Previous Seminars
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SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE |
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Date |
Speaker |
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Program |
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Jan. 14 |
Brian Wilson, M.D. |
“iNKT Cells – Standing Guard at the Treg/Th17 Crossroads” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Jan. 21 |
Ann Haberman, Ph.D. |
“Definition of Migration Patterns by Intravital Two Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy: Germinal Center B Lymphocytes in the Spotlight” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Jan. 28 |
Rescheduled to April 8 |
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Monday, |
Facundo Batista, Ph.D. |
“Early Events in B Cell Activation and Initiation of Immuno Response” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Feb. 4 |
No Seminar |
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Feb. 9 |
Lisa Johansen, Ph.D. |
“A Multi-Target Approach Probing Host-Virus Interactions” |
NEIDL / Microbiology |
Mark Klempner |
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Feb. 11 |
Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D. |
”New Tools for the Immunologist: Protein Surgery and Cloned Mice” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Feb 16 |
No Seminar |
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Feb. 18 |
No Seminar |
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Friday, |
The Annual Gijs van Seventer Lecture in Immunology Kevin Marsh, Ph.D. “How Do Humans Become Immune to Malaria?” |
Immunology |
Jean Van Seventer |
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Feb. 23 |
Carlos de Noronha, Sc.D. |
“The HIV1 Protein Vpr as a Mediator of Protein Degredation” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Rahm Gummuluru |
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Feb. 25 |
No Seminar |
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Mar. 2 |
No Seminar |
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Mar. 4 |
STUDENT DEBATE |
“Treatment Options for Deadly Peanut Allergies: If you Think the Salmonella Outbreak is the Worst Peanuts Have to Offer, Think Again” |
Immunology |
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Friday, |
Special Seminar in Pathology / Microbiology / Immunology |
“Microparticles in Immunopathology from Infectious Diseases to Cancer” |
Pathology/ Immunology/ Microbiology |
Daniel Remick |
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Mar. 9 |
Michael Whitt, Ph.D. |
”Analysis of VSV Entry, Uncoating and Assembly Using Recombinant Viruses” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
John Connor |
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Mar. 11 |
No Seminar |
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Mar. 16 |
Patrick Skelly, Ph.D. |
”Functional Characterization of the Schistosome Tegument” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Lisa Ganley-Leal |
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Mar. 18 |
Laurent Brossay, Ph.D. |
“Mechanisms of NK T Cell Activation in Response to Glycolipids or Viral Infection” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Thursday, |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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Friday, Mar. 20 |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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Mar. 23 |
STUDENT DEBATE |
“Avian Influenza: Threat to Humanity?” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
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Mar. 24 |
Harmit Malik, Ph.D. |
“Molecular Arms-Races in the Evolution of Antiviral Genes in Primate Genomes” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Rahm Gummuluru |
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Friday, Mar. 27 |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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Mar. 30 |
Gary Guy Bushkin |
“Evidence for Darwinian Selection Against N-GLycosylation in Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
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Apr. 1 |
Nanomedicine Seminar |
“Biosensing: Label-free Microarrays for Genomics and Proteomics” |
Nanomedicine |
Caroline Genco |
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Thurs., Apr. 2 |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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Apr. 6 |
Dennis Kasper, M.D. |
“Microbial Flora in Health and Disease” |
Microbiology |
Caroline Genco |
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Apr. 8 |
Kathryn Moore, Ph.D. |
“CD36 Ligands Trigger Sterile Inflammation via a Novel Toll-like Receptor Heterodimer” |
Immunology |
Caroline Genco |
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Apr. 13 |
Lewis Wray, Ph.D. |
“How Does Glutamine Feedback Inhibit its Biosynthetic Enzyme? |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
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Apr. 15 |
Erin Trail |
“Characterization of S2, an Attenuated Mutant of VSV, Reveals Two Genetically Separable Phenotyes” |
Immunology |
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Apr. 20 |
No Seminar |
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Apr. 22 |
No Seminar |
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Apr. 27 |
Welkin Johnson, Ph.D. |
“Host Genetic Variation and Susceptibility to Lentiviruses” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Rahm Gummuluru |
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Apr. 29 |
Hyam Levitsky, M.D. |
“Dissecting the Host Immune Response to Cancer” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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Friday, May 1 |
Peter Walsh, Ph.D. |
“Viral Drivers of African Ape |
Microbiology / |
Elke Muehlberger |
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May 4 |
Jianming Hu, M.D., Ph.D. |
“The Making of a Retroid Virus” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Rahm Gummuluru |
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May 6 |
Michelle Keliher, Ph.D. |
“TNF and TLR Signaling” |
Immunology |
Caroline Genco |
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May 11 |
Christopher Basler, Ph.D. |
“How Filoviruses Evade Host Interferon Responses” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Elke Muehlberger |
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May 13 |
Clare Baecher-Allen, Ph.D. |
“Functional comparisons of distinct subsets of human regulatory T cells” |
Immunology |
Daniel Green |
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Friday, May 15 |
STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER |
“Retrovirus Evolution” |
Microbiology / |
Timothy Hanley |
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May 18 |
No Seminar |
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May 20 |
No Seminar |
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May 25 |
No Seminar |
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May 27 |
John Harley, M.D., Ph.D. |
“The Preposterous Idea That the Epstein-Barr Virus Causes Lupus” |
Immunology |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
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June 1 |
Daniele Cary |
”The Role of RON Receptor |
Microbiology / |
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Tuesday, |
FACULTY CANDIDATE |
“Cellular Heterogeneity and Cooperativity Shape Decision-Making in the Immune System” |
Microbiology / Immunology |
Ronald Corley |
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Wed., June 24 |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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