Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-08-26 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Jessica Thaxton
Seminar Title: “Endoplasmic Reticulum Dysfunction Underlies T Cell Inefficacy in Solid Cancers”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-09-02 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Balfour Sartor
Seminar Title: “Swimming upstream: The evolution and promise of bacterial/mucosal immune interactions determining homeostasis vs chronic inflammation.”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-09-09 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Amit Sharma
Seminar Title: “Functional interactions between viral surface glycoproteins and cellular entry receptors: Implications for HIV animal models and coronavirus entry inhibitors”

Fall Picnic 2025
2025-09-12 11:30 - 14:00 | The Farm, 1 Alice Ingram Circle, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, United States

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-09-16 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Ramnik Xavier
Seminar Title: “Spatial tissue maps to disease mechanisms”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-09-23 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Brian Conlon
Seminar Title: “Host-pathogen interaction and antibiotic treatment failure”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-09-30 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Kristen Funk
Seminar Title: “CD8+ T cell immunity in the aged brain in response to viral infection”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-10-14 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Daniel Blanco-Melo
Seminar Title: “LEVERAGING THE PAST: MOLECULAR PALEOVIROLOGY OF HOST-VIRUS INTERACTIONS”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-10-21 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Roger Pechous
Seminar Title: “Defining Key Mediators of the Progression of Pneumonic Plague”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-10-28 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Tonya J. Webb
Seminar Title: “NKT cell-based immunotherapy for the treatment of solid cancers”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-11-04 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Daniel DiMaio
Seminar Title: “The bizarre cell biology of the shape-shifting human papillomavirus L2 protein”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-11-11 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Lefteris Michailidis
Seminar Title: “Virus-host interaction studies and the search for a cure against hepatitis B virus”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-11-18 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Michael Abt
Seminar Title: “Immune-Microbiota interactions in defense against Clostridioides difficile infection”

End-of-Year Lunch
2025-12-11 12:00 - 15:00 | One40 Social, 140 W. Franklin St. #190, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, United States

Annual Department Clean-up
2025-12-18 | NC

Student Seminar
2026-01-12 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-01-26 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-02-02 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-02-16 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-02-23 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-03-02 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-03-09 12:15 - 13:15 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-01-13 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Nihal Altan-Bonnet
Seminar Title: “Anti-Viral Immune Responses in Lactating Mammary Glands”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-01-20 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Jacob Yount
Seminar Title: “Modeling and Mitigating Cardiac Complications of Influenza Virus Infections”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-02-10 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Paul Turner
Seminar Title: “Developing phage therapy against antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-02-17 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Lingchong You
Seminar Title: “Predicting and controlling microbial community dynamics”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-02-24 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Gianpietro Dotti
Seminar Title: “Building an academic program of CAR-T cell therapy”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-03-03 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Julia Oh
Seminar Title: “From metagenomes to therapeutics: the human microbiome”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-03-03 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: TBD
Seminar Title: “Title TBD”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-03-10 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Matthew Parsek
Seminar Title: “Relationships between cell wall stress and c-di-GMP signaling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa””
