Seminar Series 2010-2011
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
September 20, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building E Lecture Room F |
Dr. Cynthia M. Sharma § Research Center for Infectious Diseases University of Würzburg Germany |
"The primary transcriptome of the major human pathogen Helicobacter pylori" |
September 27, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr.Gisela Storz Senior Investigator and Deputy Director Cell Biology and Metabolism Program National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda, MD |
"The genes that were missed: an expanding universe of small RNAs and small proteins" |
October 4, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Judith White Professor Department of Cell Biology Univerity of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia Rockville, MD |
"Virus Entry Into Cells: New Lessons from Ebolavirus" |
October 11, 2010 |
Columbus Day Holiday |
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October 18, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Jacob D. Estes § Associate Professor Department of Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD |
"The First 100 Days: Setting the Stage for AIDS" |
October 25, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. John Nicholas Professor Department of Cell Biology Univerity of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia Rockville, MD |
"Novel Functions of HHV -8 Interleukin -6 and Interferon Regulatory Factor" |
November 1, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building C Lecture Room D |
Dr. Robert M. Greenberg Research Associate Professor Department of Pathobiology Univerity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
"Physiological and pharmacological roles of schistosome calcium channel subunits and drug transporters" |
November 8, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
LTC Michael W. Lewis, M.D. § Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Uniformed Services University Bethesda, MD |
"Overview of Staphylococcal Skin and Wound Infection in U.S. Troops and Update on Prevention Strategies" |
November 15, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Joshua Nosanchuk, MD, FIDSA, FACP Associate Professor Department of Medicine Department of Microbiology Albert Enstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY |
"Antibody therapy for Histoplasma capsulatum" |
November 22, 2010 |
Thanksgiving Day Holiday |
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November 29, 2010 |
No Seminar |
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December 6, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Scott Weaver § John Sealy Distinguished University Chair Director, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity Scientific Director, Glaveston National Laboratory University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX |
"Host Range Changes and Arboviral Disease Emergence" |
December 13, 2010 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. W. Henry Boom Professor of Medicine Director, Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) Vice Chair for Research Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospital Case Medical Center Cleveland, OH |
"Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Tuberculosis: roles for cell wall lipoproteins and glycolipids" |
December 20, 2010 |
Christmas Holiday |
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December 27, 2010 |
Christmas Holiday |
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January 3, 2011 |
No Seminar |
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January 10, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. John J. Ryan Professor Department of Biology Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA |
"Mast cell interactions with Tregs and MDSC" |
January 17, 2011 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
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January 24, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Mark E. Shirtliff § Associate Professor Department of Microbial Pathogenesis Dental School Department of Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine University of Maryland-Baltimore Baltimore, MD |
"Understanding biofilms and host pathogen interactions for MRSA vaccine development"
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January 31, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Anthony Nicola Associate Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Richmond, VA |
"Cellular mechanisms of HSV entry"
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February 7, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Peter Feng Research Microbiologist Division of Microbiology Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA College Park, MD |
"Enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 - impact of changes on food safety problems"
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February14, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Shelley Payne § Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX |
"Ferrous iron transport in enteric pathogens"
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February 21, 2011 |
President's Day
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February 28, 2011 |
Graduate School Open House
No Seminar | |
March 7, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. James Ou Professor of Microbiology University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA |
"Hepatitis C virus
and autophagic response" |
March 14, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Paul Orndorff § Professor Department of Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology College of Veterinary Medicine North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC |
"In Vitro Properties of a Listeria monocytogenes Bacteriophage Resistant Mutant Predict its Efficacy as a Live Oral Vaccine Strain"
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March 21, 2011 |
Spring Break - No Seminar
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March 28, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Joe Barbieri Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI |
"Mechanisms of Botulinum Neurotoxin Action"
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April 4, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Robert Nicholas § Professor and Vice Chair Department of Pharmacoloy University of North Carolina - Chapell Hill Chapell Hill, NC |
"Molecular mechanisms of chromosomally mediated antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae"
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April 11, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Jeffrey Miller § Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
"Diversity-Generating Retroelements in Phage, Pathogens and the Human Microbiome"
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April 18, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Virginia L. Miller § Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of North Carolina - Chapell Hill Chapell Hill, NC |
"Yersinia pestis Yaps and Pla and acquisition of new virulence functions"
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April 25, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. William R. Jacobs, Jr. Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunolgy Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY |
"XDR TB-Survival of the fittest"
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May 2, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Armand Kuris Professor of Zoology University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
"Parasites Approach the Darwinian Demon: Adaptations, Evolutionary
Wormholes, and Metabolic Scaling" |
May 9, 2011 11:30 - 1:00 pm Building A Lecture Room C |
Dr. Patrick J. Skelly § Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of Biomedical Sciences Division of Infectious Diseases Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Tufts University North Grafton, MA |
"Functional Characterization of the Schistosome Surface"
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§ 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