DEPARTMENT OF ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES PRESENTS
Autumn 2025 OHS 575 Seminar Series
Mondays from 12:30pm – 1:20pm Pacific Time
Hybrid model: Sessions held on Zoom or in-person in Health Sciences Building Room RR134 depending on the presenter’s location.
Please see below for modality and contact ohsgrad@uw.edu for assistance.
| DATE & Modality | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
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| 9/29 in person | Outer membrane vesicle (OMV) formation by Porphyromonas gingivalis and its contribution to pathogenesis via selective sorting of pro-inflammatory lipid A | Sumita Jain, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Periodontics UW School of Dentistry |
| 10/6 zoom | Oral Health in the Global Health Agenda: Strategic Directions of the WHO Action Plan 2023–2030 | Ana Lucia Seminario, DDS, PhD, MPH Professor Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry UW School of Dentistry |
| 10/13 zoom | Zebrafish as a model for interrogating neuroimmunity across the oral-gut-brain axis | Christina Graves, PhD Research Assistant Professor Dept of Biomedical Sciences UNC School of Dentistry |
| 10/20 in person | In search of the missing heritability for orofacial cleft: clues from a charismatic fish | Robert Cornell, PhD Professor Dept of Oral Health Sciences UW School of Dentistry |
| 10/27 in person | Jing-Sheng Li, PhD Research Scientist Dept of Oral Health Sciences UW School of Dentistry |
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| 11/3 zoom | Donald Chi, DDS, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor Dept of Oral Health Sciences UW School of Dentistry |
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| 11/10 in person | Jonathon L. Baker, PhD Assistant Professor of Department of Oral Rehabilitation & Integrative Biosciences School of Dentistry OHSU |
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| 11/17 in person | Dr. Frank Pfefferkorn Sr. Clinical Research Manager Dentsply Sirona (Germany) |
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| 11/24 TBD | CLASS CANCELLED | |
| 12/1 zoom | Morgan Sturgeon, PhD Andrea Vyas, PhD Matthew McNeill, PhD |
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| 12/8 | EXAM WEEK – NO CLASS |