sastre | Mar. 10th, 2010 | Christopher Schindler |
| Kate Fitzgerald | Mar. 17th, 2010 | Christopher Schindler |
| Christopher Hunter | Mar. 24th, 2010 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Sergio Grinstein | Apr. 7th, 2010 | Howard Shuman |
| Eric Pamer | Apr. 14th, 2010 | Adam Ratner |
| Arturo Casadevall | Apr. 21st, 2010 | Howard Shuman |
| William Jacobs | Apr. 28th, 2010 | David Fidock |
| Thomas Boehm | May 5th, 2010 | Boris Reizis |
| Michael Gale | May 12th, 2010 | Boris Reizis |
| Susan Gottesman | June 2nd, 2010 | Parker Lecture |
| Richard Flavell | June 17th, 2010 | Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
| David Baltimore | Sep. 22nd, 2010 | Rudin Lecture |
| Michael Dustin | Sep. 29th, 2010 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Craig Roy | Oct. 6th, 2010 | Christopher Schindler |
| Daniel Portnoy | Oct. 13th, 2010 | Adam Ratner |
| Carl Nathan | Oct. 20th, 2010 | Saul Silverstein |
| James Allison | Oct. 27th, 2010 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Lynn Enquist | Nov. 3rd, 2010 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Douglas Golenbock | Nov. 10th, 2010 | Sankar Ghosh |
| Max Nibert | Nov. 17th, 2010 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Martin Blaser | Dec. 1st, 2010 | Vincent Racaniello |
| Peter Palese | Dec. 8th, 2010 | Rose Lecture |