Spring 2008 Seminars

Microbiology Seminars Spring 2008
Date	Speaker	Host
1/9	Diane Griffin, M.D. Ph.D. Professor Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology “Virus Clearance and Protective Immunity”	Mike Brown, Ph.D.
1/15 Tuesday 4pm	“Special Tuesday Seminar” Dr. Urs Greber University of Zurich Institute of Zoology “Adenovirus trafficking” joint seminar: Microbiology and Infectious Diseases	Dan Engel, Ph.D.
1/23	Dr. George Grills Director of Operations of Core Facilities Director of Advanced Technology Assessment Cornell University “Implementing New Sequencing Technologies” co-sponsored by Microbiology and the Office for Research Core Administration	Jay Fox, Ph.D.
2/6 2pm Jordan Hall Conference Center	Joan Brugge Ph.D. Harvard Distinguished Lecturer “Morphogenesis and Oncogenesis of Breast Epithelial Cells” sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology	Ian Macara, Ph.D.
2/20	Nagaraj Balasubramanian, PhD Cardiovascular Research Center University of Virginia Candidate for appointment as Assistant Professor of Research “Adhesion Dependent Membrane Raft Trafficking – New Roles for a Novel Pathway”	J. Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
2/27 12:15pm Jordan 1-14	Dr. Harold P. Erickson Duke University Medical Center Department of Cell Biology “Bacterial cytokinesis – reconstitution of a contractile FtsZ ring in liposomes” co-sponsored by Cell Biology and Microbiology	Rick Horwitz, Ph.D.
3/5 Jordan 1-14	Wagner Prize Seminar Michelle L. Demory “Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Localization at the Mitochondria: Regulation and Effect” Reception to follow	J. Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
3/12 3-5pm	MII Student Research Rotation Presentation	Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
3/19 Jordan 1005	Dr. Neal Nathanson Associate Dean Global Health Programs University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “Polio Eradication – A Global Case Study”	Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
3/26	Ethel Cesarman, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College “Survival signals in herpesviral oncogenesis”	Dean Kedes, M.D. Ph.D.
4/16	David M. Lukac, Ph.D. Assistant Professor UMDNJ/NJ Medical School Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics “Hijacking of the Transcriptional Response to Notch Signaling by Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus”	Dean Kedes, M.D. Ph.D.
4/23	Diane M. Robins, Ph.D. Department of Human Genetics University of Michigan Medical School “Androgen Receptor Variation and Prostate Cancer in Humanized AR Mice”	Deborah Lannigan, Ph.D.
4/30	James A. DeCaprio, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “Rb has a DREAM: How the Retinoblastoma Proteins Control the Cell Cycle”	Daniel Engel, Ph.D.
5/5 AND 5/6	Genomic and Epigenomic Variations in Disease 2-day Symposium co-sponsored by Microbiology Michael Wigler (Cold Spring Harbor) – Genome variations and human disease Carlo Croce (Ohio State University) – MicroRNA signatures in human cancers Marisa Bartolomei (University of Pennsylvania) – Genomic imprinting Tom Gingeras (Affymetrix) – The transcriptome John Todd (Cambridge University) – Type 1 diabetes genetics and mechanisms Shelly Berger (Wistar Institute) – Epigenetic control of gene > expression in cancer Brad Bernstein (Harvard University) – Epigenetic features of stem cells Elaine Ostrander (NIH) – The dog genome and relevance to cancer genetics Michael Snyder (Yale University) – Characterization of the human genome
5/14	Lucas Hoffman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Pulmonary Division University of Washington, Seattle “*Bacterial adaptation during chronic infections: Lessons from cystic fibrosis*”	Judith White, Joanna Goldberg, Dean Kedes
5/21	Lizbeth Hedstrom, Ph.D. Markey Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Brandeis University “Targeting a prokaryotic protein in a eukaryotic pathogen: identification of lead compounds against Cryptosporidiosis”	Joanna Goldberg, Ph.D.
5/28	Robert Scott Kiss, PhD McGill University “Signaling via adapter proteins and LRP1: The long and winding road leads to cholesterol”	Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
6/18	Eric Houpt, MD Associate Professor University of Virginia “Host cell resistance to intestinal amebiasis”	J. Thomas Parsons, PhD