Full Program: SERVC 2024 Program
Keynote & Plenary Speakers:
 | Keynote Speaker: John Schoggins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Distinguished Chair in Medicine and Science UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Interferon-mediated antiviral strategies in humans, bats, and beyond Schoggins Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: Anna Whitfield, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Dissecting the molecular interactions between plant viruses and their arthropod vectors Whitfield Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: Vineet Menachery, Ph.D. Spike mutations that help shift coronavirus from zoonotic infections to epidemics Menachery Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: Carolyn Coyne, Ph.D. George Barth Gellar Distinguished Professor of Immunology Department of Integrative Immunobiology Duke University, Durham, NC Organoids as models of viral infections at the maternal-fetal interface Coyne Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: John Karijolich, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN KSHV-mediated Genome Organization and Gene Regulation Karijolich Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: Anna Cliffe, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Intersection of Neuronal Immune and Cell Stress Signaling Pathways with the Latent Herpes Simplex Virus Genome Cliffe Lab |
 | Plenary Speaker: Amelia Pinto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Metabolic syndrome enhances viral disease severity and reduces vaccine efficacy Pinto Lab |