MICaB Student Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2008
Thursday, 2-137 Jackson Hall
Noon
SEPTEMBER 4
Mark Canon, M.D., Ph.D., MICaB Graduate Faculty Candidate:
"The KSHV chemokine receptor: viral piracy and tumorigenesis""
Faculty Advocate: Paul Bohjanen
SEPTEMBER 11
Ute Lehmann,"Identification of APCs in the retina that
support the initiation of T cell-mediated experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis
(EAU)."
Advisor: Dale Gregerson
Student host: Stefanie Breitbarth
Faculty Reviewers: Arkady Khodursky, Emily Gillespie, Kathleen Conklin
SEPTEMBER 18
Lisa Jasperson: "IDO suppresses graft versus host disease:
Where, when, and how"
Advisor: Bruce Blazar
Student host: Johanna Ecklund
Faculty Reviewers: Carol Wells, Steve Jameson, Kim Mansky
SEPTEMBER 25
Kristopher Lofgren: "Brk/ptk6 mediated events in mammary
gland biology"
Advisor: Carol Lange
Student host: Jonathan Linehan
Faculty Reviewers: Dana Davis, Matt Mescher, Naoko Shima
OCTOBER 2
Hon Man Hamlet Chu: "Thymic
control of naive T cell population size"
Advisor: Marc Jenkins
Student host: Michelle Gleason
Faculty Reviewers: Wade Bresnahan, Bruce Walcheck, Jaime Modiano
OCTOBER 9
Frank Cichocki: "New insights into killer immunoglobulin
receptor gene
regulation"
Advisor: Jeff Miller
Student host: Xazmin Lowman
Faculty Reviewers: Ashley Haase, Dan Kaufman, John Ohlfest
OCTOBER 16
Kieng Bao Vang: "Gamma chain Receptor Cytokines and Treg
Development"
Advisor: Mike Farrar
Student host: Misha Mehta
Faculty Reviewers: Steve Rice, Yoji Shimizu, Ashok Saluja
OCTOBER 23
Michael Kyba, Ph.D., Graduate Faculty Candidate, "Normal
and pathological roles of Hox genes in
tissue homeostasis"
Faculty Advocate: Bruce Blazar
OCTOBER 30
Jose Gomez: "Oncogenic Ras suppresses proliferation and
triggers and autophagy like phenotype in Human Immortalized Epithelial cells"
Advisor: Vitaly Polunovsky
Student host: Dare Odumade
Faculty Reviewers: Daniel Bond, Marc Jenkins, Kaylee Schwertfeger
NOVEMBER 6
Mark Willette: "The role of STAT5 in early B cell development
and leukemia"
Advisor: Mike Farrar
Student host: Stacia Phillips
Faculty Reviewers: Yinduo Ji, Erik Peterson, Greg Vercellotti
NOVEMBER 13
Joan Beckman: "Inhaled Carbon Monoxide Decreases Inflammation
in Sickle Cell Disease"
Advisor: Greg Vercellotti
Student host: Susan Rathe
Faculty Reviewers: Peter Southern, SingSing Way, Vivian Bardwell
NOVEMBER 20
Amanda Griffin: "Loss of Th1 responses and protective
immunity following antibiotic
treatment of murine typhoid"
Advisor: Stephen McSorley
Student host: Mariangellys Rodriguez
Faculty Reviewers: Kirsten Nielsen, Reuben Harris, David Potter
NOVEMBER 27 - No seminar, Thanksgiving holiday
DECEMBER 4
Jon Larson: "Sleeping Beauty transposons for novel brain
cancer gene identification and
characterization"
Advisor: David Largaespada
Student host: John Albin
Faculty Reviewer: Pam Skinner, Kris Hogquist, Chris Pennell
DECEMER 11
Christopher DeNucci: "The role of beta1 integrin in T
cell trafficking and activation"
Advisor: Yoji Shimizu
Student host: Rachelle Veenstra
Faculty Reviewers: Mike Sadowsky, Stephen McSorley, Carol Lange
DECEMBER 18
Michael Weinreich: "What KLF2 does and does not do in
T cells"
Advisor: Kris Hogquist
Student host: Nicholas Zumwalde
Faculty Reviewers: Dwight Anderson, Nicola Philpott, Nobuaki Kikyo
MICaB Invited
Speaker Seminar Series.
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