Previous Seminars
| FALL 2012 SEMINAR SERIES | |||
| Sept. 17 | Richard C. Condit, Ph.D. University of Florida |
“Structure and Assembly of the Poxvirus Virion” | Paul Duprex / John Connor |
| Sept 24 | No Seminar | ||
| Oct 1 | Student Seminar Chadene Tremaglio (Fearns Lab) |
“Investigating RSV Transcription: Evidence for an Alternative Initiation Event at the Viral Promoter that Generates small RNAs” | Greg Viglianti |
| Oct 8 | No Seminar – Holiday | ||
| Tuesday, Oct 9 @ 1:00 PM |
***Dissertation Defense*** |
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| Oct 15 | Bjoern Reinhard, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Boston University |
“Rationally Designed Nanoparticles as Tools in Biomedical Research and Imaging” | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Oct 22 | No Seminar | ||
| Oct 29 | Postdoctoral Fellow Seminars CANCELLED due to Hurricaine |
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| Nov 5 | Taekjip Ha, Ph.D. Professor of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
“Single Molecule Views of Antiviral Signaling” | Elke Mühlberger |
| Nov 12 | No Seminar | ||
| Nov 19 | Student Seminars Ryan McClure (Genco Lab) and Andrew Platt (Wetzler Lab) |
“Analysis and Characterization of the Global Gonococcal Transcriptome” and “Transcriptome Analysis of a Multi-Injection Vaccine Schedule Reveals a Non-Linear Response to the Adjuvant PorB” |
Greg Viglianti |
| Nov 26 | Manish Sagar, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases Boston University School of Medicine |
“Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of HIV-1 Present Early After Transmission” | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Dec 3 | Gerald Pier, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Channing Laboratory |
“A Microbial Achilles Heel: Poly-N-acetyl Glucosamine is a Ubiquitously Expressed Vaccine Target on Bcaterial, Fungal and Protozoan Pathogens” | Jay Mizgerd |
| Dec 10 | Student Seminars Fadie Coleman (Mizgerd Lab) and Kristie Hilliard (Quinton Lab) |
“Meaningful Variation in the Activation of Macrophage NF-κB Responses by Pneumococcus” and “Liver-Derived Proteins Facilitate Pulmonary Inflammatory Injury during the Acute Phase of Pneumonia” |
Greg Viglianti |
| Dec 17 | Hans Dooms, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Arthritis Center/Rheumatology Section Boston University School of Medicine |
“How to Forget bad T cell Memories while Keeping the Good Ones” | Ron Corley |
| SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SERIES | ||||
| Thursday Jan. 6 | Mehul S. Suthar, Ph.D. University of Washington |
“RIG-I Like Receptor Regulation of Viral Infection and Immunity” | Ronald Corley | |
| Tuesday, Jan. 17 | Hideki Ebihara, Ph.D. NIAID, NIH |
“Molecular Determinants of Filovirus Virulence in Small Animal Models” | Elke Mühlberger | |
| Jan. 23 | No Seminar | |||
| Jan. 30 | Student Qualifying Exam Seminars Kristie Hilliard and Emily Nelson |
“The Hepatic Acute Phase Response Regulates Pulmonary Inflammation and Injury During Pneumonia” and “Regulation of mRNA Stability by Ebola Virus VP30″ |
Gregory Viglianti | |
| Thursday Feb. 2 | Hai-Hui (Howard) Xue, M.D., Ph.D. University of Iowa |
“Back with the Wnts: Their Novel Roles in T Cell Biology | Ronald Corley | |
| Feb. 6 | Student Qualifying Exam Seminars Fadie Coleman and Suzanne Geer |
“Influence of Macrophage NF-kB Activation on the Outcome of Pneumococcal Pneumonia” and “HIV Appropriates Host Lectins to Facilitate Capture and Dissemination by DCs” |
Gregory Viglianti | |
| Feb. 13 | No Seminar | |||
| Wed., Feb. 15, in L201/203 |
Louise D’Cruz, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego |
“Transcriptional Regulation of Natural Killer T Cell Development and Homeostasis” | Ronald Corley | |
| Feb. 20 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb. 27 | No Seminar | |||
| Mar. 5 | Dorian McGavern. Ph.D. NINDS, NIHI |
“Dynamics of Immunity to Acute and Persistent Viral Infection” | Paul Duprex | |
| Mar. 12 | Matthew Jones, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“Widespread Uridylation of microRNA is Governed by Zcchc11 in vivo“ | Elke Mühlberger | |
| Wednesday, Mar. 14, in L201/203 | Janelle Ayres, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
“Friend or Foe? Host Tolerance of Pathobionts in Health and Disease” | Ronald Corley | |
| Mar. 19 | Student Seminar Ryan McClure Genco Lab and Andrew Platt Wetzler Lab |
