October 2025
Dr. Laura Hooper, Lora Hooper, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Vitamin A and barrier immunity"
February 2024
Dr. Michael S. Diamond, Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
"Alphavirus receptor interactions: new insights into the first steps in the virus infection cycle"
November 2017
Dr. Daniel A Portnoy, Edward E. Penhoet Distinguished Endowed Chair in Global Health and Infectious Disease, University of California Berkeley
"Listeria monocytogenes: From basic mechanisms of pathogenesis to cancer immunotherapy"
September 2015
Dr. Eric Hunter, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University and Co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research
"The role of viral fitness in HIV-1 transmission and disease progression"