Past seminars

• January 14, 2025 – 9 am
  Dr. Arinjay Banerjee – Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan
  Title: Zoonotic viruses – understanding the fate of reservoir and spillover hosts using a One Health strategy
• February 11, 2025 – 9 am
  Dr. Nardus Mollentze – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research – website
  Title: Predictors of spatial expansions in the risk of virus spillover from vampire bats
• March 11, 2025 – 9 am
  Dr. Huiyun Wu – Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, WSU – website
  Title: Advancing One Water Approach through Big Data for Microbial Water Quality
• April 8, 2025 – 9 am
  Dr. Matthew Lawrenz – University of Louisville – website
  Title: A Plague on your PMNs! Active Subversion of Neutrophils by Yersinia pestis
• May 13, 2025 – 9 am
  Dr. Kristopher Smith – Washington State University
  Title: Pestilence, war, famine, and predators: How Kenyan camel pastoralists are responding to the Four Horsemen of climate change.

January 30, 2024
Dr. Lee Fortunato – University of Idaho
Title:

February 13, 2024 – Link to recording
Dr. Luke Sheneman – University of Idaho
Title: Smart Trees with Eyes: Artificial Intelligence at the Edge for One Health Wildlife Monitoring.
Dr. Boyu Zhang – University of Idaho
Title: Fine-Grained Image Analysis for Camera Trap-Based Wild Deer Health Monitoring.

March 12, 2024
Dr. Julianne Meisner – University of Washington
Title: Relational One Health: A More-Than-Biomedical Framework for More-Than-Human Health.

May 7, 2024
Kate Huyvert – WSU
Title: Not Such a Bird-brained Idea: Using Disease Ecology to Bridge the Gap between Ecology and Medicine

September 24, 2024
Todd Sabato and Kimberly McBride – WSU
Title: Presentation of the Undergraduate Public Health Program.

October 8, 2024
Dr. Courtney Meehan – Washington State University
Title: Human Milk Composition and Maternal-Infant Ecosystem.

November 12, 2024
Dr. Wes Van Voorhis – University of Washington
Title: One Health Therapeutics for Cryptosporidium, Toxoplasma, Sarcocystis, Neospora, and Besnoitia.

December 10, 2024
Dr. Maria Tokuyama – University of British Columbia
Title: Crosstalk between endogenous retroviruses and immunity

January 10, 2023
Dr. Stacey Gilk – University of Nebraska Medical Center
Title: Establishing the Intracellular Niche: Coxiella Manipulation of Lysosome Biogenesis.

February 14, 2023
Dr. Erin Clancey – WSU
Title: Understanding Complex Biological Processes with Mathematical and Statistical Models.

April 11, 2023
Dr. Karin Peterson – Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Title: Orthobunyavirus Pathogenesis: Brain vs Brawn.

May 9, 2023 – Link to slides
Dr. Florencia D’Andrea – University of British Columbia
Title: From research software engineering to data science: how technology will impact the way we research

October 10, 2023 – Link to recording
Dr. Colin Carlson – Georgetown University
Title: Hotter, Sicker, Everywhere All at Once: Re-Conceptualizing Infectious Disease Epidemiology for a +1.2° Warmer World.

October 24, 2023
Dr. Lenette Lu – University of Texas Southwest
Title: Dissecting antibody functions in infectious diseases

September 13, 2022– Link to recording
Dr. Barbara Han – Cary Institute
Title: Machine Learning in Pursuit of Zoonotic Prediction

October 18, 2022
Dr. Craig Roy – Yale School of Medicine
Title: Legionella and Coxiella: Related Intracellular Pathogens with Divergent Infection Strategies.

November 8, 2022
Dr. Alejandro Aballay – Oregon Health & Science University
Title: Use of Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model to Study the Neural-Gut Axis.

December 13, 2022
Dr. Sarah Hamer – Texas A&M University
Title: A One Health Framework for the Surveillance and Control of Multiple Vector-Borne Diseases: From Texas to Guatemala.