Molecular Microbiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis

Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Seminar Series

-- Spring 2009 --

Tuesdays - 12:00 p.m.
Cori Auditorium
McDonnell Sciences Building

Please contact the host if you wish to meet with the speaker

January 27

Patrick Brown
Stanford University School of Medicine
Host: David Wang
The dark matter of biological regulation?
February 3

Erol Fikrig
Yale University School of Medicine, HHMI
Host: Michael Diamond

 Arthropod-borne diseases in the LymeLight
February 17
Michael Holtzman
Washington University
Host: David Wang 		Viral connections to chronic inflammatory disease
February 24 Thaddeus Stappenbeck
Washington University
Host: David Wang 		Host-microbial interactions in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease
March 3 Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University
Host: Jeffrey Gordon 		Metagenomics: from corals to cystic fibrosis lungs
March 10
Raul Andino
University of California, San Francisco
Host: David Wang 		RNAi: antiviral defense and counter defense in insects
March 17 Alan Fairlamb
University of Dundee, Scotland
Host: Stephen Beverley		 Drug discovery in an academic setting: from targets to magic bullets
March 24 John Brumell
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Host: Thomas Hannan (student sponsored)		 Interactions of Salmonella and Listeria with the autophagy system of host cells
March 31
LinFa Wang
Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Host: David Wang		 Emerging bat zoonotic viruses: from Hendra to Melaka
April 7
Robert H. Silverman
Cleveland Clinic
Host: Michael Diamond 		Involvement of RNase L in Antiviral Innate Immunity
April 14 Manuel Amieva
Stanford University School of Medicine
Host: Douglas Berg		 Mining the cell surface: how Helicobacter pylori colonizes and grows on the epithelium
April 21
Gary Schoolnik
Stanford University
Host: Douglas Berg		 The ecology and evolution of Vibrio cholerae in the Ganges delta
April 28
Eduardo A. Groisman
Washington University
Host David Wang 		Differential control of bacterial gene expression
May 5
Elizabeth Winzeler
The Scripps Research Institute
Host: Daniel Goldberg

Chemical, virtual and industrial genetics of malaria
May12
Lynn W. Enquist
Princeton University
Host: David Leib		 Infection and spread of alpha herpesviruses in the nervous system
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