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The Department of Microbiology & Immunology supports seminars for faculty, invited speakers, and graduate students. The schedule for the 2007 Department Seminar Series is below. For more information about upcoming seminars in the current schedule or in future schedules, contact Maryann Mendoza, Administrative Assistant. A schedule of student seminars will be available in the near future.

Research Seminar Series 2007
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesdays at 4:00 (unless otherwise indicated)
Auditorium A
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
January 8	Fen Hu, Ph.D. Allegheny General Hospital, Singer Research Institute	Genomic Plasticity among Bacterial Pathogens: Comparative and Functional Genomics of Multiple Clinical Pneumococcal Strains	Brian Wigdahl
January 17	Rick Fairhurst NAID/NIH	Mutant Hemoglobins Confer Malaria Protection by a Novel Mechanism	Akhil Vaidya
January 24	James A. Hoxie, Ph.D. PENN	Pushing the HIV Envelope: New Insights into Structure and Function	Peter Katsikis
January 31 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Peter Palese, Ph.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY	Influenza virus pandemics: Past and Future	Sonia Navas-Martin
February 7	Aaron Mitchell Columbia University	Genetic Dissection of Candida Biofilm Formation	Tom Edlind
February 14	Bassel E. Sawaya Temple University	Role of p53 Family in Neuropathogenesis of AIDS	Muhammad Mukhtar
February 21	Kuan-The Jeang, M.D., Ph.D. NIH	HTLV-1 transformation: what we have learned after 25 years	Muhammad Mukhtar
February 28 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Sharon Hillier, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	TBA	Tina Catalone
March 7	Daniel Malamud NYU College of Dentistry	Inhibition of HIV-1 Infectivity by gp340, a Member of the Innate Immune System	Fred Krebs
March 14	Steven Foung, M.D. Professor, Pathology Stanford University Palo Alto, CA	Immunogenic and Functional Organization of HCV E2 glycoprotein	Pooja Jain
March 21	Stephen Schoenberger La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology	The Programmed Response of CD8+ T Cells	Peter Katsikis
March 28 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Jay Levy, M.D. University of California	HIV/AIDS: The Importance of Innate Immunity	Brian Wigdahl
April 4	John Barnwell Centers for Disease Control	Malaria: humans, monkeys, mice, mosquitoes and vaccines.	Akhil Vaidya
April 11	Angus W. Thomson, Ph.D., D.Sc. Professor of Surgery and Immunology University of Pittsburgh	Dendritic cells, immune regulation and transplant outcome	Pooja Jain
April 18	Albert Lossinsky, Ph.D. NJ Neuroscientist Institute JFK Medical Center	How Cells, Pathogens and Other Creatures Traverse the Blood-Brain Barrier. Recent Structural and Molecular Concepts.	Muhammad Mukhtar
May 2	Charlene Williams Thomas Jefferson	The Genetics of Osteoarthritis	Laura Steel
May 9	Yasir A.W. Skeiky, Ph.D. Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation	Advances in Tuberculosis Vaccine Development	Jim Burns
May 16	Christian Ockenhouse, M.D., Ph.D. Walter Reed Army Inst of Research	Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Gene Expression Patterns in Presymptomatic and Clinically Apparent Malaria	Jim Burns
May 23	Troy Randal Trudeau Institute	The Development and Function of Local Lymphoid Tissues in Respiratory Immunity	Peter Katsikis
May 30 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Avindra Nath, M.D. Johns Hopkins	Role of Tat Protein in HIV Neuropathogenesis	Zafar Khan
June 6	Michael R. Betts PENN	HIV-specific CD8+ T cell responses during Acute HIV-1 infection	Peter Katsikis
June 13	Matthew Grisham	Immunological Mechanisms in Chronic Gut Inflammation	Steve Jennings
August 15	Rachel Gerstein University of Mass Medical School	Birth of a B cell: molecular circuits in early B cell development	Peter Katsikis
August 22	Peter Katsikis DUCOM	TBA	Peter Katsikis
August 29 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Peter Lelkes, Ph.D. Drexel University	Lung Tissue Engineering	Sonia Navas-Martin
September 5	David M. Koelle University of Washington	Cellular Immunity to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2: Antigen Discovery, T-cell Homing, and Vaccine Development	Steve Jennings
September 12	Todd Merkel NIH	The Host Response to B. anthracis Infection	Rick Rest
September 19	Nicole Baumgarth UC Davis	Immune Responses to Influenza: Location, Location, Location!	Peter Katsikis
October 3	Discovery Day
October 10	Michele A. Kutzler, Ph.D. DUCOM		Peter Katsikis
October 17	David Sibley Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO	Genetic Approaches To Defining Virulence In Toxoplasma	Bill Bergman
October 24	Richard Koup NIH	The Quality and Regulation of T cell Responses to Human Viral Infection	Peter Katsikis
November 7	Salim Merali Temple University	Pneumocystis Pneumonia & Nicotine: An Unexpected Relationship	Tom Edlind
November 14	Jane Carlton NYU School of Medicine	Comparative Genomics of Plasmodium Parasites	Akhil Vaidya
November 28 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Bryan R. Cullen, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Ctr	Viruses, microRNAs and RNA interference	Sonia Navas-Martin
December 5	Richard Bucala Yale Univ School of Medicine	MIF and the Genetic Basis of Macrophage Responsiveness	Jim Burns
December 12	Mohandas Narla New York Blood Center	Malaria and the Red Cell	Akhil Vaidya
December 19 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Joseph G. Sodroski, M.D. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Early Events in HIV-1 Infection	Simon Cocklin Irwin Chaiken

