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ACB Seminar Series - Dr. Kevin Eliceiri

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

Dr. Kevin Eliceiri, Professor of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present a seminar titled "Computational Imaging of Cellular Microenvironments."

REDCap MyCap Training

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as:

Creating participants

Creating tasks and schedules

Active tasks and their unique data output

Direct messages and announcements

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

Register by clicking the virtual event link above or by going here:  https:/...

Skills for Educators: Effective and Efficient Clinical Teaching

Thursday, November 12, 2026 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Health Care University Campus
Develop effective and efficient approaches to teaching in the context of patient care.

REDCap Data Handling

Thursday, November 12, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the sixth and final step in the REDCap training series. In this training we won't use REDCap at all. Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()

Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering

Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables

Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables

Transforming unusable data to a usable format...

Biochemistry Seminar: "Principles of MHC-I Peptide Selection in Antigen Presentation" promotional image

Biochemistry Seminar: "Principles of MHC-I Peptide Selection in Antigen Presentation"

Thursday, November 12, 2026 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility

Principles of MHC-I Peptide Selection in Antigen Presentation

Presented by

James Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
NYU Langone Health

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Human Pegivirus Type 1 Coinfections: Epidemiology, Heterogeneity and Clinical Implications

Thursday, November 5, 2026
Mathieu Garand
This narrative review explores the complex landscape of coinfections involving Human Pegivirus Type 1 (HPgV), a member of the Hepaciviridae family previously known as GB virus type C or hepatitis G virus. Structurally similar to hepatitis C virus (HCV), HPgV is lymphotropic and while viraemia in healthy donors is asymptomatic, it has been associated with the onset of several non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes. We begin with an overview of HPgV's genomic features, classification, transmission routes...

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Bo Zhang
The relationship between SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses and COVID-19 risk is incompletely understood, particularly after variant-adapted booster receipt. We assessed Spike-specific and Nucleocapsid-specific CD4^(+) and CD8^(+) T cell responses, measured by validated 27-color intracellular cytokine staining assay, as correlates of COVID-19 risk over 6 months in COVAIL recipients of a second SARS-CoV-2 booster on Day 1 (D1). Among one-dose mRNA recipients, D15 CD4 + T cell IFN-γ and/or IL-2...

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Tuesday, October 27, 2026
M Aaron Baxter
Poultry meat and eggs are major sources of Salmonella foodborne illness, due to carriage of these bacterial pathogens in the intestinal microbiome of chickens, which is an ongoing food safety issue throughout the world. Reducing or eliminating the carriage of Salmonella in poultry would significantly improve food safety and reduce cases of human salmonellosis. This study represents a new approach to reduce or eliminate carriage of Salmonella in poultry flocks. We have created an E. coli Nissle...

Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of the Human Placenta in Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: A Broad Antiviral Response with Concurrent Suppression of Trophoblast and Vascular Programs

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Samantha N Atkinson
Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common congenital infection and a leading infectious cause of childhood hearing loss and neurodevelopmental disability. The cellular organization of the placental response to infection is incompletely defined. We applied Visium CytAssist spatial transcriptomics to formalin-fixed tissue from two CMV-infected and two uninfected late-gestation placentas and annotated the major maternal and fetal cell populations by reference-based label transfer. Across...

Global, regional, and national burden of unintentional poisoning, 1990-2023: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
GBD 2023 Unintentional Poisoning Collaborators
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
Garam Choi
Bifidobacteria dominate the gut microbiota of breast-fed infants, and are strongly associated with human health, including immune regulation, colonization resistance, and protection against inflammation. However, bifidobacteria persist at high abundance after weaning in only a subset of individuals, and the factors that regulate intestinal persistence of bifidobacteria are poorly understood. Using gnotobiotic mouse models, we identified a common dietary fiber, raffinose, as a critical...

The Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETosis) in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Molecular Mechanisms, Pathogenic Roles, Diagnostic Biomarkers, and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies

Friday, October 16, 2026
Gokul Patil
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are web-like structures comprising chromatin scaffolds decorated with cytotoxic granule proteins released during a specialized form of neutrophil cell death termed NETosis. Although NETs function as a critical antimicrobial defense mechanism, their dysregulation contributes significantly to the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In SLE patients, both excessive NET formation by proinflammatory low-density granulocytes (LDGs) and impaired NET...

Efficient colonic colonization by <em>Campylobacter jejuni</em> requires the heme receptor ChuA

Thursday, October 15, 2026
Binita Baral
Previous research demonstrated that Campylobacter jejuni encodes a heme utilization system that facilitates heme-dependent growth under iron-limiting conditions, and that transcription of this system is induced during human infection. Despite these observations, it remained unknown whether the heme transport system is required for colonization and disease in a susceptible host. To address this, we created individual non-polar deletion mutants of each component of the heme transport system and...

TNFα promotes brain-predominant EAE independent of IFNγ and IL-17A in HLA-DR3 transgenic mice

Thursday, October 15, 2026
Ti-Ara J Turner
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be mediated by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II-restricted autoreactive CD4 T cells producing interleukin (IL)-17A and/or interferon γ (IFNγ), but the necessity of these cytokines for disease pathogenesis is unclear. Utilizing HLA-DR3 (DRβ1*0301) transgenic mice lacking IFNγ or IL-17A in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model of MS, we found that neither cytokine is essential for disease induction, although both have distinct roles....