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Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Seminars

-2013 Seminar Series-

WHERE: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Conference Room 276 - BSB

WHEN: Tuesdays - 11:00 AM

For information, please call the Microbiology Department at 414-955-8253.

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SPRING 2013

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE/HOST
January 29, 2013	Umadevi S. Sajjan, M.Sc., Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI	Rhinovirus and Innate Immunology of Airway Epithelium
March 26, 2013	John Kirby, Ph.D. University of Iowa	“Chemosensory Regulation of Multicellularity in Myxococcus xanthus”
April 9, 2013	Nick Cianciotto, Ph.D. Northwestern University	“The Many Forms and Functions of Legionella pneumophila Secretion”
April 23, 2013	Alice S. Prince, MD Professor of Pediatrics College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University	(The Distinguished Faculty Seminar in Infectious Diseases-series) PLACE: Children's Hosptial Auditorium at 12 NOON "Contribution of Host Signaling to the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Pneumonia"
May 7, 2013	-CANCELLED- Paolo Lusso, MD, PhD Chief, Section of Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID	(Joint invitation with The Department of Biochemistry)

FALL 2012

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE/HOST
THURSDAY, September 20 NOTE Day & Time! at 11:00 AM	Dr. Joshua Munger, University of Rochester Medical School	Title: Virally-mediated Repurposing of the Cellular Metabolic Landscape. Dr. Scott Terhune (HOST)
NOTE DATE: OCTOBER 4 THURSDAY NOTE TIME: @ 12 NOON	Dr. Patrick Green, Ohio State University	Title: The Role of Human T cell Leukemia Virus Antisense Genes in Viral Pathogenesis. Dr. Mark Beilke - Division of Infectious Diseases (HOST) Location: The Cancer Center - 3rd floor - CONF. Room M
Tuesday, October 16	Dr. Tim Kowalik, University of Massachusetts	TITLE: CMV Replication in Cells and Congenital Infections Dr. Vera Tarakanova (HOST)
Tuesday, October 30	Dr. Stanley Perlman, University of Iowa	TITLE: Coronavirus Immunopathological Disease: Role of Virus-Specific Tregs in Coronavirus-Induced Encephalitis. Dr. Wm. Jackson (HOST)
Tuesday, November 27	Dr. Malcolm Winkler, Indiana University Bloomington	TITLE: Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis and Cell Wall Stress Responses in Pneumococcal Biology and Virulence Dr. Christopher Kristich (HOST)

SPRING 2012

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE
February 14	Bala Chandran, M.S., Ph.D. Rosalind Franklin University North Chicago, IL MORE Information	Nuclear Danger Sensing: Novel Inflammasome Induction During Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus Infection
February 21	Richard Kuhn, Ph.D Purdue University West Lafayette, IN MORE Information	Assembly and Replication of Dengue Virus
March 6	Declan McCole, Ph.D. University of CA, San Diego San Diego, CA MORE Information	Epithelial Barrier Protection by the Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Gene PTPN2
March 13	Timothy L. Yahr, Ph.D. University of Iowa Iowa City, IA MORE Information	Studies of ExsA Reveal Complex Regulatory Pathways Controlling T3SS Gene Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
March 27	Patricia Champion, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN MORE Information	Molecular Mechanisms of ESX-1 Protein Secretion in Mycobacteria
April 10	Andrea Ladd, Ph.D. Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH MORE Information	Alternative Splicing Programs in the Heart: The Importance of CELF Control
April 24	Distinguished Lecture Speaker in Infectious Disease Allen C. Steere, M.D. Professor of Medicine Director of Translational Research, Rheumatology, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA MORE Information	Elucidation of Lyme Arthritis NOTE TIME: Noon-1PM PLACE: Children’s Hospital Auditorium
May 22	Joseph DeRisi, Ph.D. University of CA, San Francisco San Francisco, CA MORE Information	Genomics and Infectious Disease -2012 Student Invited Seminar-
June 4	Lars Eckmann, M.D. University of CA, San Diego San Diego, CA MORE Information	Bioactivity Landscapes of Nitroimidazole Antimicrobials: Old Drugs, New Tricks

