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SPRING 2006 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
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| January 16 |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
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No Seminar |
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| January 23 |
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Dr. Melanie Marketon, Bacterial Pathogenesis Faculty Candidate, University of Chicago (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Host-Pathogen Interactions During Plague Infection: Molecular Basis for Immune Evasion" |
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| January 30 |
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Dr. Terrence Tumpey, CDC, Atlanta (Dr. Tom Hodge, Host) |
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"Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic virus" |
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| January 31, 1:00 pm (Tuesday) |
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Special Seminar: Dr. David Banks, University of California at Los Angeles (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Anthrax Toxin and Host Target Cells: A New Model and a New Technology " |
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| February 6 |
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Dr. John Russell, Program in Immunology, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine (Dr. Don Evans, Host) |
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"Regional specificity in the requirements for inflammatory infiltration of the CNS " |
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| February 13 |
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Dr. Claudio Afonso, Adjunct Faculty Candidate (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Strategies in Comparative Viral Genomics" |
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| February 20 |
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Dr. Paul Rota, CDC, Atlanta (Dr. Ralph Tripp. Host) |
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"Update on development of new vaccines for measles: Do we need a new measles vaccine?" |
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| February 21, 10:00 am (Tuesday) |
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Special Seminar: Dr. James Posey, CDC Tuberculosis Branch, Atlanta (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"The Ins and Outs of Protein Secretion in Mycobacterium sp." |
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| February 23, 1:00 pm (Thursday) |
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Special Seminar: Dr. Samithamby Jeyaseelan, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"The Lung: An Organ of Defense Against Invading Bacterial Pathogens" |
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| February 27 |
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No Seminar |
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| February 28, 4:00 pm (Tuesday) |
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Special Seminar: Dr. Eric Lafontaine, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Autotransporter adhesins of gram negative bacterial pathogens" |
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| March 6 |
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Dr. Joseph Smith, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute. Sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Dept. and the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (Dr. David Peterson, Host) |
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"Plasmodium falciparum var genes and malaria disease: deconstructing infected erythrocyte cytoadherence" |
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| March 7, 4:00 pm (Tuesday) |
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Special Seminar: Dr. Yi Xu, Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Bacillus anthracis and host interactions" |
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| March 8, 11:00 am (Wednesday). Room 404D, Biological Sciences Bldg. |
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Special Seminar: Dr. Joseph Dillard, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"Secretion and release of DNA and peptidoglycan fragments from Neisseria gonorrhoeae" |
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| March 13 |
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No Seminar |
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| March 20 |
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Dr. Michele Swanson, University of Michigan (Dr. Mary Hondalus, Host) |
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"A NOD to pro-inflammatory cell death: Cytosolic recognition of flagellin by mouse macrophages restricts Legionella infection" |
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| March 27 |
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Dr. Gregory Warr, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences Center, Medical University of South Carolina (Dr. Liliana Jaso-Friedmann, Host) |
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"Innate and Adaptive Immunity to Virus Infection in a Marine Shrimp" |
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| April 3 |
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Dr. Steve Smiley, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, N.Y. (Dr. Jeff Hogan, Host) |
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"Fighting plague with T-cells:cell-mediated defense against pulmonary Yersinia pestis infection" |
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| April 1 |
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Dr. Stephen Miller, Northwestern University Medical School (Dr. Mark Tompkins, Host) |
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"The Interplay of Virus Infection, Innate Immunity, and Innate Immune Regulatory Cells in Induction of Autoimmune Disease" |
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| April 17 |
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Dr. Robbin S. Weyant, Captain, USPHS, CDC Biological Safety Officer, Office of Health and Safety,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (Dr. Fred Quinn, Host) |
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"How Did That Happen? A Review of Biosafety Concepts and Analysis of Recent Laboratory-Acquired Infections" |
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| April 24 |
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Dr. Norma Andrews, Dept. of Infectious Diseases (Graduate Student Association, Host) |
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"Pathogen-lysosome Interactions in Cell Invasion and Intracellular Survival" |
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| May 8 |
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Dr. Martin Voskuil, Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Dr. Russell Karls, Host) |
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"The Mycobacterium tuberculosis dormancy program and latent infection" |
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| May 15 |
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Dr. Mary Galinski (Dr. Andrea Varela, Host) |
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| May 22 |
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Dr. Jurgen Richt (Dr. Zhen Fu, Host) |
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"Application of Swine Influenza Reverse Genetics to Vaccine Development" |
