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Microbiology Department Seminar Series
Schedule revised 8/14/09

Noon, Wednesdays - Austrian Auditorium, CRB
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Date Speaker Title
9/23/09

Jianxin You, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

 Papillomavirus-host chromatin interaction and cancer
Kaufman Lecture

9/24/09

Mary K. Estes, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

(Class of 62 Auditorium)

 Norovirus gastroenteritis: Pathogenesis, host susceptibility and vaccines
9/30/09

Christine Biron, Ph.D.
Brown University

 Pathways regulating innate and adaptive responses to viral infections
10/7/09

Kim Orth, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center


 Black death, black spot, black pearl: Tales of bacterial effectors
10/14/09

Michael Katze, Ph.D.
University of Washington

 How can we save the world from the next pandemic – Can systems and computational biology be more effective than 50 years of traditional virology
10/21/09

Paula Cannon, Ph.D.
Keck School of Medicine of USC

 Viral proteins that counteract tetherin restriction of virus release
10/28/09

Eric Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health

 Mycobacterial growth: Breaking up is hard to do
11/4/09

Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Multiple host barriers limit poliovirus trafficking in mice
11/11/09

Ralph Isberg, Ph.D.
Tufts University

Pathway analysis of vesicle hijacking by the agent of Legionnaire’s Disease
11/18/09

Britt Glaunsinger, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley

A tale of tails: how polyadenylation contributes to 

global cellular mRNA destruction during lytic herpesvirus infection
12/2/09

Brett Lindenbach, Ph.D.
Yale University

New aspects of hepatitis C virus replication and infectivity
12/9/09

L. David Sibley, Ph.D.
Washington University

 Virulence determinants in Toxoplasma: Thwarting innate immunity
12/16/09

Jayne Raper, Ph.D.
New York University Langone Medical Center

 A novel high density lipoprotein with broad antimicrobial activity:  The good cholesterol