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Lucy wants you to know that there will be no CIDD events from December 19 through January 9. Have a great winter break!

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, January 23, 2025, CIDD Alumni will be presenting a panel on careers post-graduation.

#CIDDSeminar This Tuesday, February 11, and Wednesday, February 12, Luis Barreiro Professor of Medicine, Committee Chair of Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology Committee on Immunology, from the University of Chicago will present the Spring 2025 Marker Lecture.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, February 20, 2025, Nicole Mideo, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto will be presenting on the evolutionary ecology of malaria transmission from a parasite’s perspective.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, February 27, 2025, Spencer Fox, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of Georgia, will present on refining outbreak forecasting into a public health decision-making tool.

#CIDDSeminar: CIDD graduate students Victoria, Christina, and Jack will present their research this Thursday, March 6, 2025!

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, March 20, 2025, Scott Carver, Professor and Associate Director of the Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia, will present on sarcoptic mange in wombats.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, March 27, 2025, Alex Perkins, Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, will present on sustainable control of dengue.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 3, 2025, Megan Greischar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, will present on using models to reveal ecology and parasite adaptation within the host.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 10, 2025, Mercedes Pascual, Professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, New York University, will present on hyper-diversity, strain structure, and tipping points in a host-pathogen system.

Monday, April 14, 2025, Eddie Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology Faculty of Medicine and Health Fellow at the University of Sydney, will present on redefining virus evolution and emergence using metatranscriptomics.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 17, 2025, Rupinder Kaur, Assistant Research Professor, Departments of Biology and Entomology (Bordenstein Lab), Pennsylvania State University, will present on decoding mechanisms of insect-microbe symbiosis to advance vector control strategies.

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 24, 2025, Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Associate and Hanna Gray Fellow at Duke University will present on metabolites and nutrients as key modulators of microbiota selection and plant health.

#CIDDSeminar April 31, 2025, Megan Stanifer, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine will present key antiviral cytokines in controlling intestinal barrier formation and protection from enteric viruses.