Thursday Series Meetings and Archives

2026-2027

12:30pm -1:30pm in 147 Nanaline Duke 

DateSpeakerInstitutionTopic
October 8, 2026Noelle YoungeDuke 
October 15, 2026 NO SEMINAR - Room unavailable
November 12, 2026Matt AndersonU of Wisconsin-Madisongenome evolution fungi (C. albicans)
November 19, 2026Matthias GromeierDuke University
December 3, 2026Samantha LewisUC Berkeleymitochondrial DNA (C. elegans)
December 4, 2026TBD  
February 4, 2027Jonathan PrunedaOHSUbacteria, microbial effector proteins
March 4, 2027Christopher B. BrookeU of Illinoisviral replication, pathogenesis, evolution
TBDZev GartnerUCSFtissue morphogenesis and engineering
May 28, 2027   

2025-2026

12:30pm -1:30pm in 147 Nanaline Duke 

DateNameInstitutionTitle
Oct 2, 2025

Ru-Rong Ji

Host: Padma Gulur

Duke 
Oct 23, 2025

Amy Maddox 

Host: Amy Gladfelter

UNC 
Nov 6, 2025

Mohanish Deshmukh 

Host: Ed Miao

UNC 
Nov 13, 2025

Xiaojun Ren 

Host: Anne West

UNC-Charlotte 
Dec 4, 2025

Brian Strahl

Host: Yarui Diao

UNC 
Dec 11, 2025

Victoria Weiss

Host: Jatin Roper

Wake Forest School of Medicine 
Jan 29, 2026

Brian Conlon 

Host: David Tobin

UNC 
Feb 5, 2026

Margeaux Marbrey

Host: TBD

Duke 
Feb 26, 2026

Celia E. Shiau 

Host: Michel Bagnat

UNC 
Mar 12, 2026

Rajula Alleva

Host: Tom Petes

NIEHS 
Mar 19, 2026

Diego Bohorquez

Host: TBD

Duke 
Mar 26, 2026

Chrystal Starbird 

Host: Mike Boyce

UNC 
April 2, 2026

Regina Joice Cordy

Host: Isaac Nelson/Emily Derbyshire

Wake Forest University 
April 16, 2026

Ian Williamson

Host: Asiya Gusa

NCSU 
April 30, 2026

Rafael Guerrero

Host: Adrianna San Roman

NCSU 
June 4, 2026

Thomas Lecuit

Host: Akankshi Munjal

College de France 

 

 

2024-2025 

12:30pm -1:30pm in 147 Nanaline Duke 

DateName Title
January 11, 2024

Manuel Kleiner

Host: Lawrence David

  
March 7, 2024

Aparna Lakkaraju (UCSF)

Host: Catherine Bowes Rickman

  
March 14, 2024

Leah Byrne (Pitt)

Host: Catherine Bowes Rickman

  
March 21, 2024

Sloan Siegrist

Host: David Tobin

  
March 28, 2024

Ting Wang (Washington University School of Medicine)

Host: Yarui Diao

  
April 11, 2024

Yunsun Nam (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)

Host: Stacy Horner

  
April 18, 2024

Yi-Wei Chang (UPenn)

Host: Ed Miao

  
April 25, 2024

Rick Bushman, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Matthew Kelly

  
May 16th, 2024

Sally Horne-Badovinac, Ph.D., University of Chicago

Host: Akankshi Munjal

  
August 29th, 2024

Shaeri Mukherjee, UCSF

"Pathogens as cell-biology tools"

Host: Jörn Coers 

  
October, 2024

Bassem Hassan

Host: Debby Silver

  
October 3rd, 2024

Maxence Nachury, UCSF

Host: Vadim Arshavsky 

  
October 10th, 2024 

Sean Sun, Johns Hopkins 

Host: Michel Bagnat 

  
October 17th, 2024

Bassem Hassan, Paris Brain Institute 

Host: Debby Silver 

  
October 24th, 2024

Tuomas Tamella, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Host: Purushothama Rao Tata 

