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FHPIC
Fortnightly Host Pathogen Interaction Conference (FHPIC)
Every other Monday at 12:00pm
Room B4-326 (4th Floor Lecture Hall)
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Date |
Speakers |
|---|---|
| 08/17/2026 | COBRE update |
| 08/31/2026 | Katie Parrish (MG) Timothy Amusan (HG) |
| 09/14/2026 | Javier Nion Fieira (MW) Victoria Filloon (AY) |
| 09/28/2026 | Haniel Nkadi (RS) Paulina Borysewicz (SA) |
| 10/12/2026 | Vikas Yadav (JC) Romaisa Aslam (AY) |
| 10/26/2026 | Nicholas Henriques (JC) Rimsa Aslam (YT) |
| 11/09/2026 | Lindsey Deaver (MW) Haley Dornberger (RJ) |
| 12/07/2026 | Ethan West (JC) Madison Hicks (HG) |
| 01/11/2027 | Dr. Jiyu Li (XL) Dorcus Omoga (JC) |
| 01/25/2027 | Dr. Kaori Masuhara (YT) Dr. Leslie Rodriguez (SA) |
| 02/08/2027 | Dr. Kasia Zwolinska |
| 02/22/2027 | Sabera Saima (TN) Dr. Shuqi Wang (HG) |
| 03/08/2027 | Jose Pedreira Lopez (MG) Mireya Represa Perez (KZ) |
| 03/22/2027 | Dr. Jason Comer |
| 04/05/2027 | Dr. Rohit Jangra |
| 04/19/2027 | Ridwan Arinola (RJ) Jamal Inusah (AY) |
| 05/03/2027 | Dr. Stephanie Ander |
| 05/17/2027 | Ifeoluwa Ogungbemi (AY) Dr. Upendra Lambe (RJ) |
| 05/31/2027 | Dr. Taichiro Nonaka |
2026
LSU System Multi-COBRE Colloquium
February 9-10, 2026
LSU Health Shreveport hosted a culmination of six LSU System COBRE’s:
- Dr. Jackie Stephens, Metabolic Basis of Disease COBRE from Pennington.
- Dr. Chris Kevil, Center for Redox Biology and Cardiovascular Disease at LSU Health Shreveport.
- Dr. Tammy Dugas, Center for Lung Biology and Disease at the LSU Vet School.
- Dr. Joe Francis, Center for Pre-clinical Cancer Research at LSU Vet School.
- Dr. Andrew Yurochko, Center for Applied Immunology and Pathological Processes at LSU Health Shreveport.
- Dr. John West, Center for Translational Viral Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans.
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This event brought together all of the LSU COBRE grants, the P. I’s that are associated with those grants, as well as the research project leaders and trainees from the LSU system to share science, present posters and discuss collaborations as well as future research areas to work together. Topics that were discussed included metabolic disease, dealing with obesity, cardiovascular disease, lung biology, cancer and also how viruses can contribute to chronic inflammatory diseases, as well as even contribute to carcinogenesis.
Within each COBRE there are significant resources that may not be available on each individual campus. This event allowed for sharing of ideas and exploring resources and equipment individual campuses have, in order to work more efficiently to leverage those resources to submit more grants and achieve bigger research projects.
Poster Session Winners
Yingli Shi, 1st Place Award
Victoria Filloon, Tie-2nd Place Award
Tasneem Abdulrahman, Tie-2nd Place Award
Agenda
Monday, Feb 9
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast (Center for Medical Education 1st floor)
9:00 AM Welcome / Introductions (Assembly Room #2)
Oral Presentations Morning Session 1 (Assembly Room #2)
9:05 – 9:35 AM MBD Presentation #1 – Dr. Jackie Stephens, LSU Department of Biological Sciences & Adipocyte Biology PBRC- Uncoupling adipose tissue mass and metabolic health
9:35 – 10:05 AM MBD Presentation #2 –Dr. Timothy Allerton, Vascular Metabolism PBRC- Role of hydrogen sulfide in skeletal muscle dysfunction and exercise intolerance in HFpEF
10:05 –10:40 AM Colloquium Attendees Group Photo (CME stair well) and Network Break
10:45 –11:15 AM CRBCD Presentation #1 - Dr. Tarek Magdy, Department of Pathology & Translational Pathobiology, LSUHS- Multi-Omics Profiling of hiPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes Identifies Novel Molecular Drivers and Therapeutic Targets of Sepsis-Induced Cardiomyopathy
11:15 –11:45 AM CRBCD Presentation #2- Dr. Gopi Kolluru, Department of Pathology & Translational Pathobiology, LSUHS- CSE and reactive sulfur species regulation in aging vasculature
11:45 –12:00 PM CRBCD Presentation #3- Dr. Hugh Nam, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neurosciences, LSUHS- The role of hydrogen sulfide in heavy alcohol consumption in both humans and mice
12:00 –12:15 PM CRBCD Presentation #4- Dr. Nobel Bhuiyan, Department of Medicine, LSUHS- AI, machine learning and cardiovascular disease and future
