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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


Spring Semester 2008


DATE
SEMINAR TITLE
SPEAKER

January 28

"The development of immunologic memory in leishmaniasis"
Host: Marc Jenkins (612-626-2715)

Phil Scott, Ph.D.
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
February 4 "Iron and virulence in the AIDS-associated pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans"
Host: Judith Berman (612-625-1971)



James W. Kronstad, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

February 11

"How MHC and lineage specificity are determined in the thymus"
Host: Michael Weinreich (612 625-3680)

Al Singer, M.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

February 18

"Reprogramming viruses as cancer therapeutics: targeted, armed and stealth"
Host: Louis Mansky (612-626-5525)

Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN

February 25

"Transcriptional control of Foxp3+ regulatory T cell migration"
Host: Dan Kaplan (612-626-9400)

Daniel Campbell, Ph.D.
Benaroya Research Institute
at Virginia Mason
Seattle, WA

March 3

"New twists to host shutoff by Herpes Simplex virus"
Host: Steve Rice (612-624-4183)

James Smiley, Ph.D
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta

March 10

"Bacterial subversion of interferon and NK cells"
Host: Mike Farrar (612-625-0401)

Laurel Lenz, Ph.D.
Integrated Department of Immunology
National Jewish Medical and Research Center University of Colorado
Denver, CO

March 24 "Small molecules, big effects on gene expression: Transmission of metabolic signals directly to RNA polymerase"
Host: Gary Dunny (612-624-9930)
Richard L. Gourse, Ph.D.
Department of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

March 31


"Diacylglycerol kinases in immune cell development and function"
Host: Erik Peterson (612-625-5634)

Xiaoping Zhong, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
April 7 "Sphingolipid-mediated fungal pathogenesis"
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612-625-4979)

Maurizio Del Poeta, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SD

April 14

"Accounting, geography and plumbing in the CD8 T cell response to infection"
Host: Tanner Johanns (612-624-8875)
- Immunology Student Invited Speaker -

Leo Lefrancois, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT

April 21

"Secondary immunity to intracellular protozoan parasites: true immunologic memory or concomitant immunity?"
Host: Marc Jenkins (612-626-2715)

Jude Uzonna, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
University of Manitoba
Winnepeg, Manitoba

April 28

"Balancing immunity and inflammation in the gut"
Host: Marc Jenkins (612-626-2715)

David Artis, Ph.D.
Department of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
April 28
450 CCRB
3:30 pm
"From ribosome to riboswitch: control of gene expression by nascent RNA transcripts"
Host: Gary Dunny (6121-625-9930)

Tina Henkin, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

May 5 "Evolution of intrinsic immunity against viruses in primate genomes"
Hosts: Louis Mansky (612-625-5525) and Reuben Harris (612-624-0457)
Harmit Malik, Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Reseach Center
Seattle, WA
May 12  "Dendritic cells and local T cells in immune memory responses"
Host: Kris Hogquist (612-625-1616)
Frank Carbone, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

May 19

 

 

 

MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate
"Adeno-associated virus targeted integration for gene therapy"
Faculty Advocate: Dan Mueller

Nicola Philpott, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN


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