Spring 2012 Seminars

MIC Seminars – Spring Semester 2012

Date	Seminar	Host
Monday 12/19/2011 10am, 1-17	Elizabeth Yeh, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania “The Role of the AMPK-related Kinase Hunk in Breast Cancer and Cell Survival in the Mammary Gland” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Wednesday 1/04/2012 2:45-5:00PM	1st Year MII Graduate Student Summer Rotation Presentations	AJ Roberts. PhD
Wednesday 1/11/2012	Neal M. Alto, PhD Assistant Professor of Microbiology UT-Southwestern Medical Center “Probing the mechanisms of cell polarity and membrane trafficking using bacterial effector molecules”	Alison Criss, PhD
Thursday 1/12/2012 10am, 1-17	Richard James, PhD Senior Fellow HHMI and Dept. of Pharmacology University of Washington School of Medicine “Integrative screening reveals novel regulators of Wnt signaling” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Wednesday 1/18/2012	Greg Barton, PhD Assistant Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley “Regulation and function of Toll-like receptors”	MIC Graduate Student Seminar Committee
Monday 1/23/2012 10am, 1-14	Kwon-Sik Park, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow; Stanford University, Stanford, CA “Role of Developmental Signaling Pathways in Lung Cancer” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Thursday 1/26/2012 10am, 1-17	Jill K. Slack-Davis, PhD Assistant Professor of Research; University of Virginia Health System “VCAM-1 and the ovarian cancer metastatic microenvironment” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Tuesday 1/31/2012 10am, 1-17	Cheuk Leung, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Monday 2/6/2012 10am, 1-14	Thomas Clarke, PhD Post Doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania “The dynamic interaction between innate immunity and the mucosal barrier” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Thursday 2/9/2012 10am, 1-17	David F. Kashatus, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Duke University Medical Center “RalA-mediated regulation of mitochondrial fission: implications for tumorigenesis” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Ian Macara, PhD
Thursday 2/16/2012 10am, 1-17	Stavroula Mili, PhD Research Associate University of Virginia Health System “Localized RNAs in Cell Signaling and Disease” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
Tuesday 2/28/2012 10am, 1-17	Julie M. Blander, PhD Associate Professor Medicine, Clinical Immunology Mount Sinai Medical Center “Mechanisms involved in discrimination between live and dead microbes”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
Wednesday 3/14/2012	Michael McHeyzer-Williams Professor Immunology and Microbial Science The Scripps Research Institute “Programming B cell Memory”	MIC Graduate Student Seminar Committee
Thursday 3/15/2012 10am, 1-17	Maria Labandeira-Rey, PhD Instructor Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Center “Control of Virulence by a Stress Response Regulatory System: An Emerging Theme in Bacterial Pathogenesis” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Monday 3/19/2012 10am, 1-14	Karla Satchell, PhD Associate Professor Northwestern University “MARTX toxins of Vibrios” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Monday 3/26/2012 10am, 1-14	Shaun Brinsmade, PhD Post Doctoral Associate Tufts University “Regulation of a Major Metabolic Intersection in Bacillus subtilis” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Thursday 3/29/2012 10am, 1-17	Melissa M. Kendall, Ph.D. Dept. of Microbiology/ Dept. of Biochemistry University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas “Inter-kingdom signaling and metabolism in E. coli O157:H7 pathogenesis” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Wednesday 4/11/2012	Stephen Miller, PhD Professor of Microbiology-Immunology Northwestern University “Exploiting Apoptosis for the Induction of Tolerance for Treatment of Immune-Mediated Diseases”	Young Hahn, PhD
Thursday 4/12/2012 10am, 1-17	Hui Zong, PhD Assistant professor Institute of Molecular Biology University of Oregon “Understanding tumor cell maneuvers in brain cancers with MADM, a genetic mosaic system” Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD David Schiff, MD
Monday 4/16/2012 9:15am, 1-14	Zhao-Qing Luo, PhD Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University “Making a living in a hostile environment: Strategies by Legionella pneumophila” Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search	Joanna Goldberg, PhD
Wednesday 4/18/2012 4:00PM, 1-17	Catherine Luke, PhD Staff Scientist (Core) Laboratory of Infectious Diseases National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “Development of Live Attenuated Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza”	Anjeanette Roberts, PhD
Wednesday 4/25/2012 4:00PM, 1-17	Donald B. DeFranco, PhD Professor & Vice Chair of Education Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases “Impact of Prostate Stromal and Cancer Cell Communication in Vitamin D and Estrogen Metabolism and Signaling”	Dan Gioeli, PhD
Thursday 4/26/2012 1:00PM Jordan Hall Conference Center	2012 Anderson Symposium “Plasticity across systems: What’s the the cutting edge?”	Beirne B. Carter Center
Wednesday 5/2/2012 4:00PM, 1-17	Kerry L. Burnstein, PhD Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Director, Sheila & David Fuente Graduate Program in Cancer Biology University of Miami Miller School of Medicine “The Rho GTPase Exchange Factor, Vav3, is a Versatile Modulator of Androgen Receptor Activity in Prostate Cancer”	Dan Gioeli, PhD
Thursday 5/3/2012 4:00PM Jordan Hall Conference Center	Prof. Dr. Ari Helenius Institut for Biochemistry, Zuerich, Switzerland “Cell biology of virus entry and uncoating” Special Seminar: Distinguished Lecture co-sponsored by Cell, Micro, and Biophys
Wednesday 5/9/2012 4:00 PM Jordan Hall Conference Center Reception to follow	2012 Wagner Prize Seminar George Liechti, Goldberg Lab Recipient of the 2012 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology “Targeting Purine Biosynthesis in the Carcinogenic Bacterium Helicobacter pylori”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
5/10/2012 10:00 am – 4:15pm McKim Hall Auditorium	CBTG Retreat: The Vanguard of Cancer’s Defenses Stuart Schreiber (Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard) “A catalog of candidate cancer dependencies targeted by small molecules” Sandra McAllister (Harvard) “The Systemic Macroenvironment: Promoter of Malignancy and Target for Therapy” Markus Müschen (UCSF) “Oncogenes and negative feedback signaling in leukemia” Marcia Haigis (Harvard) “Sirtuins: Linking obesity and tumor metabolism”	Deb Lannigan, PhD, Jill Slack-Davis, PhD
6/6/2012	Carla V. Rothlin, PhD Assistant Professor of Immunobiology Yale University “TAMing Inflammation”	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD