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S E M I N A R S


FALL 2009

All seminars are at 4 PM in the Whitehead Auditorium unless otherwise noted.

September 14, 2009
Richard Brennan, Ph.D., Professor and Robert A. Welch Distinguished Universtiy Chair in Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
"Structural mechanisms of bacterial multidrug binding and mdr gene regulation: how bugs escape drugs"

September 21, 2009
James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., Ingram Professor of Research , Depatrtments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Vanderbilt University
"Genetic and structural basis for neutralization of viruses by human antibodies"

September 28, 2009
Coleen Kraft, M.D., Fellow, Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University Hospital
"Detection of intrasubtype HIV-1 superinfection in Zambian couples"

October 5, 2009
Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Ph.D., Professor. Department of Bacteriology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Talking to the animals: Xenorhabdus nematophila symbiosis with intertebrates"

October 12, 2009
Tim Read, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director, Emory GRA Genomics Center
Emory University (MMG Faculty Candidate)
"Comparative genomics of biodefense agents"

October 19, 2009
Jeffrey N. Weiser, M.D., Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
"Clearance of Pneumococcal Colonization"

October 26, 2009 1:00 P.M. Whitehead Auditorium
Victor DiRita, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Title: "Mechanisms of chicken colonization by Campylobacter jejuni"

October 26, 2009
H. Steven Seifert, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University Medical School
"Mechanisms used by Neisseria gonorrhoeae to co-exist with the human innate and adaptive immune responses"

November 2, 2009
Michelle Swanson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan
Title: "Legionella, a pathogen in search of its next meal"

November 9, 2009
Ryland Young, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
Title: "Phage lysis: two different three-step pathways to death"

November 16, 2009
Alasdair Steven, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Institurte of Health, NIAMS
Title: " Virus Capsids as Mechanosensors"

November 23, 2009
Jon McCullers, MD, Associate Member, Department of Infectious Diseases
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"Bacterial super-infectious infections: the other side of influenza pathogenesis"

November 30, 2009
Ann C. Palmenberg, Ph.D., Professor Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Molecular Virology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Rhinoviruses, asthma and the common cole. What we learned from sequencing every know genome"

December 7, 2009
Eduardo Groisman, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
"Differential control of bacterial gene expression"



FALL 2009

IBS 504 - Intro Prokaryotic Genetics
IBS 555 - Principles of Basic Biomedical & Biological Science
IBS 545r - Intro to Research
IBS 743r - Experimental Approaches to Microbiology
MMG 597r - Lab Rotations
MMG 792r - Colloquium in Microbiology
SPRING 2010
 IBS 513 - Virology
IBS 545r - Intro to Research
MMG 597r - Lab Rotations
MMG 792r - Colloquium in Microbiology
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