SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

January 12		Speical Seminar Dr. Diana Downs Professor Department of Bacteriology University of Wisconsin-Madison (Quinn)		"Complexity and Robustness in the metabolic network of Salmonella" 4:00pm, H203, Vet Med Building
January 16		No Seminar-MLK Holiday
January 23		Dr. Geert-Jan Boons Franklin Professor Department of Chemistry UGA (Friedmann)		"Carbohydrate-based vaccines and immune modulators" 11:00am, S175, Coverdell Building
January 30		Dr. David Hokey Director of Immunology Aeras Rockville, MD (Estes)		"TB Vaccines" 11:00am, S175, Coverdell Building
February 6		Dr. Jake Kohlmeier Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Emory University (Tompkins)		"Generation, maintenance, and recall of airway-resident memory T cells" 11:00am, S175, Coverdell Building
February 13		Dr. Jessica Kissinger Associate Professor Diepartment of Genetics UGA (Peterson)		"Integrated "Omic" Resources for Eukaryotic Pathogens –Current and Future Prospects for Facilitating Research" 11:00am, S175, Coverdell Building
February 20		Dr. John Gilleard Professor Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine University of Calgary (Kaplan)		"Genetic investigation of  anthelmintic drug resistance in parasitic nematodes" 11:00am, S175, Coverdell Building
February 27		Dr. David Abraham Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Thomas Jefferson University (Kaplan)		"Innate and adaptive protective immunity to the nematode Strongyloides stercoralis" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
March 5		Dr. Daniel Goldberg Professor Internal Medicine & Molecular Microbiology Washington University in St. Louis (Colley)		"Trial by fire and famine: how Plasmodium falciparum survives in its host" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
March 12		NO SEMINAR-SPRING BREAK
March 19		Dr. Kristen Bernard Associate Professor Department of Pathobiological Sciences University of Wisconsin-Madison (Tompkins)		"West Nile virus: take a bite out of it!" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
March 26		Dr. Melanie Wilson Professor Department of Microbiology The University of Mississippi Medical Center (Findly)		"What we know and what we don't know about channel catfish B and T cell functions" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
April 2		Dr. Demba Sarr Postdoctoral Research Assoc Department of Infectious Diseases UGA (PDA)		"Model systems for understanding host/host/parasite relationship in malaria during pregnancy" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
April 9		Dr. Peter Palese Professor Department of Microbiology Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Tompkins)		"Towards a Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
April 16		Dr. Steve Varga Associate Professor Department of Microbiology The University of Iowa (Tripp)		"Regulation of the RSV-specific T cell response" 11:00 am, S175, Coverdell Building
April 23		Dr. Sean Forrester Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Wolstenholme)		"Nematode ligand-gated chloride channels: uncovering unique activation mechanisms" 11:00, S175, Coverdell Building
May 21		Speical Seminar Dr. Timothy Geary Professor Department of Parasitology McGill University (Kaplan)		11:00, 363, Vet Med Building
June 4		Speical Seminar Dr. David Weiner Professor Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine (Quinn)		11:00, S175, Coverdell Building

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