12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

5-125 MoosT - Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower
515 Delaware St SE

OR
1-110 MTRF - McGuire Translational Research Facility
2001–6th St SE (Across from TCF Stadium)

January 28: 5-125 MoosT
Daniel Kalman., Ph.D., “Disabling drug-resistant microbial pathogens: From cell biology to translational strategies”
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Host: Hinh Ly (612 625-3358)

February 4: 1-110 MTRF
Mario Santiago, Ph.D., “Modulation of retrovirus-specific humoral immunity by Apobec3/Rfv3”
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Host: Reuben Harris (612 624-0457)

February 11: 5-125 MoosT
Nick Conrad, Ph.D., “Nuclear RNA hyperadenylation: KSHV factors uncover a tail of destruction”
Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Host: Steve Rice (612 626-4183)

February 18: 1-110 MTRF 
Dan Stetson, Ph.D., “Innate immune detection of nucleic acids”
Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Host: Vaiva Vezys (612 625-4650)

February 25: 5-125 MoosT
Srinand Sreevatsan, Ph.D., MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate, “Mycobacterium paratuberculosis - genome to function”
Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Host: Anthony Baughn (612 626-0460)

March 4: 1-110 MTRF
Genhong Chen, Ph.D., “Innate immune gene programs against bacterial and viral infections and their crosstalk to inflammatory and metabolic diseases”
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Host: Erik Peterson (612 625-5634)

March 11: 5-125 MoosT - Graduate Student Invited Speaker -
Peter Turnbaugh, Ph.D., “Drug metabolism and resistance in the human gut microbiome”
FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Host: Alexa Weingarden (graduate student host)

March 18 - Spring Break, no seminar

March 25: 1-110 MTRF
Tim Behrens, Ph.D., “Personalizing medicine for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases”
Biomarker Discovery and Human Genetics, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Host: Emily Gillespie (612 625-4714)

April 1: 5-125 MoosT
George O'Toole, Ph.D., “To build a biofilm”
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanove,r NH
Host: Jeff Gralnick (612 626-6496)

April 8: 1-110 MTRF
Mark Shlomchik, Ph.D., M.D., “Germinal center selection and the development of memory B and plasma cells”
Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Host: Bruce Blazar (612 626-2734)

April 15: 5-125 MoosT
Michael Buchmeier, Ph.D., “Functional and structural proteomics of the SARS CoV: Modeling a rational response to emerging infectious diseases”
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA
Host:  Hinh Ly (612 625-3358)

April 22: 1-110 MTRF
Eric Pamer, M.D., “Microbiota and innate immune defense against intestinal infection”
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY
Host: Dan Kaplan (612 626-9400)

April 29: 5-125 MoosT
Michal Olszewski, D.V.M., Ph.D., “Survival, evasion, resistance and escape: C. neoformansinteractions with host defenses”
Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Host: Kirsten Nielsen (612 625-4979)

May 13: 1-110 MTRF
Vladimir Badovinac, Ph.D., “Evolution of memory CD8 T cells”
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Host: Dave Masopust (612 625-4666)

Jointly sponsored by the Department of Microbiology and the Center for Immunology.
To schedule time with a speaker, please contact his or her host.
Up-to-date information can be found at:  http://www.micab.umn.edu/news/invitedsemseries.html