Center for Microbial Interface Biology  


Work-in-Progress Discussion Group

Work in Progress Winter/Spring 2008

January 7 

Cancelled - OSU National Championship Game

 

January 14 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4pm BRT 115)
David Engman. Ph. D, M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Microbiology-Immunology, NorthWestern University

"Trypanosomiasis: Role of the Flagellum in Biology and Disease"

 

January 21 

University Holiday, Martin Luther King Day

 

January 28 

Robert Crawford (IBGP Graduate Student, PI: John Gunn), MVIMG

"A bile-induced exopolysaccharide required for Salmonella biofilm formation"

 

February 4 

Deborah Parris, Professor, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics

"Is RNA Silencing an Innate Anti-Viral Response in Mammalian Cells?"

 

February 11 

Daniel Janies, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

"Genomic and geographic analysis of the evolution and spread of infectious disease"

 

February 18 

Troy Cline (IBGP Graduate Student, PI: Joan Durbin), Department of Pediatrics and Pathology, Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"STAT1-dependent control of RSV replication in the absence of type I and type II IFN signaling"

 

February 25 

Sam King, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"Deglycosylation of Glycans by Streptococcus pneumoniae"

 

March 3 

Jessica Dyszel (Graduate Student, PI: Brian Ahmer), Department of Microbiology

"Fitness Phenotypes of the Salmonella LuxR Homolog, SdiA, in Animals"

NOTE: This seminar is in 170 DHLRI

 

March 10 

Alistair Harrison, Post-doctoral Fellow (PI: Robert Munson), Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"Heme, Iron and Oxidative Stress:  Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in H. influenzae"

 

March 24  

Govindan Rajamohan, Post-Doctoral Researcher (PI: Wondwossen Gebreyes), Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine

"Mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobials and biocides in Acinetobacter baumannii"

 

March 31 

Stephanie Cush (IBGP Graduate Student, PI: Emilio Flano), Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital 

"Antigen-independent CD8 T cell memory is maintained during herpesvirus persistence"  

 

April 7 

Kathleen Anderson, (Post-doctoral researcher, PI: Emilio Flano), Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital 

"CD4+ T cells elicit direct anti-viral control during latent viral infection"

 

April 14 

Hao-Chieh (Jay) Chiu (Postdoctoral Fellow, PI: Ching-Shih Chen), Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy

"Eradicating Salmonella typhimurium in Macrophage by a Small-Molecule, Autophagy-Inducing Agent "

 

April 21 

Kristine Yoder, Research Assistant Professor, MVIMG

"Host DNA Repair Pathways and Retroviral cDNA"

 

April 28 

Santiago Partida-Sanchez, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"TRP channels in phagocytes: novel sensors of tissue damage and cellular stress?"

 

May 5 

Dominique Limoli, Research Assistant (PI: Sam King), Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

"BgaA, a pneumococcal beta-galactosidase, also functions as an adhesin"

 

May 13 

PLEASE NOTE DATE/TIME CHANGE. The meeting has been moved from Monday to Tuesday for a guest speaker.

Renee Tsolis, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis

"Role of the Type IV secretion system in persistent Brucella infection"

4pm, 103 Parks Hall

 

May 19 

Jordi Torrelles, PhD (Post-doctoral researcher, PI: Larry Schlesinger), Department of Internal Medicine

"Heterogeneity of cell wall carbohydrates and lipids from clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis dictates interactions with the human host"

 

May 26 

No seminar - Memorial Day  

 

June 2 

Host Pathogen Seminar Series (4:30pm DHLRI 170)
Vojo Deretic. Ph. D.,  Department Chairperson. Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico HSC

"Autophagy: from cytoplasmic homeostasis to immunity"

 

June 9 

Gillian Beamer (Graduate Fellow, PI: Joanne Turner), Departments of Internal Medicine and Veterinary Biosciences

"Interleukin-10 promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease progression in CBA/J mice"

 

June 16 

Michael Bailey, Assistant Professor, Section of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, College of Medicine

"Social stress enhances the microbicidal activity of splenic macrophages in male mice"


 


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