Seminars & Talks

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SEATRAC hosts and promotes seminars focused on TB basic and clinical sciences by local trainees', local and visiting faculty, and special guests.

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Lunch provided for registered attendees!

Research In Progress talks

Save the dates! Speakers and talk titles updated in real time.

Friday, September 20, 2024 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Megan Maerz, Graduate Student, Seshadri Lab, UW

The role of γδ T cells in immune protection against tuberculosis

Friday, October 18, 2024 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

Friday, November 15, 2024 - REGISTER HERE 

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Urdahl Lab, SCRI

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Friday, December 6, 2024 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Talia Himmelfarb, MD, Clinical Researcher, Hawn Lab, UW

Maternal mycobacterial-specific T-cell signatures and infant risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Friday, January 17, 2025 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building C, 123 A&B
12:00-1:00pm

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Fernanda Rodrigues da Costa, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Parish Lab, SCRI

Disrupting pH homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Potential for Novel Therapies

Friday, February 14, 2025 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building C, 123 A&B
12:00-1:00pm

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Shapiro Lab, UW

Talk title TBD

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Chandler Church, PhD, Acting Instructor, Kublin Lab, Fred Hutch

BCG challenge models for evaluation of novel vaccines and therapies for MTB

Friday, March 21, 2025 - REGISTER HERE 

SLU Building C, 123 A&B
12:00-1:00pm

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Ben Gern, MD, Assistant Professor, SCRI

Dissecting the determinants of tuberculous lesion structure

Friday, April 18, 2025 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Engi Attia, PhD, Assistant Professor, UW

Post-TB lung disease in among children and adolescents with HIV

Friday, May 16, 2025 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Blair Armistead, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, SCRI

The role of inherited maternal cells in infant BCG-specific T cell responses

Friday, June 6, 2025 - REGISTER HERE

SLU Building F, 106
12:00-1:00pm

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Mark Fajans, PhD Candidate, Drain Lab, UW

Improving diagnosis of tuberculosis in children

 

Special Guests

Monday, October 21, 2024, 5:00-6:00pm, PT

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Wendy Chin-Tanner

Stigma, Science, and Society: Understanding Carville and Hansen’s (Mycobacterium leprae) disease treatment in the U.S. through historical fiction.

Human-focused presentation and discussion on Hansen's Disease
and Chin-Tanner's book, King of the Armadillos
Zoom only, register and learn more

 

 

Faculty Talks 

2024-2025 scheduled talks coming soon!

 

Archive, Research in Progress

 

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