Spring 2010 Seminars

Microbiology Seminars Spring 2010

Date	Seminar	Host
2/10/2010	Roger Sciammas, PhD – cancelled due to winter storms Assistant Professor Department of Surgery University of Chicago “Dynamic control of alternate B cell effector fates by the Irf4 transcription factor“	Joanne Lannigan Director, Flow Cytometry Core Facility
3/3/2010	Mark S. Wilson, PhD Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institutes of Health “Regulation of Inflammation and Immunopatholgy during Helminth Infections, Colitis and Airway Allergy”	AJ Roberts, PhD
3/10/2010	Derek Dube, White Lab Recipient of the 2010 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology “Ebolavirus Entry: Cell-adhesion dependent control of viral tropism”	J. Thomas Parsons, PhD
3/17/2010 12:15PM Jordan 1-14	Jeremy Thorner, PhD William V. Power Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology UC Berkley “A novel protein kinase cascade that regulates plasma membrane lipid homeostasis by multiple mechanisms” co-sponsored by departements of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Cell Signaling Center	David Brautigan, PhD
3/24/2010	Matthew B. Frieman, PhD Assistant Professor Microbiology and Immunology University of Marylan, School of Medicine “Virus and Host Determinants of SARS Coronavirus Pathogenesis”	Dan Engel, PhD
3/31/2010	Robert Ramsey, PhD Associate Professor NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Group Leader Differentiation and Transcription Laboratory Trescowthick Research Laboratories Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Australia “Pathways that regulate stem and progenitor cells in epithelial tissues”	Tim Bender, PhD
4/7/2010	Dana Philpott, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Immunology University of Toronto “Nod proteins in immunity and infection“	Ian Glomski, PhD
4/14/2010	John K. Rose Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology Director, Molecular Virology Program Department of Pathology Yale University School of MedicineGlobal Health Seminar “New Approaches to Vaccines for HIV and Other Plagues”	AJ Roberts, PhD
4/21/2010	Jason Cyster, PhD Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco “Cell migration and the humoral immune response”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
4/28/2010	Roger Sciammas, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Surgery University of Chicago “Dynamic control of alternate B cell effector fates by the Irf4 transcription factor”	Joanne Lannigan, Director Flow Cytometry Core Facility
4/29/2010	Kodi S. Ravichandran, Ph.D. Professor Department of Microbiology University of Virginia”Engulfment of apoptotic cells: Signals for a good meal”	Alan F. Horwitz, PhD
5/4/2010	Margaret Carol Kielian, Ph.D Professor Department of Cell Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine “Virus-Membrane Fusion: Mechanisms and Inhibition of the Alphavirus and Flavivirus Fusion Proteins”	Alan F. Horwitz, PhD
5/12/2010	Brad T. Cookson, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology Head, Clinical Microbiology Division University of Washington ” Pyroptosis: coordinated host inflammatory response“	student seminar committee
5/17-18/2010	BMG Symposium “Mechanisms of Genome Stability” Jordan Hall Conference Center	Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Dept. of Microbiology, UVA Cancer Center
5/20/2010	Bryan Richard Cullen, Ph.D. James B. Duke Professor Director, Center for Virology Duke University”Viruses, microRNAs and RNA interference”	Alan F. Horwitz, PhD
5/25/2010	Jonathan Chernoff, MD, Ph.D. Professor, VP Deputy Scientific Director Stanley P. Reimann Chair in Oncology Research Fox Chase Cancer Center“PAK1: a portrait of the kinase in cancer and inflammation”	Alan F. Horwitz, PhD
5/26/2010	Roselyn J. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology University of Pennsylvania “Herpes simplex virus entry: a story of four proteins”	Judith White, PhD
6/2/2010	Allan Zajac, PhD Associate Professor Department of Microbiology University of Alabama “T Cell Exhaustion: Causes and Consequences”	Young Hahn, PhD
6/30/2010	Wayne McCormack, PhD Associate Dean for Graduate Education Associate Professor Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine “Using Team-Based Learning (TBL) to Teach Immunology to Biomedical Science Graduate Students“	Christopher Burns, PhD