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 |