Past Events


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


Presented by Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CBID) and COBRE Centers on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID).

Friday - Saturday, October 21-22, 2022

Chemical Biology Symposium

Time and Location

4 :00 pm, October 21, 2022 - GriffithThe Oread Hotel, 1200 Oread Ave, Lawrence, KS
8 :00 am, October 21, 2022 - KU School of Pharmacy, Lawrence, KS

Keynote Speaker

Nozomi AndoDr. Nozomi Ando
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University

Invited Speaker

Jimmy BallardDr. Jimmy Ballard
Professor and Chairman
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
PI/Director, Oklahoma Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunity, CoBRE
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

More information is available on the Chemical Biology Symposium website.


The KU Chemical Biology Symposium is being conducted as a joint effort between the NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (CoBRE CBID), the NIH-sponsored Dynamic Aspects of Chemical Biology Graduate Student Training program (DACB), and the Higuchi Biosciences Center


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"