  
November 14th, 2024

Benita Sjogren, UC Irvine

Host: Nina Tsvetanova

  
November 21st, 2024

Robert Manguso, Harvard Medical School & the Broad Institute 

CMB Symposium 

  
December 5th, 2024

Furqan Fazal, Baylor College of Medicine

Host: Kate Meyer 

  
December 12th, 2024Balaji Manicassamy, Iowa  
January 9th, 2025

Elizabeth Wasmuth, UT Health San

Host: Suzanne Barbour

  
January 30th, 2025

David Booth, UCSF

Host; Samed Delic (Onishi Lab)

  
February 6th, 2025

Megan Baldridge, Washington University 

Host: John Rawls 

  
February 20th, 2025 

Matt Anderson, University Wisconsin-Madison

Host: Asiya Gusa

  
February 27, 2025

Craig Lowe, Duke University

Host: Beth Sullivan 

  
February 27, 2025

Special Lecture Greg Ippolito 

Host: Rohit Singh 

  
March 6th, 2025

Patrick Sung, UT Health San Antonio

Host: Li Lan 

  
March 20th, 2025

Yvon Woappi, Columbia University

Host: Mike Boyce 

  
April 3rd, 2025

Dan Gottschling, Calico Labs, San Francisco 

Host: Tom Petes

  
April 17th, 2025

Anna La Torre, UC Davis

Host: Lindsey Chew 

  
April 24th, 2025 

Wendy Mok, U Conn Health 

Host: Emily Derbyshire 

  
May 1st, 2024

Mary Baylies, Sloan Kettering Institute, MSK

Host: Yarui Diao

  
May 8th, 2025

Gözde Demirer, California Institute of Technology 

Host: Tyler Lee 

  
May 15th, 2025No Speaker  
May 22nd, 2025

Jennifer Cohen, Duke University

Host: Doug Marchuk

  

2022-2023 

ARCHIVES    
September 8, 2022Asiya Gusa, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Jinks-Robertson Lab, Duke University  
October 20, 2022 

Alex Joyner (Sloan Kettering Institute) 

Host: Yarui Diao

  
November 3, 2022 Debby Silver   
November 10, 2022 Joern Coers   
November 17, 2022 

Jue Wang (Wisconsin) 

Host: Ashley Chi 

  
January 5, 2023

Britt Glaunsinger (UC Berkley) 

Host: Virology: Matthew Thompson 

  
January 19, 2023 

Emily Troemel (UC Sand Diego) 

Host: Joern Coers 

  
January 26, 2023

Oliver Porquie (Harvard) 

Host: Yarui Diao 

  
February 2, 2023 

Greg Gage

(University of Michigan Medical School)

Host: Diego Bohórquez

  
February 9, 2023Blanche Capel   
February 16, 2023

Job Dekker

Host: Yarui Diao 

  
February 23, 2023 

Andrew Carter

Host: Sharyn Endow

  
March 2, 2023 

Jason Spence (University of Michigan Medical School) 

Host: Purushothama Rao Tata 

  
March 9, 2023 

Elizabeth H. Kellogg (Cornell University)

Host: Zhao Zhang 

  
March 16, 2023 

Sonya Neal (UCSD) 

Host: Gustavo M. Silva 

  
March 30, 2023

Katrin Karbstein (UFL) 

Host: Matt Tegowski 

  
April 6, 2023

Daniel Gerard Isom (Miami) 

Host: Nina Tsvetanova 

  
April 13, 2023

Karen Kasza (Columbia University) 

Host: Michel Bagnat

  
April 20, 2023

Eviatar (Umass Med) 

Host: Dong Yan 

  
April 27, 2023

Lila Solnica-Kreze (Washington University School of Medicine) 

Host: Akankshi Munjal, Ph.D 

  
May 18, 2023

Theresa Alenghat (Cincinnati Children's) 

Host: Neil Surana 

  
June 8, 2023

Sue Ackerman (UC San Diego) 

Host: Kate Meyer 

  
October 12, 2023

Tim Sampson

Host: John Rawls

  
October 19th, 2023

Andrew Brack (UCSF)

Host: Yarui Diao

  
November 2nd, 2023

Elda Grabocka (Thomas Jefferson University)

Host: Stefano Di Talia

  
November 9th, 2023

Wallace Marshall- HOLD

Host: Sharyn Endow

  
November 16, 2023

Lisa Manning (Syracuse University)

Host: Akankshi Munjal

  
December 14, 2023

Erica Washington (Duke University)

Host: Joseph Heitman