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 | 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 |