UVA School of Medicine

Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology

Spring 2013 Seminars

MIC Seminars – Spring Semester 2013

Date	Seminar	Host
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 Chair of the Department of Cell Biology Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Regulation of cell survival during morphogenesis and oncogenesis	MIC Graduate Students
1/23	Peter Lewis, PhD Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics Rockefeller University “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.” Natalie Perez (Ramakrishnan/Mann Lab) “Importance of fsl and feo genes for iron acquisition in the Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) ofFrancisella tularensis“	Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
3/6	CANCELED – Dr. Hugh Rosen, MD, PhD Professor Department of Chemical Physiology Scripps Institute	Daniel Engel, PhD
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 Research Day Event: 12:00-4:30pm Keynote Speaker: 3:00-4:00pm Dr. John Mekalanos, Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School
3/20 1-14 Jordan Reception to follow	Wagner Prize Seminar Amelia E. Hufford, Ravichandran Lab “Rethinking dying cells: New cues for development”	Kodi Ravichandran, 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 disease This 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 Cancer This 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 “A day in the life of…” Alison Criss, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. Microbiology UVa Erik Hewlett PhD, Professor Dept. Infectious Diseases Uva Erin Cadwalader, PhD American Association for Women in Science Kalyani Jambunathan, PhD Stanford Research Institute 3:30 Break 3:45 Keynote Speaker Crystal Icenhour, PhD, President and Chief Science Officer for Phthisis Diagnostics, a biotechnology company located in Charlottesville, VA Cathee Philips, NPA 4:15 Concluding remarks 4:30 Poster Session Posters presented by UVa Postdocs Best poster and presentation awards Table for the UVa Postdoc Association Information Registration T-Shirts Tables for the Biotech Companies and partners Advertisement Job opportunities Networking 5:30 Awards for best poster and presentation