The Department of Biological Sciences will host a colloquium titled, “New Host-directed Therapeutic Strategies to Target the HIV Latent Reservoir,” on Friday, Nov. 1, at 3 p.m. in Wehr Life Sciences 111. The event will feature Dr. Jud Hultquist, assistant professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Hultquist is a 2008 graduate of Marquette, where he double majored in biochemistry and molecular biology and biological sciences. Judd went on to earn his Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Ruben Harris at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Judd’s doctoral work focused on the relationship between the HIV virus and the human immune system. At Feinberg, the Hultquist lab specializes in the development and adaptation of high-throughput, quantitative, systems-based approaches for use in primary models of disease to better understand the host-pathogen relationship.
The Biological Sciences Department’s Friday Seminar Series is supported by the Scholl Endowment. Eminent scientists are invited to the department to deliver seminars, and students have ample opportunity to engage these scientists in individual or group conversation.