Seminars

Our Seminar Series

Explore a diverse range of topics and expertise through our seminar series at the Blumberg Institute. Our Industry Speakers series offers valuable industry insights, while the Young Investigator Seminars showcase cutting-edge research. Our Invited Seminars feature esteemed guests. Join us in cultivating collaboration, fostering innovation, and promoting academic excellence.

All seminars, unless noted, take place at our headquarters at the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center at 3805 Old Easton Road, Doylestown, PA 18902, in Room 3100.

No registration required.

Nobel Laureate Dr. Drew Weissman (center, with necktie) presenting in 2023 at the Blumberg Institute.
Dr. Weissman, the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Distinguished Speaker Seminar at the Blumberg Institute on March 24, 2023. Less than seven months later, Dr. Weissman was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, along with Katalin Karikó, PhD, adjunct professor of neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania.

Upcoming Seminars

Date & Time

Speaker

Topic

June 10, 2025, 11 a.m.

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Shun-Hua Chen, PhD, Professor Shun-Hua Chen, Department Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Searching Antivirals and mRNA Vaccines Against Coxsackievirus B3 Using a Murine Infection Model

June 19, 2025, 11 a.m.

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Ju-Tao Guo, MD, Acting President & CSO, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute

Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Virus cccDNA and Implications in the Cure of Chronic Hepatitis B

July 3, 2025, 11 a.m.

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Alison Axtman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Principal Investigator of Medicinal Chemistry in SGC-UNCD

TBD

Recent Seminars

Date

Speaker

Topic

Video Link

(If Available)

May 15, 2025

 Eda Canales, PhD, Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead Sciences

Lenacapavir, a First-in-class Long-Acting HIV Capsid Inhibitor

May 6, 2025

Susan R. Weiss, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair Department of Microbiology, Perleman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Coronavirus activation and antagonism of interferon signaling pathways

May 1, 2025

Tanner Grudda, BS, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

HBV splice variants are more pronounced and stable in people with HIV/HBV co-infection compared to HBV mono-infection

May 1, 2025

Felicia Goodrum, PhD, Associate Dept. Head and Professor, Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona

Virus-Host interactions regulating human Cytomegalovirus Latency and Reactivation

April 24, 2025

Zhengyin Yan, PhD, Distinguished Scientist, Genentech 

Dynamic free drug fraction: concept, methodolgy and impact on DMPK

March 20, 2025

Joseph Che-Yen Wang, PhD

A Structural Journey: Unraveling Hepatitis B Virus Molecular Architecture with Cryo-EM

Feb. 13, 2025

Emma Parmee, DPhil

New Directions in Drug Discovery: Expanding Exploration of Chemical Space

December 12, 2024

Harry Janssen, MD, PhD
Chair Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Hepatitis B: How to transfer a suppressive into a curative treatment?

Nov. 26 2024

Austin Argentieri, PhD
Research Fellow in Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

Leveraging large-scale population biobank data to study aging and chronic age-related diseases

Nov. 7, 2024

Peter Tompa, PhD, Professor emeritus/VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, Brussels

Targeting biomolecular condensation: a new modality in drug development

September 26, 2024

Yingpu Yu, PhD
Research Associate, laboratory of Virology and Infectious disease, The Rockefeller University

An RNA-based system to study hepatitis B virus replication and evaluate antivirals

September 19, 2024

Mark Yorek, PhD
Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa & Associate Chief of Staff Iowa City VA Health Care System

From Bench to Bedside: Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids as a Potential Treatment for Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

September 18, 2024

Rui Liu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Short Stories in the Medicinal Chemistry

August 15, 2024

Dr. Albert Jeltsch, PhD
Prof. of Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, German

Analysis of the specificities of DNA and protein methyltransferases leading to novel insights into epigenetic processes