Spring 2005

Date Speaker, Affiliation, Title Host, Location
1/12 Erik Skaar, FAC Candidate
The Theft of a Precious Metal: Iron Acquisition in Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis 		Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
1/19 No Seminar Scheduled
1/26 David Mangus, FAC Candidate Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
2/2 George O'Toole, PhD., Dartmouth
Biofilm formation by Pseudomonas 		Dr. Dean Kedes
2/9 Roger Vogelmann, FAC Candidate Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
2/16
2/23 Loren Erickson, FAC Candidate Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
3/2 Fei Wang, FAC Candidate Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
3/9 Antonio DiGiandomenico
3rd Robert R. Wagner Prize Recipient
"Protection from distinct Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: A novel polysaccharide-vaccine approach"		 Dr. J. Thomas Parsons
3/16 Student Research Rotation Symposium
Note different times:  3:00pm - 6:00pm 		Dr. Kodi Ravichandran
3/23
3/30
4/6 Duane Compton, PhD, Dartmouth Medical College
Mechanisms of Chromosome Movement in Human Cells 		Dr. Ian Macara
4/20 Bruce Hamilton, PhD., UCSD School of Medicine
Natural genetic variation in nuclear export factor Nxf1 suppresses retrovirus insertional and alters pre-mRNA processing 		Dr. Lou Hammarskjold
4/27 Jonathan Warner, PhD., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Central Role of Ribosome Biosynthesis 		Dr. Ann Beyer
5/4 David Spector, Penn State College of Medicine
Establishment of Early Adenovirus Gene Transcription 		Dr. Dan Engel
5/11 Student Research Rotation Symposium Dr. Kodi Ravichandran
5/18 Richard K. Assoian, Ph.D. Signal Transduction to the Cell Cycle Dr. Dan Engel
5/25 James Kaper, PhD, University of Maryland School of Med.
Regulation of Virulence Factors in Enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 by Quorum Sensing 		Dr. Tom Obrig
6/1 Ira Mellman, PhD, Yale University
Cell biology of antigen presentation by dendritic cells
(Distinguished Lecture sponsored by the Departments of Cell Biology and Microbiology and the Programs in Cell and Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases)
 Dr Judith White