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Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 2/20/08

Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB
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Date Speaker Title
1/16/08

Susan Ross, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Using Genetics to Study Host Virus Interactions
1/23/08 Elisabetta Ullu, PhD
Yale University		 Mechanism and Evolution of RNA Interference in Protozoan Parasites
1/30/08 Yvonne Paterson, PhD
University of Pennsylvania 		Targeting Tolerogenic Tumor Antigens for Cancer Immunotherapy with Listeria Monocytogenes
2/6/08

Mary O'Riordan, PhD
University of Michigan

Keeping Microbes in their Place: The Role of Compartmentalization in Host-Pathogen Interactions
2/13/08

Lucas Pelkmans, PhD
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Quantitative Heterogeneity Signatures of Infectious Virus Entry and Endocytosis Human Cell Populations – Probabilistic Models of Phenotype Prediction and Network Analysis
2/20/08 Ashley Haase, PhD
University of Minnesota 		SIV Pathogenesis: Action at Mucosal Sites
2/27/08 Daria Hazuda, PhD
Merck, Inc.
The Discovery of the HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor Isentress: From the Bench to the Clinic (and back again…)
3/5/08 Victor Nizet, MD
Univ. California, San Diego
Probing How Bacterial Pathogens Thwart Innate Immunity to Plan a Therapeutic Counterattack
3/12/08

Eric Pamer, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Microbial Pathogens
3/19/08 Nigel Fraser, PhD
University of Pennsylvania 		Herpes Simplex – A Tale of Two States
3/26/08 John Boothroyd, PhD
Stanford University 		Wall Flower or Party Animal: How Rhoptry Proteins Determine the Personality of Different Strains of Toxoplsma
4/2/08 Cancelled TBA
4/9/08 TBA  
4/16/08 Ralph Baric, PhD
University of North Carolina 		Mechanisms of SARS-CoV Pathogenesis: Implication in Vaccine Design
4/23/08 Shaden Kamhawi, PhD
NIAID		 Rapid Screening of Sand Fly Molecules for Anti-Leishmania Vaccine Candidates: A Customized Functional Genomics Approach
4/30/08 Scott Wong, PhD
Oregon Health and Science University 		TBA
Thursday,
5/8/08		 Argentina- Penn Symposium on Pathogen Host Interactions Diego de Mendoza, PhD
Andrea V Gamarnik, PhD
Fernando A Goldbaum, PhD
Gabriel A Rabinovich, PhD
5/14/08

BRB II/III
Auditorium

Sixth Annual Neal Nathanson Lecture

David Baltimore, PhD
California Institute of Technology

MicroRNAs and Inflammation
5/21/08 Peter Cresswell, PhD
Yale University 		MHC Class I:  Processing, Presentation and Cross-Presentation
5/28/08 David Knipe, PhD
Harvard University 		Herpesvirus Replication-defective Viruses as Vaccines and Vaccine Vectors
 

Herpesvirus Symposium
June 11 2008

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Please contact Judy Lotsis, lotsis@mail.med.upenn.edu, for more information.