Fall 2014 Seminars
MIC Seminars – Fall Semester 2014
| Date | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|
| September 3 | Andrey S Shaw, MD Emil R. Unanue Professor of Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine KSR and allosteric activation of Raf kinase | Michael Weber, PhD |
| September 10 | James Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA Benjamin Armistead Shepherd Professor and Chair Department of Pediatrics University of Virginia Medical Center Anti-virulence regulators: pathogenesis and its discontents | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| September 24 | MIC Student Seminar Katie Margulieux (Hughes Lab) “Mechanism of CXCL10 Antimicrobial Effect Against B. anthracis“Zannatun Noor (Petri Lab) “Role of IL-25 During Amoebiasis In A Mouse Model” | Daniel Engel, PhD |
| September 29 | Hervé Agaisse, MSc, PhD Associate Professor Department of Microbial PathogenesisYale University School of Medicine MIC Bacteriology Faculty Candidate Cell biology of intracellular pathogen dissemination | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| October 1 | Gene Garrard Olinger, PhD Principal Science Advisor, High Containment Coordinator, NIH-Integrated Research Facility (IRF) (NIAID) Frederick, MD Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University Converging science disciplines and the search for medical solutions to protect against viral hemorrhagic fever viruses | Judith White, PhD |
| October 8 | Susan Hafenstein, PhD Department of Medicine Penn State University Picornavirus Entry: Coxsackievirus altered particles are not created equally | Jay Brown, PhD |
| October 15 | Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Columbia University | MIC Student seminar committee |
| October 22 | Jason Brickner, PhD Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biosciences Northwestern University Nuclear pore-mediated epigenetic transcriptional memory | Mitch Smith, PhD |
| October 23 1:30PMJordan 1-17 | Isabelle Derre, PhD Senior Research Scientist Department of Microbial Pathogenesis Yale University School of Medicine Deciphering the developmental cycle of the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| October 29 | Leslie J. Berg, PhD Professor Department of Pathology University of Massachusetts Medical School Insights into the Regulation of TCR Signal Strength | Ulrike Lorenz, PhD |
| November 5 | Elke Muhlberger Associate Professor of Microbiology Director, Biomolecule Production Core, NEIDL Institute Boston University Interaction of Ebola virus with the infected cell | Daniel Engel, PhD |
| November 12 | do not schedule – Kadner Lecture on Friday, Nov. 14 | |
| November 14 Friday2:00PM MEB3110 | Eighth Annual Robert J. Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology Lucy Shapiro, PhD Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research Director, Beckman Center for Molecular & Genetic Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Systems Architecture of a Bacterial Cell Cycle | Alison Criss, PhD |
| November 19 | Student Seminar Adam Labonte (Hahn Lab) “Scavenger Receptor CD204 in Hepatic Viral Infection”Jessica Harakal (Tung Lab) “Control of Autoimmune Gastritis by Regulatory T cells” | |
| November 26 | Thanksgiving Recess | |
| December 3 | Wayne Lencer, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Division Chief Gastroenterology, Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital “Innate sensing of a bacterial protein entering the ER of host cells by IRE1 and RIG-I” | Alison Criss, PhD James Casanova, PhD Erik Hewlett, MD |
| December 10 |
Engineering approaches to study tumor microenvironment interactions | Kwon Park, PhD |
| December 17 | Student Seminar David Peske (Engelhard Lab) Development of lymph-node like vasculature and lymphoid organization in tumors. | Dan Engel, PhD |