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MGI Seminars - Fall 2026

MGI Seminars will take place at 12:00 P.M. in 1425 BPS, unless noted otherwise in the table below.  

All MGI Seminar questions should be directed to MGI.Seminars@msu.edu

Seminar Coordinators: Amber Bedore, Stephanie Shames, Jonathan Hardy & Keith MacRenaris
Graduate Student Representatives: Rosemary Northcote & Maddy Quinlan

Fall Semester Seminar Schedule - 2026
Date Title Speaker Host
September 1 You could learn a lot by studying Van der Woude syndrome Dr. Brian Schutte MGI Promotion Seminar
September 8 3D Chromatin Architectural Regulation of Immunoglobulin
Gene Assembly
Dr. Yu Zhang MGI Promotion Seminar
September 15   Dr. Patrick Chain, Los Alamos National Laboratory Julia Kelliher
September 22

Double Agents: Metaeffectors and Effector-Mediated Immunity in 
Legionella pneumophila pathogenicity

Dr. Stephanie Shames MGI Promotion Seminar
September 29   Dr. Laura Hug, Univ. of Waterloo Dr. Annie Rowe
October 13   Dr. Elizabeth Heath-Heckman MGI Promotion Seminar
October 27   Dr. Joshua Shrout, Notre Dame

Jeannette Farnham

November 10   Dr. Teresa O'Meara, Univ. of Michigan 

Dr. Stephanie Shames

November 17   Dr. Jeff Withey, Univ. of Michigan Dr. Ritam Sinha
December 8   Dr. Denise Kirschner, Univ. of Michigan Dr. Vic DiRita