2013 Seminar Series

12:00 pm
1/8/2013
ICPH


Oliver Hobert, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia College of P and S
Gene Regulatory Mechanisms that control nervous system development: Lessons learned from C. elegans and beyond

12:00 pm
1/15/2013
ICPH


Sergei Kotenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ-NJMS
New class of interferons

12:00 pm
1/29/2013
ICPH


Roberto Kolter, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School
Making and Breaking Biofilms

12:00 pm
2/12/2013
ICPH


Kuan-Teh Jeang, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Miscounted chromosomes and damaged nuclei: HTLV-1 and cellular transformation

12:00 pm
2/19/2013
ICPH


Jeffrey N. Weiser, M.D., Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
The Battle with the Host over Microbial Size

12:00 pm
2/26/2013
ICPH


P. David Rogers, Pharm.D., Ph.D., First Tennessee Chair of Excellence, Associate Dean for Translational Research for the College of Pharmacy, and Professor and Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Transcriptional regulation of azole antifungal resistance in Candida albicans

12:00 pm
3/5/2013
ICPH


Kirk W. Deitsch, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Host-Parasite Interactions and the Pathogenesis of Malaria

12:00 pm
3/12/2013
ICPH


Lishan Su, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina
Immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 infection: the good, the bad and the ugly

12:00 pm
3/19/2013
ICPH


John Pascal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University
Mechanism of DNA damage detection and activation of PARP-1

12:00 pm
4/9/2013
ICPH


Megan King, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University
The nuclear periphery: a compartment for regulation of DNA repair and telomere maintenance

12:00 pm
4/16/2013
ICPH


Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, University of Georgia
Impact of Lysine Acylation on Prokaryotic Cell Physiology

12:00 pm
4/23/2013
ICPH


Ann M. Stock, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
The response regulator component of bacterial signaling: analyzing activation and targeting inhibition

12:00 pm
5/7/2013
ICPH


Peter Palese, Ph.D., Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Toward a universal influenza virus vaccine

12:00 pm
5/14/2013
ICPH


Graham Hatfull, Ph.D., Eberly Family Professor of Biotechnology, HHMI Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Exploration and Exploitation of Mycobacteriophages

12:00 pm
09/10/2013
ICPH


Charlene Dezzutti, Ph.D., Magee-Womens Research Institute
Can we use mucosal tissue to predict HIV prevention product efficacy?

12:00 pm
09/17/2013
ICPH


Joseph M. Ziegelbauer, Ph.D., Viral MicroRNA Section, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
Functions of KSHV microRNAs

12:00 pm
09/24/2013
ICPH


John D. Helmann, Ph.D., Mount Sinai Hospital
New insights into metal homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis

12:00 pm
10/08/2013
ICPH


Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ph.D., Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Induction and regulation of the IFN-mediated antiviral response

12:00 pm
11/12/2013
ICPH


Arthur Gunzl, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
RNA polymerase II transcription in trypanosomes - a deviation from the text book or not?

12:00 pm
11/19/2013
ICPH


Jeffrey Boyd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Investigating the mechanisms of intracellular metal metabolism in Staphylococcus aureus

12:00 pm
11/26/2013
ICPH


Lestyn Whitehouse, Ph.D., Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Using the lagging strand to study chromosome replication