CBID/CEZID Seminar Series 2022-2023

The CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series is presented as a joint effort between by the KU Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CBID) and the KSU COBRE Centers on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID).

Wednesday, October 14, 2022

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

3:00 pm - Haworth Hall 1005

The seminar is also streamed through Zoom. Contact Shelley Sandberg at sandberg@ku.edu to get the Zoom meeting information.

Speaker

Mark DenisonMark R. Denison, MD
Edward Claiborne Stahlman Professor of Pediatrics,
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology,
Director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Presentation Title

How Fundamental Discoveries of Coronavirus Proofreading Led to Two SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals


Friday, January 27, 2023

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

2:30 pm - Zoom

Contact Shelley Sandberg at sandberg@ku.edu to get the Zoom meeting information.

Speaker

David WentworthDavid Wentworth, PhD
Chief of the Virology, Surveillance, and Diagnosis Branch (VSDB), Influenza Division
Director, Collaborating Centre for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Presentation Title

"Influenza Virus Surveillance and Vaccines"


Friday, February 24, 2023

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

3:00 pm - Haworth 1005

Speaker

Michael S. GilmoreMichael S. Gilmore, PhD
Sir William Osler Professor of Ophthalmology (Microbiology and Immunobiology),
Director, Infectious Disease Institute
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University

Presentation Title

"Confronting antibiotic resistance: Lessons learned by studying the origins of resistance in the enterococci"


Friday, March 31, 2023

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

3:00 pm - Zoom

Zoom Meeting ID: 984 7696 0402

Speaker

Heinz FeldmannHeinz Feldmann, MD, PhD
Chief, Disease Modeling and Transmission Section
Chief, Laboratory of Virology
Chief Scientist of the RML BSL4 Laboratories
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Presentation Title

"Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: A Neglected WHO Priority Disease"


Friday, April 14, 2023

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

3:00 pm - Haworth 1005

This seminar is also streamed through Zoom. Meeting ID: 952 7973 5575.  Passcode: 559543.

Speaker

Sean BradySean Brady, PhD
Tri-Institutional Professor
Evnin professor
Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules
Rockefeller University

Presentation Title

"Natural Antibiotics Without Natural Processes"


Friday, May 26, 2023

CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Time and Location

3:00 pm -  Zoom

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Speaker

Garth Ehrlich,Garth Ehrlich, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Genomic Sciences
Executive Director, Center for Surgical Infections and Biofilms
Executive Director, Center for Molecular Pathology, Drexel Medicine Diagnostics
Drexel University

Presentation Title

"Investigating the Bacterial Genomic Dark Matter with Machine Learning"


The CBID/CEZID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series is presented by Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CBID) and COBRE Centers on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID).