| January 17, 2013 |
Matt Welch, PhD.
Professor Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley |
"Mobilization of the actin cytoskeleton by bacterial pathogens" |
Dr. Dan Voth |
| January 24, 2013 |
Fritz Van Rhee, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Director of Developmental and Translational Medicine UAMS
|
Cancelled |
Dr. Marie Chow |
| January 31, 2013 |
Robert Kaletja, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Virology and Oncology
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Intrinsic Cellular Defenses & Human Cytomegalovirus Replication" |
Dr. Craig Forrest |
| February 4, 2013 |
Kristi Frank, PhD Faculty Candidate
Post Doctoral Associate
Department of Microbiology
University of Minnesota |
"When a commensal becomes a pathogen:
gene expression and virulence mechanisms in
Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infections" |
Dr. Richard Morrison |
| February 7, 2013 |
Joey Graham, Graduate Student Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
“Parasitism of Primary Human Alveolar
Macrophages by Virulent Coxiella
burnetii” |
Dr. Dan Voth |
| February 21, 2013 |
Donald Johann, MS, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, UAMS
|
"Towards Precision Medicine: Using Systems Biology to Address Oncology Questions" |
Dr. Marie Chow |
| February 28, 2013 |
Courteney Sulentic, PhD
Wright state University |
"Transcriptional Regulation of the Immunoglobulin
Heavy Chain Gene: A Novel Target of Exogenous Chemicals?" |
Dr. Kathleen Gilbert |
| March 7, 2013 |
Carl Cerniglia, PhD
Director of the Division of Microbiology at the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) |
|
Dr. Marie Chow |
| March 14, 2013 |
John Leong, MD, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Tufts University |
"Pathogen-Host Interactions at Mucosal Surfaces that Promote Systemic Disease ” |
Dr. Jon Blevins |
| March 21, 2013 |
No seminar |
Spring Break |
N/A |
| March 28, 2013 |
Laura MacDonald, Graduate Student Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
“Coxiella burnetii Subversion of Eukaryotic cAMP-Dependent Protein
Kinase Activity During Infection of
Macrophages” |
Dr. Kevin Young |
| April 4, 2013 |
Denise Monack, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Stanford University Medical Center |
"The tug-of-war between Salmonella and mammalian hosts" |
Student invitee |
| April 11, 2013 |
De'Broski Herbert,PhD
Assistant Professor,
Division of Experimental Medicine University of California, San Francisco |
"Trefoil factors regulate mucosal Type 2 immunity" |
Dr. Richard Morrison |
| April 18, 2013 |
Susan Pierce, PhD
Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIH |
"Natural acquired immunity to malaria" |
Dr. Jason Stumhofer |
| April 25, 2013 |
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty |
"Pathogenesis of RNA Viruses: Both Ends of the Animal" |
Dr. Karl Boehme |
| May 2, 2013 |
Jeff Sifford, Graduate Student Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
"Gammaherpesvirus interactions with host tumor suppressor protein p53" |
Open |
| May 6, 2013 |
Kerry Evans, Graduate Student Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
"Specific penicillin binding protein loss activates two stress response pathways in Escherichia coli" |
Dr. Kevin Young |
| May 9, 2013 |
Danielle Atwood, Graduate Student Microbiology and Immunology
UAMS |
"SarA regulation as a therapeutic target in chronic Staphylococcus aureus infections" |
Dr. Mark Smeltzer |