It is essential for researchers to keep abreast of the work being done by colleagues in a variety of disciplines. To facilitate this, the UCLA-CDU CFAR and the UCLA AIDS Institute sponsors a bi-monthly conference featuring presentations made by researchers working in both basic and translational sciences, clinical therapeutics and biomedical prevention. The topics covered include, among many others, host-virus interactions, novel therapeutics, vaccines, stem-cell research, aging, and viral pathogenesis. The Bi-monthly Multidisciplinary Virology Seminar Series is an in-person meeting from 9:00am to 10:00am in the Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB) 154 every other Tuesday. A light breakfast will be available during the meeting.
For more information regarding the Multidisciplinary Virology Seminar Series and/or to be added to the listserv for these meetings, please contact Rina Lee-Cha.
| DATE | Presenter #1 (9:00AM) | Presenter #2 (9:30AM) | ||
| 10/03/23 | Guo Qi | “Modulation of repopulation of anti-HIV gene modified cells to enhance efficacy and safety” | William Mu | “Induction of autophagy to improve anti-HIV T cell responses for HIV cure approaches” |
| 10/17/23 | Pablo Alvarez | “Unraveling alphaviruses neuroinvasion: Molecular insights from a stem cell based blood-brain barrier model” | Karly Nisson | “Degradation of CCDC137 is an important function of HIV-1 Vpr that is independent of cell cycle arrest” |
| 10/31/23 | Javier Ibarrondo | “Anti-HIV Therapeutic Chimeric Antibodies” | Melanie Dimapasoc | “Targeting the HIV Reservoir” |
| 11/14/23 | Zheng Cao | “Lactate removal restores T cell function and improves efficacy of CAR-T cells” | Alex Stevens | “Peering into Nucleocapsid Metastability of Herpesviruses Using CryoEM” |
| 11/28/23 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 12/12/23 | Mayra Carrillo | “Chronic HIV infection generates dysfunctional antitumor responses and loss of tumor suppression in humanized mice” | Sankara Palani | “Tropism of the Andes virus a new world hantavirus in mice” |
| 12/26/23 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 01/02/24 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 01/09/24 | CANCELLED | |||
| 01/23/24 | Laura Martinez | “HIV+ pre-lymphoma and lymphoma immunophenotyping by CyTOF and imaging mass cytometry” | Shallu Tomer | “Effect of Cannabinoids on Macrophage inflammation” |
| 02/06/24 | Balamurugan Arumugam | “Targeting HIV-1 infection with bNAb-based bispecific Chimeric Antigen Receptor.” | Vivian Yang | “Characterization of ubiquitin ligase adaptor DCAF1 and its role in viral infections.” |
| 02/20/24 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 03/05/24 | Ayub Ali | “Targeting HCMV by a Novel Bispecific Antibody with Therapeutic Potential” | Jeff Harding | “The effects of THC in HIV” |
| 03/19/24 | Dr. Kwe Yinda from NIH | “Hendra virus genomics and the assessment of pathogenic potential of a novel pararubularvirus.” | Dr. Koki Morizono | “Envelope protein-specific B cell receptors direct lentiviral vector tropism in vivo” |
| 04/02/24 | Jonathan Jih | “The Incredible Bulk: Human cytomegalovirus tegument architectures uncovered by AI-empowered cryoEM.” | Maria Daskou | “Powassan virus neurotropism and disease mechanism” |
| 04/16/24 | Anjali Sharma | “Tumor microenvironment of NHL and AIDS NHL” | Serina Huang | “Positive selection analyses identify a single WWE domain residue that shapes ZAP into a more potent restriction factor against alphaviruses” |
| 04/30/24 | Fumiaki Ito | “Structural insights into immune evasion by HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2” | Zhenlan Yao | “Evolutionary arms race shapes efficient chikungunya virus production in macrophages” |
| 05/14/24 | Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran | Joselyn Kim or Gabrielle (pending) | ||
| 05/28/24 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 06/11/24 | Sara Makanani | Wenting Chen | ||