Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


Work-in-Progress Discussion Group

Work in Progress Winter/Spring 2009

January 5

 

Mikhail Gavrilin, Research Scientist, (PI-Mikhail Gavrilin, Mentor-Mark Wewers), Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

"New Type of Intracellular Pathogens Sensor – The Pyrin Inflammasome"

 

January 12

 

Jordi Torrelles, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Role of the host microenvironment in dictating Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis"

 

January 19 

University Holiday, Martin Luther King Day

 

January 26

 

Jayajit Das, Assistant Professor, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"Membrane Proximal Signaling in Lymphocytes: An interplay between co-operative processes and stochastic fluctuations"

 

February 2

 

Abul K. Azad, Research Scientist (PI: Larry Schlesinger), Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Gene polymorphisms in human C-type lectins that have the potential to predict tuberculosis susceptibility in healthy individuals"

 

February 9

 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm BRT 115)

David Underhill PhD, Imunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles 

"Phagocytosis and Inflammation - What is the connection?"

 

February 16

 

Vijaya Srinivasan, Post-doctoral Researcher (PI: Vijay Pancholi), Department of Pathology

"A Novel Regulatory Cascade in Streptococcus pyogenes that Modulates the Expression of a Bacterial Chain-Forming Cell Wall Hydrolase, CdhA"

   

February 23

 

W. James Waldman, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology

"From the garden to the clinic: Inhibitory activity of leflunomide against multiple disparate viruses" 

 

March 2

 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm 115 BRT)

Dr. Michael S. Gilmore, Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and President & CEO, Schepens Eye Research Institute 

"Antibiotic resistant enterococci: What makes a good commensal go bad?"

  

March 9

 

Govindan Rajamohan, Post-doctoral Researcher (PI: Vijay Pancholi), Department of Pathology

“Group A Streptococcal GAPDH, an Anchorless Surface Protein, SDH, is a novel Transcriptional Regulator”

 

March 16

 

University Finals Week, No WIP  

March 23

 

Quarter Break, No WIP  

March 30

 

Kiley Dare, Graduate Student (PI: Michael Ibba), Department of Microbiology

"Lipid modifications by multiple peptide resistance factor using aminoacyl-tRNA substrates"

 

April 6

 

Daren L. Knoell, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Internal Medicine

"Zinc-Mediated Regulation of the Host Response to Sepsis"

 

April 13

 

Carolyn Marion, IBGP Graduate Student (PI: Samantha King), The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"Identification and Characterization of a Pneumococcal O-Glycosidase"

  

April 20

 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm 115 BRT)

Thomas J. Braciale, Director, Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Virginia

"IL-10 and Pulmonary Injury during Influenza Infection: CD8+ T cells control themselves" 

  

April 27

 

Jennifer Edwards, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

"Cellular studies of primary cervical and placental epithelial cell infection by Neisseria gonorrhoeae"

 

May 4

 

Luyan Ma, Research Scientist (PI: Dan Wozniak), Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Assembly and Development of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Matrix"

 

May 11

 

Cancelled

May 18

 

Eusondia Arnett, Graduate Student (PI: Stephanie Seveau), Department of Microbiology

"Inhibition of Listeria Infectious Cycle by Antimicrobial Peptides"

 

May 25

 

University Holiday, Memorial Day 

June 1

  

Bradford S. McGwire, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Studies on Leishmania-antimicrobial peptide interactions"

Please note - This seminar will take place in 159 DHLRI.


10th Floor Biomedical Research Tower | 460 West 12th Avenue | Columbus, OH 43210-2210
PH: 614.292.0918 | FX: 614.292.9616 | For Employees Only



The Ohio State University Health Sciences Center