Spring 2013 Seminars
MIC Seminars – Spring Semester 2013
Date | Seminar | Host |
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1/16 | Sanjay Ram, MD Associate Professor University of Massachusetts Medical School Infectious Diseases And Immunology Complement evasion by Neisseria: implications for development of vaccines and therapeutics | Alison Criss, PhD Loren Erickson, PhD |
1/21 Monday 4:00PM MEB3110 | Joan S. Brugge, PhD Regulation of cell survival during morphogenesis and oncogenesis | MIC Graduate Students |
1/23 | Peter Lewis, PhD “Varying and Poisoning the ‘Histone Code’: a role for histone variant H3.3 in human cancers” | Dan Engel, PhD |
1/30 | Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Claudia Han (Ravichandran Lab) “Crosstalk among phagocytes during cell clearance”Brittany Johnson (Criss Lab) “Neisseria gonorrhoeae phagosomes delay fusion with primary granules to enhance bacterial survival inside human neutrophils” | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
2/27 | Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Ashley Wilson (Bouton Lab) “Breast Cancer Antiestrogen Resistance 3 (BCAR3) promotes cell motility by regulating actin cytoskeletal and adhesion remodeling in invasive breast cancer cells.” | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
3/6 | CANCELED – Dr. Hugh Rosen, MD, PhD Professor Department of Chemical Physiology Scripps Institute | |
3/13 | Spring Break for Students | |
3/18 Monday | FYI – of Interest – Annual Infectious Diseases and Biodefense Research Day Jordan Hall; Jordan Lobby, Jordan 1-5 | |
3/20 1-14 Jordan Reception to follow | Wagner Prize Seminar Amelia E. Hufford, Ravichandran Lab “Rethinking dying cells: New cues for development” | Melissa Kendall, PhD |
3/27 | Meta J. Kuehn, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry Duke University Medical Center Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis and Function | Melissa Kendall, PhD |
4/3 | Matthew K. Waldor, MD, PhD Kass Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School and HHMI The German E. coli HUS outbreak: Lessons from single-molecule real time DNA sequencing and animal models | Melissa Kendall, PhD |
4/10 | Stephen Smale, PhD Professor Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics UCLA School of Medicine Selective regulation of inflammatory gene transcription | Dan Engel, PhD |
4/17 | Ellen V. Rothenberg, PhD Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology California Institute of Technology Transcriptional regulatory network guidance of T-cell lineage commitment | Timothy P. Bender, PhD |
4/24 | George Calin, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Experimental Therapeutics Division of Cancer Medicine University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center About Noam Chomsky, DNA patterns, non-codingRNAs and cancer patients | Roger Abounader, MD, PhD |
5/3 Friday | Ben Neel, PhD, MD Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute, Senior Scientist of the Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology of the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada Research Chair Tier 1, and Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, and the William B. Castle Professor of Medicine at Harvard University Shp2 and its binding proteins in health and diseaseThis seminar is co-sponsored with the Cancer Center | Ulrike Lorenz, PhD |
5/6 Monday | Brent Berwin, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Department of Microbiology and Immunology Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine Chasing Down IL-10 Networks in Ovarian CancerThis seminar is co-sponsored with the Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research | Loren Erickson, PhD Jill Slack-Davis, PhD |
5/9 | The Inaugural UVa Postdoctoral Research Symposium – flyer Date: May 09, 2013 Time: 11:30am to 6:00pm Location: Newcomb Hall
11:30am Postdoc Lunch Presentation of the UVa-PDA Focus Group 12:00pm UVa Postdoctoral Research Session 1 (10-12 min each + 3-5 min questions) 12:00 Opening Remarks (President Sullivan and Vice President Skalak have been invited) 12:15 Talk 1 12:30 Talk 2 12:45 Talk 3 1:30 Talk 4 1:45 Talk 5 2:00 Talk 6 2:30 Panel discussion
3:30 Break 3:45 Keynote Speaker
4:15 Concluding remarks 4:30 Poster Session Posters presented by UVa Postdocs Best poster and presentation awards Table for the UVa Postdoc Association
Tables for the Biotech Companies and partners
5:30 Awards for best poster and presentation |