Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


Work-in-Progress Discussion Group

Work in Progress Fall 2009

September 28  

Host Pathogen Seminar Series

Stuart Levitz, MD, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

"Bricks in the wall: Deciphering and exploiting innate recognition of fungi"

 

October 5  

Tom Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

"Using a combined ChIP-chip and expression profiling approach to elucidate the molecular underpinnings of fungal virulence on rice plants”

 

October 12 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series

Sergio Grinstein, PhD, Professor, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

"Signaling phagocytosis: receptors, phospholipids and surface charges"

 

October 19  

Lauren O. Bakaletz,Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics & Otolaryngology, College of Medicine

 

October 26 

Avner Friedman, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 

"A model of drug resistance with infection by health care workers"

 

November 2  

Rajaneesh Anupam, Post Doctoral Researcher (PI: Michael Lairmore), Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

"The Role of p30 in Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type 1 Infection and Persistence" 

 

November 9 

Prosper N. Boyaka, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

“Targeting Anthrax toxin receptors for induction of secretory IgA responses”

 

November 16  

Ahmed Yousef, Professor, Microbiology; Professor, Food Science and Technology; Bazler Food Safety Professor

"Intracellular iron and resistance of foodborne pathogens to antimicrobial processes"

 

November 23 

Troy Cline, IBGP Graduate Student (PI: Joan Durbin), Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

"IFN-Lambda: An Emerging Cytokine in Innate Antiviral Immunity"

 

November 30 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series

Ralph Isberg, PhD, Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA 

"Pathway analysis of membrane manipulation by an intracellular pathogen" 


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