Seminar Series 2010-2011

Date
Speaker
Topic
September 12,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Ernest Maynard
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Unifrormed Services University
Bethesda, MD
"Oligomerization and function of lentiviral Vif proteins"
September 19,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building E
Lecture Room F
Dr. Helene Rosenberg §
Senior Investigator and Section Chief Laboratory of Allergic Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH
Bethesda, MD
"The genes that were missed, an expanding universe of small RNAs and small proteins"
September 26,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Sean D. Reid
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
"Insights into the regulation of Group A Streptococcal biofilm formation / dispersal and the impact on disease severity"
October 3,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Stuart Thompson
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Georgia Health Science University
Augusta, GA
"Post-transcriptional regulation of Campylobacter virulence"

October 10,
2011

Columbus Day Holiday
No Seminar
October 17,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Matthias J. Schnell §
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Director of Jefferson Vaccine Center
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
"Two Birds with one stone? Bivalent Vaccines against Rabies and Ebola Viruses"
October 24,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Robert Shanks
Professor of
Microbiology and Immunology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA
"Red into Gold: Having Fun with Serratia marcescens Genetics"
October 31,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Eva Gottwein
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
"Targets and functions of Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus microRNAs"
November 7,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Paul S. Hoffman §
Professor of
Medicine and Microbiology
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Universityof Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
" Extracytoplasmic Protein Folding and Macromolecular Assembly Require DsbA2: A Novel Bifunctional Disulfide Oxidoreductase"
November 14,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Andrew Camilli
Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, MA
"Transition of Vibrio cholerae into and out of the host"
November 21,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Yuan Chang
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Cancer Virology Program
Universityof Pittsburgh
Cancer Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
"Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: What Happens When Your Flora Tries To Kill
You"
November 28,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Jonathan Kipnis
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
"Immune system in support of healthy and diseased brain"
December 5,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Heng Zhu §
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Center for High-throughput Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
"Application of functional protein microarrays to construct networks and pathways"
December 12,
2011

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Dimitar Nikolov
Professor
Structural Biology Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
"Ephrins and Eph receptors: Critical Bi-directional Signaling Molecules and their Role as Virus Receptors"
December 19-26,
2011

Christmas Day Holiday


No Seminars
January 2,
2012

New Year's Day Holiday


No Seminar
January 9,
2012

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Dorain McGavern
Investigator
Natrional Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
"Dynamics of immunity to acute and persisten viral infection"
January 16,
2012

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday


No Seminar
January 23,
2012

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Jonathan Bromberg §
Professor of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
"Anatomy of Tolerance"
January 30,
2012

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. David Pauza
Professor and Associate Director
Institute of Human Virology
University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
"HIV Remodeling of Host Immunity: Mechanisms for depleting CD4-negative T cells"
February 6,
2012

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Jayne Raper
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
New York, NY
"Pore forming antimicrobial high-density lipoprotein; the good cholesterol?"
February 13,
2012

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Building A
Lecture Room C
Dr. Peter Crompton §
Chief, Malaria Infection Biology and Immunity Unit
Laboratory of Immunogenetics
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH
Rockville, MD
"Unraveling the mechanisms of naturally-acquired immunity to malaria"
February 20,
2012

President's Day Holiday


No Seminar
February 27,
2012

Graduate School Open House


No Seminar

§ Guest Speaker of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminars are open to the public. Seminars are held at USUHS, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD. There is free parking at USUHS, or if you choose to take Metro, the University is just a 15 minute walk from the Medical Center Metro. See the directions to USUHS . For more information, including meeting with specific speakers, please contact Dr. D. Scott Merrell at (301) 295-1584 or  dmerrel@usuhs.mil.

In an effort to keep personnel safe, and due to fluctuation in the threat level, there has been a change in the policy regarding access to the NNMC Base and USUHS.  Please bring your photo I.D. when entering the USUHS Gate.  For more information please call the Department of Microbiology and Immunology office at (301)295-3400.

Contact Information

Department of Microbiology
and Immunology
Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20814

Telephone: 301-295-3400
Fax: 301-295-1545

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