12:15 – 1:15 PM LUNCH (Center for Medical Education- CRAVE Café and outdoors)
1:20 – 2:00 PM Keynote Talk 1 - Dr. Chris Kevil, History and Impact of Redox Biology and Cardiovascular Disease COBRE
Oral Presentations Afternoon Session 1 (Assembly Room #2)
2:00 – 2:30 PM CLBD Presentation #1- Dr. Basel Abuaita, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU Vet Med- Myeloid IRE1a activation impairs host defense mechanisms against acute respiratory infections
2:30 – 3:00 PM CLBD Presentation #2- Dr. Sadiya Parveen-Nesson, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LSUHS- Targeting host glutaminase as a host-directed therapy for tuberculosis
3:00 – 3:15 PM CLBD Presentation #3- Dr. Naohiro Kato, Department of Biological Sciences, LSU- Call for collaboration: fucoxanthinol- a Louisiana-produced natural compoundd with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic activities
3:15 – 3:30 PM CLBD Presentation #4- Dr. Sarah Voth, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, VCOM-LA- When sentinels become saboteurs: the amyloid paradox in ARDS
3:30 – 3:40 PM Break (10 minutes)
3:40 – 4:10 PM Louisiana Training Platform (LTP) Presentation- Mr. Ojasvi Dutta, Program Manager, LBRN Program, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU Vet Med
4:10 – 4:40 PM CPcCR Presentation #1- Dr. Shang Su, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, LSU Vet Med- Deciphering prostate cancer dormancy for potential therapies against lethal bone metastases
4:40 – 4:55 PM CPcCR Presentation #2- Dr. Brent Stanfield, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU Vet Med- The guinea pig model of KSHV infection
4:55 – 5:10 PM CPcCR Presentation #3- Dr. Weishan Huang, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, LSU Vet Med- Modulation of antigen receptor signalling for sustainable CAR-T cell therapy
5:15 PM Poster Session (Center for Medical Education Gym)
Enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres during the session)
6:15 PM Dinner Service (Center for Medical Education Gym)
8:00 PM Adjourn 1st day
Tuesday, Feb 10
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast (Center for Medical Education 1st floor)
9:00 AM Trainee Awards (Center for Medical Education Staircase Assembly Room #2)
9:15 – 10:30 AM Campus COBRE Infrastructure Overview (Rasberry Auditorium – 2nd Floor, Room #2315)
10:30 – 11:10 AM Keynote Talk 2 - Dr. Andrew Yurochko, History and Impact of Immunology and Infectious Disease COBRE (CME Rasberry Auditorium – Room #2315)
11:15 – 12:00 PM LUNCH (Center for Medical Education CRAVE Café and outdoors)
Oral Presentations Afternoon Session 2 (Assembly Room #2)
12:00 – 12:30 PM CAIPP Presentation #1- Dr. Rohit Jangra, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LSUHS- From platform to insight: a versatile new system dissects the functions of hantavirus entry glycoproteins
12:30 – 1:00 PM CAIPP Presentation #2- Dr. Hongyan Guo, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LSUHS- ZBP1 in Action: Shielding Against Viruses While Fueling Inflammation
1:00 – 1:15 PM CAIPP Presentation #3- Dr. Jason Comer, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LSUHS- Entry of North American Arenaviruses into Human Cells
1:15 – 1:30 PM CAIPP Presentation #4- Dr. Stephanie Ander, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, LSUHS- Defining the Specificity of EEEV Interactions with Heparan Sulfate
1:30 – 1:40 PM Break (10 minutes)
1:40 – 2:10 PM CTVO Presentation #1- Dr. Omeed Moaven, Department of Surgery, LSUHSC-NO- Reprogramming the Pancreatic Tumor Microenvironment with a Bioengineered Oncolytic Virus Enhances Antitumor Immunity and Treatment Response in Preclinical Models
2:10 – 2:40 PM CTVO Presentation #2- Dr. Monika Rak, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, LSUHSC-NO- Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) associated with glioblastoma prognosis
2:40 – 2:55 PM CTVO Presentation #3- Dr. Dicle Yalcin, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, LSUHSC-NO- Immune and Inflammatory Determinants of Disease Progression and Therapeutic Response in Kaposi Sarcoma
2:55 – 3:10 PM CTVO Presentation #4- Dr. Giulia Monticone, Department of Genetics, LSUHSC-NO- Designing Multifunctional Immunotherapeutics for Viral-Driven Cancers
