Seminar Schedule
Spring 2025 Seminar Series
| Date: | Speaker | Location and Zoom Information: |
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 |
Audrey Cleuren, PhD - Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Biology Research Program at OMRF Hosted by: Lin Liu, Ph.D.
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12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376 |
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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.
Title to be Announced |
12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376 |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 |
David O'Dwyer, PhD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of
Michigan Medical School
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12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376 |
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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 |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 |
Paul Kirchberger, PhD - Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at OSU
Hosted by: Tom Oomens, Ph.D.
Title to be Announced |
12:15pm - 1:30pm Rm MEH 101 Zoom ID: 984 1502 3546 Zoom Passcode: 144376 |
- Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule
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 Liu12:15pm - 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 OSU12:15pm - 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 OSU12:15pm - 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 OSU12:15pm - 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 University12:15pm - 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
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: TBA12:15pm - 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 2024Host 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 2023Host 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 - Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
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