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Our next COM research in progress talk will be this Friday by Ellen Ketter, talking about cell-type specific epigenetic determinants of BCG-induced trained immunity in humans.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be by Dr. Joon Park from UChicago, talking about harnessing commensal microbes for improving cancer immunotherapy.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be by Paola Nol Bernardino from the Light lab talking about defining and manipulating microbial histidine metabolism in the gut.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be Isaac Younker from the Light Lab talking about unraveling the metabolic strategies and interactions of gut microbes.

This Wednesday, COM will host Dr. Purnima Dubey from The Ohio State University. Dr. Dubey will talk about B. pertussis antigens and adjuvants that elicit mucosal immunity in the respiratory tract.

Tomorrow's COM research forum will be Dimitrios Manias from the Mukherjee lab talking about a microprotein that activates photosensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Tomorrow's COM work-in-progress will be Maggie Carroll from the Raman lab talking about building functional microbiomes through environmental insights.

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Tomorrow's COM seminar will be by Dr. Ana Fernandez-Sesma from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai talking about the modulation of innate immunity by Arboviruses.

Pleased to share that our lab was recently featured in a great piece, highlighting our work on understanding the gut microbiome. Huge thanks to the Inside the Lab team for putting this together and for capturing the essence of what drives our research.

Tomorrow's COM work-in-progress will be presented by Emily Waligurski of the Comstock lab talking about quinone acquisition and remodeling by human gut Bacteroides species.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be by Corey Rundquist in the Coleman lab talking about building a functional and phylogenetic genome atlas of the Great Lakes.

Today's COM seminar is Kim Orth from the University of Texas-Southwestern talking about "Black Spot, Black Death, Black Pearl: the Tales of Bacterial Effectors."

Tomorrow's COM work-in-progress will be by Haley Flick in the Roy Chowdhury lab, talking about the contribution of commensal γδ T cell interactions of the host defense mechanism against M. tuberculosis.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be by Shafi Azam in the Missiakas lab talking about a SecA-associated peptidase that modulates surface protein display and cytokinesis in S. aureus.

Tomorrow's COM seminar will be Maddie Maslyar talking about the genetic control of staphylococcus colonization in mice.

This week COM seminar will be by Dr. Aimee Shen from Tufts University School of Medicine, talking about analyzing Clostridioides difficile heterogeneity in vivo and in vitro.

Today's COM work-in-progress talk will be by Amanda Blocker in the Missiakas lab, talking about mucinases and mucin-binding domain proteins in pathogenic bacilli.

Today's COM invited speaker is Dr. Derek Walsh from Northwestern University, talking about why nuclei rotate during cytomegalovirus infection.

Tomorrow COM will have two WIP talks from the Randall lab: Peter Wang talking about mechanisms of interferon-mediated inhibition reveal host–virus Interactions in murine Norovirus; and Isabel Izquierdo on elucidating mechanisms of proviral lipophagy in dengue virus egress.