Microbiology Seminars
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Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule
Seminar will be held every Monday in Alumni Memorial Building Room 32 at 3:30 p.m.
| Date | Speaker Information | Seminar Title/Topic |
| 8/24 | No Meeting | |
| 8/31 | Dr. Tim Sparer, University of Tennessee | Chemokines gone wild! The pleiotropic effects of chemokines and chemokine receptors: Innate immunity, cytomegalovirus dissemination, and tumorigenesis |
| 9/7 | Holiday | |
| 9/14 | Dr. Andrew Yurochko, LSU Health Sciences Center (Host: Tim Sparer): | Linking Cytomegalovirus Persistence Strategies to Human Disease |
| 9/21 | Dr. Patrick Lu NIH- (Host: Barry Rouse) | Therapeutic manipulation of microbe related inflammatory lesions by RNA interference |
| 9/28 | Dr. Chunlei Su, University of Tennessee | Population genetics and gene expression regulation in Toxoplasma |
| 10/5 | Dr. Roberto Kolter- Harvard University (Host: Erik Zinser ) | Functional Anatomy of a Bacterial Biofilm |
| 10/12 | Dr. Larry Kane- University of Pittsburgh (Host: Thandi Onami) |
Signaling Pathways that Regulate T Cell Activation |
| 10/19 | Dr. Todd Reynolds, University of Tennessee | Lipid and cell wall metabolic pathways: Roles they play in fungal virulence and biofilm formation |
| 10/26 | Dr. Allan Zajac, University of Alabama, Birmingham (Host: Thandi Onami) |
T cell exhaustion during persistent viral infections |
| 11/2 | Dr. Ralph Tripp , University of Georgia | “Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) regulation of the host response to infection” |
| 11/9 | Dr. Robert Belas, University of Maryland Center of Marine Biotechnology (Host Alison Buchan) | Roseobacter-dinoflagellate symbiosis and the swim-or-stick switch |
| 11/16 | Dr. Jeroen Saeij, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Host: Chunlei Su) |
Molecular and genetic analysis of Toxoplasma pathogenesis |
| 11/23 | Dr. Jay Wimalasena, University of Tennessee Cancer Institute (Host: Tim Sparer) |
Apoptosis, estrogen receptors, and breast cancer |
| 11/30 | First year graduate student presentations | |