Seminar Archives
Fall 2006 Seminars
The following Seminars are held in memory of Dr. Merrill W. Chase and are partially funded by a gift from his children.
September 7
Pathogen-lysosome Interactions and Intracellular Survival
- Speaker: Norma W. Andrews, Ph.D.
- Professor, Section of Microbial Pathogenesis
- Department of Microbiology
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
September 14
Completing the Cycle: Mating and Virulence in the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans
- Speaker: Richard J. Bennett, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
- Brown University
- Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
September 20 *
Toll-like Receptors and Viruses
* Note: This seminar is being held on a Wednesday
- Speaker: Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Host: Wen-Ming Chu, Ph.D.
September 28
Signaling Mechanisms Regulating NK Cell Functions
- Speaker: Kerry S. Campbell, Ph.D.
- Member, Immunobiology Working Group
- Division of Basic Science
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Host: Laurent Brossay, Ph.D.
October 5
Progenitor Cell-induced Remyelination in a Viral Model of Demyelination
- Speaker: Thomas E. Lane, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
- University of California, Irvine
- Host: Thais Salazar-Mather, Ph.D.
October 12
Activation of TLR9-dependent and Independent Pathways by DNA Binding Proteins
- Speaker: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
- Brown University
- Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
October 19
Trafficking of Inflammatory Cells During an Intracellular Bacterial Infection
- Speaker: Natalya Serbina, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Sloan-Kettering Institute
- Host: Thais Salazar-Mather, Ph.D.
October 26
Granzyme A-Activator of a Novel Apoptotic Pathway
- Speaker: Judy Lieberman, Ph.D., M.D.
- Senior Investigator, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
- Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Director, Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School
- Host: George Yap, Ph.D.
November 2
Regulation and Function of the TSC-mTOR Pathway
- Speaker: Kun-Liang Guan, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Host: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
November 9
- Title: TBA
- Speaker: Junying Yuan, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Cell Biology
- Harvard Medical School
- Host: Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., Ph.D.
November 16
Innate Cell Interactions in Cytokine Responses to Viral Infection: NK Cells, Dendritic Cells, and Macrophages
- Speaker: Seung-Hwan Lee, Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
- Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
November 30
The Progression of Pneumonic Plague
- Speaker: William E. Goldman, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
December 7
Regulation of Memory CD8 T Cell Differentiation
- Speaker: Hao Shen, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Microbiology
- Department of Microbiology
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Host: Christine A. Biron, Ph.D.
December 14
- Title: TBA
- Speaker: Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D.
- President and Scientific Director
- Division of Developmental Immunology
- La Jolla Institute of Allergy & Immunology
- Host: Laurent Brossay, Ph.D.