Seminars
The Department of Microbiology and Section of Infectious Diseases holds a weekly Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense Seminar Series on Mondays at 12:00 noon in L504 unless other wise noted.
Click here for previous seminars.
| SPRING 2013 MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS & HOST DEFENSE SEMINAR SERIES | |||
| Jan 14 | Pinghua Liu, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, BU |
“Conditional Knockout by Chemically Controlled Selective Degradation of mRNA and Protein” | Ron Corley |
| Jan 21 | No Seminar | ||
| Jan 28 | C A N C E L L E D Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D. NIAID, National Institutes of Health |
“Mechanistic Spatially Resolved Modeling of Cellular Signaling Pathways” | Tom Kepler |
| Feb 4 | Student Seminars Kaitlin Sawatzki (Bossart Lab) and Gregory Wasserman (Jones Lab) |
“Evaluating the Role of T Cells in Nipah Virus Pathogenesis” and “Alternative microRNA Utilization Regulates Cytokine Expression During Acute Bacterial Infection” |
Greg Viglianti |
| Feb 11 | No Seminar Graduate Student Recruitment Day |
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| Feb 18 | No Seminar | ||
| Tuesday Feb 19 |
Brian Bird, D.V.M., M.S.P.H., Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
“Rift Valley Fever Virus: A Killer on the Move and New Ways to Stop it” | Ron Corley and Jack Murphy |
| Feb 25 | Student Seminar Suzanne Geer (Gummuluru Lab) and Emily Nelson (Muhlberger Lab) |
“Differences in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Interactions with Dendritic Cells” and “Post-transcriptional Regulation of mRNA by Ebola Virus VP30″ |
Greg Viglianti |
| Mar 4 | Jeroen Saeij, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
“Susceptibility to Infection: A Complex Interplay Between Host and Parasite Genotypes” | Igor Kramnik |
| Mar 11 | Ulla Hansen, Ph.D. Department of Biology, BU |
“Transcription Factor LSF: Achilles Heel for Hepatocellular Carcinoma?” | Greg Viglianti |
| Mar 18 | Hinh Ly, Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
“Host-Pathogen Interaction in Lassa Fever Virus Infection” | Ron Corley and Jack Murphy |
| Tuesday, Mar 19 @2:00 pm |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Laura Dickey |
“Respiratory Syncytial Virus Interactions with Host Cell RNA-Processing Structures and Proteins” | |
| Mar 25 | Student Seminar Krishna Moody (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) |
“FcgRIIB Attenuates Nucleic Acid Immune Complex Responses by Modulating Trafficking” | Greg Viglianti |
| Apr 1 | Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine |
“New Insight into Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Alphavirus Infection” | Elke Mühlberger |
| Apr 8 | J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
“Humanized Mice Models of Viral Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention” | Andy Henderson |
| Apr 15 | No Seminar | ||
| Apr 22 | Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D. University of Louisville |
“Strategies and Discoveries in Small Molecules: From Hits to Leads for Treatment of RNA Virus Infections” | John Connor |
| Apr 29 | Student Debate Michelle Fleury & Ludy Registre (Facilitator: John Connor) |
”Tregs in HIV Infection: Friend or Foe? | Greg Viglianti |
| Wednesday, May 1 @ 1:00 pm |
Volker Thiel, Ph.D. St Gallen, Switzerland |
“Coronaviruses: Large RNA Viruses with Growing Impact” | Paul Duprex |
| May 6 | Philip J. Santangelo, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University |
“Interrogating RSV Infections with Single Molecule Sensitive Probes” | Rachel Fearns |
| May 13 | *STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER* James E.K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D. University of California, Davis |
Fadie Coleman | |
| Wednesday, May 22 | Professor Theo Geijtenbeek University of Amsterdam |
“C-Type Lectin Receptors in Infection and Immunity” | Paul Duprex |
| Thursday, June 27 | DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR Ryan McClure |
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