“An In Depth Conversation Between the Human Pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the Host as Revealed by Global Transcriptome Analysis” and “Antigen Uptake and Migration by APCs is Enhanced by PorB” |
Gregory Viglianti | |
| Mar. 26 | Jonathan Towner, Ph.D CDC |
“Ecology of Ebola and Marburg Viruses” | Elke Mühlberger | |
| Apr. 2 | No Seminar | |||
| Apr. 9 | Ronald Iorio, Ph.D. UMass Medical Center |
“Diversity of Paramyxovirus Fusion Triggering Mechanisms” | Gregory Viglianti | |
| Tuesday, Apr. 10 @ 1:15 PM |
Scott Gray-Owen, Ph.D. Univeristy of Toronto |
“The Pathogenic Neisseria: Dancing with Humans | Lee Wetzler | |
| Apr. 16 | No Seminar | |||
| Apr. 23 | Christopher Aiken, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University |
“Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5alpha” | Rahm Gummuluru | |
| Apr. 30 | Student Debate Munir Mosaheb, Kaitlin Sawatzki, and Gregory Wasserman (Facilitator: Katharine Bossart) |
“Should the Controversial H5N1 Studies be Published?” | Gregory Viglianti | |
| May 7 | STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER John K. Rose, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
“New Approaches to Vaccines for Old and New Plagues” | Chadene Zack | |
| May 14 | Valentina Perissi, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“Dissecting GSPS2 Transcriptional and Non-Transcriptional Roles: A Novel Protective Strategy Against Hyper-Inflammatory Responses” | Gregory Viglianti | |
| June 20 @ 10:00 AM |
Dissertation Defense Seminar Nathaniel Green |
“TLR7 Dependent and Independent Responses of Autoreactive B Cells to Nucleic Acid Containing Immune Complexes” | Gregory Viglianti | |
| June 25 @ 1:00 PM |
Dissertation Defense Seminar Guy Bushkin |
“The Glycobiology of Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and Eimeria” | Gregory Viglianti | |
| FALL 2011 SEMINAR SERIES | |||
| Sept. 19 | Ted Ross, PhD University of Pittsburgh |
“Influenza in the Young and Aged: Infection, Vaccination and Overcoming Viral Diversity” | Stephanie Oberhaus |
| Sept. 26 | STUDENT SEMINAR Erin Hodges Connor Lab and Kristina Schmidt Mühlberger Lab |
“S2 VSV Shows a Unique Transcriptional Phenotype that Leads to Viral Attenuation” and “Location and Relocation: Filovirus Nucleocapsids, Stress and Being Green” |
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| Oct. 3 | ID Faculty Candidate Manish Sagar, MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard |
”Selection and Antibody Susceptibility During Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission” | Caroline Genco |
| Oct. 10 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Oct. 17 | STUDENT SEMINAR Nathaniel Green Marshak-Rothstein Lab and Krishna Moody Marshak-Rothstein Lab |
”It’s all About the -OH. The Difference Between RNA- and DNA-immune Complexes for Stimulating B Cells” and “FcγRIIB Engagement Modulates the Trafficking of Immune Complexes” |
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| Oct. 24 | ID Faculty Candidate Christopher Woelk, PhD University of California San Diego |
”Machine Learning Approaches to Combat Infectious Diseases” | Caroline Genco |
| Oct. 31 | Alexander Poltorak, Ph.D. Tufts University |
”Genetic Studies of Innate Immunity in Wild Mice” | Igor Kramnik |
| Nov. 7 | ID Faculty Candidate John Love, MD, PhD Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center |
”The Human Cathelicidin LL-37 Induces Group A Streptococcus Resistance to Killing by Multiple Human Cell Types” | Caroline Genco |
| Nov. 14 | STUDENT SEMINAR Daniele Cary Henderson Lab and Laura Dickey Fearns Lab |
“Intrinsic Mechanisms that Limit HIV Expression in Macrophages and T Cells” and “RSV’s Relationship with Cellular Decapping Protein 1″ |
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| Nov. 21 | STUDENT SEMINAR Guy Bushkin Samuelson Lab and Chadene Zack Fearns Lab |
“Characterization of Oocyst Wall Proteins of Toxoplasma and Eimeria” and “Evidence for an Alternate RNA Initiation Site Associated with Transcription at Nucleotide 3 of the RSV Leader Region in Wildtype Virus Infection” |
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| Nov. 28 | Brandon Xia, Ph.D. Boston University |
“Three-Dimensional View of Protein Networks Within and Between Species” | Rachel Fearns |
| Dec. 5 | Pricilla Yang, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
“Chemical Approaches to the Study of Viruses” | John Connor |
