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Spring 2009 Microbiology Seminars

Tuesday/Thursday, 11:15 a.m., N201 Morrill IV
Coordinator: Elizabeth Stuart, 545-6750

Organizational Meeting
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
11:15 a.m.

Archaeal Protein Transport Pathways and Their Substrates.
Mecky Pohlschröder, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Tuesday, February 17

Targeting Notch Signaling in Murine Models of Aplastic Anemia.
Lisa Minter, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, UMass, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Thursday, March 5

Functional Characterization of the Host Interactive Schistosome Surface.
Patrick Skelly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of
Infectious Diseases, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Tuesday, March 24

Tissue Infiltration of Intranasal Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in a Mouse Model.
Joseph Lavoie, Microbiology Graduate Program
Tuesday, March 31

Signaling Nutrient Limitation Through Small Molecules.
Erin O'Shea, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Co-Director, Bauer Center for Genomics Research &
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 7

Does Chlamydial Infection Induce Platelet Aggregation?
Mauricia Victor, Microbiology Graduate Program
Thursday, April 9

Elucidating the Role of Chlamydia in the Initiation of Neonatal Asthma.
Katir Patel, Microbiology Graduate Program
Tuesday, April 14

Early Stages in the SV40 Infection
Dmitry Kuksin, Microbiology Graduate Program
Thursday, April 16

HDACs - They Don't Always Repress.
Naved Munir, Microbiology Graduate Program
Thursday, April 23

Nanomedicine Approaches to Chlamydiae and Chronic Inflammation.
Judith Whittum-Hudson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University
Tuesday, April 28

The Prevalence and Identity of Pathogen Specific IgE in Children with Reactive Airway Disease.
Erica Anderson, Microbiology Graduate Program
Thursday, April 30

Categorizing the Microbiome of Tribolium castaneum.
Joseph Zackular, Microbiology Graduate Program
Tuesday, May 5

Regulating RecA Filaments for SOS Induction.
Michael Leeson, Microbiology Graduate Program
Thursday, May 7

Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution During a Long-Term Experiment with E. coli.
Richard E. Lenski, Ph.D.
Hannah Distinguished Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
Tuesday, May 12

HIV Drug Resistance: Problems of Subtype Differences and Implications for Public Health.
Mark Wainberg, Ph.D.
Director, McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal
Thursday, May 14
Dr. Wainberg's lab focuses on the reverse transcriptase (RT) of HIV-1 in regard to each basic mechanisms of action, inhibition by anti-viral drugs and drug resistance, and gene therapy.

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