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FALL 2008 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Seminars are held Mondays at 11:00 in the Coverdell Building, Room S175.
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| September 8 |
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Dr. Ivo Francischetti Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH (Moore) |
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"Tissue factor and blood coagulation: role in malaria pathogenesis and target for inhibitors from blood-sucking arthropods" Joint seminar with Department of Entomology |
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| September 15 |
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Dr. Uriel Kitron Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies, Emory University (Quinn) |
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"Transmission of zoonotic diseases in the Americas: West Nile virus in the US and Chagas disease in Argentina" |
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| September 22 |
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Dr. Ted Clark Associate Professor Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (Dickerson) |
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"Membrane dynamics and mitochondrial extrusion in ciliates: a phenomenon in search of a function" |
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| September 29 |
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Dr. Rick Tarleton Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (Quinn) |
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"Trypanosoma cruzi: T cell memory, drugs and vaccines" |
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| October 6 |
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Dr. Andrew Mellor Professor and Director of the Immunotherapy Center, Medical College of Georgia (Tripp) |
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"IDO and Immune Privilege: Manipulating IDO to Treat Inflammatory Diseases" |
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| October 13 |
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Dr. Dave Gauthier Research Assistant Scientist, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary (Quinn) |
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"Mycobacteria in Chesapeake Bay: Fish disease and pathogen ecology" |
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| October 20 |
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Dr. Dave Wentworth Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York (Tompkins) |
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"Virus Spike and Host Cell Receptors: Central Players in the Emergence of SARS-CoV" |
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| October 27 |
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Dr. Max D. Cooper Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine (Graduate Students) |
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"Search for the Origin of Antibodies in Vertebrates" |
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| November 3 |
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Dr. Bakaletz Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Research Institute Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio (Lafontaine) |
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"Role of the type IV pilus of nontypeable H. influenzae in the pathogenesis of otitis media and protection afforded by novel PilA-derived vaccine candidates" |
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| November 10 |
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Dr. Kaori Sakamoto Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, UGA (Quinn) |
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"Trehalose 6,6' -dimycolate: Major mover and shaker in tuberculosis pathogenesis?" |
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| November 17 |
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Dr. Rob Miller Professor of Biology and Pathology, University of New Mexico (Jaso-Friedmann) |
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"Evolution of T cell receptors: What mice and humans didn't tell us, but the 'possum and platypus knew all along" |
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| November 24 |
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Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend—No Seminar |
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| December 1 |
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Dr. Dave Steinhauer Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University (Tompkins) |
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"Receptor binding and antigenicity of the influenza virus hemagglutinin glycoprotein" |
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| December 8 |
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Dr. Miriam Braunstein Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina (Hondalus) |
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"Protein export pathways important to the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" |