| Tuesday, Dec. 20 | Joeo H. Pedra, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside |
“Pathogen Immune Evasion at the Vector-Host Interface” | Ronald Corley |
| SPRING 2011 SEMINAR SERIES | |||
| Jan. 10 | Kathleen McDonough, Ph.D. Wadsworth Center New York State Department of Public Health |
“From White Plague to Black Death: A Wide Spectrum of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in M. tuberculosis and Y. pestis” | Caroline Genco |
| Tuesday, Jan. 18 |
Immunology Faculty Candidate Lauren Zenewicz, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
“Gut Instincts: Interleukin-22 and Mucosal Immunity” | Ronald Corley |
| Jan. 24 | Thomas Kepler, Ph.D. Duke University School of Medicine |
“B Cells, Bats, and Barcodes: Next Gen Sequence Analysis for Immunology” | Ronald Corley |
| Jan. 31 | Immunology Faculty Candidate Jacob Kohlmeier, Ph.D. Trudeau Institute |
“Generation and Recall of T Cell Memory Following Respiratory Infection” | Ronald Corley |
| Thursday, Feb. 3 @ 12:30 PM |
Immunology Faculty Candidate Artem Barski, Ph.D. NHLBI, NIH |
“Exploring the T Cell Epigenome: Poised Genes and T Cell Memory” | Ronald Corley |
| Feb. 7 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Feb. 14 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Feb. 21 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Feb. 28 | Surachi Supattapone. M.D., Ph.D., D. Phil. Dartmouth Medical School |
“Cofactors in Prion Propagation” | Rachel Fearns |
| Mar. 7 | STUDENT SEMINAR Gary Guy Bushkin (Samuelson Lab)andChadene Zack (Fearns Lab) |
“Identification of Beta-Glucan in the Oocyst Walls of Toxoplasma and Eimeria”and”Investigating a New Model of Transcription Initiation in Respiratory Syncytial Virus” | |
| Mar. 14 | STUDENT SEMINAR Daniele Cary (Henderson Lab)andLaura Dickey (Fearns Lab) |
“Dysregulation of Tissue Resident Macrophages During HIV Infection”and”RSV’s Relationship with Stress Granule and Processing Body Proteins” | |
| Mar. 21 | Mark Heise, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
“Bugs in the System: Using Systems Genetics to Study Virus-Host Interactions” | John Connor |
| Mar. 28 | STUDENT DEBATE Kristie Hilliard vs. Emily Nelson (Facilitator: Barb Nikolajczyk) |
“Is Type 2 Diabetes a Mis-Classified Autoimmune Disease?” | |
| Apr. 4 | STUDENT DEBATE Fadie Coleman vs. Suzanne Geer (Facilitator: Andy Henderson) |
“Will There Ever be an HIV Vaccine?” | |
| Apr. 11 | Zahra Zakeri, Ph.D. City University of New York |
“Viral Manipulation of Cell Death Machinery” | Elke Mühlbeger |
| Apr. 18 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Friday, Apr. 22 |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR |
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| Apr. 25 | Qiang Zhou, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley |
“New Insights into the Control of HIV-1 Transcription: When Tat Meets the 7SK snRNP and Super Elongation Complex (SEC)” | Andrew Henderson |
| May 2 | STUDENT SEMINAR Ryan McClure (Genco Lab) and Andrew Platt (Wetzler Lab) |
“Examining sRNA Mediated Regulation in Neisseria“ and “Lymphocyte Responses to Porin Adjuvanted Vaccines” |
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| May 9 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| May 16 | Nikos Vasilakis, Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch |
”The Fever from the Forrest: Prospects for Continued Emergence of Sylvatic Dengue Virus and Impact on Public Health” | Caroline Genco |
| Friday, June 10, 11:00 am |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR |
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| Wednesday, June 29, 3:00 pm |
Debi P. Sarkar, Ph.D. University of Delhi |
“Cellular Signaling in Virus-Host Interactions: Regulation of Fusion Mediated Entry of Sendai Virus” | Sibaji Sarkar |
| FALL 2010 SEMINAR SERIES | ||||
| Aug. 16 | Brian Rudd, M.P.H., Ph.D. The University of Arizona |
“Acute Neonatal Infections and Memory T Cell Responses” | Ronald Corley | |
| Aug. 23 | Shira Ninio, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
“Remodeling of Host Vacuoles by Legionella Pneumophila” | Caroline Genco | |
| Aug. 30 | Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D. Tulane National Primate Research Center |
“Study of Host-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Interactions Using a Nonhuman Primate Model of Tuberculosis” | Caroline Genco | |
