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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.

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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.

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76 Prokaryotic Seminar 5 5 5 63
Monday, Februrary 16: 4pm in 209 Johnson Pavilion
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Kelsey O'Brien, John Lab
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“Diverging substrate specificity of a Staphylococcal prodrug-activating hydrolase”
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73 Virology Seminar 5 5 5 63
Tuesday, February 17: 4pm in 209 Johnson Pavilion
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Amber Abbott, Weitzman Lab
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“Proteomic and spatial imaging screens to define how adenovirus alters cellular RNA binding proteins"
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77 Microbiology Seminar 5 5 5 6b
Wednesday, February 18th: 12pm in CRB Austrian Auditorium
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Geelsu Hwang, PhD :: UPenn
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“Engineering-driven oral health research”
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