2012 Seminar Series

12:00 pm
1/17/2012
ICPH


Neal Fan-Nan Lue, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Themes and Variations at the Ends: The Remarkable Composition of Yeast Telomeres

12:00 pm
1/24/2012
ICPH


Robert Bonomo, Cleveland Clinic
The Big Three: MDR P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae

12:00 pm
1/31/2012
ICPH


Laurie Krug, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Of Mice and Herpes: NF-kappaB Signaling is a Critical Determinant of Gammaherpesvirus Pathogenesis

12:00 pm
2/7/2012
ICPH


Lars Dietrich, Ph.D., Columbia University
How to Prevent Suffocation in a Biofilm

12:00 pm
2/14/2012
ICPH


Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
Genetics of Human Disposition to Pediatric Infectious Diseases

12:00 pm
3/6/2012
ICPH


Todd B. Reynolds, University of Tennessee
The Role of Phosphatidylserine Synthesis in the Virulence of C. albicans

12:00 pm
3/13/2012
ICPH


Frederick Hughson, Ph.D., Princeton University
Putting a Stop to Bacterial Quorum Sensing

12:00 pm
3/20/2012
ICPH


Stuart Sealfon, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine
Information Processing in Molecular Networks

12:00 pm
3/27/2012
ICPH


Vickery Arcus, University of Waikato, New Zealand
The VapBC Toxin-antitoxin Module in M. smegmatis is a Post-transcriptional Regulator of Metabolic Flux

12:00 pm
4/3/2012
ICPH


Evgeny A. Nudler, Ph.D., Julie Anderson Professor of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine
Trafficking and Cooperation in Gene Regulation and Genome Instability

12:00 pm
4/10/2012
ICPH


Dr. Ileana M. Cristea, Princeton University
A Systems Biology View of the Dynamic Interplay Between Viruses and Hosts

12:00 pm
4/24/2012
ICPH


David Shub, Ph.D., Vincent O'Leary Professor, University at Albany
Selfish DNA Meets Catalytic RNA: Homing Endonucleases and Group I Introns

2:30 pm
4/30/2012
GITC 4415


Dr. Kevin Chen, BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology and Department of Genetics at Rutgers University
Computational Problems in Genome Rearrangements

12:00 pm
5/1/2012
ICPH


Michael W. Young, Ph.D., Rockefeller University
The Genetics of Sleep and Circadium Rhythms in Drosophila

12:00 pm
5/22/2012
ICPH


Clifford V. Harding, M.D., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Lipoprotein LprG: Bacterial Functions and Host Responses

12:00 pm
9/25/2012
ICPH


Michael Lorenz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Regulation of Extracellular pH and Phagocyte Interactions in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans

12:00 pm
10/2/2012
ICPH


Johanna Daily, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, and Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Field Studies of Plasmodium falciparum: Insights into Cerebral Malaria and In Vivo Parasite Biology

12:00 pm
10/9/2012
ICPH


Dr. Benjamin Gold, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
A Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Sensitizes Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Endogenous and Exogenous Antimicrobials

12:00 pm
10/16/2012
ICPH


Agnel Sfeir, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
NYU Langone Medical Center
Shelterin-Free Telomeres: Putting an End to the End-Protection Problem

12:00 pm
10/23/2012
ICPH


Kyu Y. Rheem, M.D., Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Continuing Tales of the Tubercle Bacillus: A Chemical Biologic Account

12:00 pm
10/30/2012
ICPH


John M. Pascal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University
Mechanism of DNA Damage Detection and Activation of PARP-1

12:00 pm
11/13/2012
ICPH


Harry Ostrer, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Genetics, and Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
The Population Genetics of the Jewish People

12:00 pm
11/27/2012
ICPH


Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University
The Side Effects of CRISPR/Cas Immunity

12:00 pm
12/4/2012
ICPH


James Konopka, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Stony Brook University
MCC/Eisosome Subdomains of the Plasma Membrane are Important for Candida albicans Cell Wall Synthesis and Virulence

12:00 pm
12/11/2012
ICPH


Maria Jasin, Ph.D., Developmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Institute
Mouse Meiosis

12:00 pm
12/18/2012
ICPH


Paul Planet, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Disease Division, Columbia University
Staphylococcal Evolution: Phylogenomics, Diversity and Pathogenesis