Fall 2018 Seminars
9/12/2018 – MIC Seminar: Inhibition and Stimulation of Immune Responses to Chlamydia trachomatis
Michael Starnbach, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School
Host: Isabelle Derre
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1-17
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9/19/2018 – MIC Graduate Student Seminar: “Debugging parasite genomes: Using metabolic modeling to accelerate antiparasitic drug development”
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.
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1-14
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9/26/2018 – MIC/Pharm co-sponsored Seminar: Role of phosphoinositides and the cytoskeleton in phagocytosis.
Sergio Grinstein, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Toronto
Host: Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: New Pinn Hall Conference Center
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10/3/2018 – MIC Seminar: Power of Communication: Exosomes as Carrier Pigeons of the Cell to Regulate Innate Immune Response to Infection
Ramin M. Hakami, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Systems Biology
National Center for Biodefense & Infectious Diseases
George Mason University
Host: Young Hahn, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1-17
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10/12/2018 – Annual Robert J. Kadner Dinstinguished Lecture in Microbiology
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
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center
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10/17/2018 – MIC Seminar: Epigenetic Regulation of Herpesviral Lytic and Latent Infection
David M. Knipe, PhD
Higgins Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Chair, Harvard Virology Program
Host: Anna Cliffe, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn 1-17
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10/24/2018 – MIC co-sponsored Seminar: CCIB Guest Lecture 2018 Heather Cristofk Connections Between Signaling and Metabolism
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.
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
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11/7/2018 – 2018 Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture
2018 Betsy and Stuart Houston Lecture – Child Health Research Center
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: MEB
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11/14/2018 – MIC Seminar: Mechanisms regulating cell-to-cell spread by Listeria monocytogenes.
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
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1-17
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12/5/2018 – MIC Seminar – “Assembly, dynamics, and function of membrane domains.”
Anne K. Kenworthy, PhD
Professor
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
University of Virginia
Host: Amy Bouton, PhD
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Pinn Hall 1-17
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12/17/2018 – MIC Holiday Party
Date: Monday, December 17, 2018Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Colonnade Club, UVA
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