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 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
Dr. Nozomi Ando
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Invited Speaker
Dr. 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 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. 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"