RGE Murray Seminar Series 2025-2026
| October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May | June | July |
October 16
"Next generation approaches to active and passive mucosal immunization"
Dr. Matthew Miller, McMaster University
November 6
"Fault line for failure — emerging malaria drug and diagnostic resistance along the African Great Rift Valley"
Dr. Jeff Bailey, Brown University
November 11
"Rare genetic diseases illustrate mechanisms of human immunity"
Dr. Janet Markle, Vanderbilt University
November 13
"From cold to complex: rethinking the immune landscape of EBV-positive pediatric Burkitt lymphoma within the context of malaria"
Dr. Ann Moorman, University of Massachusetts
November 20 - Burnett Chair Candidate
"Investigating immune-microbe interactions in urogenital health and disease"
Dr. Christina Farr, Case Western Reserve University
December 4
"Rewriting Immunity in Red: Inside the Immune Lives of Erythroid Progenitors"
Dr. Shokrollah Elahi, University of Alberta
January 8 - Burnett Chair Candidate
"The microbiome-urology axis: a driver of disease and discovery"
Dr. Kait Al, Western University
January 15
"Viral Assembly: A Blueprint for Broadly Active Pandemic Countermeasures"
Dr. Michael Norris, University of Toronto
January 22
"Virus–Host Interactions with DNA Repair Machinery: An Exploitable Vulnerability"
Dr. Amélie Fradet-Turcotte, Université Laval
January 29
"Immune Cell Aging in the Chronically Stressed Brain"
Dr. Chao Wang, University of Toronto
March 5
"Development of Preclinical Models to Study HPV Pathogenesis and Cancer Development"
Dr. Megan Spurgeon, University of Madison-Wisconsin
March 10 - 12 PM, DSB 0010
"Friend or Foe? Elucidating how host immunity influences neurotropic virus pathogenesis"
Dr. Mikal Woods Acevedo, University of Pittsburgh
March 26 - 12:30, MSB 384
"Sex-dependent Neuroimmune Responses to Infections in Cognitive Aging"
Dr. Fernanda Barros Aragão, Queen's University
April 9
"Neuroimmune interactions in synucleinopathies"
Dr. Katrina Räty, University of Eastern Finland
April 13
"TBA"
Dr. Lara Labarta Bajo, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
April 23
"TBA"
Dr. Lindsay Kalan, McMaster University
May 14
"Bone appétit: Host-pathogen interactions in Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis"
Dr. James Cassat, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
May 28 - 2026 Annual Lecturer
"TBA"
Dr. Johan Sandberg, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
June
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