| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| 9/13/11 |
Robert Siliciano,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Steps to Curing HIV Infection |
Ronald Desrosiers
|
| 10/11/11 |
Cesare Montecucco
University of Padua, Italy |
Clostridial neurotoxins: entry into neurons and blockade of the neuroexocytosis nano machine |
John Collier
Special Seminar
Co-sponsored by NERCE |
| 10/18/11 |
Federica Sallusto,
Institute for Research in Biomedicine |
Disecting Human T Cell Response in Immunity and Autoimmunity |
Ulrich von Andrian |
| 11/1/11 |
Michael Laub
MIT and Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Specificity and Evolution of Bacterial Signaling Pathways |
Thomas Bernhardt |
| 11/8/11 |
Ry Young,
Texas A & M University |
The lethal trinity: the role of holins, endolysins and spanins in phage lysis |
David Rudner |
| 11/15/11 |
Paula Cannon
USC Keck School of Medicine |
A stem cell therapy for HIV based on CCR5 gene knockout – and how to get this into the clinic |
David Evans |
| 11/29/11 |
Denise Galloway,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Regulation of Telomerase by Human Papillomaviruses |
Peter Howley |
| 12/6/11 |
Karine Gibbs, MCB |
Self-Identity as a Basis for Coordinated Social Behaviors |
Graduate Students |
| 12/13/11 |
John Schiller, NIH |
Mechanism of Cervicovaginal Infection by HPVs and Implications for Translational Studies |
Peter Howley |
| 1/10/12 |
M. Stephen Trent
University of Texas, Austin |
Remodeling the Bacterial Cell Surface: Modification of Lipopolysaccharides |
Stephen Lory |
| 1/24/12 |
Dennis Burton, Scripps |
How Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Bread HIV's Defenses |
Joseph Sodroski
Lunch: Hillell Haim and Kathleen McGee |
| 1/31/12 |
Bernie Moss, NIH |
Early Events in Poxvirus Replication: Entry and Gene Expression |
David Knipe
Lunch: Priya Raja |
| 2/7/12 |
Steven McSorley
University of California, Davis |
Tracking CD4 T Cell Responses to Bacterial Pathogens |
Michael Starnbach
Lunch: Sara Fankhauser |
| 2/14/12 |
Nancy Moran, Yale University |
Genome Evolution in Symbiotic Bacteria |
Jon Beckwith
Lunch: Cristina Landeta |
| 2/28/12 |
Jae Jung
USC School of Medicine |
When Autophagy Meets Microbes |
Ronald Desrosiers
Lunch: Thomas Postler |
| 3/6/12 |
Harry Mobley
University of Michigan |
Iron Acquisition as Target for Uropathogenic E. coli |
Stephen Lory
Lunch: Aviram Rasouly |
| 3/13/12 |
Jeff F. Miller, UCLA |
Chance and Necessity: Mechanisms and Evolutionary Dynamics of Burkholderia and Bordetella Pathogenesis |
John Mekalanos
Lunch: William Robins |
| 3/20/12 |
Scott Hultgren
Washington University School of Medicine |
Urinary Tract Infection: Molecular Basis of Pathogenesis and Disease Outcomes |
Roberto Kolter
Lunch: Hera Vlamakis |
| 3/27/12 |
John Wherry
University of Pennsylvania |
Regulation of T Cell Responses During Chronic Viral Infections |
Arlene Sharpe
Lunch: Shannon Grande and Jernej Godec |
| 4/3/12 |
Steve Blanke
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Pathogen Remodeling of the Host Intracellular Environment to Promote Escape and Dissemination: The Curious Case of Bacillus anthraces |
Darren Higgins
Lunch: Kyle Perry |
| 4/10/12 |
Andy Goodman, Yale University |
Cooperation and Competition in the Human Gut Microbiota |
Dennis Kasper
Lunch: Hachung Chung |
| 4/17/12 |
Eric Skaar
Vanderbilt University |
The Battle for Metal Between Bacterial Pathogens and Their Hosts |
Deborah Hung
Lunch: Carl Wivagg and Nathan Haseley |
| 4/24/12 |
David Holden
Imperial College London |
Intracellular Biology of Salmonella |
Michael Starnbach
Lunch: Andrew Olive |
| 5/1/12 |
Jenny Ting
University of North Carolina |
NLRs in Inflammation, Infection and Cancer |
Martin Dorf
Lunch: Shitao Li |
| 5/8/12 |
Carol Gross, UCSF |
Using systems approaches to dissect central bacterial cellular processes |
Darren Higgins
Lunch: Elizabeth Halvorsen |
| 5/15/12 |
Marvin Whiteley, UT Austin |
Microbial Facebook: Probing Bacterial Social Networks |
Graduate Students
Lunch: Danielle Heller |
| 5/22/12 |
Bryce Nickels
Rutgers University |
NanoRNAs: A New Class of Regulatory Small RNAs |
Ann Hochschild
Lunch: Padraig Deighan |
| 5/29/12 |
Gary Nabel, NIH |
Developing Tomorrow’s Vaccines: AIDS and Universal Influenza Prevention |
Elliott Kieff
Lunch: Ben Gewurz |
