Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


2008 CMIB Retreat

Retreat Program

2008 CMIB Research Retreat Program

Thursday, September 4   
1:00pm  

Registration and Poster setup 

 

2:00pm 

BRT room 115  Welcome 

 

 

Larry Schlesinger
Samuel Saslaw Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Microbial interface Biology
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine 

 

Session I 

Timothy Buckley, Moderator
Associate Professor and Chair
Division of Environmental Health Sciences  

 

2:20pm 

Michael Lairmore 
Professor and Chair
Department of Veterinary Biosciences

"Essential Role of Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1 p30 in T-cell Survival and Viral Spread" 

 

2:50pm 

Joanne Turner
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 

“CD8 T cells and IL-10: an unexpected partnership in TB pathogenesis”

 

3:20pm 

Hua Wang
Associate Professor 
Department of Food Science and Technology 
Department of Microbiology  

“What are we eating every day?”

 

3:50pm 

Break

 

4:20pm 

Keynote speaker; introduced by Robert Munson

Patrick Schlievert
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota

"MRSA The Super Pathogen: The Toxin Factor(y)" 

 

5:30-8:00pm 

Dinner Reception and poster viewing  

 

6:00-7:00pm 

Poster judging (post-doctoral/research scientists) 

 

Friday, September 5   
8:00am 

Breakfast, registration and poster setup

 

8:30am 

BRT room 115 Opening remarks

Robert Munson
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Microbiology
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 

 

Session II 

Karl Werbovetz, Moderator
Associate Professor
Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy 

 

8:45am  

Dan Wozniak
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wake Forest University School Medicine

“Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the CF airway” 

 

9:15am 

Abstract selections  

Nancy Jewell, Center for Vaccines and Immunity at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Interferon gamma induction by influenza a virus in vivo (Abstract 46)

Melinda Dunn, Department of Pathology
Inhibition of respiratory syncytial virus by the experimental immunosuppressive leflunomide (Abstract 24)

Corey Clay, Departments of Internal Medicine and Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics
LPS O-antigen dictates whether complement activation by Francisella tularensis results in microbial lysis by regulating C3 deposition (Abstract 10)
 

 

10:00am 

Coffee and poster judging (graduate students) 

 

11:30am  

Santiago Partida-Sanchez
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics 

"Integration of Ca2+ signals by TRP channels during dendritic cell responses to danger"

 

12:00pm 

Daniel Janies       
Associate Professor 
Department of Biomedical Informatics 

"The supramap project (supramap.osu.edu) - linking genomics, evolution, and geography to fight emergent infectious diseases"

 

12:30pm 

Lunch

 

Session III  

Amal Amer, Moderator
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine 

 

1:45pm 

Gireesh Rajashekara
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine 

“Protein translocation and Campylobacter jejuni colonization in chickens”

 

2:15pm 

Abstract selections

Surender Kumar, Departments of Internal Medicine and Veterinary Biosciences
Alloantigen exposure influences FIV infection threshold (Abstract 35)

Hannah Cummings, Department of Microbiology
Targeting phosphoinositide 3-kinase g  (PI3K g ) in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by L. mexicana (Abstract 59)

Thomas Cremer, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Program and Department of Internal Medicine
microRNA influence on host response to Francisella infection (Abstract 31)

Alistair Harrison, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
The RNA chaperone Hfq and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (Abstract 48)

 

3:15pm 

Break 

 

3:45pm  

Shu-Hua Wang
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine 

"Analysis of tuberculosis cases in Franklin County"

 

4:15pm 

Chad Rappleye
Assistant Professor 
Department of Microbiology
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine  

“Factors promoting Histoplasma capsulatum virulence”

 

4:45pm  Awards and closing 


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