Seminars in Infection and Immunity - Fall '09
(VETMI 7120*)

by Program in Infection and Pathobiology
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Time/day: Fridays, 12:15 Pm - 1:15 pm

Location: Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium

* Students who are enrolled in the VETMI 7120 course must sign in at each seminar.

Date	Title/Speaker	Host
Sep. 4	Outer Membrane Vesicles: Turning Bacterial Stress Into Virulence Dr. Meta Kuehn Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry Duke University http://www.biochem.duke.edu/faculty/meta-kuehn	Dr. Gary Whittaker Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology e-mail: grw7
Sep. 11	Plasmodium Induced Inflammation and Dendritic Cell Immune Response Dr. Ana Rodriguez Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Parasitology Langone Medical Center, New York University http://www.med.nyu.edu/research/rodria02.html	Dr. Susana Mendez Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology / Baker Institute of Animal Health e-mail: sm457
Sep. 18	The Role of Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Allergic Contact Dermatitis Dr. Anthony Gaspari Shapiro Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology / Director, Cutaneous Immunopathology Laboratory University of Maryland School of Medicine http://medschool.umaryland.edu/dermatology/ (Also read: http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/gaspari.htm and http://www.umm.edu/doctors/anthony_a_gaspari.html)	Dr. Susana Mendez Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology / Baker Institute of Animal Health e-mail: sm457
Sep. 25	Immune Subversion and Exploitation by Schistosome Worms Dr. Stephen Davies Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences http://www.usuhs.mil/mic/Davies/index.html	Dr. John Parker Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology / Baker Institute of Animal Health e-mail: jsp7
Oct. 2	Autophagy, an Innate Immune Response to Intracellular Pathogens Dr. Michele Swanson Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology University of Michigan Medical School http://www.med.umich.edu/microbio/bio/swanson_m.htm	Graduate students of the Program in Infection & Pathobiology Student Reps.: Kristine Hope (kmh58) Matthew Stasiewicz (ms984) Kitiya Vongkamjan (kv75)
Oct. 9	Biology of MSCRAMMs Dr. Magnus Hook Neva and Wesley West Professor, Regents Professor / Director, Center for Extracellular Matrix Biology Institute of Bioscience and Technology Texas A&M University Health Science Center http://ibt.tamhsc.edu/labs/ciid/infectious.htmll	Dr. Yung-Fu Chang Dept. of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences e-mail: yc42
Oct. 16	No Seminar
Oct. 23	RNA Viruses Hijack the Host Cell's Secretory Pathway to Build Organelles Critical for RNA Replication Dr. Nihal Alton-Bonnet Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences Rutgers University Dr. Alton-Bonnet's web site	Dr. Ruth Collins Dept. of Molecular Medicine e-mail: rnc8
Oct. 30	Severing the Gordian Knot:  Are Glycolipids the Solution for Effective Vaccines against   Malaria and HIV? Dr. Moriya Tsuji Aaron Diamond Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University / Staff Investigator, HIV and Malaria Vaccine Program, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, NY http://www.adarc.org/tsuji_427.html	Dr. Eric Denkers Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology e-mail: eyd1
Nov. 6	Innate Resistance, Inflammation and Cancer Dr. Giorgio Trinchieri Director, Cancer and Inflammation Program Chief, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology Associate Director, Trans-NIH Center for Human Immunology Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD http://ccr.nci.nih.gov/staff/staff.asp?profileid=11574	Graduate students of the Field of Immunology: Lisa Blum (student representative) e-mail: lkb25
Nov. 13	Tomato Immunity to Bacterial Speck Disease Dr. Gregory Martin Scientist, Boyce Schulze Downey Chair Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research / Professor, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University http://bti.cornell.edu/GregoryMartin.php Dr. De'Broski Herbert's seminar, originally scheduled for this day, has been postponed to March 5, 2010.	Dr. Ted Clark Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology e-mail: tgc3
Nov. 20	Defining HSP gp96/grp94 as a Master Chaperone for Toll-like Receptors Dr. Zihai Li Associate Professor of Immunology and Medical Oncology Dept. of Immunology / Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases University of Connecticut School of Medicine http://immune.uchc.edu/Lab%20pages/lilab.htm Dr. Eicke Latz's seminar, originally scheduled for this day, has been cancelled. .	Dr. Cynthia Leifer Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology e-mail: cal59
Nov. 27	No Seminar - Thanksgiving break
Dec. 4	No Seminar due to Infectious Disease Forum at 12:15 pm in LH 1

For questions, please contact Sachiko Funaba (3-3402; <sf35>) or the host.

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