2023 CAIRIBU Graduate Student Seminar Series
3rd Wednesday every other month at 2 PM Eastern
(1 PM Central; 11 AM Pacific)
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| Speaker | Topic or Research Interests | Date |
| Grace Morales – Graduate student at Vanderbilt University (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD lab) | Defining a molecular signature for uropathogenic E. coli | January 18th |
| Seth Reasoner – dual MD/PhD student at Vanderbilt University (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD lab) | Urobiome--Moving from Community to Mechanisms | |
| Marcela Ambrogi – Graduate student at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Chad Vezina, PhD lab) | A role for urethral neuroendocrine cells in the innate response to ascending E. coli infection | March 15th |
| Emily Stanczak – Graduate student at Indiana University (Travis Jerde, PhD lab) | Toxoplasma gondii infection induces urinary dysfunction in mice and correlates to BPH-LUTS incidence and epithelial nodule formation in men | May 17th |
| Hanyu Xia – Graduate student at Indiana University (Travis Jerde, PhD lab) | Sensory innervation of the mouse prostate | |
| Tara Fuller – Graduate student at Indiana University (Travis Jerde, PhD lab) | Deciphering the role of CD8+ T cells in Toxoplasma gondii-induced hyperplasia in the mouse prostate | July 19th |
| Tomas Bermudez -Graduate student at Vanderbilt University (Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD lab) | Antibiotic resistance and biofilm production in E. coli | |
| Sakina Plumber – Graduate student at Columbia University (Cathy Mendelsohn, PhD lab) | Nuclear hormone receptors regulate urothelial differentiation | September 20th |
| Junqin Chen - Graduate student at Duke University - Duke FORWARD P20 Center | Thulium fiber laser lithotripsy | November 15th |