Fall 2012 Seminars

MIC Seminars – Fall Semester 2012

Date	Seminar	Host
9/7 2PM Jordan Hall Conference Center	Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology Caroline S. Harwood, PhD Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Professor of Microbiology University of Washington, Seattle “Sensing Surfaces: A Prelude to Microbial Biofilm Formation”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD Joanna Goldberg, PhD
9/12	Andrew Prentice, BSc, PhD Professor of International Nutrition London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine “The Iron-Hepcidin Axis and Infection”	William Petri, MD, PhD
9/19	Micah Luftig, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Deputy Director, Center for Virology Duke University Medical Center “Studies at the oncogenic virus/host Interface: Dynamic regulation of Epstein-Barr virus-mediated B cell immortalization.”	Dan Engel, PhD, Dean Kedes, MD, PhD
9/26	Todd Stukenberg, PhD Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia School of Medicine “Mitotic mechanisms of genomic instability during tumorigenesis”	David Kashatus, PhD
10/3	Robert K. Ernst, PhD Associate Professsor, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, School of Dentistry Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Medicine University of Maryland “Role of LPS Structural Modifications in Virulence of Pulmonary Pathogens”	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
10/10	Denise A. Galloway, PhD Interim Director, Human Biology Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center “Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: a new human tumor virus”	Dean Kedes, MD, PhD
10/17	Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Jarish Cohen (Engelhard Lab) “Tolerogenic properties of lymphatic endothelial cells are controlled by the lymph node microenvironment” Zach Weiner (Glomski)	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
10/24	Catherine J. Pallen, Ph.D. Acting Deputy Director, Child & Family Research Institute Professor Dept. of Pediatrics University of British Columbia “Dual roles of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha (PTPa) in integrin signaling and cell movement”	Dan Engel, PhD, David Brautigan, PhD, Amy Bouton, PhD
10/31 CANCELLED	Peter Lewis, PhD Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics Rockefeller University “Varying and Poisoning the ‘Histone Code’: a role for histone variant H3.3 in human cancers”	Dan Engel, PhD
11/7	Paul Lieberman, PhD Professor, Gene Expression and Regulation The Wistar Institute Philadelphia “Chromatin Organization and Genome Stability of Latent Gammaherpesviruses”	Dean Kedes, MD, PhD
11/14	Glenn Merlino, PhD Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute Bethesda, Maryland “Modeling the initiation and progression of human melanoma in the mouse” Co-sponsored by Department of MIC and the Cancer Center	Michael Weber, PhD
11/28	Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Ebony Coats (Mike Brown Lab) “MHC Class I polymorphism dictates NK inhibitory receptor recognition and control of viral infection” Amber Cardani (Braciale Lab) “Pulmonary Influenza Injury Is Enhanced By Alveolar Macrophage Deficiency”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
12/5	Jennifer Gerton, PhD Associate Investigator Stowers Institute for Medical Research “Cohesin ties the chromosome cycle to translation”	Dan Engel, PhD and Mitch Smith, PhD
12/12	Paul Thomas, PhD Immunology Assistant member St. Jude’s Hospital “Innate and adaptive immune responses to influenza infection in the mouse model and humans”	MIC Graduate Students