Fall 2011 Seminars

MIC Seminars Fall 2011

Date	Seminar	Host
9/7/2011 cancelled	Julie M. Blander, PhD Associate Professor Medicine, Clinical Immunology Mount Sinai Medical Center”Mechanisms involved in discrimination between live and dead microbes”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
9/14/2011	Monthly Graduate Student Research Presentations Tim Errington (Ian Macara Lab) “A New Nuclease Links Septins to DNA Repair” Amelia Hufford (Ravichandran Lab) “Life after death: a role for dying cells in muscle development“	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
9/21/2011	Lora Hooper, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Immunology UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas”Immune defense of the intestinal epithelial surface“	Alison Criss, PhD
9/23/2011 Friday, 2PM MEB Auditorium	Fifth Annual Robert J. Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Richard Losick, PhD Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology The Biological Laboratories Harvard University “Life and Death of a Microbial Community”	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
9/28/2011	Weston Porter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Faculty of Toxicology Texas A&M University”Singleminded control of Senescence and EMT in Breast Cancer Progression”	Amy Bouton, PhD
10/12/2011	Monthly Graduate Student Research Presentations Shawn Fahl, Bender Lab “c-Myb Functions at Multiple Levels During the Pro-B Cell Stage of B-Cell Development” Michael Gutknecht, Bouton Lab “Adhesion signaling through FAK family kinases controls myeloid cell activities in the breast tumor microenvironment.”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
10/19/2011	Rama Khokha, PhD Professor Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI), University of Western Ontario“Unraveling somatic genetic and cellular heterogeneity in cancer”	Deborah Lannigan, PhD
10/26/2011	Zhijian Chen, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Department of Molecular Biology UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas”Biochemical Dissection of Innate Immunity”	Daniel Engel, PhD
11/01/2011	Microbiology Retreat	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
11/9/2011	Hamid Band, MD, PhD Eppley Institute Professor Director of the Center for Breast Cancer Research Associate Director of Education & Training, UNMC-Eppley Cancer Center Co-Program Leader of Molecular and Biochemical Etiology Program (MBEP), UNMC-Eppley Cancer Center “Cbl-Family Ubiquitin Ligases as Tyrosine Kinase Regulators: Emerging Roles in Oncogenesis and Stem Cell Regulation“	Ulrike Lorenz, PhD
11/16/2011	Gordon Carmichael, PhD Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology University of Connecticut”New insights into long noncoding RNAs and gene regulation through deep sequencing“	Lou Hammarskjold, MD, PhD Ann Beyer, PhD
11/30/2011	Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry	Deborah Lannigan, PhD