Work in Progress Seminars provide an opportunity for staff and students to share their research with the wider Department.
April 13, 2026 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302C
- Ex Vivo HIV Transcript Profiling
Guinevere Q. Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine in Virology
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases - Title TBD
Neal Lue, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
March 9, 2026 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302A
- From ART to Aging: Rethinking Immune Health in Persons Aging with HIV
Lishomwa Ndhlovu, M.D., Ph.D.Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Neuroscience,Department of Medicine, Division of Medicine
February 9, 2026 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - WGC-C
- Role of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Lung Fibrosis
Marie Dominique Kioon, Ph.D., Instructor
Lab: Franck Barrat, Ph.D. - Translational Regulation of var2csa, a Gene Implicated in Pregnancy Associated Malaria
Evi Hadjimichael, WCGS Ph.D. Candidate
Lab: Kirk Deitsch, Ph.D.
January 12, 2026 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302B
- Unexpected noncanonical role for human cascade-5 in tissue homeostasis
Yuhua Shi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate in Medicine
Lab: Julie Margarin Blander, Ph.D.
December 8, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302B
- UBR5 Restrains the p53-p21 Checkpoint to Sustain Intratumoral Treg Stability and Immune Suppression
Aizhang Xu, Ph.D. Research Associate
Lab: Xiaojing Ma, Ph.D. Advancements and applications of genomics technologies at Weill Cornell Medicine
Jenny Xiang, M.D., Director of the Genomic Core, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
November 10, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302A
- Too much of a good thing can be bad – Inositol Pyrophosphate Toxicosis in Fission Yeast
Beate Schwer, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology - Genes Important for Mycobacterium tuberculosis survival during early infection and transmission
Prabhat Ranjan Singh, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate
Lab: Carl Nathan, M.D.
October 13, 2025 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm - BRB-302B
- A Neural Network-Enabled, Enzymatic cfDNA Methylation Assay for Colorectal Cancer Early Detection
Manny Bacolod, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Lab: Francis Barany, Ph.D. - Sensory Neuronal Regulation of Inflammation, Immunity and Tissue Protection
Wen Zhang, Ph.D., Instructor of Immunology in Medicine
Lab: David Artis, Ph.D.