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 | Title | Presenter 2 | Title |
| 9/23/2025 | Shallu Tomer | “A novel glia-immune humanized mouse model for investigating neuroimmune mechanisms in CNS HIV infection and diverse neurological disorders” | Anne Zaiss | “Heartland Virus (HRTV) and Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus (SFTSV): Immunopathogenic Mechanism and Vaccine Development” |
| 10/07/2025 | Nandita Kedia | “HSCs-derived CAR-M for Alzheimer’s disease” | Tong Qi | "Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery to Lymph Nodes: A Strategy for Next-Generation Vaccines" |
| 10/21/2025 | William Mu | "Urolithin A Rejuvenates Hematopoiesis and Improves CAR T Cell Function in Chronic HIV Infection" | Dylan Smock | "Developing an HSC-Targeting Particle for Efficient Transduction of Cas9 RNPs and Other Editors" |
| 11/4/2025 | Jeffery Harding | "Effects of Cannabis on Immune Aging" | Greg Whitehill | "HIV-specific Humoral Responses in Therapeutic Vaccination with PENNVAX" |
| 11/18/2025 | Ana Luisa Durán Meza | Erin Kim | ||
| 12/2/2025 | Arjit Vijey Jeyachandran | Jian Zhang | ||
| 12/16/2025 | Ayub Ali | Koki Morizono | ||
| 12/30/2025 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 1/13/2026 | Anjali Sharma | Balamurugan Arumugam | ||
| 1/27/2026 | Declan Winters | Belal Hossain | ||
| 2/10/2026 | Nathan Lowe | Zi Wang | ||
| 2/24/2026 | Celine Snedden | Martin Ruvalcaba | ||
| 3/10/2026 | Lenka Milojevic | Yennifer Delgado | ||
| 3/24/2026 | Pablo Alvarez | Juan Silva | ||
| 4/7/2026 | Javier Ibarrondo | Hongcheng Fan | ||
| 4/21/2026 | Yan Wang | |||
| 5/5/2026 | Mayra Carrillo | Hongxu Peng | ||
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| 6/30/2026 |