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MICaB Seminar Series


12:00 Noon on Monday
2-620 Moos Tower

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


Fall Semester 2008


DATE
SEMINAR TITLE
SPEAKER

September 8

“Apoptosis as an anti-viral response ”
Host: Louis Mansky (612 626-5525)

Rollie J. Clem, Ph.D.
Division of Biology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
September 15 “Programmed death ligand-1 regulates peripheral T cell tolerance and autoimmune diabetes”
Faculty Advocate: Dan Mueller
MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate



Brian Fife, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

September 22

“Recombineering: in vivo genetic engineering by
homologous recombination”
Host: Pat Cleary (612-624-3932)

Donald Court, Ph.D.
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Lab, National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD

September 29

“Seeing double: a different view of TCR/CD3 stoichiometry”
Host: Steve Jameson (612-625-1496)

Adam Schrum, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology, Cancer Center
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

October 6

“Crossing the fungal cell wall to build really (really!) large structures”
Host: Judy Berman (612-625-1971)

Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

October 13

“The immunobiology of cytomegalovirus”
Host: Steve Jameson (612-625-1496)

Ann Hill, Ph.D
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR

October 20

“Immunotherapy of breast cancer using a live recombinant bacterial vector”
Host: Ron Jemmerson (612-625-1402)

Yvonne Paterson, Ph.D
School of Medicine
Univeristy of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

October 27 'How to give an effective seminar"
Host: Alex Khoruts (612-624-2101)
Chris Carlson, L.D.
Guthrie Theatre
Minneapolis, MN

November 3


“Phase-specific genes and intracellular survival strategies of Histoplasma capsulatum”
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612-625-4979)

William Goldman, Ph.D.
Division of Molecular Microbiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
November 10 “T cell responses to chronic antigen”
Host: Marc Jenkins (612-626-2715)

Vaiva Vezys, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

November 17

“NK cells in human health and disease”
Host: Xianzheng Zhou (612-625-4193)

Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

November 24

TBD


December 1

“Transcriptional networks controlling azole drug resistance in Candida albicans
Host: Pete Magee (612-624-7280)

Martine Raymond, Ph.D.
Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC),
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
December 8
“Genetic control of immune tolerance by the autoimmune regulator”
Host: Brian Fife (612-624-2417)

Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Diabetes Center
University of California
San Francisco, CA

To schedule time with a speaker, please contact his or her host.