Current Topics in Virus-Host Interactions Fall 2025 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, PhD, professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Topic: Roles of innate immunity in the emergence and severity of pandemic viruses
Speaker: Kinjal Majumder, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Topic: Interplay of viruses with DNA damage responses
Speaker: Andrew S. Bowman, MS, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Topic: H5N1 in Dairy Cattle
Speaker: Adam Brynes, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences
Topic: Fatty acid synthase inhibition & antiviral responses
Speaker: Emily Hemann, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State Univeristy College of Medicine
Topic: Roles of type III interferons in antiviral immunity
Speaker: Daphne Avgousti, PhD, associate professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Topic: Viral manipulation of chromatin dynamics
Speaker: Alison Kell, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico
Topic: Hantavirus immune activation and evasion
Speaker: Nandan Gokhale, PhD, assistant professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
Topic: New roles for cellular RNAs as scaffolds in antiviral signaling
Speaker: Andrew Mehle, PhD, professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Topic: Evasion and coopting of antiviral programs by influenza virus
Speaker: Shan-Lu Liu, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Veterinary Bioscienes, College of Veterinary Medicine; co-director, Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Thematic Program, Infectious Diseases Institute; professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Topic: Evolving landscape of COVID-19 vaccine and immune responses to viral variants
Speaker: David Knipe, PhD, professor of Microbiology, Harvard College Medical School
Topic: Herpes simplex virus immune evasion
Speaker: Christopher Weigel, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, The Ohio State University
Topic: Nanopore DNA methylation sequencing reveals distinct activity states in human herpesviruses
Speaker: Hazem Ghoneim, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Topic: Targeting iron dysregulation during severe co-infection pneumonia
Speaker: Adriana Forero, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Topic: Unexpected nuclear factors regulating antiviral responses
Speaker: Amel Amer, PhD, professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity; co-director, Cure CF Columbus (C3) Immune Care, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Topic: The Role of Caspase-4/11 in Modulating the Adaptive Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2