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Seminar Series Summer 2012-Fall 2012
  
Date Speaker Title Host
August 30, 2012 Caetano M Antunes, Ph.D.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Brett Finlay's Laboratory
The University of British Columbia
"Probing the role of small molecules in host-microbe interactions through metabolomics" Dr. Richard Morrison
September 6, 2012 Mikhail Martchenko, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Dept of Genetics
Stanford CA
"Human Genes Exploited by Pathogens: host-oriented therapies against infectious diseases." Dr. Richard Morrison
September 13, 2012 Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Ph.D. Instructor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY
"Structural basis for immune inhibition through PD-1: implications for immunotherapy of infectious diseases" Dr. Richard Morrison
September 20, 2012 Jeffrey C Nolz, Ph.D.
Dept. of Microbiology
University of Iowa
"Inflammatory Control of Core 2 O-Glycan Synthesis and Localization of Memory CD8 T Cells" Dr. Richard Morrison
September 27, 2012

Jia Liu, PhD.
Assistant Scientist,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida College of Medicine

"Discovering host antiviral factors through studies of poxvirus host range factors." Dr. Richard Morrison
October 4, 2012 Luis Martinez, Ph.D 
Assistant Professor                           
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Long Island University, NY
"Impact of Methamphetamine on Infection and Immunity" Dr. Richard Morrison 
October 11, 2012 Open      Open  Open
October 18, 2012 Student Career Day      Student Career Day N/A
October 25, 2012 No Seminar  No Seminar N/A
November 1, 2012 Laura Macdonald "The dual role of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase in Coxiella burnetti Infection of Macrophages" Dr. Dan Voth
November 8, 2012 Ashley Groshong "Identification and characterization of two possible virulence determinants of Borrelia burgdorferi" Dr. Jon Blevins
November 15, 2012 Open Open Open
November 22, 2012 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving N/A
November 29, 2012  Eduardo Salinas  “Elucidating the molecular mechanismsthat regulate LANA function during murine gammaherpesvirus-68 infection” Dr. Craig Forrest
December 6, 2012 Jennifer Junecko  "Characterization of a biofilm inhibitory protein produced by Staphylococcus aureus strain Newman." Dr. Chia Lee
December 13, 2012 Justin Graham TBA Dr. Chia Lee