Sponsored by Ewing Halsell Foundation of San Antonio

seminars held from 9:00-10:00 am at the UTSA main campus in BSB 3.03.02

Fall 2024 Schedule

Seminar Date Seminar Details
August 30, 2024 Quantitative Bioimaging of the Plasmodium Liver Stage: Drug Discovery to Developmental Biology
Kirsten Hanson, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio
September 6, 2024 Development of a Bacterial Peptide as a Novel Anti-Virulence Agent Against Fungal Pathogens
Michael C. Lorenz, Ph.D., McGovern Medical School
September 13, 2024 What the Phage? And Other Aspects of STEC Pathogenesis
Angela Melton-Celsa, Ph.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
September 20, 2024 Guts, Bugs, and Drugs: Harnessing Microbial Omics and Engineering to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cancer
Christopher D. Johnston, Ph.D., MD Anderson Cancer Center
September 27, 2024 How Does NASA Keep its Extraterrestrial Samples Pristine? Geomicrobiology, Astromaterials Curation, and Planetary Protection at NASA
Aaron Regberg, Ph.D., Johnson Space Center
October 4, 2024 Evolution and Discovery of a New Organelle from the Oceans: The Nitroplast
Jonathan P. Zehr, Ph.D., University of California-Santa Cruz
October 11, 2024 How a Novel Adherence Function Led to New Insight into Borrelial Complement Resistance
Jon T. Skare, Ph.D., Texas A&M College of Medicine
October 18, 2024 Translational Nano-Scale Technologies to Facilitate Drug Repurposing for Infectious Diseases
Abhijit Date, Ph.D., University of Arizona
October 25, 2024 Regulation of Conidiogenesis of Aspergillus spp
Heesoo Park, Ph.D., Kyungpook National University
November 1, 2024 Tuberculosis and Diabetes: Interaction with Old Age
Blanca Restrepo, Ph.D., Texas Biomedical Research Institute
November 8, 2024 Vaccine Development Center of San Antonio Conference
November 15, 2024 Hungry Hungry Schistos: The Resource Ecology of Epidemics and Control
David Civitello, Ph.D., Emory University
November 22, 2024 Chemogenetics Approaches for Antimalarial Drug Discovery
Jacquin Niles, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 29, 2024 Thanksgiving Break