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MICaB Seminar Series - Spring Semester 2010

Noon, Monday
2-620 Moos Tower

Jointly Sponsored by:
Department of Microbiology and the Center for Immunology

DATE

SEMINAR TITLE

SPEAKER
January 25
- CANCELLED -


"Strategies of Lentivirus Persistence"
Host: Lou Mansky (612-626-5525)
Susan Carpenter, Ph.D.
Department of Animal Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
February 1
“Engineering human immune responses via stem cells”
Host: Dan Kaufman (612-624-0922)
Jerome Zack, Ph.D.
Center for AIDS Research
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
February 8
No seminar



February 15
“Modulating dendritic cell-T cell interactions to promote pathogen immunity and reduce autoimmunity”
Host: Stephen McSorley (612-626-9905)
Alexis Kalergis,
Departamento de Genetica Molecular y Microbiologia
Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
February 22
"Novel insights into the recognition of incoming pathogens"
Host: Steve Rice (612-626-4183)
Karen Mossman, Ph.D.
Pathology and Molecular Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
March 1
“Regulation of T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection"
Host: David Masopust (612-625-4666, 612-625-5869)
E. John Wherry, Ph.D.
Immunology Program
The Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, PA
March 8
"Tales from the crypts:discovering the basis of the vibrio-squid symbiosis"
Host: Martin Dworkin (612-624-5634))
Edward G. Ruby, Ph.D.
School of Medicine and Public Health
Medical Microbiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
March 15
No seminar - Spring Break

March 22
"Targeting Proteasomal and Autophagosomal Pathways for the Treatment of Solid Tumors"
Faculty Advocate: Carol Lange
MICaB graduate faculty candidate
Martina Bazzaro, Ph.D.
OB/GYN Department
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

March 29
“The innate recognition of fungal pathogens and susceptibility to disease”
Host: Dan Kaplan (612-626-9400)
Gordon Brown, Ph.D.
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
April 5
“Heterogeneity of epithelial cells expressing tissue-restricted antigens in the thymus”
Host: Bruce Blazar (612-626-2734)
Andrew Farr, Ph.D.
Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
April 12


"Microbial Perchlorate Reduction -
from Evolution to Application"
Host: Misha Mehta (612-624-8524)
- STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER -
John D. Coates, Ph.D.
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California
Berkeley, CA

April 19
“Deciphering the role of TLR/IL-1R signaling in innate and adaptive immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
Host: Amanda Griffin (612-626-9959)
- STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER -
Alan Sher, Ph.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Bethesda, MD
April 26
“Interrogation of the lifecycle of pneumocystis spp. using echinocandins
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612-625-4979)
Melanie Cushion, Ph.D.
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
May 3
“Secrets and lyase: S1P distribution control”
Host: Kris Hogquist (612-625-1616)
Susan Schwab, Ph.D., M.A.
Department of Pathologyy
Skirball Institute Program of Molecular Pathogenesis
New York University
New York, NY
May 10
“Genome evolution in fungi"
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612-625-4979)
Gerald R. Fink, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute
Masschusetts Insitute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

 

 

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