Seminar Series

Ft. grad, postdoc, faculty & more!

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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!

Please register for each event below. 

Research In Progress

Friday, January 19, 2024

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Braden Gabriel, Grad Student, Ma Lab, SCRI

Kinase influence on Transcription Factor Activity in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis using Regression Models

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Vanessa Baldin, PhD, Parish Lab, SCRI

Targeting protein secretion in M. tuberculosis

Time: 12-1pm
Location: 307 Westlake Ave N, Discovery Room
Moderator: Dr. Thomas Hawn, UW
Register here: https://bit.ly/3QvZqtc

Friday, February 16, 2024

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Steven Makatsa, PhD, Seshadri Lab, UW

Immune correlates of ivBCG vaccine induced protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in rhesus macaques

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Holly Barrett, Graduate Student, Urdahl Lab, SCRI

Immune mechanisms of protection in BCG vaccinated mice infected with an ultra-low dose of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Time: 12-1pm
Location: SLU F106
Moderator: Dr. Tanya Parish, SCRI
Register here: https://bit.ly/3QAnsTE

Friday, May 17, 2024

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Aditi Deshpande, PhD, Parish Lab, SCRI

Targeting electron transport chain in M. tuberculosis

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Drain Lab

Time: 12-1pm
Location: SLU F106
Moderator: Dr. Sylvia LaCourse, UW
Register here: https://bit.ly/49FBFaW

Friday, June 7, 2024

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Anthony Reynolds, Hawn Lab, UW

Protein Phosphorylation in Action: How Human Macrophages Arm Themselves Against TB Intruders

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Amala Bhagwat, PhD, Parish Lab, SCRI

Mode of action of new drugs

Time: 12-1pm
Location: SLU F106
Moderator: Dr. Kevin Urdahl, UW
​​​​​​​Register here: https://bit.ly/40uNWuo

Faculty Talks 

 

Friday, December 8, 2023

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Bree Aldridge, PhD, Tufts University

The long and the short of it: paths to engineering TB treatment

Time: Noon-1pm
Location: 307 Westlake Ave, Discovery Room
Host: Dr. Shuyi Ma, SCRI
​​​​​​​Register here: https://bit.ly/46SYoxY 

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

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TB Hack Day:

  • datasets
  • workshop tutorials on analysis techniques
  • open-ended hack time
  • plan and execute analyses

Tutorials at 9am, 10:30am, 12:30pm.

Time: 9am-3pm
Location: UW SLU, F 106, 107, Zoom
Host: SEATRAC Data Science Core Leads
Food provided for registered, in person attendees.

Friday, March 15, 2023

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Erin McCafferty, PhD, Stanford

Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection

Time: 12-1pm
Location: 307 Westlake Ave N, Discovery Room
Host: Dr Kevin Urdahl, SCRI
​​​​​​​Register here: https://bit.ly/3QPO3h4

Friday, April 19, 2023

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Andrew Fiore-Gartland, PhD, Fred Hutch

ID93 RNA seq

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Jim Kublin, PhD, MPH, Fred Hutch

BCG challenge studies and HVTN

Time: Noon-1pm
Location: Fred Hutch, Pelton Auditorium
Host: Dr. Chetan Seshadri, UW
​​​​​​​Register here: https://bit.ly/464okpr

Archive

Friday, September 22, 2023

Nathan Kieswetter, PhD, Seshadri Lab, UW
T cell signatures of bacterial control among M.TB 'resisters'

Hassan Eldesouky, PhD, Sherman Lab, UW
Promoting persistence in MTB

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Erica Andersen-Nissen, PhD

Understanding human cellular immune responses to TB vaccines

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Vidya Krishnan, Phantom Plague; How TB Shaped History
Moderator: Dr. Chetan Seshadri, UW

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Vidya Krishnan
Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination hosted by School of Public Health and Department of Global Health. This talk will focus on medical apartheid and how it heavily affects black and brown communities across the globe. 

Friday, November 17, 2023

Fergal Duffy, PhD, SCRI
Single cell analysis of Mtb infection and protective immunity in the mouse lung

 

Erick Tieu, Grad Student, Ma Lab, SCRISerine/Threonine Protein Kinase regulatory behavior in Mtb

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