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SPRING 2003 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

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