Seminar Series

Upcoming Seminars 2023 – 2024

Thursday, December 14th, 2023 | 12:00 pm ET

 “Patient-Provider Communication and Potential Inequities in the Current Era of HIV Biomedical Prevention”

 Sarah Calabrese, PhD

Associate Professor, Department pf Psychological and Brain Sciences

George Washington University

Hybrid event: John Morgan Class of ’62 Auditorium

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704

Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and HIV Grounds

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

 “Vaccination Against Malaria, Tuberculosis and Cancer: Intravenous Delivery Optimizes the Magnitude and Quality of T cell Immunity”

 Robert A. Seder, MD

Chief, Cellular Immunology Section

Acting Chief Clinical Trials and Vaccine Immunology Program

Acting Deputy Director

Hybrid event (location TBD)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology

Thursday, February 1st, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

Natalie Crawford, PhD

Assistant Professor

Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Hybrid event (location TBD)

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704

 Co-sponsored by PISCE@LDI

Thursday, February 29th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

 “Implementation Science to End the HIV Epidemic: How rapid, how relevant, & how rigorous?”

 Sheree Schwartz, PhD, MPH

Associate Scientist

Director, Implementation Science Core, Johns Hopkins University Center for AIDS Research

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Hybrid event (location TBD)

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

 “Antibodies, viruses and vaccines – winners and losers in molecular arms races”

 Paul Bieniasz, PhD

Purnell W. Choppin Professor

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Rockefeller University

Hybrid event (location TBD)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology

Thursday, March 28th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

 “Impact of antiretrovirals in pregnancy: a holistic view”

 Shahin Lockman, MD, MSc

Associate Professor

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership

Hybrid event (location TBD)

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704

Co-sponsored by DBEI

Thursday, April 11th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

Bali Pulendran, PhD

Violetta L. Horton Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Stanford University

Hybrid event (location TBD)

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704

 Co-sponsored by the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

“HIV persistence and cure: insights from nonhuman primate studies”

 Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases

Co-Director, Center for AIDS Research

Director, Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines

Emory University School of Medicine & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Hybrid event (location TBD)

 Co-sponsored by the Department of Microbiology

Thursday, May 9th, 2024 | 12:00 pm ET

“Development of Highly Networked T cell Vaccines for HIV ”

 Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Principal Investigator, Ragon Institute of Mass General, Harvard and MIT

Attending Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Hybrid event (location TBD)

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Meeting ID: 910 0545 7493  |  Passcode: 931704