Microbiology Seminar Series

Department of Microbiology

Seminar Series 2008-2009

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2008

September

September 2	Dr. Louis Justement	Department of Microbiology University of Alabama at Birmingham	David Chaplin	B cell differentiation Recent publications
September 9	Dr.Yoav Arava	Department of Biology Technion, Israel Institute of Technology	Sunnie Thompson	"Translation and Localization of mRNA as means of Expression Regulation" Recent publications
September 16	Dr. David Graves	Department of Chemistry University of Alabama at Birmingham	Jamil Saad	Sequence-specific protein-DNA interactions Recent publications
September 23	Dr. George Thomas	School of Biological Sciences University of Missouri - Kansas City	Peter Prevelige	Biophysics of virus assembly Recent publications
September 30	Dr. Paul Spearman	Department of Pediatrics Emory University	Jamil Saad	“Viral and Host Cell Factors Involved in HIV Assembly and Release” Publications

October

October 7	Dr. Grant Jensen	California Institute of Technology	Terje Dokland	“New insights into bacterial and viral ultrastructure from electron cryotomography” Recent publications
October 14	Dr. Leo Lefrancois	Department of Immunology University of Connecticut Health Center	Allan Zajac	Control of the immune response against microbial infections and self-antigens Recent publications
October 21	Dr. Chris Klug	Department of Microbiology University of Alabama at Birmingham	David Chaplin	Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development Recent publications
October 28	Dr. James Conway	Department of Structural Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	Terje Dokland	Virus structure Recent publications

November

November 4	Dr. Larry Schlesinger	College of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases The Ohio State University	Lou Justement	Mycobacteria pathogenesis Recent publications
November 11	Dr. Richard Lloyd	Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology Baylor College of Medicine	Sunnie Thompson	Translation and apoptosis in virus infection Recent publications
November 18	Dr. Howard Jenkinson	University of Bristol Dental School	Hui Wu	"How Dental Streptococcus Causes Cardiovascular Disease" Recent publications
November 25	Dr. Tatyana Pestova	Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics SUNY Downstate Medical Center	Dave Bedwell	Mechanism of initiation of eukaryotic protein synthesis Recent publications

December

December 2

Dr. Martha Alexander-Miller

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Allan Zajac

Regulation of CD8+ CTL during viral infection

Recent publications

December 9

Dr. Joshua Weitz

School of Biology & Physics

Georgia Institute of Technology

Peter Prevelige

"Collective decision making in bacterial viruses"

Recent publications

December 16

Dr. Moon Nahm

Department of Pathology

UAB

Pete Burrows

Bacterial pathogenesis

Recent publications

2009

January

January 6
January 13	Dr. Kouacou Konan	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Eberly College of Science Penn State	Sunnie Thompson	Hepatitis C and related viruses Recent publications
January 20	Hold PB
January 26 Monday Bertram Marx Lecture	Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch	Department of Biology MIT	David Chaplin	Epigenetic regulation of gene expression Recent publications

February

February 3	Dr. John Corbett	Department of Medicine UAB	Pete Burrows	Diabetes Recent publications
February 10	Dr. James Collawn	Department of Cell Biology UAB	Pete Burrows	Protein trafficking Recent publications
February 17	Hold PB
February 24	Dr. Amy Herr	UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering UC Berkeley	Jan Novak	Bioinstrumentation for quantitative biology & medicine Recent Publications

March

March 3	Dr. Hao Shen	Department of Microbiology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Allan Zajac	Host pathogen interactions Recent publications
March 10	Hold Novak 4/12
March 17	Hold MN 07/04
March 24	Dr. James Gorham	Department of Pathology Dartmouth Medical School	Chander Raman	Regulation of T helper cells in the hepatic immune system Recent publications
March 31	Hold PB

April

April 7	Dr. Michael Miller	Department of Cell Biology UAB	Pete Burrows	C. elegans development and fertilization Recent publications
April 14	Dr. Jay Mizgerd	Departments of Medicine and Microbiology Boston University School of Medicine	David Briles	Neutrophil emigration and activation Recent publications
April 21	Hold Briles 4/08
April 28	Dr. Rodney Tweten	Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Okalahoma	David Briles	Mechanisms of cytolytic toxins Recent publications

May

May 5	Dr. Jon Dinman	Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics University of Maryland College of Chemical and Life Sciences	Dave Bedwell	Ribosome structure and function Recent publications
May 12	Hold MN 07/04
May 19	Hold PB
May 26	Hold PB

June

June 2

Hold PB

Last updated September 12, 2008

Questions? Peter Burrows