Current Topics in Virus-Host Interactions Fall 2026 Seminar Series Schedule
Join us every Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in room 165 of the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI) for this recurring seminar series. Sessions are offered in a hybrid format with both in-person and virtual attendance options available.
Meeting for students enrolled in class.
Speaker: Jacob Yount's Laboratory
Topic: Unexpected innate immune regulation of acute and long COVID cardiac arrhythmia risk
Speaker: Christina Rau, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Topic: Gammaherpesvirus infection promotes CNS-autoimmunity in a novel model of Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker: Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD, associate professor of Laboratory Medicine; and Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine
Topic: Norovirus and SARS-CoV-2 immunity
Speaker: Jianrong Li's Laboratory
Topic: SARS-CoV-2 development as a multivalent vaccine vector
Speaker: Christopher M. Robinson, PhD, associate professor of Microbiology & Immunology; and Medicine, School of Medicine, Indiana University
Topic: Sex differences in immune responses to enteroviruses
Speaker: Marta Gaglia, PhD, associate professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology; and Insitute for Molecular Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Speaker: Moriah L. Szpara, PhD, professor of Biology, Department of Biology; and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University
Topic: HSV biology and immunity
Speaker: Cody Warren, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University
Topic: Spillover biology
Speaker: Alison J. Carey, MD, associate professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; and Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine
Topic: Differential role of type I and III interferons in the infant response to respiratory viral infection
Speaker: Susan R. Weiss, PhD, vice chair; and professor, Department of Microbiology; and director, Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: Coronavirus biology and immunity
Speaker: Camila Coelho, PhD, assistant professor, Microbiology Department, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai - New York
Topic: Antibody protection against emerging viruses
Speaker: Elke Mühlberger, PhD, professor of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University
Topic: Filovirus replication and host-pathogen interactions
Speaker: Andrew Bowman's Laboratory
Topic: Zoonotic Influenza
Speaker: Jian Zhu's Laboratory
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Adriana Forero Rueda, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
Topic: Non-canonical regulators of interferons