UPENN SOM :: MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 12/16/11

Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB
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Date	Speaker	Title
1/11/12	Julie Blander, PhD Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	*Vita-PAMPs, signatures of microbial viability*
1/18/12	Richard Losick, PhD Harvard Univ.	*Life and death of a microbial community*
1/25/12	Eleanor Riley London School of Hygiene and Tropical Med	*The mechanistic basis of susceptiblity ot salmonella bacteremia in malaria patients*
2/1/12	Klaus Fruh, PhD Oregon Health & Science University	*Evasion of T cell responses by cytomegalovirus*
2/8/12	Alan Sher, PhD NIAID	*Intersecting roles of IL-1 and IFN in host resistance to mycobacterium tuberculosis*
2/15/12	Michael Emerman, PhD Fredh Hutchinson Cancer Res Ctr	*Evolution and function of restriction factors against HIV and related viruses*
2/22/12	William Goldman, PhD Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill	*The progression of pneumonic plague*
2/29/12	Andrew Camilli, PhD Tufts Univ. School of Medicine	*A life cycle view of pathogenic Vibrio cholerae*
3/7/12	Glenn Randall, PhD Univ. Chicago	*Home remodeling: hepatitis C virus and dengue virus-host interactions*
3/14/12	Susan Kaech, PhD Yale School of Medicine	*Life-long decisions of effector and memory T cells during infection*
3/21/12	Ileana M Cristea, PhD Princeton Univ.	*A systems biology view of the dynamic interplay between viruses and hosts*
3/28/12	Ian Mohr, PhD NYU Langone Medical Ctr	TBD
4/4/12	John Boothroyd, PhD Stanford School of Medicine	Viennese Waltz or Philadelphia Rave: how injected, polymorphic proteins dramatically influcence Toxoplasma's dance with its host
4/11/12	Denise Monack, PhD Stanford School of Medicine	Salmonella's alternative lifestyle
4/18/12	Paul Offit, MD Children's Hospital of Phila	TBD
4/25/12	Hamilton Smith, MD J. Craig Venter Institute	What essential genetic functions must a bacterial cell have to be alive?
5/2/12	David Wang, PhD Washington Univ. Sch. Med.	Discovery and characterization of novel viruses
The Tenth Annual Neal Nathanson Lecture
5/9/12	Julie Overbaugh, PhD University of Washington	A basic scientist's journey into interdisciplinary, international HIV research
5/16/12	Brandon Kelle, PhD SAIC-Frederick at the NCI	Using nonhuman primate models to understand HIV-1 transmission
5/23/12	Eric Pamer, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr	Antibiotics, microbiota and susceptibility to infestinal infection

Microbiology Department Seminar Series Schedule revised 12/16/11 Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB Click here for a pdf of the poster

Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 12/16/11

Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Click here for a pdf of the poster