Data blitz meetings of MIND: Microbiome, Immunology, Neuroscience Discussions
Are you interested to attend to our new multidisciplinary data blitz discussions? MIND meetings will be centered around the intersection of the gut microbiome, immunology, and the brain. The goal is to create an environment where new ideas and projects are shared in their early infancy to complement larger more established work-in-progress forums at WashU.
These monthly discussions center around short data blitz presentations (15 mins presentations of new proposals or new preliminary data).
Motivated graduate students, postdocs and faculty members are welcome to participate!
When: 2:00p, 3rd Wednesday of the month
Where: McDonnell Pediatric Research Building 8108, 8th Floor (Snacks provided!)
Organizers: Marta Celorrio-Navarro (WashU Pediatrics), Stuart Friess (WashU Pediatrics) and Jasmin Herz (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Note individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2024 Spring Schedule
January 17, 2024
Gwendalyn Randolph (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Intestinal origins of HDL, role as a microbial lipid carrier and role in cerebral vascular health”
Ashley Steed (WashU Pediatrics) “TBA”
February 21, 2024
Drew Schwartz (WashU Pediatrics) “Death is associated with microbiome-antibiotic combinations in a gnotobiotic mouse model of the NICU”
Jessica Tung (Schwartz lab, WashU Pediatrics) “Maternal vaccination as a strategic intervention against pathogenic gut colonization by Klebsiella pneumoniae in preterm neonates”
March 20, 2024
Henry Schreiber (Hultgren lab, WashU Molecular Microbiology) “The comorbid multiple sclerosis and susceptibility to urinary tract infections”
Wangchao Xu (Kipnis lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “A glia-microbiota-neuron axis that modulates sleep and controls the lifespan”
April 17, 2024
Hana Janova (Diamond lab, WashU Medicine) “Enteric nervous system injury and intestinal dysmotility after West Nile virus infection is mediated by perforin and Fas-ligand dependent T cell effector functions”
Gregory Wu (WashU Neurology) “Transcriptional profiling of CSF to interrogate immune mechanisms of CNS diseases”
May 22, 2024
Yohei Komaru (Herrlich lab, WashU Medicine)
Claudia Han (WashU Pathology & Immunology)