Seminar Schedule

Spring 2026 Seminar Series

Spring 2026 seminar schedule


Date	Speaker	Presentation Title
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026	Paul Kirchberger, PhD - Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at OSU Hosted by: Tom Oomens, Ph.D.	Overlooked viruses, from the human microbiome to the world's oceans
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026	Xufang Deng, PhD - Assistant Professor in Physiological Sciences, OSU Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Investigating viral persistence and inflammation dynamics in SARS-CoV-2-infected mice
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026	Joy Scaria, PhD - Associate Professor in Veterinary Pathobiology at OSU Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Engineering Defined Bacterial Consortia to Define Gut Microbiome-Mediated Host Defense in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Wednesday, March 4, 2026	Shabaana A. Khader, PhD - Betty and Bernard Roizman Professor of Microbiology at University of Chicago Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D.	17th Lundberg-Kienlen Lecture in Biomedical Research: Targeting the lungs for Novel vaccines for Tuberculosis
Wednesday, March 11, 2026	Margaret Adele Scull, PhD - Associate Professor in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland Hosted by: Xufang Deng, Ph.D.	Mucin-Virus Interactions: New Insights into Innate Airway Defense
Wednesday, March 18, 2026	Sudhakar Jha, PhD - Associate Professor in Physiological Sciences at OSU Hosted by: Tom Oomens, Ph.D.	Circular RNAs in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Regulatory Networks and Disease Implications
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 13th Annual Research Symposium	Daniel Chertow, MD., MPH - Senior Investigator in Critical Care Medicine at NIH Clinical center JoAnne L. Flynn, PhD - Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Kevin Harrod, PhD - Professor in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham	-Exploring the role of viral persistence in Long COVID: a tissue-based approach -Dissecting protection against tuberculosis -Multiomic elucidation of influenza-mediated pathogenesis and secondary bacterial infection
Wednesday, April 22, 2026	Pengchun Yu, MD - Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Biology Research Program at OMRF Hosted by: Lin Liu, PhD.	Metabolic Regulation of Lymphangiogenesis

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Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule

Fall 2025 Seminar Series


Date:	Speaker	Location and Zoom Information:
Wednesday, September 17, 2025	Audrey Cleuren, PhD - Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Biology Research Program at OMRF Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D. Microvascular Mayhem: Mapping endothelial cell responses in sepsis-associated AKI	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, September 24, 2025	Marcela Rodriguez, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Hosted by: Yong Cheng, Ph.D. Nutritional immunity: a potential driver of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, October 1, 2025	Glenn Zhang, PhD - Professor of Animal and Food Sciences at OSU Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D. Colonization Resistance Against Necrotic Enteritis	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, October 8, 2025	Lunch and Learn from Bruker Spatial Biology: Michelle Myer, Chris Deheer, and Seth Meyers Hosted by: Molecular Biology and Genomics Core Awareness of nCounter Gene Expression Technology on Campus	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, October 15, 2025	Jacob Friedman, PhD - Director, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and Associate Vice Provost for Diabetes Programs, OUHSC Hosted by: Tom Oomens, Ph.D. Fueling the Obesity Epidemic: How a Mother's Diet Programs Microbes, Immune Cells, and Mitochondria Across Species	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, November 5, 2025	Maria Kalamvokis, PhD - Associate Professor, Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology at the KU Medical Center Hosted by: Clinton Jones, Ph.D. HSV-1 subjugates organelle functions to support the infection: A journey from endosomes to mitochondria and extracellular vesicles	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, November 12, 2025	David O'Dwyer, PhD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D. IPF contains multitudes: Investigating the role of the microbiome in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, November 19, 2025	SeungHye Han, MD - Assistant Professor, Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care at Northwestern Hosted by: Jordan Metcalf, M.D. The integrated stress response regulates AT2 stem cell state	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
Wednesday, November 26, 2025	Paul Kirchberger, PhD - Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at OSU Hosted by: Tom Oomens, Ph.D. Overlooked Viruses, from the Human microbiome to the world’s oceans	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376

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Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

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Date:	Speaker	Location and Zoom Information:
1/22/2025	Unlocking Research Potential: OCRID Core Services and Technologies Presenters: Myron Hinsdale, Rudra Channappanavar, Alexandra Ford, and Lin Liu	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
2/12/2025	Daniel Wozniak, Ph.D. - Professor of Microbial Infection& Immunity and Microbiology at The Ohio State University "Polymicrobial interactions during chronic infections"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
2/26/2025	Yong Cheng, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at OSU	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
3/05/2025	Xufang Deng, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Physiological Sciences at OSU	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
3/12/2025	Sathish Venkatachalem, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at North Dakota State University "Sex Differences in Asthma: A Play of Estrogen in the Airway"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
3/19/2025	Sunil More, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology at OSU	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
3/26/2025	Diego Diel, DVM, MD, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at Cornell University "Infection dynamics and pathogenesis of HPAI H5N1 infection in mammals"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
4/08/2025	OCRID 12th Annual Research Symposium	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
4/16/2025	OCRID Core Technologies Series: Single Cell RNA sequencing presented by 10x Genomics	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
4/23/2025	Hasina Outtz Reed, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell University	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
5/7/2025	Lundberg-Kienlen Lecture: Jonathan Kropski, M.D. - Associate Professor of Medicine, Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care at Vanderbilt University "Lung Epithelial Dysfunction in Pulmonary Fibrosis"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm RJP 140 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376

Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule

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Date:	Speaker	Location and Zoom Information:
August 28, 2024	Steven Deeks, MD - Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco "Long COVID and Long Everything: Towards and Understanding of the Mechanism and the Search for a Cure"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
September 4, 2024	Peter Vitiello, PhD - Assiociate Professor in the College of Medicine at OUHSC "Redox regulation of lung epithelial programming during development"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
September 11, 2024	Amy Barczak, MD - Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University Division of Medical Sciences "Fixing a hole: Repairing the Mtb-damaged phagosome"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
September 25, 2024	Jürgen A. Richt, DVM, PhD - Regents Professor at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine "H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus infections in livestock"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
October 2, 2024	Karen Wozniak, PhD - Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at OSU Title: TBA	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
October 23, 2024	James Burke, PhD - Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology Title: TBA	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
October 30, 2024	Rudra Channappanavar, PhD - Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at OSU "TRAF6-ERK12 Signaling in Coronavirus-induced Inflamation"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
November 6, 2024	Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH - Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University "Shifting the paradigm for respiratory infection prevention: towards rationally designed nasal probiotics"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
November 13, 2024	Ciaran Shaughnessy, PhD - Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at OSU "Enhancing CFTR function in an era of highly eﬀective CFTR modulators"	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376
November 20, 2024	Jianrong Li, DVM, PhD - Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at The Ohio State University Title: TBA	12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm 101 MEH Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376

Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule

Seminar Speakers Spring 2024

Host	Name	University/institute	Title	Presenting Site	Seminar Date
Hosted by Tom Oomens, Ph.D.	Alexander Burkrev, Ph.D.	Professor at the Departments of Pahtology and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston	Immune Responses to Vaccines Against Emerging Viral Infections	McElroy Hall, 101	Januaray, 31, 2024
Hosted by Tom Oomens, Ph.D.	Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Regents Professor and Lundberg-Kienlen Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research, Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Director, Oklahoma Center for Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, Oklahoma State University	Noncoding RNAs: are they therapeutic targets for COVID-19?	McElroy Hall, 101	February 07, 2024
Hosted by Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Sunil More, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University	Histopathological Insights: Unraveling Lung Pathology for Research Minds	McElroy Hall, 101	February 14, 2024
Hosted by Tom Oomens. Ph.D.	Jennifer Rudd, DVM, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University	NETosis Pathways in a Feline Model for COVID-19	McElroy Hall, 101	February 21, 2024
Hosted by Tom Oomens. Ph.D.	Susan Schroeder, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry/Microbiology & Plant Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma	Direct RNA Sequencing with Nanopore Technology to Identify m6A Modifications	McElroy Hall, 101	February 28, 2024
Hosted by Tom Oomens. Ph.D.	Gabriel Cook, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University	Structural Studies of SARS- CoV- 2 Entry Membrane Protein TMPRSS2	McElroy Hall, 101	March 06, 2024
Hosted by Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Reed Stubbendieck, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University	Bacterial Competition as a Means to Identify Antimicrobrials from the Human Microbiome	McElroy Hall, 101	March 13, 2024
Hosted by Clinton Jones, Ph.D.	Benjamin K. Chen, MD, Ph.D.	Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	TBA	McElroy Hall, 101	March 20, 2024
Hosted by Rudra Channappanavar, Ph.D.	Heather Winona Stout-Delgado, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College	Impact of Aging on Immune Responses to Influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae	McElroy Hall, 101	March 27, 2024
11th Annual OCRID Research Symposium			April 4th, 2024
Hosted by Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Avi Mitra, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University	Mycobacteria Use a Novel Class of Membrane Protein for Iron Acquisition from Host Heme	McElroy Hall, 101	April 17, 2024
Hosted by Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Matthew Walters, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Targeting of Host Factors to Suppress SARS- CoV- 2 Replications	McElroy Hall, 101	April 24, 2024
Hosted by Lin Liu, Ph.D.	Anthony Leung, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univerity	15th Annual Lundberg-Kienlen Lectureship in Biomedical Research: Targeting PARP and ADP- ribosylation: New Battleground of Virus Infection	McElroy Hall, 101	May 1, 2024

Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule

Seminar Speakers Fall 2023

Host	Name	University/institute	Title	Presenting Site	Zoom Connection	Seminar Date
Hosted by Lin Liu	Catherine Bosio PhD	Chief, Immunity to Pulmonary Pathogens Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases	Metabolic Mayhem: How the metabolic milieu of the lung shapes the outcome of infection	McElroy Hall Rm 101	Meeting ID: 482 603 2491 - Passcode: 565331	Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Hosted by Yong Cheng	Raman (Krishna) Vankayalapati, PhD	Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center	Identify immunologic markers of persons at highest risk of developing tuberculosis	McElroy Hall Rm 101	Meeting ID: 482 603 2491 - Passcode: 565331	Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Hosted by Tom Oomens	Andrew Pekosz, Ph.D.	Professor and Vice Chair of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular at Johns Hopkins University	Virus Surveillance and the Identification of Novel Genetic Mutations that Facilitate Virus Circulation	McElroy Hall Rm 101	Meeting ID: 482 603 2491 - Passcode: 565331	Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Hosted by Joshua Butcher	Jenna Bartley, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Immunology at UCONN Health	Aches, Age, and Influenza: A Pathway to Muscle Loss and Disability	McElroy Hall Rm 101	Meeting ID: 482 603 2491 - Passcode: 565331	Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Hosted by Karen Wozniak	Edward Janoff, MD	Clinical Professor and Director, Mucosal and Vaccine Research Colorado (MAVRC) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine	Complementary Mechanisms of Mucosal Defense Against the Pneumococcus	McElroy Hall Rm 101	Meeting ID: 482 603 2491 - Passcode: 565331	Wednesday, November 29, 2023