Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


Work-in-Progress Discussion Group

Work in Progress Fall 2007

September 17 

Host-Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm, BRT 105)
Harry Mobley, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, University of Michigan

"Genomic and Proteomic Basis for Vaccine Development against Urinary Tract Infection"

 

September 24 

Daniel J. Wozniak PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University

"The Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm matrix"

 

October 1 

Kishore Parsa (Graduate Student. PI Susheela Tridandapani), Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

"The tyrosine kinase Syk promotes the phagocytosis of Francisella through the activation of Erk"

 

October 8

Corey Clay (Graduate Student. PI Larry Schlesinger/John Gunn), Division of Infectious Diseases/MVIMG

"Complement activation and component deposition on Francisella tularensis"

 

October 15

Laurie Millward (Graduate Student. PI: Michael Lairmore), Department of Veterinary Biosciences

"HTLV-1: Protein interaction studies involving the accessory protein, p30, and mucosal immunopathogenesis"

 

October 22  

Host-Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm BRT 115)
Aaron Mitchell Ph.D., Harold S. Ginsberg Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis. Department of Microbiology, Columbia University

"Control of cell surface features in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans"

 

October 29  

Erin Rottinghaus (IBGP Graduate Student. PI: Joanne Turner), Division of Infectious Diseases

"Pulmonary Innate Immune Function in Aged Mice"

 

November 5 

Host-Pathogen Seminar Series (3:30pm BRT 105)
David Woodland Ph.D., Member, Trudeau Institute 

"T cell memory to respiratory virus infections"

 

November 12 

University Holiday, Veteran’s Day

 

November 19 

Lisa Henning (IBGP Graduate student. PI: Larry Schlesinger), Division of Infectious Diseases

"Pulmonary surfactant protein-A regulates pattern recognition receptor expression and activity on human macrophages"

  

November 26 

Amal Amer, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

"How caspases dictate the fate of the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila"

 

December 3 

Surender Kumar, Graduate Student (PI: Jesse Kwiek and Mary Jo Burkhard), Departments of Internal Medicine and Veterinary Biosciences

"Does Alloantigen Exposure Alter the Susceptibility to Mucosal FIV Challenge?"

 

December 10 

Erin Gross (Graduate Student. PI: Ann Griffen), College of Dentistry 

"Molecular epidemiologic analysis of the biofilm in childhood caries"

 


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