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 “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 | 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 Pinn 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 Pinn Hall Conference Center Reception to follow | 2012 Wagner Prize Seminar George Liechti, Goldberg Lab “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 Sandra McAllister (Harvard) Markus Müschen (UCSF) Marcia Haigis (Harvard) | 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 |