Fall 2006 Microbiology Seminar Series

 Date  Speaker  Host
 9/5
11am
room 7006

Hannah Tamary, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Tel Aviv Universtiy
Head of Pediatric Hematology
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

"The role of codanin-1, the protein encoded by the gene mutated in congenital dyserythropoietic anemia type I, in erythropoiesis"

Dr. Gary Kupfer
 9/12
All day event
  Kadnersymposium:   BacterioLogic
 for times and speakers please  check at the symposium's web  site
Department of Microbiology; Joanna Goldberg, Robert Nakomoto and J. Thomas Parsons, Co-organizers
 9/13  reserved  
 9/20    
 9/27

Jason Hall, Ph.D. - Faculty Candidate
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

"Characterization of Bacterial Transport Systems Involved in Dicarboxylate and Urinary Solute Metabolism"

J.T. Parsons, Ph.D.
 10/4

Vincent B. Young, M.D., Ph.D. - Faculty Candidate
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

"Gut microbial ecology: from commensals to colitis"

J.T. Parsons, Ph.D.

 10/10
Tues.
10am
JORDAN
7006

Mark Ross, Ph.D. , Associate Professor, Urology, University of Virginia
Faculty Candidate

"Adventures with Mass Spectrometry"

J.T. Parsons, Ph.D.
 10/11

Daniel Nelson, Ph.D.,M.B.A.
Research Assistant Professor
Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology
The Rockefeller University
Faculty Candidate

"Development of bacteriophage lysins as novel antimicrobial and diagnostic agents against gram-positive pathogens"

J.T. Parsons, Ph.D.
 10/18

Mike White, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

"Ras-like G-proteins: Corrupting the Exocyst in Cancer"

Martin Schwartz, Ph.D.
 10/25

Bruce E. Magun, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, Oregon Health & Science University

"Novel Roles of Fas and EGFR in Epidermal Life, Death, and Inflammation"

S. Parsons, Ph.D.
 11/1

Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor
Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Duke University Medical Center

"Sexual reproduction in the evolution of microbial pathogens"

William Petri, Ph.D.
 11/8

Anindya Dutta, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology
UVA

"MicroRNA makes muscle"

Ann Beyer, Ph.D.
 11/15

Ann Hill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Oregon Health and Science University

"Cytomegalovirus and the mammalian immune system: 70 million years of obsession and deception"

Michael Brown, Ph.D.
 11/22    
 11/29

Judith White, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia

"Virus Entry Into Cells:  Ebola Reveals a New Mechanism"
 

 Dan Engel, Ph.D.
 12/6 Hilary Beggs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Beckman Vision Research Center
University of California, San Francisco

"FAK and Pyk2 function in diverse cell types"

 Amy Bouton, Ph.D.
 12/13

Victor H. Engelhard, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
University of Virginia

"Presentation of melanocyte-derived antigens to the immune system:
determinants of self-tolerance, autoimmunity, and control of melanoma"

  Dan Engel, Ph.D.