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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Adam Gracz, PhD, Asst Prof, UNC
Quantifying chromatin dynamics during intestinal stem cell differentiation