| Sept. 6 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Sept. 13 | Rachel Fearns, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“Initiation of RSV Genome Replication and mRNA Transcription” | ||
| Sept. 20 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Sept. 27 | Nancy Kedersha, Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
“Stress Granules: From ‘Artifact’ to Matter-of-Fact – What it Means to be Visibly Stressed” | John Connor | |
| Oct. 4 | Kim Lewis, Ph.D. Northeastern University |
“Persister Cells and the Paradox of Chronic Infections” | Caroline Genco | |
| Oct. 11 | NO SEMINAR | |||
| Oct. 18 | Pushpa Pandiyan, Ph.D. NIAID, NIH |
“CD4+ CD25+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells Modulate T Effector Cells in a Cytokine-Context Dependent Manner” | Caroline Genco | |
| Tuesday, Oct. 19 @11:00 AM |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR |
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| Oct. 25 | Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D. University of Rochester |
“Novel Approaches for Prevention of HIV-1 Transmission” | Rahm Gummuluru | |
| Nov. 1 | No Seminar | |||
| Nov. 8 | No Seminar | |||
| Nov. 15 | Laurence Buxbaum, M.D., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
“The Immunology of Chronic Leishmaniasis: How the Parasite Wins the Battle Using Host IgG, FcgammaR, and IL-10″ |
Caroline Genco | |
| Nov. 22 | STUDENT SEMINAR Nathaniel Green (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) and Krishna Moody (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) |
“Cellular RNAs as Endogenous Adjuvants” and “Activation of B-cells by TLR Ligand Containing Immune Complexes: I Promise I Will not Talk About AM14 That Much” |
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| Nov. 29 | STUDENT SEMINAR Daniel Green (Cruikshank Lab) and Erin Hodges Trail (Connor Lab) |
”CD4 Regulation of T Cell Migration in the Lung” and “The VSV Polymerase Mutant S2 Generates Novel Small Particles” |
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| Dec. 6 | Michaela Gack, Ph.D. New England Primate Research Center |
“RIG-I- and TRIM25-Mediated Innate Immune Response and Evasion of Influenza A Virus” | Elke Mühlberger | |
| Dec. 13 | Jie Sun, Ph.D. University of Virginia |
“Balancing Act: Control of Pulmonary Inflammation During Respiratory Virus Infection” | Ronald Corley | |
| Dec. 20 | Derek Sant’Angelo, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
“The Transcription Factor PLZF Controls the Development of Mouse and Human Innate T Cells” | Ronald Corley | |
| SPRING 2010 SEMINAR SERIES | |||
| Feb. 22 | Terrence Tumpey, Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
”Transmission and Pathogenesis of H1N1 Influenza Viruses in Ferrets” | Ronald Corley |
| Mar. 1 | STUDENT SEMINARS Daniele Cary (Henderson Lab) and Laura Dickey (Fearns Lab) |
”Regulation of Tissue Resident Macrophages by the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase RON” and “RSV’s Relationship with Cellular p54/rck: It’s Complicated” |
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| Mar. 8 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Mar. 15 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Friday, Mar 19 @ 10:00 AM |
DISSERTATION DEFENSE SEMINAR |
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| Mar 22 | STUDENT SEMINARS Robert Moore (Faller Lab) and Chadene Zack (Fearns Lab) |
“SIRT1 Repression of the Estrogen Response in Breast Cancer” and “Follow the leader (or not?): Evidence for a Transcriptase Start Site at Position 3 of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Leader Region” |
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| Mar 29 | Michael Farzan, Ph.D. New England Primate Research Center |
“An Interferon-Inducible Influenza A Virus Restriction Factor” | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Apr. 5 | David Levin, Ph.D. Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine |
“Stress Signaling in Yeast: Novel Mechanisms and Antifungal Drug Targets” | Ronald Corley |
| Apr. 12 | Kanta Subbarao, M.D., M.P.H. NIAID, NIH |
“Vaccines Against Pandemic Influenza Viruses” | Rachel Fearns |
| Apr. 19 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| Apr. 26 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| May 3 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| May 10 | NO SEMINAR | ||
| May 17 | C A N C E L E D - NO SEMINAR Suresh Cuddapah, Ph.D. NHLBI, NIH |
