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Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series

• Spring 2013•

Tuesdays - 12:00 p.m.
Cori Auditorium
McDonnell Sciences Building

Please contact the host if you wish to meet with the speaker

January 29
Gerry Wright
McMaster University
Host: Gautam Dantas

New antibacterial strategies in the resistome

February 5
Christopher Sullivan
Univerisity of Texas, Austin
Host: Dave Wang
RNAi machinery; a tool for the enemy during viral iInfection in mammalian cells

February 7

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Tamara O’Connor
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine
Host: Dr. Mike Caparon
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:30 am		 The Role of Protozoa in the Evolution of a Bacteria Pathogen

February 12
James Fleckenstein
Washington University School of Medicine
Host: David Hunstad
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: bona fide pathogens

February 13

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Mojgan Naghavi
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University, New York
Host: Dr. David Wang
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 The Role of Cytoskeletal Regulatory Factors in Viral Infection

February 19
Jean Celli
National Institutes of Health
Host: Indira Mysorekar
Brucella intracellular pathogenesis: from cell biology to effector molecules

February 20

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Masahiro Shuda

Cancer Virology Program
University of Pittsburgh
Host: Dr. David Wang
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 Role for a New Human Polyomavirus in Merkel Cell Carcinogenesis

February 26
Felicia Goodrum
University of Arizona
Host: Deborah Lenschow
Viral determinants controlling human cytomegalovirus persistence

March 5
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March 6

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Abhishek Chatterjee

Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Tamara Doering
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 Discovery and Engineering of Biochemical Systems:
I. Understanding the Biosynthesis of Vitamin B1 and
II. Expanding the Scope of Unnatural Amino Acid
Mutagenesis in vivo

March 12
Joseph Lutkenhaus
University of Kansas Medical Center
Host: Scott Hultgren
Mechanism of the Min oscillatory system regulating division in E. coli

March 13

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Michael Povelones

Division of Cell & Molecular Biology, Imperial College London
Host: Tamara Doering
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 Killing Malaria Parasites: Molecular Dissection of the Mosquito Complement-like Pathway

March 19
Dr. Ralph Baric
University of North Carolina
Host: Gaya Amarasinghe
Coronaviruses and Norwalk like viruses

March 20

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Thomas Clarke

of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Host: Mike Caparon
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 The Dynamic Interaction Between the Commensal Microbiota and the Innate Immune System

March 26
Joseph Mougous
University of Washington
Host: Joseph Vogel
Bacterial antagonism mediated by the type VI secretion system

March 27

Special
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Dr. Laszlo Kari

National Institute of Health, NIAID,  Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites
Host: Mike Caparon
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building
Room 8101
10:00 am		 Chlamydia: Unraveling pathogenesis and prevention with new genetic tools

April 2
Richard Webby
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Host: Jacco Boon
Interspecies transmission of influenza viruses at the human-swine interface

April 9
Liz Sockett
University of Nottingham
Host: Petra Levin
How do predatory Bdellovibrio invade other bacteria, and can this be applied usefully?

April 16
Carl Nathan
Weill Cornell Medical College
Host: Christina Stallings
Chemotherapy of infectious disease guided by host-pathogen relationships

April 23
Rozanne Sandri-Goldin
University of California, Irvine
Host: Dave Wang
Herpes simplex virus protein ICP27 has a pivotal role during infection

April 30
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Host: Dave Wang
Rules of engagement: molecular arms races between primate and viral genomes

May 7
Andreas Baumler
University of California, Davis
Host: Indira Mysorekar
Food from the fire: How the host response feeds Salmonella

 
 
 
 
 


Please contact the host if you wish to meet with the speaker.
http://www.microbiology.wustl.edu/seminars/mmmpsem
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Box 8230
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO 63110-1093 USA
Phone: (314) 362-4829

 

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