Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


Work-in-Progress Discussion Group

Work-in-Progress Fall 2006

Room 165, Heart Lung Research Institute (HLRI)
Mondays at 5:15pm

August 28

Jennifer Edwards, Assistant Professor, Children's Research Institute

"Hormonal Modulation of CR3-mediated Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection of Primary, Human, Cervical, Epithelial Cells"

 

September 4

Holiday (No Meeting)

 

September 11

GLRCE Research Project

John Gunn, Larry Schlesinger, Susheela Tridandapani, and Mark Wewers

 

September 18

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm Ross H1213)

Anne Goldfield M.D., Associate Professor, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School

 

September 25

Fatou Sow, Graduate Student (PI: Bill Lafuse), MVIMG

"Production and regulation of hepcidin in mycobacteria-infected macrophages"

 

October 2

Joseph Barbi, Graduate Student (PI: Abhay Satoskar), Department of Microbiology

"Chemokines and regulation of host resistance to Leishmania"

 

October 9

Chad Rappleye, Microbiology, The Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Alpha-glucan masks fungal pathogens from the host immune system"

 

October 16

Prosper Boyaka, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Biosciences

"Bacterial Toxin Adjuvants for Mucosal Th1 and Th2 Responses"

 

October 23

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm Ross H1213)

Jeff Miller PhD, Professor and Chair, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

"Diversity-Generating Retroelements"

 

October 30

Ian Davis, Department of Veterinary Biosciences

"How insensitive! Cruel indifference to beta agonists following respiratory syncytial virus infection"

 

November 6

Wondwossen Gebreyes, Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine

"Molecular epidemiology and characterization of multi-drug resistant Salmonella"

 

November 13

Bindu Raghavan, Graduate Student (PI: Joanne Trgovcich), Department of Pathology

"Disruption of interferon signaling by human cytomegalovirus"

 

November 20

Torsten Eckstein, Research Scientist, Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Colorado State University

"Mycobacterium avium - the various appearances of a bacterial species"

 

November 27

Stephanie Seveau, Microbiology, The Center for Microbial Interface Biology

"Listeriolysin O, the major virulence factor of L. monocytogenes and a potent signaling molecule"

 

December 4

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm Ross H1213)

Michael Starnbach PhD, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

"Monitoring T cell responses during bacterial infection"

 

December 11

Glen McGillivary, Post-Doc (PI: Lauren Bakaletz), Children's Research Institute

"Characterization of mucosal antimicrobial peptides produced by the chinchilla airway and modulation of expression of these innate immune system components by common viral and bacterial pathogens of otitis media"

 


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