Fall 2011

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE
September 13, 2011	Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN More Information	The Battle for Metal: Bacterial Pathogens and Their Hosts
September 27, 2011	Edward Usherwood, PhD Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon, NH More Information	Opportunities to Restore Immune Surveillance to Chronic Virus Infection
October 11, 2011	Jon Audhya, PhD University of WI - Madison Madison, WI More Information	Regulation of Vesicle Biogenesis
November 7, 2011 Monday - 1PM	Marianne Manchester, PhD University of California San Diego, CA More Information	Viral Nanoparticles as Scaffolds for Targeted Therapeutics and Vaccines
November 8, 2011	Jeffrey Coller, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH More Information	Regulation of Non-Coding RNA Function by Decapping
November 22, 2011	Dong Yu, PhD Washington University St Louis, MO More Information	Life and Death: Cytomegalovirus Proteins Regulating Host Cell Cycle and Stress Responses
December 6, 2011	J Lindsay Whitton, MD, PhD Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, Ca More Information	Coxsackievirus Evasion (and Exploitation?) of Host Defense Systems
December 13, 2011	Micah Luftig, PhD Duke University Durham, NC More Information	Studies of the Oncogenic Virus/Host Interface: Dynamic Molecular Changes Governing EBV-mediated B cell Immortalization

Spring 2011

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE
March 1, 2011	Glenn Randall, PhD University of Chicago More Information	Emerging Roles for Host Lipids in Viral RNA Replication Host: Dr Traktman
March 15, 2011	Christiane Wobus, PhD University of Michigan More Information	Murine Norovirus: A Model System to Study Norovirus Biology Host: Dr Tarakanova
March 29, 2011	Ted Hansen, PhD Washington University St Louis, MO More Information	Pathogen Detection by Classical and Innate T Cells Host: Dr Hudson
April 5, 2011	Domenico Tortorella, PhD Mt Sinai Medical Center New York, NY More Information	Human Cytomegalovirus Manipulation of Host Factors Host: Dr Hudson
April 12, 2011	Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, MD PhD University of Chicago More Information	Staphylococcus aureus alpha-hemolysin: More Than Just a Lytic Pore Host: Dr Barbieri
April 26, 2011 Noon - 1PM Children's Auditorium	Barbara Murray, PhD University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston More Information	Distinguished Lecture Speaker in Infectious Disease: The Enterococcus: How to Make a Second Rate Pathogen into a Frist Rate Problem Host: Dr Coburn
May 3, 2011	Stewart Shuman, MD PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute New York, NY More Information	RNA Damage and RNA Repair Pathways in Microbes and Man Host: Dr Traktman
July 15, 2011 Friday 9AM	Professor Geoffrey L. Smith FRS Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Section of Virology, Faculty of Medicine Imperial College of London London, UK	How Does Vaccinia Virus Form a Plaque and Silence Innate Immune Signalling Pathways?

Fall 2010

DATE	INVITED SPEAKER	TITLE
September 14, 2010	Chou-Zen Giam, PhD Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD More Information	The Tug of War Between HTLV-1 Tax and HBZ: NF-kappaB Activation, Senescence, Viral Persistence, and Adult T Cell Leukemia
October 12, 2010	Heran Darwin, PhD NYU School of Medicine New York, NY More Information	Pupylation, Proteasomes, and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Pathogenesis
October 26, 2010	Greg Smith, PhD Northwestern University Chicago, IL More Information	Herpesvirus Assembly, Intracellular Transport and Neuroinvasion
Nov 1, 2010 Monday 3:00 HRC Auditorium	Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, PhD University of Wisconsin Madison, WI More Information	Grossberg Lectureship: Pandemic Influenza
Nov 9, 2010	Robert Kalejta, PhD University of Wisconsin Madison, WI More Information	Human Cytomegalovirus Modulation of Cellular Transcriptional Co-Repressors Impacts Both Lytic Replication and Latency
Nov 16, 2010	Karl Munger, PhD Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA More Information	Perturbation of Host Cellular Regulatory Networks by Human Papillomaviruses
Dec 7, 2010	Marcia Goldberg, MD Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Cambridge, MA More Information	Mechanisms of the Development of Polarity in Bacteria

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