Host-Pathogen Seminar Series 2004-2005

Monday September 27th        Professor Ferric Fang                                       
                                             Department of Microbiology
                                             University of Washington
                                             "Innate Immunity to salmonella"

Monday November 22nd       Dr. Michele Swanson                                      
                                              Department of Microbiology and Immunology
                                              University of Michigan
                                              "Autophagy as a macrophage 
                                              response to infection"

2005  
Monday January 24th            Dr Peter Barnes
                                             Center for Pulmonary and
                                             Infectious Disease Control
                                             The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
                                             The role of NK cells in the human immune
                                             response to M. tuberculosis     

Monday March 14th                Dr Douglas Golenbock 
                                              Infectious Diseases and Immunology
                                              University of Massachusetts Medical School
                                              Mechanism of Toll-like receptor activation

Monday April 25th                  Dr Tomas Ganz
                                              Department of Medicine
                                              David Geffen Scholl of Medicine at UCLA
                                              Hepcidin, a peptide hormone at the interface
                                              of innate immunity and iron metabolism