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Seminar Series

BottlesSeminars as part of five series,

  • the Microbiology Seminars Series (MBS, invited speakers),
  • the  Work in Progress Series (WIP, graduate students and postdocs), or
  • the Student Literature Seminar Series (SLS/MICR830, graduate students),
  • the Faculty Seminar Series (FSS, Department Faculty).
  • the Noble P. Sherwood Seminar Series (NSS, invited speakers)

are presented at 11:00 a.m. in Cates West Auditorium (1006) on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted.

If you would like to be added to our seminar mailing list, please contact Kathy Mackay.

Fall 2025

Date

Speaker

Host

Aug 7

Jonathan Soboloff, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Director,

Division of Genetic, Environmental and Inhalational Disease, Dept of Internal Medicine, KUMC

Hubert Tse

Aug 14

Amar Singh, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Director, IBD Research, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Motility, KUMC

Hubert Tse

Aug 21

 

 

Aug 28

Marisa Alegra, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Committee on Cancer Biology, Committee on Immunology, Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition, The University of Chicago

Mary Markiewicz

Sept 4

 

 

Sept 11

Pawan Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

Hongbing Yu

Sept 18

Parvathi Kuthoor, Graduate Student

 

Sept 25

Michael Federle, Ph.D., Professor, College of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, Director, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Affiliate, Center for Biomolecular Sciences, Retzky College of Pharmacy – Chicago|Rockford, The University of Illinois - Chicago

Jeff Bose

Oct 2

Courtney Krider, Graduate Student

 

Oct 9

Kevin McIver, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Dept of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

Indranil Biswas

Oct 16

Aubrey McReynolds, Graduate Student

 

Oct 23

Ann Wozniak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Motility, KUMC

Maria Kalamvoki

Oct 30

Isabel Aranzazu Pulido Ruiz, Graduate Student

 

Nov 6

Divij Mathew, Ph.D., Research Associate of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Katie Waugh

Nov 13

Michael Strenta, Graduate Student

 

Nov 20

Jakob Trimpert, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University

Maria Kalamvoki

Nov 27

THANKSGIVING

 

Dec 4

Zhilong Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Dept of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology (Joint), Texas A&M University School of Medicine

Jianming Qiu

Dec 11

Nick Freitas, Graduate Student

 

Dec 18

Miranda Chávez, Graduate Student

 

Spring 2026

Date

Speaker

Host

Jan 8

Shane McFarlin, Graduate Student

 

Jan 15

Sarah Lasnier, Graduate Student

 

Jan 22

Rabina Saud & Emma Pagella, Graduate Students

 

Jan 29

Sreenath Muraleedharan Suma & KaLia Burnette, Graduate Students

 

Feb 5

 

 

Feb 12

Robert Lochhead, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Wolf Zueckert

Feb 19

 

 

Feb 26

Donovan Richart & Cindy Menjivar, Graduate Students

 

Mar 5

 

 

Mar 12

Todd Bradley, Ph.D., Director of Immunogenomics, Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center

Hubert Tse

Mar 19

 

 

Mar 26

 

 

Apr 16

 

 

Apr 23

Apr 30

 

 

May 7

Matt Bettini, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology Division, Department of Pathology, University of Utah

Hubert Tse

May 14

 

 

May 21

Marco Colonna, M.D., Robert Rock Belliveau, MD Professor of Pathology & Immunology, Professor of Immunobiology & Professor of Medicine, Washington University

Mary Markiewicz

May 28

Ambika Dudhate, Ph.D. & Harshraj Shinde, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellows

 

Jun 4

Kimberly Thomas, Ph.D. Assistant Investigator, Vitalant Research Institute, Adjoint Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus

Hubert Tse

Jun 11

 

 

Jun 18

Jun 25

 

 

Noble P. Sherwood Seminar Series

Dr. Noble P. SherwoodDr. Noble P. Sherwood taught Botany and Bacteriology at the University of Kansas from 1910 to 1952 and served as the first Chairman of the Department of Bacteriology from 1917 to 1949. He worked on bacterial pathogenesis including anaphylactic shock and streptococcal virulence.

Noble P. Sherwood grew up in Kansas City and attended KU, where he received a B.S. in Engineering in 1905, an M.S. in Bacteriology in 1911 and a Ph.D. in 1921. In 1924, he received an M.D. from the Minnesota University Medical School.

KU School of Medicine

University of Kansas Medical Center
Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology
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Kansas City, KS 66160
PHONE: 913-588-7012
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