SPRING 2007 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

January 8		Dr. Kathy Renegar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. (Tripp, Host)		" The Role of Secretory IgA in Mucosal Immunity to Influenza Virus Infection"
January 15		MLK Day No Seminar
January 22		Dr. James Crowe, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. (Tripp, Host)		"RSV Assembly and Budding in Polarized Epithelial Cells"
January 29		Dr. Oriol Sunyer, Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Jaso-Friedmann, Host)(link)		B lymphocytes, a New Member of the Professional Phagocyte Family in Teleost Fish
February 5		Dr. Lawrence Dreyfus, UMKC School of Biological Sciences (Jaso-Friedmann, Host) (link)		"Cytolethal Distending Toxin: A Good Enzyme Gone Bad"
February 12		Dr. Lonnie King, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne and Enteric Diseases, CDC, Atlanta (Quinn, Host)		Departmental Seminar: "Looking for E. coli in All the Wrong Places" **Special Seminar for Veterinary Students in Room H237** " The Convergence of Human and Animal Health"
February 19		TBA
February 26		Dr. Diana Martin, Department of Celluar Biology, UGA (Peterson, Host)		" Immunodominant CD8+ T cell Response Against the Protozoan Parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi"
March 5		Dr. Charles Mackenzie, Filarial Diseases Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. (Kaplan, Host)		" Helminths and disease: the good, the bad, and the ugly."
March 12		Spring Break No Seminar
March 19		X.J. Meng, MD, PhD, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Quinn, Host) (link)		** Fred C. Davison Distinguished Chair candidate seminar** Special Time 11:30AM-12:30PM " Discoveries of Swine and Avian Hepatitis E Viruses: Implication for Zoonosis and Animal Models for Human Hepatitis E"
March 26		Dr. Tom Bracaile, Carter Immunology Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Tripp, Host)   Dr. Bradley Yoder, Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.		" Cell Cycle and the Regulation of Virus-Specific CD8+ T cell Responses" Fred C. Davison Chair candidate seminar, Veterinary Medicine, Room 363 on March 26, 2007 at 3:15PM: "Molecular and Cellular Insights into the Ciliopathies."
April 2		Dr. Michael White,Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman (link) Jointly sponsored with the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases **CANCELLED**		"Essential cell cycle mechanisms controlling Toxoplasma gondii replication". **CANCELLED**
April 9		No Seminar		No Seminar
April 16		Dr. Stephen Hajduk, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UGA (Peterson, Host)		"Mechanisms of Human Resistance and Susceptibility to African Trypanosomes"
April 23		Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Department of Cancer Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia (Fu, Host)		" Rabies at the Dawn of the 21st Century"
April 30		Dr. David L. Woodland, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY (Graduate students, Host) (link)		"Cellular memory to respiratory virus infections: Unique aspects of the lung environment."
May 7		Final Exams No Seminar
May 14		Dr. Tim Long, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences University of Georgia , Athens, GA		"New Antibiotics for Drug-Resistant Infections"
May 21		TBA
May 28		Memorial Day No Seminar
June 4		Dr. Scott J. Schatzberg, Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia		“Translational veterinary research: Bridging the gap between the clinical and the benchtop”
June 11		Dr. Matt Sylte, USDA/ARS/Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Athens, GA.		“Neuraminidase vaccines -- Can they protect chickens against highly pathogenic avian influenza?”

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