Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series

September 22

Marc Lecuit
Institut Pasteur & INSERM, Paris Descartes University
Host: Indira Mysorekar

Listeria monocytogenes crossing of host barriers

September 29

Christina Stallings
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Host: David Sibley

Insight into a novel pathway required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis

October 6

Daniel Kuritzkes
Harvard Medical School
Host: Lee Ratner

HIV-1 resistance to CCR5 antagonists

October 13

Sarkis Mazmanian
California Institute of Technology
Host: Phillip Tarr

Say hello to your little friends: how gut bacteria shape intestinal immune health

October 20

Dong Yu
Washington University School of Medicine
Host: Dave Wang

Life or death: modulation of cell cycle and cell death by human cytomegalovirus

October 27

Vernon B. Carruthers
University of Michigan Medical School
Host: David Sibley

Intercellular transmission of Toxoplasma gondii

November 3

Kami Kim
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Host: Daniel Goldberg

Using epigenomics to understand Toxoplasma gondii gene expression

November 10

Robert Heinzen
National Institutes of Health, Rocky Mountain Labs
Host: Joseph Vogel

New insight into host cell parasitism by the Q fever bacterium, Coxiella burnetii

November 17

Thomas Shenk
Princeton University
Host: Dong Yu

Metabolomic analysis of human cytomegalovirus infected cells: origin of the cytoplasmic assembly zone

November 24

Audrey Odom
Washington University School of Medicine
Host: Daniel Goldberg

Isoprenoid biosynthesis is required for erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

December 1

Heran Darwin
New York University School of Medicine
Host: Joseph Vogel

"Pupylation" in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

December 8

Jay Nelson
Oregon Health and Science University
Host: Dong Yu

Identification of Targets and Function of HCMV in miRNAs