Fall 2007 Seminars

Seminars Fall 2007
Date	Speaker	Host
9/5	Faculty Meet-and-Greet with 1st and 2nd year Micro, MII and MSTP students Location: MR5 2001/5	Dept. of Microbiology
9/17 Monday 4pm Jordan Hall Conference Center	First Annual Robert J. Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology Thomas J. Silhavy, Ph.D. Warner-Lambert Park-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University “Outer Membrane Biogenesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria”	J. T. Parsons, Ph.D.
9/19	Paul Anderson, M.D. Ph.D. K. Frank Austen Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital “Polysomes, P-bodies and Stress Granules: Spacial Control of mRNA Translation/Decay”	Deborah Lannigan, Ph.D. Lou Hammarskjold, M.D. Ph.D.
10/3	Mark Ginsberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine USCD “Integrin Activation”	Martin Schwartz, Ph.D.
10/10 2:00 pm	Thomas E. Wellems Chief, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research NIAID, NIH “Malaria: Drug Resistance and Disease Virulence Determinants from Studies in the Laboratory and the Field”	William Petri, MD, Ph.D.
10/17 Jordan Hall Conference Center	Dr. Siddhartha Mahanty, M.D., M.P.H. Staff Physician Helminth Immunology Section Laboratory of Parasitic Disease NIAID, NIH “Translational research in the developing world: Collaborative studies on malaria and helminth infections in West Africa”	Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
10/24	Dr. Peter Henson, Ph.D. Departments of Pathology and Pharmacology National Jewish Medical and Research Center University of Colorado Health Sciences Center “Responses to apoptotic cells”	Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
10/31	Dr. Paul Randazzo, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Investigator Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute “AZAP family Arf GAPs in structures that mediate cell adhesion and movement”	Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
11/7	Dr. Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji Environmental and Molecular Toxicology North Carolina State University “Signaling by the MAPKKK TAK1 in Immunity, Stress and Skin Homeostasis”	David Brautigan, Ph.D.
11/14	Michael P. Rout, Associate Professor Rockefeller University, New York “Nuclear Pore Complexes – The Hole Story?”	Lucy Pemberton, Ph.D.
11/28	Ila Singh, M.D. Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Columbia University “A Genetic Dissection of Retroviral Replication”	Judith White, Ph.D.
12/6	Tiffany Hamm, Ph.D. Director for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment Program, Division of Retrovirology – U.S. Military HIV Research Program Walter Reed Army Institute for Research “Supporting HIV Care and Treatment in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda” A Seminar in Microbiology and Global Health	Lou Hammerskjöld, MD, Ph.D. David Rekosh, Ph.D.
12/12	David Solit, M.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center *“Genetic Predictors of Dependence on the MAP Kinase Pathway in Cancer “*	Mike Weber, Ph.D.