| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Host |
Title/Area of Interest |
August |
August 28
Thursday
|
Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz |
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Microbiology
|
David Chaplin |
"Poxviruses, Biodefense, and Bioinformatics:Working towards a better
understanding of viral pathogenesis and evolution"
Publications
|
September |
September 2
|
Dr. Simon Newman |
University of Cincinnati
Division of Infectious Diseases
|
David Briles |
"Macrophages, Dendritic Cells, and Histoplasma
capsulatum: Differential Recognition and Fates"
Publications
|
|
September 9 |
|
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September 16 |
|
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September 22
Monday |
Dr. Mark Hochstrasser |
Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Yale University |
Dave Bedwell
Pete Burrows
|
"Regulation by protein degradation: the ubiquitin-proteasome system"
Publications |
| September 23 |
Dr. Heidi Goodrich-Blair |
Department of
Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Creg Darby |
"A Tale of Two
Hosts:
Xenorhabdus
nematophila
As a Nematode Symbiont and
Insect
Pathogen"
Publications |
| September 30 |
Dr. Linda Hendershot |
Genetics/Tumor Cell Biology Department
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Dave Bedwell
Pete Burrows
|
"BiP - a master regulator of ER function"
Recent Publications |
October |
| October 7 |
Dr. Anita Corbett |
Department of
Biochemistry
Emory
University |
Dave Bedwell
Pete Burrows
|
"Quality Control in mRNA
Export from the Nucleus"
Publications
|
|
October 14 |
Dr. Richard Moyer |
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida College of Medicine |
Rich Whitley |
"Poxvirus serpins: Protease
inhibitors and more"
Publications |
|
October 16
Thursday
3 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Sam Strober |
Stanford University
Medical Center |
Judy Thomas |
"Regulatory T cells in
hematopoietic progenitor cell and tissue transplantation"
Recent Publications |
| October 21 |
Dr. Andrew Macpherson |
Institute of Experimental Immunology
University Hospital Zurich |
David Chaplin |
"The induction and function of IgA against commensal intestinal bacteria"
Publications |
October 27
Monday
Noon |
Philip Farabaugh |
The University of Maryland
Baltimore County
The Department of Biological Sciences |
Dave Bedwell
Pete Burrows
|
"What programmed +1 frameshifting suggests about the
mechanism of reading frame maintenance by the ribosome"
Publications
|
| October 28
|
Dr. Andrew Robertson |
Department of
Biochemistry
University of
Iowa |
Peter Prevelige |
"Protein Phrenology: Reading
the Surface of Ubiquitin to Determine its Aptitudes and
Tendencies"
Publications |
November |
Monday
November 3 |
Dr. Tom Dever |
NICHD
NIH |
Dave Bedwell
Pete Burrows
|
"Control of Protein Biosynthesis by
GTPases and Protein Kinases"
Publications
|
| November 4 |
Dr
Jean Lee |
Channing Laboratory
Harvard Medical
School |
David Briles |
Staphylococcus aureus
encapsulation
Publications |
| November 11 |
Dr. Andrew Camilli |
Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
Tufts University
School of Medicine |
David Briles |
Vibrio cholerae and
Streptococcus pneumoniae pathogenesis
Publications |
| November 13
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr.
Michael Cancro |
Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
Bob Carter
John Kearney |
B Lymphocyte development,
selection, and homeostasis
Recent Publications |
| November 18 |
Dr. Alison D.
OíBrien |
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences |
David Briles |
Enterohemorrhagic
Escherichia coli
Publications |
| November
20
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Joshy Jacob |
Emory Vaccine Center
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
Emory University |
Casey
Weaver |
ìFollowing the Footprints of Immune Sentinelsî
Recent Publications |
December |
December 2 |
Dr. Mark Buller |
Department of
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
St. Louis University
School of Medicine
|
Elliot
Lefkowitz |
Genetic basis for poxvirus
virulence
Publications
|
| December 9 |
Dr. Mike Summers |
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County |
Peter Prevelige |
NMR studies of retrovirus
assembly and function
Publications |
| December 16 |
Dr. Eugene Oltz |
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University |
John Kearney |
Genetic programming of lymphocyte development
Recent Publications |
2004 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Host |
Title/Area of
Interest |
January |
|
January 6
|
Dr. Chris Aiken |
Department of Microbiology and
Immunology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
Peter Prevelige |
"Coupling of HIV-1 Entry to Virion Maturation: A Novel Role of the gp41 Cytoplasmic Domain"
Publications |
|
January 13
|
Dr. Shelley Payne |
Section of
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
The University of Texas
at Austin |
David Briles |
"Shigella:
Iron acquisition by an intracellular pathogen"
Publications |
|
January 20 |
|
|
|
|
|
January 27
Canceled |
Dr. Robert Johnston |
Carolina Vaccine Institute
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
The University of North
Carolina School of Medicine |
Allan Zajac |
"The biology of alpha virus
vaccine vectors"
Selected publications |
February |
| February 3 |
Dr. Chris Walker |
The Ohio State University |
Allan Zajac |
"Cellular immune responses and
the outcome of the Hepatitis C virus infection"
Selected publications
|
|
February 13
Friday
Co-sponsored by the
Center
for AIDS Research |
Dr. Eckard Wimmer |
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
SUNY Stony Brook |
|
Poliovirus replication and
picornaviral pathogenesis Recent publications |
|
February 17 |
Dr. M Suresh |
Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of Wisconsin
Madison |
Allan Zajac |
"Regulation of CD8 T cell
responses by TNF and IFN-g
Selected publications |
|
February 24 |
Dr. Frederick Murphy Co-sponsored by The
UAB Center for Biodefense and Emerging
Infections |
University of California at
Davis |
Rich Whitley |
"Emerging zoonoses - The challenge
for public health and biodefense"
Recent Publications |
|
February 26
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Mark Atkinson |
Dept. of Pathology, Immunology and
Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida College of
Medicine
|
Judy Thomas |
"30 years of understanding the autoimmune basis for type 1 diabetes: Why can't
we prevent this disease?"
