Objectives:
(1) provide a platform for scientific discourse during a time of social distancing
(2) highlight the work of trainees and early career investigators
(3) serve as a much-needed distraction
All seminars are hosted on Thursdays at 1pm EST
WebEx registration links below or search #GutsandBugs on Twitter
March 19
Kathryn Knoop, PhD, Asst Professor, Mayo Clinic
Gut mechanisms of neonatal sepsis
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Diana Taft, PhD, postdoc, UC Davis
Bifidobacterium and the infant gut microbiome
March 26
Greg Medlock, PhD, postdoc, UVA
A metabolomics-based strategy to produce multi-species probiotics
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Melinda Engevik, PhD, Instructor, Baylor College of Medicine
Pathogen-pathogen interactions at the mucosal interface
April 2
Johannes Mayer, PhD, postdoc, Malaghan Institute, NZ
High-dimensional analysis of intestinal immune cell populations during helminth infection
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Jakob von Moltke, PhD, Asst Professor, UW
Small intestinal tuft cells: sentinels and effectors of Th2 immunity
April 9
Cambrian Liu, PhD, postdoc, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Imaging tissue repair and epithelial stem cell adaptations to inflammation
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Rachel Stine, PhD, postdoc, UPenn
Metabolic control of intestinal stem cell differentiation by PRDM16: is there a microbiome component?
April 16
Madeleine Hu, PhD, MD/PhD student, Rutgers NJMS
Role of gamma delta IELs in pathological epithelial cell shedding
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Neil McCarthy, PhD, Instructor, Queen Mary University
Fungal suppression by human gut gamma delta T cells
April 23
Graham Britton, PhD, postdoc, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
Immune responses in mice with human microbiota
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Jacob Moskowitz, DVM, PhD, postdoc,
Cedars Sinai
Microbiota and host effects of Bilophila wadsworthia in a mouse model of colorectal cancer
April 30
Yuuki Obata, PhD, postdoc, Francis Crick Institute
Gut Instincts: How Microbes Talk to Neurons
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Corinne Benakis, PhD, PI, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Gut metabolites as immune modulators in stroke
May 7
Andrea Kemter, PhD, postdoc, UChicago
Clostridia protect from food allergy by promoting intestinal barrier integrity and modulating retinoic acid metabolism
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Ramona Hoh, PhD, Senior Scientist, Stanford
Gut-resident IgE+ B-lineage cells in human peanut allergy
May 14
Joe Zackular, PhD, Asst Professor, UPenn
The battle for metals during Clostridioides difficile infection
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Laura Cook, PhD, postdoc, UBC
Reduced Th17 immunity to C. difficile is associated with recurrent infection in humans
May 21
Kelli VanDussen, PhD, Asst Professor, Cincinnati Children's
Microvilli-associated defects in Crohn’s disease intestine
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Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhD, Asst Professor, WashU
Gene-environment interaction triggers Paneth cell defects in Crohn's disease
May 28
Florian Rieder, MD, Asst Prof, Cleveland Clinic/Case Western
Microbiome and intestinal fibrosis
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Janelle Arthur, PhD, Asst Professor, UNC
Microbial metallophores and fibrosis
June 4
Marie-Claire Arrieta, PhD, Asst Prof, UCalgary
Intestinal fungi are causally implicated in microbiome assembly and immune development in mice
Frank Yeung, MD/PhD student (Cadwell lab), NYU
Altered Immunity of Laboratory Mice in the Natural Environment Is Associated With Fungal Colonization
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Irina Leonardi, PhD, postdoc, Weill Cornell
Immune Recognition of the Intestinal Mycobiota
June 11
Sage Foley, graduate student (McCormick Lab), UMassMed
Microbiome regulation of intestinal P-glycoprotein expression in maintenance of homeostasis
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Triet Bui, graduate student (Sumagin Lab), Northwestern
The pathobiology of neutrophils in gut inflammation, injury, and carcinogenesis
June 18
Deepshika Ramanan, PhD, postdoc, Harvard
Maternal factors orchestrate multi-generational transfer of immune traits
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Melody Zeng, PhD, Asst Prof, Weill Cornell
Gut microbiome-induced maternal IgG in early life immunity
June 25
Jason Goldsmith, MD, PhD, postdoc, UPenn
TNFAIP8 controls intestinal stem cell homeostasis and regeneration by regulating microbiome-induced Akt signaling
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Adam Gracz, PhD, Asst Prof, UNC
Quantifying chromatin dynamics during intestinal stem cell differentiation