Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at 12:30 pm

Multiomics Approach to Anemia in Preterm Infants

Thao (Tina) Ho, DO

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
USF Morsani College of Medicine

Wednesday, August 9th, 2023, at 10:00 am

Translocating Pathobionts in Extraintestinal Autoimmunity

Martin Alexander Kriegel, M.D. Ph.D.

Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Tenured (W3) University Professor
University of Münster

Associate Professor Adjunct
Department of Immunobiology
Yale School of Medicine

Tuesday, July 25th, 2023, at 2:00 pm

Exploiting microbial metabolites to improve anti-tumor immunity

Rahul S. Shinde, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Immunology, Microenvironment &Metastasis Program
Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center
The Wistar Institute

Wednesday, June 14th, 2023, at 2:00 PM

Gut-brain communication: a new frontier in biomedicine

Christoph Thaiss, PhD

Assistant Professor
Microbiology Department, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023, at 12:30 PM

Microbiome and chemical analysis of sphalerite denitrifying biofilters used for domestic wastewater treatment

Erica A. Dasi, PhD

ASEE Engineering Postdoctoral fellow
USF Environmental Engineering

Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 12:30 pm

Microbiomes Town Hall

USF Research Park (New Research Building)
3814 Spectrum Blvd.
Meeting Room #124
Tampa, FL 33612

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, at 12:30PM

The role of the gut microbiome in immune dysregulation of a genetic combined immunodeficiency

 Jolan Walter, MD, PhD

Division Chief and Associate Professor
Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
USF Morsani College of Medicine

Joseph Dasso, MD, PhD

Research Scientist Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
USF Morsani College of Medicine   

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023, 2:30 PM

The Gut Microbiome Impacts Parkinson’s disease in Mouse Models

Sarkis Mazmanian, Ph.D.

Luis & Nelly Soux Professor of Microbiology in the Division of Biology & Biological Engineering
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, 12:30 PM

Harnessing the renin-angiotensin system and gut microbiome to prevent age-related disability

Thomas Buford, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine (Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics & Palliative Care)
Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences
Director, UAB Center for Exercise Medicine Co-Director, Nathan Shock Center for Basic Biology of Aging
Investigator, VA Medical Center's Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC)

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 12:30 pm EST

Gut Microbiota in Severe Obesity: Importance of B Vitamin Status

Prof Karine Clément MD, PhD

Sorbonne Université/ INSERMNutriOmiqueResearch group
Nutrition Department, Pitié-SalpêtrièreHospital

Wednesday, October 12, 202212:30 pm EST

Using microbiomes as sustainable bioresources

George Philippidis, PhD

Associate Dean of Research and Director of Sustainable Energy
Patel College of Global Sustainability (PCGS)
University of South Florida

Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 3:00 pm EST

A new look at why chronic diseases continue to ‘bug’ us: The gut microbiome, stress, and health disparities  

Tiffany L. Carson, PhD, MPH, FTOS

Associate Member
George Edgecomb Scholar Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 3:00 PM EST

Diabetes Mellitus and the Microbiome: The Features of this Complex Relationship including “Phase”

Barbara Hansen, PhD

Director of Obesity, Diabetes and Aging Research Center
Professor, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
Professor, College of Medicine Pediatrics

Thursday, April 21st, 2022, 3:00 PM EST  

Call for collaborations -Microbiome in aging Gut and Brain (MiaGB) study paving the ways to predict age-related cognitive decline  

Hariom Yadav, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Director, USF Center for Microbiome Research, Microbiomes Institute
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery and Brain Repair
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine-Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Faculty, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair Faculty, Byrd Alzheimer's Center/ USF Neuroscience Institute

Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 3:00 pm EST

Caring for Life's little things: Microbial management for healthy ecosystems

Erika Díaz-Almeyda, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
New College of Florida

Thursday, October 14th, 2021, 3:00 PM EST

Microbiome Research Hub

Gut Aging: Interventions and Implications for Physical and Cognitive Decline

Christy S. Carter, PhD

Translational Exercise, Aging, and Microbiome Laboratory
Department of Medicine; Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging
Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Center for Exercise Medicine UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Thursday, December 9th, 2021 at 3:00 pm EST

Dissecting the connections between host genetic variation, gut microbes and metabolites

Federico E. Rey, PhD

Associate Professor of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Thursday, July 14 12:30 pm EST  

Botanical Medicine Research and Education Consortium  

Mark Kindy, PHD, FAHA

Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
Professor, TCOP Dept. of Pharmaceutical Science Senior Research Career
Scientist, James A. Haley VA Director, Botanical Medicine Research and Education Consortium

Thursday, June 10th, 2021, 3:00 PM EST  

Mitigating Alzheimer's disease risk for APOE4 carriers via gut-brain axis: integrating neuroimaging, multi-omics and artificial intelligence  

Ai-Ling Lin, PhD

Associate Professor, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
Department of Neuroscience and Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Kentucky  

April 8th, 2021

Setting the Stage for innovative microbiome studies to address cancer disparities using an integrative approach. 

Doratha "Armen" Byrd, PhD, MPH

Assistant Member
Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointenstinal Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center

December 16, 2020

Bats and Viruses: A Successful Story of Coevolution?