Ronald Corley | |
| May 24 | C A N C E L E D - RESCHEDULED Daniel Hawiger, M.D., Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
Ronald Corley | |
| Friday, May 28 |
James Riley, Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania |
“Building the Bionic T Cell to Fight HIV-1 Infection” |
Ronald Corley |
| May 31 | No Seminar | ||
| Tuesday, June 1 | Mithilesh Jha, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
”Regulation of Survival and Functions of T Lymphocytes by L-Type Calcium Channels” | Ronald Corley |
| June 7 | No Seminar | ||
| June 14 | Chrystal Paulos, Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania |
”Translating Basic T-cell Immunology into Potent Tumor Therapy” |
Ronald Corley |
| June 21 | Jonathan Hill, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
”T Cell Variability: From Microarrays to Microenvironments” |
Ronald Corley |
| June 28 | Daniel Hawiger, M.D., Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
“Molecular Regulation of Dendritic Cell- Mediated T Cell Tolerance in Steady State and Disease” |
Ronald Corley |
| FALL 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE | ||||||
| Date | Speaker | Title(s) | Program | Host | ||
| Friday, Sept. 11 Keefer |
The Eighth Annual Sue Kim Hanson Luke O’Neill, Ph.D. |
Ann Marshak-Rothstein | ||||
| Sept. 16 | Leslie Berg, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School |
“Signaling Pathways That Regulate T Cell Development and Differentiation” | Immunology | Andrew Henderson | ||
| Sept. 21 |
Microbiology Student Invited Speaker |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Laura Dickey | |||
| Sept. 23 | Evelyn Kurt-Jones, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical Center |
“Toll-like Receptors in Viral Immunity” | Immunology | Robin Ingalls | ||
| Sept. 28 | Tom Tullius, Ph.D. Boston University |
“The Role of DNA Shape in the Workings of the Human Genome” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Ronald Corley | ||
| Tuesday Sept. 29 |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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| Sept. 30 | No Seminar | |||||
| Oct. 5 | Daniel G. Bausch, M.D., M.P.H.&TM Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine |
“Research and Control of the African Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Robin Ingalls | ||
| Oct. 7 | Leo LeFrancois, Ph.D. University of Conneticut |
“Regulation of Memory T Cell Development” | Immunology | Lisa Ganely-Leal | ||
| Oct. 12 | No Seminar | |||||
| Oct. 14 | Paula Pitha-Rowe, Ph.D. John Hopkins |
“TBA” | Immunology | Ian Rifkin | ||
| Friday Oct 16 |
Alan Rothman, M.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School |
“Clinical and Immunologic Studies of Dengue- Implications for Management and Prevention of Infection and Disease” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Ronald Corley | ||
| Oct. 19 | Gary Guy Bushkin (Samuelson Lab) and Erin Trail (Connor Lab |
“Similarities Between the Walls of Toxoplasma oocysts and Saccharomyces asci” and “Polymerase Function of the S2 Mutant of VSV” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | |||
| Oct. 21 | Training Seminar for Flow Cytometry Core | “TBA” | Immunology | David Sherr | ||
| Oct. 26 | Esther Bullitt, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“Hanging on by a Thread: The Assembly and Structure of Adhesion pili on Bacteria that Cause Traveler’s Diarrhea” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Rahm Gummuluru | ||
| Oct. 28 | David Wiest, Ph.D. Fox Chase Cancer Center |
“Role of Rpl22 in T Cell Development and Transformation” | Immunology | Andrew Henderson | ||
| Friday, Oct. 30 |
Carolina Lopez, Ph.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
“Unraveling Host’s Mechanisms to Control Viral Infections: From Intracellular Virus Detection to Systemic Responses” | Microbiology / Immunology | Ronald Corley | ||
| Nov. 2 | Jon Goguen, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School |
“Yersinia pestis and Innate Immunity: Keys and Mysteries in Understanding the Molecular Basis of Extreme Virulence” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Caroline Genco | ||
| Nov. 4 | Paul Anderson, Ph.D. Harvard University |
“Post-Transcriptional Control of Immune-Mediated Inflammation” | Immunology | Jay Mizgerd | ||
| Monday Nov. 9 |
Ulf Klein, Ph.D. Columbia University |
