Student Seminar
2025-04-28 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Students Presenting
Megan Perkins of Nigel Mackman’s Lab
Alex Walls of Adam Rosenthal’s Lab

Departmental Tuesday Seminar
2025-04-29 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Seminar Title: Structure-based Vaccine Antigen Design

PAUSE Seminar
2025-05-02 09:15 - 10:15 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Seminar Speaker Tessa Andermann from UNC-CH

Student Seminar
2025-05-05 12:15 - 13:15 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Students Presenting
Joshua Fox of David Margolis’ Lab
Camryn Pajon of Timothy Sheahan’s Lab

New Student Research Symposium and White Coat Ceremony
2025-05-16 13:00 - 17:00 | 2204 MBRB

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2025-08-26 09:30 - 10:30 | 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 | 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”
