Microbiology Seminars

Wednesdays, 4:00 PM
Jordan Hall Room 1-17
(unless otherwise noted)  
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Archive:  Previous Seminars

 Seminars Spring 2008
 Date  Speaker  Host
 1/9

Diane Griffin, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor
Alfred and Jill Sommer Professor and Chair in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology


"Virus Clearance and Protective Immunity"

  Mike Brown, Ph.D.

 1/15
Tuesday

4pm 

"Special Tuesday Seminar" 

Dr. Urs Greber
University of Zurich Institute of Zoology
"Adenovirus trafficking"

joint seminar:  Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

 Dan Engel, Ph.D.
 1/23

Dr. George Grills
Director of Operations of Core Facilities
Director of Advanced Technology Assessment
Cornell University

"Implementing New Sequencing Technologies"

co-sponsored by Microbiology and the Office for Research Core Administration

Jay Fox, Ph.D.
 1/30    

 2/6

2pm Jordan Hall Conference Center 

Joan Brugge Ph.D.
Harvard
Distinguished Lecturer

“Morphogenesis and Oncogenesis of Breast Epithelial Cells"

sponsored by the Department of Cell Biology 

Ian Macara, Ph.D.
 2/6
 
 2/13    
 2/20

Nagaraj Balasubramanian, PhD
Cardiovascular Research Center
University of Virginia
Candidate for appointment as Assistant Professor of Research

"Adhesion Dependent Membrane Raft Trafficking - New Roles for a Novel Pathway"

 J. Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.

 2/27
 12:15pm
 Jordan 1-14

 Dr. Harold P. Erickson
 Duke University Medical Center
 Department of Cell Biology 

"Bacterial cytokinesis - reconstitution of a contractile  FtsZ ring in liposomes"

 co-sponsored by Cell Biology and Microbiology 

 Rick Horwitz, Ph.D.

3/5

Jordan 1-14

Wagner Prize Seminar
Michelle L. Demory

"Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Localization at the Mitochondria:  Regulation and Effect" 

Reception to follow 

 J. Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.

 3/12

3-5pm 

MII Student Research Rotation Presentation  Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.

 3/19

Jordan 1005 

Dr. Neal Nathanson
Associate Dean
Global Health Programs
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

"Polio Eradication - A Global Case Study"

Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
 3/26 Ethel Cesarman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

"Survival signals in herpesviral oncogenesis"
Dean Kedes, M.D. Ph.D.
 4/2    
 4/9    
 4/16

David M. Lukac, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UMDNJ/NJ Medical School
Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

"Hijacking of the Transcriptional Response to Notch Signaling by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus"

Dean Kedes, M.D. Ph.D.
 4/23

Diane M. Robins, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics
University of Michigan Medical School

"Androgen Receptor Variation and Prostate Cancer in Humanized AR Mice" 

Deborah Lannigan, Ph.D.
 4/30

James A. DeCaprio, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

"Rb has a DREAM: How the Retinoblastoma Proteins Control the Cell Cycle"

Daniel Engel, Ph.D.
5/5 AND
5/6

Genomic and Epigenomic Variations in Disease

2-day Symposium 

co-sponsored by Microbiology

Michael Wigler (Cold Spring Harbor) – Genome variations and human disease 

Carlo Croce (Ohio State University) – MicroRNA signatures in human cancers 

Marisa Bartolomei (University of Pennsylvania) – Genomic imprinting 

Tom Gingeras (Affymetrix) – The transcriptome 

John Todd (Cambridge University) – Type 1 diabetes genetics and mechanisms 

Shelly Berger (Wistar Institute) – Epigenetic control of gene > expression in cancer 

Brad Bernstein (Harvard University) – Epigenetic features of stem cells 

Elaine Ostrander (NIH) – The dog genome and relevance to cancer genetics 

Michael Snyder (Yale University) – Characterization of the human genome 

 
 5/7    
 5/14

Lucas Hoffman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Pulmonary Division
University of Washington, Seattle

"Bacterial adaptation during chronic infections: Lessons from cystic fibrosis"

 

Judith White, Joanna Goldberg, Dean Kedes
 5/21

Lizbeth Hedstrom, Ph.D.
Markey Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry
Brandeis University

"Targeting a prokaryotic protein in a eukaryotic pathogen:  identification of lead compounds against Cryptosporidiosis" 

Joanna Goldberg, Ph.D.
 5/28
 Robert Scott Kiss, PhD
McGill University		 Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
  6/4    

Seminars Fall 2008
 9/3
    
 9/10
    
 9/17
    
 9/22
 time: TBA
 Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium

Second Annual Robert J. Kadner Distinguished Lecture in Microbiology
John Roth, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
College of Biological Sciences
UC Davis



 J. Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
 9/24
 Raphael H. Valdivia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
 Ian J. Glomski, Ph.D.
 10/1    
 10/8

Ellen Robey, Ph.D.
Prof. of Immunology
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

 Kodi Ravichandran, Ph.D.
 10/15 Laurel L. Lenz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Integrated Department of Immunology
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
 Ian J. Glomski, Ph.D.
 10/22    
 10/29 Michael P. Rout, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
 Lucy Pemberton, Ph.D.
 11/5    
 11/12    
 11/19    
 11/26    
 12/3    
 12/10    
 12/17    
     
 3/4/2009

Andrew Pekosz, PhD
Associate Professor
W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health

"A Role for the Influenza A Virus M2 Protein in Virus Assembly" 

 Judith White, PhD