“Molecular Analysis of Post-Germinal Center B-Cell Differentiation: Physiology and Disruption” | Immunology | Ian Rifkin | ||
| Nov. 11 | No Seminar | |||||
| Nov. 16 | Beth McCormick, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Medical School |
“The ABC’s of Salmonella enterica Subspecies Typhimurium Pathogenesis” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Caroline Genco | ||
| Nov. 18 | Ann Goldfeld, Ph.D. Harvard School of Medicine |
“Revealing Immune Pathways Using RNAi” | Immunology | Barbara Nikolajczyk | ||
| Nov. 23 | No Seminar | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Ronald Corley | |||
| Nov. 25 | No Seminar | |||||
| Nov. 30 | Wayne Lencer, M.D. Children’s Hospital |
“Structure-Function Studies on the Cholera Toxin Receptor Ganglioside GM1 and Reverse Genetics of Flotillin ½ and Derlin 1” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Lee Wetzler | ||
| Dec. 2 | Nathaniel Green (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) and Krishna Moody (Marshak-Rothstein Lab) |
“TBA” | Immunology | Greg Viglianti | ||
| Dec. 7 | Igor Kramnik, M.D., Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“Immunogenetic Analysis of Host Resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Ronald Corley | ||
| Dec. 9 | Eric Meffre, Ph.D. Yale University |
“The Impact of Single Gene Mutations and Polymorphisms on Human B Cell Tolerance” | Immunology | Barbara Nikolajczyk | ||
| SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE | ||||
| Date | Speaker | Title(s) | Program | Host |
| Jan. 14 | Brian Wilson, M.D. Harvard Medical School |
“iNKT Cells – Standing Guard at the Treg/Th17 Crossroads” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Jan. 21 | Ann Haberman, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine |
“Definition of Migration Patterns by Intravital Two Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy: Germinal Center B Lymphocytes in the Spotlight” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Jan. 28 | Rescheduled to April 8 | |||
| Monday, Feb. 2 |
Facundo Batista, Ph.D. London Research Institute |
“Early Events in B Cell Activation and Initiation of Immuno Response” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Feb. 4 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb. 9 | Lisa Johansen, Ph.D. CombinatoRx, Inc. |
“A Multi-Target Approach Probing Host-Virus Interactions” | NEIDL / Microbiology | Mark Klempner |
| Feb. 11 | Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
”New Tools for the Immunologist: Protein Surgery and Cloned Mice” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Feb 16 | No Seminar | |||
| Feb. 18 | No Seminar | |||
| Friday, Feb. 20 |
The Annual Gijs van Seventer Lecture in Immunology |
Immunology | Jean Van Seventer | |
| Feb. 23 | Carlos de Noronha, Sc.D. Albany Medical College |
“The HIV1 Protein Vpr as a Mediator of Protein Degredation” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Feb. 25 | No Seminar | |||
| Mar. 2 | No Seminar | |||
| Mar. 4 | STUDENT DEBATE Amelia Haas vs. Krishna Moody (Facilitator: Andy Henderson) |
“Treatment Options for Deadly Peanut Allergies: If you Think the Salmonella Outbreak is the Worst Peanuts Have to Offer, Think Again” | Immunology | |
| Friday, Mar. 6 |
Special Seminar in Pathology / Microbiology / Immunology Friday, March 6, at 1:45 PM in 670 Albany Street conf. room Georges Grau, M.D., Ph.D. University of Sydney |
“Microparticles in Immunopathology from Infectious Diseases to Cancer” | Pathology/ Immunology/ Microbiology | Daniel Remick |
| Mar. 9 | Michael Whitt, Ph.D. University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center |
”Analysis of VSV Entry, Uncoating and Assembly Using Recombinant Viruses” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | John Connor |
| Mar. 11 | No Seminar | |||
| Mar. 16 | Patrick Skelly, Ph.D. Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine |
”Functional Characterization of the Schistosome Tegument” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Lisa Ganley-Leal |
| Mar. 18 | Laurent Brossay, Ph.D. Brown University |
“Mechanisms of NK T Cell Activation in Response to Glycolipids or Viral Infection” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Thursday, Mar. 19 10:00 am |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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| Friday, Mar. 20 11:00 am |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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| Mar. 23 | STUDENT DEBATE Brian Honeyman vs. Chadene Zack |
