Fall 2007 Seminar Series Schedule
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MMI Fall 2007 Seminar Series
Date:
September 6
Speaker:
Richard D. Ye, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Acute-phase Proteins and Immune Response to Danger Signals: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle?”

Date:
September
13
Speaker:
Bharat Ramratnam, A.B., M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
BioMed Medicine
Brown University
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Small RNA in Health and Disease”

Date:
September 20
Speaker:
Jorge Moscat, Ph.D.
Professor and Interim Chairman
Department of Genome Science
University of Cincinnati
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Atypical PKC Signaling in Inflammation and Cancer”

Date:
September 27
Speaker:
Y Eugene Chin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Surgery Department
Rhode Island Hospital
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Signal Transduction: Switch Gear from Tyrosine Phosphorylation to Lysine Acetylation”

Date:
October 4
Speaker:
Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Brown University
Host: Christine Biron, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“HMGB1 and the Innate Immune Response to CpG-DNA”

Date:
October 11
Speaker:
Ronald Swanstrom Ph.D.
Professor
UNC Center for AIDS Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: Peter Shank, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
"Rear Window: Watching HIV Transmission, Evolution and Pathogenesis Through Sequence Diversity"

Date:
October 18
Speaker:
Daniel J.J. Carr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Opthalmology
The University of Oklahoma
Host: Thais Salazar-Mather, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“The Role of Type 1 Interferon in Ocular Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection”

Date:
October 25
Speaker:
Neal Silverman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Massachusettes Medical School
Host: Richard Bennett, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Inside and Out: Pathogen Recognition in Drosophila

Date:
November 1
Speaker:
Dirk Elewaut, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology & Inflammation
Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Host: Laurent Brossay Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“The Ins and Outs of Thymic iNKT Cell Migration”

Date:
November 8
Speaker:
Christine Biron, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Discoveries in Innate Immunity to Viruses, or How to Spend Twenty Years at Brown”

Date:
November 15
Speaker:
Bing Su, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Immunobiology
The Vascular Biology and Tranplantation Program
Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“SIN1-mTORC2 Mediated Regulation of AGC Kinases Akt and PKC”

Date: December 6
Speaker:
Richard Bungiro, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Program in International Child Health
Department of Pediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine
Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
Seminar Title:
“Hookworm Infection: Molecular Pathogenesis and Immune Response”
Seminar Time and Location
Thursdays, 4:00 PM
Biomedical Center
Room 291, Eddy Auditorium
Brown University Campus
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