Lectures

IMV Innovations in Virus Research Lecture Series

2020
  • Murtaugh Lecturer: Sonja Best, PhD, Natl Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, February 26, 2020
  • Grimes Lecturer: TBD, March 18, 2020
  • McNew Lecturer: William Britt, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Mar 25, 2020

Previous IMV Lectures

2019
2018
  • Grimes Lecturer: Sherwood Casjens, PhD, University of Utah, February 14, 2018
  • Greg Smith, PhD, Northwestern University, April 11, 2018
  • Pamela Bjorkman, PhD, Caltech, September 19, 2018
2017
  • Pei-Yong Shi, PhD, University of Texas, April 19, 2017
  • Karin Musier-Forsyth, PhD, The Ohion State University, May 3, 2017
  • Linda Chelico, PhD, University of Saskatchewan, June 21, 2017
  • Special Seminar: Juan Perilla, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 19, 2017
  • Nels Elde, PhD, University of Utah, November 15, 2017
2016
  • Sean Whelan, PhD, Harvard University, March 9, 2016
  • Edward Hoover, DVM, PhD, Colorado State University, March 23, 2016
  • Stephen Russell, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, April 20, 2016
  • Akira Ono, PhD, University of Michigan, June 15, 2016
  • Ido Amit, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, October 26, 2016
  • Special Seminar: Esteban Domingo, PhD, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, November 9, 2016
 2015
  • Cornelia Bergmann, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, January 28, 2015
  • Zhijian (James) Chen, PhD, UT-Southwestern, February 11, 2015
  • Julie Pfeiffer, PhD, UT-Southwestern, June 10, 2015
2014
  • James Conway, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, April 9, 2014
  • Paul Bieniasz, PhD, Rockefeller University, April 23, 2014
  • David Knipe, PhD, Harvard University, June 18, 2014
2013
  • Michael Emerman, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, March 20, 2013
  • Sriram Subramaniam, PhD, National Cancer Institute, April 24, 2013
  • Sara Cherry, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, June 12, 2013
2012
  • Carlos Bustamante, PhD, UC-Berkeley & HHMI, April 11, 2012
  • Susan Baker, PhD, Loyola University-Chicago, April 18, 2012
  • Colin Parrish, PhD, Cornell University, May 3-4, 2012
2011
  • Sanford Simon, PhD, Rockefeller University, April 27, 2011
  • James Bull, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, April 20, 2011
  • Daria Hazuda, PhD, Merck & Co., September 7, 2011
 2009
  • David Bloom, PhD, Univesity of Florida, June 15, 2009
  • Tom Hope, PhD, Northwestern University, September 21, 2009
  • Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD, Harvard University & HHMI, November 16, 2009
2008
  • Marie-Louise Hammarskjold, PhD, University of Virginia, March 17, 2008
  • Michael Gale, PhD, University of Washington-Seattle, April 20, 2008
  • Grant Jensen, PhD, Caltech, June 2, 2008
2007
  • Janice Clements, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, April 2, 2007
  • Karla Kirkegaard, PhD, Stanford University, April 30, 2007
  • Steve Goff, PhD, Columbia Univeristy, June 4, 2007
  • Ganes Sen, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, June 25, 2007

University of Minnesota-Mayo Clinic Distinguished Lecture Series in Virology & Gene Therapy Series

This is a collaborative lecture series between the Virology and Gene Therapy (VGT) Track of the Mayo Graduate School and the Institute for Molecular Virology.

  • 10th Annual Lecturer - Michael Sadelain, MD PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute, June 19-20, 2019
  • 9th Annual Lecturer - Geoffrey Smith, PhD, University of Cambridge, April 19-20, 2018
  • 8th Annual Lecturer - Michael Malim, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, March 2-3, 2016
  • 7th Annual Lecturer - Heinz Feldmann, MD, PhD, NIH, June 3-4, 2015
  • 6th Annual Lecturer - Esteban Domingo, PhD, Autonoma Madrid, March 19-20, 2014
  • 5th Annual Lecturer - Michael Rossmann, PhD, Purdue University, February 13-14, 2013
  • 4th Annual Lecturer - David Ho, MD, Rockefeller University & Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, February 7-8, 2012; "Looking Back at HIV & CD4 T-cell Dynamics: Implications for Therapy" and "Looking Forward to a Passive Immunization Approach to HIV Prevention"
  • 3rd Annual Lecturer - Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 9-10, 2011, "Emerging viral infections" and "Influenza pandemics"
  • 2nd Annual Lecturer - Charles Rice, PhD, Rockefeller University, June 3-4, 2010; "Hepatitis C Virus:  Replication & New Tools" and "Antiviral Activities of Type I Interferon Stimulated Genes"
  • 1st Annual Lecturer - Charles Weissmann, MD, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, June 17-18, 2009; "The winding path from phage to prion" and "The secret life of prion strains"