Spring 2007

Monday – April 9, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the Pathogenesis Training Grant
Dr. Richard Condit,
Professor of Molecular Genetic s & Microbiology, University of Florida at Gainsville
Title:  Poxvirus Transcription
Host:  Brian Ward

Monday – April 16, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the PREP Program
Kristala Jones Prather, Ph.D.,
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Joseph R. Mares (1924) Career Development Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Title: "From Metabolic Engineering to Synthetic Biology: Rational Design of Microbial Chemical Factories"
Host:  Rob Quivey

Tuesday – April 17, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

 Co-sponsored by the Xenopus laevis Research Resource for Immunobiology
Dr. Nicolas Pollet
Laboratoire Développement et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud Orsay, France
Title: "Exploring the transcriptional program of Xenopus tropicalis Metamorphosis"
Host:  Jacques Robert

Monday – April 23, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the PREP Program
Juanita L. Merchant, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular and Integrative Physiology,
Division of Gastroenterology
Title:  "Regulation of Sonic Hedgehog Processing in the stomach by pro-inflammatory cytokines."
Host:  Sanjay Maggirwar

Thursday – April 26, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Zhinan Yin, M.D., Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Section of Rheumatology, Yale School of Medicine
Title: “JNK MAP Kinase in tumor immunity”
Host: Jian Dong Li 

Friday – April 27, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-307 (3-6408)

Dr. Zeev Pancer
Center of Marine Biotechnology, UMBI, Baltimore, MA
Title: “Evolution and diversification of lamprey antigen receptors”
Host: Jacques Robert

Monday – April 30, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the Immunology Training Grant
Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pflucker, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto,
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Immunology
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Title:  TBA
Host: Andrea Sant

Monday – May 7, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the Pathogenesis Training Grant
Marcia Goldberg
Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases,
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Host: Martin Pavelka

Thursday– May 10, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Annual Hare Memorial Lecture - Virology Student Hosted
Gary Nabel, MD. PhD.
Director of the Vaccine Research Center, NIH
Dr. Nabel is well known as a molecular virologist and immunologist for his work in the fields of HIV, cancer, and Ebola virus research. His laboratory has studied mechanisms by which cells coordinately regulate the expression of genes during viral infection and development.
Student Host/Contact: Mark Skasko

Monday – May 14, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the Pathogenesis Training Grant
Vincent A. Fischetti Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Rockefeller University
Research Focus:  "Controling pathogenic bacteria using phage lytic enzymes"
Host:  Wolfgang Haas

Monday – May 21, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by the Immunology Training Grant
Peter Parham,
Professor, Department of Structural Biology and Microbiology & Immunology,
Member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford University
Research Interest:  "Structure, Function, and Evolution of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Polymorphism"
Host:  Jacques Robert

Monday – June 4, 2007**4:00-5:00 PM**K-207 (2-6408)

Co-Sponsored by Allergy / Immunology Unit
Michael P. Cancro, Ph.D.,
Professor, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Research Interest:  "B Lymphocyte development, selection, and homeostasis; Immunobiology of aging"
Host:  Jacques Robert / Ignacio Sanz

This listing includes selected seminars sponsored by other Departments/Centers which may be of interest to Microbiology students and faculty. Seminars hosted by the Department of Microbiology and Immunology are supported in part by a generous donation from Lederle-Praxis Biologicals, as well as by the indicated additional sources.