UPENN SOM :: MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 5/2/13

Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB
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Date	Speaker	Title
1/9/13	*Roy Parker, Ph.D.* *University of Colorado at Boulder*	*Mechanisms and regulation of translation and mRNA turnover in eukaryotic cells*
1/16/13	*Scott Weaver, Ph.D.* *University of Texas Medical Branch*	*Chikungunya fever: Mechanisms of emergence and prospects for control through vaccination*
1/23/13	*Ian Lipkin, M.D.* *Columbia University*	*Microbe hunting*
1/30/13	*Viviana Simon, M.D.* *Mount Sinai School of Medicine*	*Determinants of intrinsic antiviral host defenses*
2/6/13	*Professor Paul M. Sharp* *University of Edinburgh*	*Origin of human Plasmodium vivax, the neglected malaria*
2/13/13	*Lynn W. Enquist, Ph.D.* *Princeton University*	*Axonal infection by neuroinvasive alpha herpesviruses*
2/20/13	*Joseph Sodroski, M.D.* *Dana-Farber Cancer Institute*	*Structure and function of the human immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoproteins*
2/27/13	*Roberto Cattaneo, Ph.D.* *Mayo Clinic*	*New receptors for old viruses: From pathogens to oncolytics*
3/6/13	*Yuan Chang, M.D.* *University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute*	*Using viral genomics to find causes and potential cures for human cancers*
3/13/13	*Jacek Skowronski, Ph.D.* *Case Western Reserve University*	*HIV virulence factors, innate immunity and E3 ubiquitin ligases*
3/20/13	*Matthew K. Waldor, M.D., Ph.D.* *Brigham and Women's Hospital*	*Outbreaks of cholerae in Haiti and HUS in Germany: Lessons from single molecule DNA sequencing*
3/27/13	*Margaret McFall-Ngai, Ph.D.* *University of Wisconsin-Madison*	*Deciphering the language of biological diplomacy: Interdisciplinary research with a model symbiosis*
4/3/13	*Eva Gottwein, Ph.D.* *Northwestern University*	*Targets and functions of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus microRNAs*
4/10/13	*Andreas Baumler, Ph.D.* *University of California, Davis*	*Food from the fire: How the host response feeds Salmonella*
4/17/13	*Nathaniel R. Landau, Ph.D.* *New York University School of Medicine*	*HIV accessory proteins and their cellular targets: Starved for attention*
4/24/13	*Kyong-Mi Chang, M.D.* *Philadelphia VA Medical Center*	*Immune pathogenesis of human HCV infection*
5/1/13	*William Jacobs, Jr., Ph.D.* *Albert Einstein College of Medicine*	*Unmasking the Houdini traits of mycobacterium tuberculosis: Persistence in the presence of drugs and immune effectors*
5/8/13	*ALUMNI SPEAKER* *Jeffrey Dvorin, MD, PhD* *Boston Children's Hospital* *and Harvard Medical School*	*Discovering essential gene function in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum*
5/15/13	*The Eleventh Annual Neal Nathanson Lecture* *Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.* *Chief Scientific Officer, Sanofi*	*Addressing Viral Diversity in Vaccine Design for AIDS and Influenza*
5/22/13	David Roos, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania	*Intracellular Etiquette: the systems biology of intracellular parasites and host-pathogen interactions*
5/29/13	Jeffrey Weiser, M.D. University of Pennsylvania	*The battle with the host over microbial size*
6/17/13 Monday, room 209 Johnson Pav	*Lisa F.P. Ng, PhD* *Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)*	*Immuno-biology of arthralgia-inducing alphaviruses: From bed to bench and back*

Microbiology Department Seminar Series Schedule revised 5/2/13 Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB Click here for a pdf of the poster

Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 5/2/13

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