Student Seminar
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, 2026-03-23 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-03-30 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-04-06 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States

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””

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-03-24 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: José Penadés
Seminar Title: “Two Tales about Phages and Their Satellites”

AI in Research: Journey, Insights, and Practial Workshop with Professor José Penadés, PhD
2026-03-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Kirkland Auditorium, 385 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Join us for a school-wide event featuring Professor José R. Penadés of Imperial College London, sharing his journey integrating artificial intelligence into his research, followed by a hands-on AI workshop, and a school-wide poster session showcasing cross-disciplinary applications and networking. Visit the registration page for the detailed event agenda and to register.

Register now:
https://go.unc.edu/penades

Clyde Hutchison Memorial Event
2026-03-27 09:00 - 15:30 | Pagano Conference Room, 00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Please register for the event here: https://apps2.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.go&key=CDFD

The schedule of events for this symposium, including the Zoom link to join virtually, can be found here.

A book with a few memories of Clyde Hutchinson III from the early days and his impact on us all can be found here.

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-03-31 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Ralph Baric
Seminar Title: “Cruising with Noroviruses”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-04-07 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Marvin Whiteley
Seminar Title: “From Bedside to Bench: Using Human Infections to Guide Discovery”

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-04-14 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Wilton Williams
Seminar Title: “SOSIP-trimer/mRNA combination for novel preventive and therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine regimens””

Tuesday Departmental Seminar
2026-04-21 09:30 - 10:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Speaker: Mary Estes
Seminar Title: “Mini-Guts: Avatars to Understand Human Intestinal Health and Infection””

New Student Research Symposium and White Coat Ceremony
2026-05-15 09:00 - 14:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics, 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States

Annual Department Clean-up
2026-12-17, 2027-12-16 | NC

New Student Research Symposium and White Coat Ceremony
2027-05-14 13:00 - 17:00, 2028-05-19 13:00 - 17:00 | 2204 MBRB