“Avian Influenza: Threat to Humanity?” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | |
| Mar. 24 | Harmit Malik, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
“Molecular Arms-Races in the Evolution of Antiviral Genes in Primate Genomes” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Friday, Mar. 27 11:00 am |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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| Mar. 30 | Gary Guy Bushkin (Samuelson Lab) and Robert Moore (Faller Lab) |
“Evidence for Darwinian Selection Against N-GLycosylation in Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum” and “SIRT1 Mediated Repression of the Estrogen Response in Breast Cancer” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | |
| Apr. 1 | Nanomedicine Seminar Selim Ünlü, Ph.D. Boston University |
“Biosensing: Label-free Microarrays for Genomics and Proteomics” | Nanomedicine | Caroline Genco |
| Thurs., Apr. 2 1:00 pm |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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| Apr. 6 | Dennis Kasper, M.D. Channing Laboratory |
“Microbial Flora in Health and Disease” | Microbiology | Caroline Genco |
| Apr. 8 | Kathryn Moore, Ph.D. Mass General/Harvard |
“CD36 Ligands Trigger Sterile Inflammation via a Novel Toll-like Receptor Heterodimer” | Immunology | Caroline Genco |
| Apr. 13 | Lewis Wray, Ph.D. Boston University School of Medicine |
“How Does Glutamine Feedback Inhibit its Biosynthetic Enzyme? | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | |
| Apr. 15 | Erin Trail (Connor Lab) and Daniel Green (Cruikshank Lab) |
“Characterization of S2, an Attenuated Mutant of VSV, Reveals Two Genetically Separable Phenotyes” and “Two Ligands, One Receptor: CD4 Mediated Desensitization of Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor 1″ |
Immunology | |
| Apr. 20 | No Seminar | |||
| Apr. 22 | No Seminar | |||
| Apr. 27 | Welkin Johnson, Ph.D. New England Primate Research Center |
“Host Genetic Variation and Susceptibility to Lentiviruses” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Rahm Gummuluru |
| Apr. 29 | Hyam Levitsky, M.D. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
“Dissecting the Host Immune Response to Cancer” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| Friday, May 1 4:00 PM |
Peter Walsh, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
“Viral Drivers of African Ape Decline: Ebola and Beyond” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Elke Muehlberger |
| May 4 | Jianming Hu, M.D., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State |
“The Making of a Retroid Virus” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Rahm Gummuluru |
| May 6 | Michelle Keliher, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts |
“TNF and TLR Signaling” | Immunology | Caroline Genco |
| May 11 | Christopher Basler, Ph.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
“How Filoviruses Evade Host Interferon Responses” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases | Elke Muehlberger |
| May 13 | Clare Baecher-Allen, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
“Functional comparisons of distinct subsets of human regulatory T cells” | Immunology | Daniel Green |
| Friday, May 15 | STUDENT INVITED SPEAKER John Coffin, Ph.D. Tufts University |
“Retrovirus Evolution” | Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
Timothy Hanley |
| May 18 | No Seminar | |||
| May 20 | No Seminar | |||
| May 25 | No Seminar | |||
| May 27 | John Harley, M.D., Ph.D. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
“The Preposterous Idea That the Epstein-Barr Virus Causes Lupus” | Immunology | Ann Marshak-Rothstein |
| June 1 | Daniele Cary (Henderson Lab) and Laura Dickey (Fearns Lab) |
”The Role of RON Receptor Tyrosine Kinase in HIV- Associated CNS Disease” and “RSV’s Stress Prevention Program” |
Microbiology / Infectious Diseases |
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| Tuesday, June 2 |
FACULTY CANDIDATE Ofer Feinerman, Ph.D. Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center |
“Cellular Heterogeneity and Cooperativity Shape Decision-Making in the Immune System” | Microbiology / Immunology | Ronald Corley |
| Wed., June 24 10:00 AM |
Dissertation Defense Seminar |
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