Spring 2014 Seminars
MIC Seminars – Spring Semester 2014
| January 6 JH 1-17 10AM | Gretchen Diehl, PhD – CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Post-Doc NYU School of Medicine Immunology Faculty Candidate Seminar Integration of microbiota-derived signals to regulate intestinal immunity and homeostasis | Timothy P. Bender, PhD |
| January 8 JH 1-14 10AM | Carla Rothlin, PhD Assistant Professor Yale School of Medicine Immunology Faculty Candidate Seminar Immunobiology of TAM Signaling | Timothy P. Bender, PhD |
| January 27 JH 1-17 10AM | Joshua Obar, PhD Assistant Professor Montana State University Immunology Faculty Candidate Seminar Pulmonary Immunity & Immunopathology during Influenza Virus Infection | Timothy P. Bender, PhD |
| January 29 | Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Chringma Sherpa (Rekosh/Hammarskjold Lab) “Relation between the secondary structures and function of HIV-1 Rev Response Element”Jungeun Kim (Abounader Lab)“microRNA-148a is a prognostic oncomiR that targets MIG6 and BIM to regulate EGFR and apoptosis in glioblastoma” | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| February 10 | Dr. Gretchen Diehl Post-Doc NYU School of Medicine Integration of microbiota-derived signals to regulate intestinal immunity and homeostasis | Timothy P. Bender, PhD |
| February 12 | Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Laura Gonyar (Kendall Lab) Should I stay or should I go: host-derived molecules as signals for adhesion in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7Melissa Anderson (Kedes Lab) Maturation of a gammaherpesvirus: How a 15 kDa tegument protein makes all the difference | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| February 19 | Dr. Yuan Zhu Washington Children’s National Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Cell-of-origin and Clonal Evolution in a Mouse Model of Primary Glioblastoma | Hui Zong, PhD |
| February 26 | Yisong Wan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Sensing and Sensibility” – The regulation and function of T cells | Young Hahn, PhD |
| March 5 | Zegbeh Kpadeh (Hoffman Lab)“Oxidoreductase DsbA2 in Legionella pneumophila is a Bifunctional Enzyme”Ali Radjavi (Kipnis Lab) “An immunoprotective function of itch sensation” | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| March 12 | Spring Break for Students | |
| March 19 JH 1-14 | Wagner Prize 2014 Award Seminar Brittany Johnson Criss Lab Recipient of the 2014 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology “Neisseria gonorrhoeae phagosome maturation and survival inside primary human neutrophils”Reception after the seminar | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| March 26 | Louis M. Weiner, MD Assoc. VP at Georgetown Univ Medical Center and Clinical Director of Cancer Services at Georgetown Univ Hospital Antibody-targeted Cancer Immunotherapy | Jay Fox, PhD |
| April 2 | Monthly Graduate Student Seminar Emily Billings Reacting to bacteria—BAI1 drives cellular immune responses and microbicidal activity in response to Gram-negative bacteria.Aaron Fond | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| April 11 8:30AM – 5:30PM | MIC Departmental Retreat will be held on Friday, April 11, 2014 – All day event any questions or specific comments, please contact Dave Kashatus | Kodi Ravichandran, PhD |
| April 16 | David Russell, PhD William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine The host/pathogen interplay in tuberculosis and HIV/TB co-infection | Alison Criss, PhD |
| April 23 | Andreas J. Bäumler, PhD Professor and Vice Chair of Research University of California, Davis How the host response feeds Salmonella | Melissa Kendall, PhD |
| April 30 | open | |
| Please note: May 5-6 | “Non-coding RNAs, Genome Function, and Human Disease” Annual Spring Symposium hosted by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | BMG Symposium |
| May 7 | Craig J. Thomas, Ph.D. Chemical Biology Laboratory Adjunct Investigator Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute Utilizing Data Association Profiles to Drive Translational Discoveries | Hui Zong, PhD |
| May 14 | Daniel R. Perez, BSc, PhD Professor University of Maryland Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine Malleable Influenza Viruses | Peter Kasson, MD, PhD Judith White, PhD |
| May 21 | Paul Kubes, PhD Professor, Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology, Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases Director, Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Immunology and Gastrointestinal Research Groups AHFMR Scientist and CRC Chair University of Calgary Imaging Immunity in Infectious and Sterile Inflammation | MIC Students Seminar Committee |
| May 28 | Dianne Cox, PhD Professor Dept. of Anatomy and Structural Biology Dept. of Developmental and Molecular Biology Co-Director of the BETTR program Albert Einstein College of Medicine Understanding Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein – or how can one protein be involved in so many functions | Amy H. Bouton, PhD |