CEZID/CBID Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Thursday, October 15th, 2026, 3:30 PM CST

Dr. Philip Santangelo

New Materials and Approaches for Preventing or Treating Viral Infections

Philip Santangelo is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech School of Engineering and Emory University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Presented by CoBRE Centers on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID), Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease ( CBID) and the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology (DMP).

Friday, February 6, 2026, 3:00 PM CST

Dr. Jacob Kohlmeier

Protective mechanisms of tissue-resident
memory CDS+ T cells (TRM) in the respiratory tract."

Jacob Kohlmeier is a faculty member in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. He investigates the generation, maintenance, and recall of cellular immunity in the lung to better understand how pulmonary immune defenses can be harnessed to protect against respiratory pathogens.

Presented by Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease ( CBID) and CoBRE Centers on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (CEZID).