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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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