Fall 2018 Seminars

Michael Starnbach, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School

Host:  Isabelle Derre

Maureen A. Carey

Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Public Defense

“Debugging parasite genomes:

Using metabolic modeling to accelerate antiparasitic drug development”

Hosts:  Jennifer Guler, Ph.D. and Jason Papin, Ph.D.

Sergio Grinstein, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto

Host:  Kodi Ravichandran, PhD

Ramin M. Hakami, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Systems Biology
National Center for Biodefense & Infectious Diseases
George Mason University

Host: Young Hahn, PhD

Joseph Mougous, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, University of Washington
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

“Micro-Scale Warfare with Macro-Scale Implications: Mechanisms and Consequences of Interbacterial Antagonism”

Host:  Isabelle Derré

David M. Knipe, PhD
Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Chair, Harvard Virology Program

Host: Anna Cliffe, PhD

CCIB Guest Lecture 2018

Heather Cristofk (UCLA)

Wed. Oct. 24, 2018

Topic: Connections Between Signaling and Metabolism

Dr. Cristofk’s research has long focused on finding connections between signaling pathways and metabolism in both health and disease (with a main focus on cancer).  For example, while in Lew Cantley’s lab as a graduate student, she found that cancer cells induce the fetal isoform of pyruvate kinase  which promotes use of glucose for anabolic processes and therefore rapid growth.  Dr. Cristofk’s lab recently found that glycolytic production of lactate activates hair follicle stem cells, showing that metabolism can drive quiescence versus proliferation in stem cells.

2018 Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture – Child Health Research Center

John H. Brumell, PhD
Pitblado Chair in Cell Biology
Senior Scientist and Program Head, Cell Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, Molecular Genetics & Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto

Hosts: MIC Graduate Student Committee

Anne K. Kenworthy, PhD
Professor
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
University of Virginia

Host:  Amy Bouton, PhD