The medical school will welcome Gabriel Nuñez, MD, in November as the featured speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Nuñez’s presentation, “Microbiota-Host Interactions in Health and Disease,” is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, November XX, 2025, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo. A pizza lunch from Jets will be provided for attendees.
The event is free and MEDU and CE credit is available. For more information about CE credit, please go to https://bit.ly/4o4rrYn.
If you plan to attend, please register here. Individuals who RSVP will be admitted before those without a reservation.
Dr. Nuñez earned his MD degree from the University of Seville in Spain and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Washing University in St. Louis. He joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan in 1991 and currently serves as the Paul de Kruif Endowed Professor of Pathology.
Dr. Nuñez is the author of more than 400 scientific publications, several of which have appear in high-impact journals and resulted in more than 177,000 citations. He has also mentored more than 100 scientists, including more than 65 postdoctoral fellows.
In his laboratory at U-M, Dr. Nuñez and his team are focusing their efforts on mechanistic studies to understand the role of members of the Nod-like receptor (NLR) and Toll-like receptor (TLR) families in immune responses against microbial pathogens and inflammatory disease. Additionally, they are taking part in a major effort to understand the role of the microbiota in the regulation of immune responses, eradication of pathogens and development of inflammatory disease in the gut and the skin. The studies include work to elucidate the role of the microbiota in colonization resistance against bacterial pathogens in neonates and new approaches to provide neonatal protection against enteric pathogens.
Seminars in Investigative Medicine is a research seminar series at WMed aimed at bringing together the community of investigators both within – and outside — the medical school.