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Joint Symposium
A Joint Symposium co-hosted by PCSSM and the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses (PSOM) on Climate & Emerging Diseases
Date: March 26, 2026 Time: 10am-4pm
Location: BRB Gaulton Auditorium, 3700 Curie Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Please join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses (PCREV), and the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM) for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. This symposium will include speakers from across the university, a keynote discussion, and a networking session open to the Penn Community and collaborators. Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and PCSSM Director, Dr. Michael Mann, and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology Co-Director, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Dr. Peter J. Hotez will be giving the keynote discussion.
Our Department
The inhabitants of Earth are mostly microbes, and their activities are central to human welfare. Microbes can cause disease, but a properly functioning microbiome is essential for health. Microbes spoil food, but drive many forms of food production. Microbes mediate organismic decay, but catalyze numerous geochemical processes essential for life on Earth.
Research in the Penn Microbiology Department focuses on infectious agents that threaten global health, with an emphasis on understanding molecular mechanisms and developing key new methods. Areas of focus include SARS-CoV-2, HIV, pathogenic bacteria of the airway and gut, cancer causing viruses, emerging infectious diseases, and the human microbiome. On the host side, faculty study many areas of immunology related to infection, including innate and adaptive immunity, tumor immunology and vaccine development.
Penn Micro on Bluesky
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Please join the Penn Center for Research on Emerging Viruses and the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. Thurs 3/26 10-4pm BRB Gaulton Aud Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter J. Hotez to give the keynote discussion.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Microbiology Seminar 🔬 Wednesday 3/11/26 12-1PM CRB Austrian Auditorium Vincent Tam, PhD "Fueling Infection: How Lipid Metabolism and PPARα Reshape Host Immunity from Lung to Gut" https://medicine.temple.edu/directory/vincent-tam-phd
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Special Seminar Tue 3/10 12 PM John Morgan Reunion Aud Co-sponsored by Microbiology Department (PSOM) and Institute for Infectious & Zoonotic Diseases (PennVet) Dr. Kyle Frischkorn, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Microbiology “Publishing in Nature Journals”
Departmental Events
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Prokaryotic Seminar
Monday, March 9: 4pm in 209 Johnson Pavilion
Zianxuan She, Moustafa Lab
“A bacterial phylogenomics toolkit for strain identification, genome profiling, and bacterial evolution simulation”
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Virology Seminar
Tuesday, March 10: 12pm in Reunion Auditorium
Kyle Frischkorn, PhD, Senior Editor, Nature Microbiology
“Publishing in Nature Journals"
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Microbiology Seminar
Wednesday, March 11th: 12pm in CRB Austrian Auditorium
Vincent Tam, PhD :: Temple
"Fueling Infection: How Lipid Metabolism and PPARα Reshape Host Immunity from Lung to Gut"