Microbiology Seminars
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Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule
Microbiology 620: Microbial Pathogenesis
Seminars will be held every Monday in Walter Life Sciences Building Room M311 at 3:30 PM.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 9/8 | Dr. Don Ennis Department of Biology Louisiana State University. Email: |
Development of a New Animal Model for TB-Like Infections: Monitoring, Colonization, Spread and Transmission in a Translucent Host |
| 9/15 | Dr. Mircea Podar Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
Genomic and metagenomic approaches to studying microbial evolution |
| 9/22 | Dr. Laurie Harrington University Alabama, Birmingham |
CD4 T cells: Seubsets, Functions, and Fates |
| 9/29 | Dr. Guey Chuen Perng Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, GA. Email: |
Pathogenesis of Dengue hemorrhagic fever/Dengue shock syndrome |
| 10/6 | Dr. Jun Zhu Department of Microbiology School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. |
Quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis |
| 10/13 | Dr. Terrence Tumpey Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. |
Pathogenesis of Pandemic and Potentially pandemic influenza viruses |
| 10/20 | Dr. Vanessa Sperandio Department of Microbiology U.T. Southwestern Medical Center |
Inter-kingdom signaling in bacterial pathogenesis |
| 10/27 | Dr. Paul Cullen Universityof Buffalo |
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| 11/3 | Dr. Stephen Hoffman Sanaria, Inc. 9800 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 |
Why it has been so difficult to defeat the Malaria pathogen |
| 11/10 | Dr. Feng Chen Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institution |
Phage, Prophage and GTA in Marine Roseobacters |
| 11/17 | Dr. Ira J. Blader Okalahoma University Health Science Center |
Communication Between Toxoplasma gondii and its Host |
| 11/24 | Dr. Gerd Pluschke Med. Parasitology / Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical Institute Socinstr. 57 CH 4002 Basel Switzerland |
Development of a malaria subunit vaccine using influenza virosomes as antigen delivery platform |