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January 14
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Dr. Ralph Tripp, Eminent Scholar Candidate, Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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"Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Immunity, Disease Pathogenesis, and Prospects for Treatment and Vaccine Development"
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January 21
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Dr. Margo Brinton, Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University
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"Intracellular host-virus interactions determine the efficiency of West Nile virus replication"
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January 28
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Dr. Maricarmen Garcia, PDRC
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"Molecular Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Mycoplasma gallisepticum"
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February 4
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Dr. Eric Stabb, Dept. of Microbiology, UGA
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"Genetic approaches toward understanding a Vibrio-squid light organ symbiosis"
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February 11
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Dr. Terrance Tumpey, USDA/ARS/Southeast Poultry Research Lab
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"Pathogenicity of recombinant viruses containing genes derived from the 1918 'Spanish' influenza virus"
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February 18
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Dr. Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC
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"Placental malaria, HIV co-infection and Immune Responses"
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February 25
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Dr. Anthony Barbet, University of Florida
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"Disease Persistence through Combinatorial Diversity in Small Genome Anaplasma Pathogens of Humans and Animals"
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March 4
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Dr. Stuart Thompson, Medical College of Georgia
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"Proteome analysis of temperature-regulated Campylobacter jejuni proteins"
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March 11
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Dr. James Morris, Clemson
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"Silencing is Golden: Development of an RNA Interference Genomic Library in Trypanosoma brucei"
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March 18
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Spring Break
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No Seminar
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March 25, 3:30 pm, Room H203
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Dr. Stephen Dalton, GRA Eminent Scholar, Ag and Environmental Sciences
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"Stem Cells: Biology and Therapeutics"
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April 1
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Student Presentation: Paul Drummond and Jayakumar Poovasserry
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"Use of real-time PCR to analyze erythrocyte binding protein gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum" and "Development of a Mouse Model for Severe Malaria During Pregnancy"
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April 8
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Student Presentation: Praveen Nair and Harjeet Kaur
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"Effector Molecules in Nonspecific Cytotoxic Cells of Teleosts: Molecular Cloning and Characterization" and "Effects of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides on Effector Cells of Innate Immune System"
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April 15
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Ynes Ortega, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, CFS, Dept. of Food Science and Technology, UGA
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"Cyclospora: Biology and Epidemiology"
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April 22
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Student Presentation: Naomi Lucchi and Manuela Mura
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"Placenta malaria: understanding the maternal foetal interface" and "Mechanisms of Retroviral Interference"
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April 29
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Student Presentation: Jacinta Smith and Lauren Pittenger
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"Analysis of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from commercial broiler chicken farms" and "Surface display in Tetrahymena thermophila as a means to characterize Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte binding proteins"
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