MICaB Student Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2009
Thursday, 3-100 Mayo
Noon
SEPTEMBER 10
Adovi Akue: "Phenotypic and Functional Characteristics
of Pre-existing Antigen-specific CD8 T cells"
Advisor: Steve Jameson
Student host: Kristin Anderson
Faculty Reviewers: Peter Southern, Koho Iizuka, Khalil Ahmed
SEPTEMBER 17
Laura Case: "Biofilm growth alters the population dynamics of
sex pheromone signaling in Enterococcus faecalis resulting in a bistable
switch"
Advisor: Gary Dunny
Student host: Lucas Brand
Faculty Reviewers: Leslie Schiff, Michael Kyba, Anindya Bagchi
SEPTEMBER 24
Geoffrey Hart: "The Role of KLF2 in B cells"
Advisor: Steve Jameson
Student host: Ryan Flynn
Faculty Reviewers: Janet Schottel, Dan Mueller, Mike Farrar
OCTOBER 1
Rachel Nygaard: "Virion uncoating is a rate-limiting step in reovirus
infection of the murine respiratory tract"
Advisor: Leslie Schiff
Student host: Casey Katerndahl
Faculty Reviewers: Wade Bresnahan, Scott Dehm, Walter Low
OCTOBER 8
Christopher Johnson: "Reciprocal regulation between the prgQ and
prgX loci of pCF10, a plasmid of E. faecalis"
Advisor: Gary Dunny
Student host: Jeff Hall
Faculty Reviewers: Daniel Bond, Xianzheng Zhou, Amy Skubitz
OCTOBER 15
Amy Moran: "The role of antigen receptor affinity in lymphocyte
development"
Advisor: Kris Hogquist
Student host: Jon Linehan
Faculty Reviewers: Dana Davis, Brian Fife, Michel Sanders
OCTOBER 22
Antonio Pagan: "How CD28 shapes CD4+ T cell memory formation"
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Student host: Kristen Pauken
Faculty Reviewers: Kristin Nielsen, Emily Gillespie, Scott McIvor
OCTOBER 29
Ming Zeng: "Destruction of lymphoid tissue architecture
impairs naïve T cell homeostasis in SIV/HIV infection"
Advisor: Ashley Haase
Student host: Wade Schulz
Faculty Reviewers: Steve Rice, Reuben Harris, Jim McCarthy
NOVEMBER 5
John Albin: "Genetic Interaction Between Human APOBEC3F
and HIV-1 Vif"
Advisor: Reuben Harris
Student host: Cara Skon
Faculty Reviewers: Pam Skinner, Kris Hogquist, Tucker LeBien
NOVEMBER 12
Dare Odumade: "Immunologic responses to Primary Epstein-Barr
virus infection"
Advisor: Kris Hogquist
Student host: Adam Spaulding
Faculty Reviewers: Mike Sadowsky, Marc Jenkins, Catherine St. Hill
NOVEMBER 19 - NO SEMINAR
DECEMBER 3
Subbaya Subramanian, Ph.D., MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate,
"MicroRNA regulatory networks in sarcoma, a tumor of connective tissues"
Faculty Advocate: Jaime Modiano
DECEMBER 10 - NO SEMINAR
MICaB Invited
Speaker Seminar Series.
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