Linfa (Lin-Fa) Wang, PhD

FTSE Professor
Programme in Emerging Infectious Disease
Duke-NUS Medical School

Analyzing microbial compositions

Daniel Ian McSkimming, PhD

Director, Bioinformatics Core
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Morsani College of Medicine

Amplicon sequencing in the era of highly-accurate long reads

Benjamin J. Callahan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Population Health & Pathobiology
North Carolina State University

Wednesday,August 26th 2020, at 2:00pm

Microbiome data characteristics, statistical methods and challenges of analyzing microbiome data

Yinglin Xia, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago

Monday, July 13th, 2020 3:30 PM

Microbiome dynamics in metabolic disease

Christoph A. Thaiss, PhD

Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Monday, July 6th  2020, at 2:00pm

Using the Data - All the data: The Challenges of Heterogeneous Data from the Microbiome

Susan Holmes, PhD

Professor, Statistics  Department
John Henry Samter Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Stanford University

Wednesday, June 24 at 12:00 PM

MedZIM: Mediation analysis for Zero-Inflated Mediators with applications to microbiome data

Zhigang Li, Ph.D.

Associate  Professor (University Preeminence hire) Dept. of Biostatistics
University of Florida

Thursday, June 18th, 2020 12:00 PM

Microbiome Metagenomics of an Antarctic Ascidian to Guide the Discovery of the Palmerolide Biosynthetic Gene Cluster

Bill Baker, PhD

Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of South Florida
Nicole Avalon PhD Student Department of Chemistry
University of South Florida 

Monday, June 1st 2020, at 2:00pm

Interrogating the Gut Microbiome: Estimation of Growth Dynamics and Prediction of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters

Hongzhe Li (Lee), Ph.D.

Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
Director, Center for Statistics in Big DataVice Chair for Research Integration
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics

May 13, 2020

Host - Microbiota Interaction at the Mucosal Surface: Importance of a Proper No Man’s Land  

Benoit Chassaing, PhD, HDR

Team leader
Mucosal Microbiota in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
INSERM U1016 Institut Cochin Paris, France  

April 16, 2020 

Dietary Fibers and the Foundation Guild of Gut Microbiota for Human Metabolic Health

Liping Zhao, PhDProfessor

Eveleigh-Fenton Chair of Applied Microbiology
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University

February 14th, 2020

Endogenous viral elements and their role in antiviral immunity in mosquitoes

Maria Carla Saleh, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Viruses and RNAi Unit
Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur Paris

February 12th, 2020

From virus-blocking Wolbachia to synthetic gene drives: How can we better control mosquitoes that transmit arboviruses

Gordana Rašić, PhD

Senior Research Officer
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

February 5, 2020

Microbiome Initiative Workshop 1: Operating Infrastructure, Funding Opportunities, and Team Building for Microbiome Research at USF

• Agenda

Presentations

January 22, 2020

Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Human Herpesvirus: Lessons Learned from Sub-Saharan Africa

Charles Wood, PhD

Lewis Lehr/3M University Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences
Director, Nebraska Center for Virology

Gut microbiome as a bonanza of therapeutic targets and biomarkers of aging‐related metabolic diseases

Hariom Yadav, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Molecular Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine

October 30, 2019

Microbiome Research Award Information Session

Christian Brechot, MD, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Dean for Research in Global Affairs, Morsani College of Medicine
Associate Vice President, International Partnerships and Innovation
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine

University of South Florida and Moffitt Cancer Center Joint Workshop on Microbiomes and Cancer

• Agenda

Ongoing Activities at USF and Moffitt

Christian Brechot, MD, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for Research in Global Affairs, Morsani College of Medicine
Associate Vice President, International Partnerships and Innovation
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine
University of South Florida

Anna R. Giuliano, PhD

Dorothea Bennett Memorial – American Cancer Society (ACS) Clinical Research Professor
Director, Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer (CIIRC)
Moffitt Cancer Center

Microbiota reconstitution restores intestinal integrity after cisplatin therapy

Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD

Chair and Senior Member, Immunology Moffitt Cancer Center

Gut microflora and urinary estrogen profiles: Exploring a new paradigm for breast cancer risk reduction

John M. Koomen, PhD
Associate Member, Molecular Oncology
Moffitt Cancer Center

A Microbiome Joint Workshop between the University of South Florida and the University of Florida  

• Agenda

Presentations

Gestational  Age, Growth, Human milk and the PretermInfant Gut Microbiome      

Maureen Groer, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor, College of Nursing
Professor, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
University of South Florida

Using metagenomic approaches to understand microbialcontributions to cancer immunotherapy

Raad Gharaibeh, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
Director, UF Health Cancer Center Microbiome Genomics
Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine, University of Florida

Lactation and Association with Gut Microbiome

Adetola Louis-Jacques, MD

Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
University of South Florida

Gut dysbiosis and systemic lupus erythematosus

Laurence Morel, PhD

Mary and Bryan Whisenant Professor of Pathology
Vice Chair for Research and Academic Affairs
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine
College of Medicine
University of Florida

February 27, 2019

Agenda

Introduction: The Microbiome Research Award

Christian Brechot, MD, PhD

Asst Vice President, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
Professor, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
Sr. Assoc. Dean for Research for Global Affairs, Morsani College of Medicine
Assoc.Vp, International Partnerships & Innovation, Morsani College of Medicine

General Discussion - New Topics to be Covered

Christian Brechot, MD, PhD

First Microbiome Club Meeting - January 30, 2019

Introductory Remarks

Christian Bréchot, MD, PhD

Asst Vice President, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
Professor, College of Medicine Internal Medicine
Sr. Assoc. Dean for Research for Global Affairs, Morsani College of Medicine
Assoc.Vp, International Partnerships & Innovation, Morsani College of Medicine

The Bacteriology Interest Group

Burt Anderson, Ph.D

Professor, Molecular Medicine
Professor & Associate Dean, College of Medicine Molecular Medicine

Contact Gerri Graca at graca@usf.edu