3:15 PM Closing Remarks & Adjourn
LSU System COBRE’s Principal Investigators
MBD- Metabolic Basis of Disease - Jackie Stephens
CRBCD- Center for Redox Biology & Cardiovascular Disease - Chris Kevil
CLBD- Center for Lung Biology & Disease - Tammy Dugas
CPcCR- Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research - Joe Francis
CAIPP- Center for Applied Immunology and Pathological Processes - Andrew Yurochko
CTVO- Center for Translational Viral Oncology - John West
2024
Fourth Annual Colloquium
September 17, 2024
LSU Health Shreveport
Center for Medical Education, Rasberry Auditorium
1501 Kings Hwy., Shreveport, LA 71103
2024 Colloquium Agenda
8:00am-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am-10:00am
- Introduction: Chancellor and Dean of School of Medicine David Guzick, MD, PhD
- Update on Overall COBRE and Admin Core: Andrew Yurochko, PhD
- Update on Modeling Core: Rona Scott, PhD
- Update on Immunophenotyping Core: Matthew Woolard, PhD
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
- 10:00am-10:25am Bordetella spp. target epithelial cell-eosinophil axis to promote establishment of infection and long-term persistence, Monica Gestal, PhD
- 10:25am-10:50am Breaking Barriers: Developing High-Throughput Systems for Studying Bunyavirus Entry and Antigenicity, Rohit Jangra, PhD
- 11:05am - 11:30am The role of RIPK3 in Herpes Simplex Virus-induced Encephalitis, Hongyan Guo, PhD
- 11:30am–11:55am Regulatory functions of long-lived memory-like NK cells during virus infection, Taichiro Nonaka, PhD
- 12:00pm–12:05pm Group Photo, Center for Medical Education stairs
- 12:05pm–1:00pm Lunch (CME, room 2306)
INVITED SPEAKERS
1:00pm-1:50pm
Forcing the Enemy to Reveal Itself: Studies on the Spike Proteins of Emerging Enveloped Viruses, Kartik Chandran, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1:50pm-2:40pm
Multiple functions of O-GlcNAc transferase in host defense mechanism, Haitao Wen, PhD, Ohio State University College of Medicine
2:40pm–3:00pm Break
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
3:00pm-4:00pm
Innate immune receptors in innate and adaptive immunity, Jenny Ting, PhD, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
RECEPTION
5:00pm-7:00pm
The Seventh Tap, 2640 Linwood Ave, Shreveport
Food and drinks are provided
2023
2022
2nd Annual CAIPP COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Agenda
8:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Introduction: Chris Kevil, Ph.D.
- Update on Overall COBRE and Admin Core: Andrew Yurochko, Ph.D.
- Update on Modeling Core:
- Rona Scott, Ph.D.
- Update on lmmunophenotyping Core:
- Matthew Woolard, Ph.D.
- Project Presentations 1:45
10:00 The secret life of Eosinophils: Monica Gestal, Ph.D.
10:25 Mechanisms of Neisseria gonorrhoea interaction with macrophages: Ana Dragoi, Ph.D.
10:50 Coffee Break
11:10 En Guard! Host cell DNA damage response as an innate antiviral defense drives long-lasting immunopathology of COVID-19: Xiao-Hong Lu, Ph.D
11:35 Development of a novel BSL2 system for high-throughput analysis of virus entry glycoproteins: Rohit Jangra, Ph.D.
12:00 Lunch for all attendees
Pilot Project Presentations
1:00 Stroke-induced interleukin-4 signaling in neurogenesis and functional recovery: Krista Rodgers, Ph.D.
1:15 RIPK3 and caspase 8 collaborate to limit herpes simplex encephalitis: Hongyan Guo, Ph.D. Rona Scott, Ph.D.
1:30 Poxviruses: For GSK-3 beta or worse: Dr. Stephen DiGiuseppe
1:45 Q&A and Break
2:00 Function of myeloid-mediated efferocytosis in central nervous system repair: Glenn Matsushima, Ph.D.
3:00 Coffee Break
3:15 A new model for engaging in international training and implementing rural and global health: Thomas Kawula, Ph.D.; Director, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
5:00 Reception
7:00 Adjourn
2021
Research Core Facility & CAIPP Joint Educational Seminar
Learn how to optimize your flow cytometry experiments!
Join us for two educational seminars on October 12, 2021.
- Panel Design and Data Optimization at 1:15-2:10 pm
- Sample Preparation for Flow Cytometry at 2:20-3:20 pm
In these seminars we will discuss:
- Flow cytometry best practices
- Panel design tips and tricks
- Considerations for sample prep
When: October 12, 2021 from 1:15-3:20 pm
Where: Zadeck Conference Room, G-221
Presented by: Caroline Hall, Ph.D.
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