Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series in Infectious Diseases
Seminar Coordinators:
Jonathan Auguste and Bryan Hsu
The Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens (CeZAP) introduces the CeZAP Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series in Infectious Diseases. This university wide seminar series at Virginia Tech invites outstanding scientists nationally to give presentations to CeZAP and broader university community on topics of current interest in the broad area of infectious diseases. Diversity of seminar topics is essential to meeting the purpose of the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series in Infectious Diseases. Each spring, nominations for nationally distinguished speakers for the seminar series for the following academic year will be solicited from CeZAP affiliated faculty. The seminar coordinators (Drs. Jonathan Auguste and Bryan Hsu) will coordinate the selection of speakers, and the CeZAP faculty nominators will serve as the host for the national speakers. We expect to host at least one nationally distinguished speaker each month, and the remaining speakers will feature our own CeZAP affiliated faculty.
SPRING 2023 SCHEDULE
Seminar Date & Time:
Thursdays at 12:30 - 1:30 pm
In person in Fralin Hall Auditorium (virtual seminars are indicated below)
January 19, 2023:
ID IGEP Presentations: Jason Pough, Hannah Ivester, Jonathan Joyce
January 26, 2023:
Kristy Murray, D.V.M., Ph.D. | BCMP Professor, Baylor College of Medicine & Sarah Gunter Ph.D. Assistant Profess or, Baylor College of Medicine “Implementing and expanding acute febrile illness surveillance for emerging pathogens in LMIC countries during a pandemic”
February 2, 2023: Virtual Seminar Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89419666443
Andres Velasco-Villa, Ph.D. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Molecular typing of rabies virus: a tool that has enhanced the elimination of the dog rabies cycle across Latin America”
February 9, 2023:
Nadia Romero-Gallardo, DVM, CDC One Health Office “One World-One Health”
February 16, 2023:
Rachel Silverman, Ph.D., ScM, Research Scientist, VMCVM "Using routinely collected public health data for epidemiologic research during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic"
February 23, 2023: Virtual Seminar Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89419666443
Shawna McCallin, Ph.D. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne “Phage Therapy: Test tube to new treatments”
March 2, 2023:
Kylene Kehn-Hall, MS, Ph.D., Professor, VMCVM
March 16, 2023:
David Schmale, Ph.D., SPES, CALS “Transport of microbes at interfaces”
March 23, 2023:
Zhaomin Yang, Ph.D., Professor, COS “Bacterial type IV pilus as a motility apparatus and anti-virulence target”
March 30, 2023:
Taylor Earley, Ph.D., Leidos Biomedical Research Inc.
April 6, 2023:
Gregory Glass, Ph.D., Professor, University of Florida
April 13, 2023: Virtual Seminar Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89419666443
Jason Crawford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry and Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University “Metabolism at the Host-microbe Interface”
April 20, 2023:
Jean Whichard, Ph.D, CDC “Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne and Zoonotic Bacteria in the U.S., An Introduction to the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System”
April 27, 2023: Virtual Seminar Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89419666443
Jonatas Abrahao, Ph.D., Professor Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
