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Microbiology Seminar Series

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Host
1/9 Tues. 10am	Student Rotation Talks	Amy Bouton, Ph.D.
2/7	A. Wayne Orr, Ph.D. Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia *"Role of the subendothelial matrix in atherosclerosis"*	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
2/14	Eric Hunter, Ph.D. Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Emory Vaccine Center Emory University "Genetic bottlenecks versus diversity during heterosexual transmission of HIV - a role for STDs?"	Microbiology and Thaler Center - Lou Hammarskjöld, M.D., Ph.D., David Rekosh, Ph.D. J. White, Ph.D., Sue Delos, Ph.D.
2/21	Dr. Benita Katzenellenbogen Swanlund Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Estrogens and Estrogen Receptor Actions in Health and Disease"	Deborah Lannigan, Ph.D. sponsors: Department of Microbiology and Cancer Center
2/28
3/7	Bernard Moss Laboratory of Viral Diseases NIAID, NIH "Poxviruses do it their own way: New insights into entry, gene expression and assembly"	Judith White, Ph.D.
3/14	Student Rotation Talks	Amy Bouton, Ph.D.
3/21	Laura Adang, MSTP student 2007 Wagner Prize Recipent *"Intracellular KSHV load determines early loss of immune synapse components"*	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
3/28	Dr. M. García-Blanco, MD, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University "Imaging alternative splicing decisions in vivo"	Dan Engel, Ph.D., Lou Hammarskjöld, M.D., Ph.D.
4/2 Monday	Alison Criss, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Microbiology-Immunology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Faculty Candidate *"Subversion of host immune responses by Neisseria gonorrhoeae."*	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
4/4	Christopher J. Kristich, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate Research Associate Department of Microbiology University of Minnesota *"Unraveling intrinsic antimicrobial resistance in Enterococcus faecalis: a new bacterial signal transduction system"*	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
4/9 Monday	Bryce Nickels, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard University "Regulating the post-initiation activities of RNA polymerase"	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
4/11	Dr. Kanta Subbarao, MD, MPH Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIH, NIAID "Active and Passive Immunization for H5N1 Influenza Infection"	Anjeanette Roberts, Ph.D.
4/18 12:15pm, 1-17	Katherine Gibson, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biology MIT "A novel bacterial regulator of cell cycle progression and chronic host colonization"	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
4/18	David Lukac, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey / New Jersey Medical School "Hijacking of the Transcriptional Response to Notch Signaling by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus"	Dean Kedes, M.D., Ph.D.
4/23 12:00pm, 1-5	Ian Glomski, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate Postdoctoral Fellow Unite des Toxines et Pathogenie Bacterienne Pasteur Institute, Paris, France "Bacillus anthracis meets the mouse, from hello to goodbye"	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
4/25	Sasha Shafikhani, Ph.D. Faculty Candidate Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases University of California "Pseudomonas aeruginosa and host cell interactions: new insights in bacterial pathogenesis and mammalian cell biology"	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
5/2	CANCELLATION - this seminar will be postponed. Lou Hammarskjöld, M.D., Ph.D. University of Virginia Distinguished Faculty Seminar	Dan Engel, Ph.D.
5/9	Dr. Reuben Harris Assistant Professor University of Minnesota "HIV-1 and retrotransposon restriction by human APOBEC3 proteins"	Lou Hammarskjöld, M.D., Ph.D.
5/16	hold	J.Thomas Parsons, Ph.D.
5/21 MON	Dr. Ian Wilson Distinguished Lecturer Scripps Research Institute Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium	Judith White, Ph.D. Sponsors: CDB, Micro, SCBB, CMB, Carter Center, Infectious Disease Program
5/23	reserved	reserved
5/30	Steven L. Zeichner, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine George Washington University School of Medicine Senior Investigator, Division of Cancer and Immunology Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center "The Gene Expression Program of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associateed Herpresvirus (KSHV): Insights into KSHV Pathogenesis"	Dean Kedes, M.D., Ph.D.

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