Publications
|
March |
| March 2 |
|
|
|
|
| March 9 |
Dr. Zeev Pancer |
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Division of Developmental & Clinical Immunology |
Pete Burrows |
"Origins of vertebrate
adaptive immunity"
Publications |
| March 16 |
|
|
|
|
|
March 23 |
|
|
|
|
|
March 30 |
|
|
|
|
April |
| April 6 |
|
|
|
|
| April 8
Thursday
8 AM
WP-D
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Connie Weyand |
Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology
Emory University |
Bob Kimberly |
"Giant Cell
arteritis: Disease principles and new therapeutic agents"
Publications |
| April 13 |
Dr. Shannon Kenney |
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
University of North
Carolina School of Medicine |
|
Molecular pathogenesis of
Epstein-Barr virus
Selected publications |
|
April 20 |
Dr. Ed Swords |
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center |
David Briles |
Cellular microbiology of
airway infections
Recent Publications |
|
April 27 |
|
|
|
|
May |
| May 4 |
|
|
|
|
| May 6
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Mitch Kronenberg |
La Jolla Institute for
Allergy and Immunology |
Casey
Weaver |
CD1 and NK T cells |
|
May 11 |
Dr. Lalita Ramakrishnan |
Department of Microbiology
University of Washington |
Creg Darby |
Pathogenesis of tuberculosis
Publications |
|
May 18 |
|
|
|
|
|
May 25 |
|
|
|
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June |
|
June 3
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr. Syamal Datta |
Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Curriculum
Northwestern University |
Bob
Kimberly |
"Molecular Signatures of T cells Driving Systemic Lupus Autoimmunity" |
|
June 8
Co-sponsored by the
Center
for AIDS Research |
Dr. Ann M. Sheehy
Faculty
Candidate |
Department of Infectious Diseases
King's College London |
David
Chaplin |
“The Identification and
Investigation of APOBEC3G, a Novel Anti-viral Host Factor”
Selected publications |
|
June 10
Thursday |
Dr. Kim Schluns
Faculty
Candidate |
Division of Immunology
University of
Connecticut Health Center |
Jiri Mestecky |
“The Roles of IL-7 and
IL-15 in the Differentiation and Maintenance of Memory
CD8T Cells”
Selected publications |
|
June 17
Thursday |
Dr.
Stephanie M.
Karst
Faculty
Candidate |
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine |
David
Chaplin |
“Discovery
of the First Murine Norovirus, MNV-1: A Model System to
Study Immunity, Pathogenesis, and Replication of
Noroviruses”
Selected publications |
|
June 24
Thursday |
Dr. Pamela A. Kozlowski
Faculty
Candidate |
Department of Pediatrics and Medicine
Harvard Medical
School |
Jiri Mestecky |
"Vaccines, Adjuvants, and Immunization Strategies for
Prevention of Mucosal HIV Transmission"
Selected publications |
|
July
|
July 15
Thursday
|
Dr. April D. Burch
Faculty Candidate
|
Department of
Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center
|
David
Chaplin |
"Defining the role of the cellular chaperone
machinery at early times during HSV-1 infection"
Selected publications
|
|
July 22
Thursday |
Dr. Adam T. Grundhoff
Faculty
Candidate |
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California,
San Francisco |
David
Chaplin |
"Establishment of latent infection by Kaposi's
sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus: Episomes meet epigenetics"
Selected publications
|
|
Dr. Cecil Czerkinsky
Faculty Candidate
|
Director, Immunité Muqueuse et Vaccination, Faculté de Médecine-Pasteur,
Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis |
Jiri Mestecky |
"Transepithelial Immunomodulation"
|
|
August
|
|
August 3
|
Dr. Hans-Martin
Jäck |
Division of
Molecular Immunology
Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen Nuremberg |
John
Kearney |
Selected publications |
|
Dr. Sunnie Thompson
Faculty Candidate
|
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
|
David
Chaplin |
"Internal Initiation of Translation in Yeast"
Publications
|
|
August 19
Thursday
4 PM
The UAB Program in Immunology |
Dr.
Rafi Ahmed |
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Director,
Vaccine Research Center
Emory University
|
David
Chaplin |
Viral persistence and T cell
memory
Selected publications
|
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