Fall 2009 Seminars

Microbiology Seminars Fall 2009

Date	Seminar	Host
9/2/2009
9/9/2009	2009 Cancer Training Grant Retreat program	Amy Bouton, PhD
9/16/2009	Sarkis K. Mazmanian, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology “Say Hello to Your Little Friends: How Gut Bacteria Promote Intestinal Health”	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
9/22/2009 – Tuesday	Third Annual Robert J. Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology Susan Gottesman, PhD NIH, Center for Cancer Research Laboratory of Molecular Biology Head, Biochemical Genetics Section Laboratory Co-Chief Beyond Transcription: Regulatory Networks with Small RNA Regulators	J. Thomas Parsons, PhD
9/30/2009	Anthony V. Furano, MD LMCB GENOMIC STRUCTURE & FUNCTION SECTION NIDDK, National Institutes of Health “L1 Retrotransposons in the Human Genome”	Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld, MD, PhD
10/7/2009	Andrea Cerutti, MD Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University “Immunoglobulin class switching in healthy and HIV-infected mucosal surfaces”	Graduate Student Committee
10/14/2009	Michael Starnbach, PhD Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School “Inhibition of T cell responses to bacterial pathogens”	Alison Criss, PhD
10/21/2009	Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD Byrd Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics University of Virginia “DNA replication and DNA damage response in human cancer cells”	Daniel Engel, PhD
10/28/2009	David Schneider, PhD Assistant Professor Departmentof Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics University of Alabama “Share and share alike: Factors that influence transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II also regulate RNA polymerase I activity.”	Ann L. Beyer, PhD
11/4/2009	Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD Associate Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “Cell Polarity Pathways differentiation and transformation of epithelial cells”	Deborah Lannigan, PhD Ian Macaca, PhD
11/11/2009	Robert L. Garcea, MD Professor Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology University of Colorado “Chaperoning Papovavirus Assembly and Disassembly”	Sue Delos, PhD
11/18/2009	Jeremy Sanford, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Center for Molecular Biology of RNA U of California, Santa Cruz “Deciphering the roles of protein-RNA interactions in gene expression and human disease”	Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld, MD, PhD
11/252009 — 11/16 Thanksgiving
12/2/2009	Kirk W. Deitsch, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Weill Cornell Medical College “Immune evasion through epigenetic gene silencing and activation: how malaria parasites survive and proliferate”	William A. Petri, MD, PhD
12/9/2009	Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher, PhD Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Louisiana State University “Epstein-Barr virus: B cells, epithelial cells and the cycle of persistence”	Jay Brown, PhD