Research Seminar Series Spring 2006
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesdays at 4:00 (unless otherwise indicated)
Auditorium A
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
Jan 11	Jeffrey Dorfman, Ph.D. Wellcome Trust Research and Kenya Med Research Inst	B Cell Memory to Blood Stage P. falciparum Antigens in a Malaria Endemic Area	Jim Burns
Jan 18	Xiao He, Ph.D. Fox Chase Cancer Center	The Role of Th-POK in CD4 T Cell Commitment and T Cell Lymphomagenesis	Tom Edlind
Jan 25 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Julie Strizki, Ph.D. Schering-Plough Research Institute	Discovery and Development of Novel CCR5 Antagonists for HIV Therapy	Julio Martin-Garcia
Feb 1	Robert Doms, Ph.D. School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania	Closing the Door on HIV Entry: New Therapeutic Approaches	Peter Katsikis
Feb 8	Richard Calderone, Ph.D. School of Medicine Georgetown University	Two-component Signaling in Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Oxidant Adaptation in Candida Albicans	Tom Edlind
Feb 15	Jean Boyer, Ph.D. School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Feb 22 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	John Murray, Ph.D. School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania	Cytoskeletal Components of an Invasion Machine – the Apical Complex of Toxoplasma Gondii	Akhil Vaidya
Mar 1	Sean Prigge, Ph.D. Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University	Lipoic Acid Metabolism in P. falciparum: What, Where, How and Why?	Bill Bergman
Mar 8	Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University	Cryptococcus Neoformans – A Pathogen in Black and White	Rick Rest
Mar 15	Kelvin Lee, Ph.D. Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine University of Miami	The Myth of the Dendritic Cell Lineage	Peter Katsikis
Mar 22	Jin Mo Park, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School	Inflammatory Signaling Network in Macrophages	Rick Rest
Mar 29 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Peter Baas, Ph.D. Neurobiology & Anatomy DUCOM	Neuronal Microtubules Cut and Run	Sonia Navas-Martin
Apr 5	Linda Saif, Ph.D. Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center The Ohio State University	Immunity and Vaccines for Animal Coronaviruses: Implications for SARS	Sonia Navas-Martin
Apr 12	Noreen Williams, Ph.D. School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo	Multi-tasking trypanosome RNA binding proteins: How do they do it all ?	Akhil Vaidya
Apr 19 Aud B	David Perlin, Ph.D. Public Health Research Institute International Center for Public Health	Clinical Antifungal Drug Resistance: Mechanisms and Rapid Detection	Tom Edlind
Apr 26 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Michael Frazan, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	Entry of Retro-, Filo-, and Coronaviruses	Julio Martin-Garcia
May 3	David Volsky, Ph.D. Columbia University	A New Model of HIV Infection in Mice	Brian Wigdahl
May 10	Stephen A. Stohlman, Ph.D. The Lerner Research Institute The Cleveland Clinic	CNS Immunity to Coronavirus: T Cells, Cytokines and Proteases	Libby Blankenhorn
May 24 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Lynn Enquist, Ph.D. Molecular Biology Princeton University	Neuronal Infection and Spread of an Alpha Herpesvirus	Brian Wigdahl

Research Seminar Series Fall 2006
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesdays at 4:00 (unless otherwise indicated)
Auditorium A
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
Jun 28 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Eugene Major, Ph.D. NINDS NIH	The Molecular Pathogenesis of a Viral Induced Demyelinating Disease in the Human Brain (PML) is Regulated by the NF-1 Transcription Factors	Brian Wigdahl
Jul 26 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Dennis L. Kolson U of P School of Med	HIV-induced Neurodegeneration: Excitotoxicity and the Role of NMDA Receptor	Julio Martin-Garcia
Aug 16	Dr. Ehud Lavi Cornell University, Weill Medical College	Molecular determinants and cytokine signaling in Coronavirus-Induced Demyelination	Sonia Navas-Martin
Aug 23	Doron Greenbaum Penn	A Chemical Biology Approach to Understand Protease Function in P.falciparum	Akhil Vaidya
Aug 30 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Judith Bond, Ph.D. Penn State College of Medicine	Meprin Metalloproteases: Activities, Oligomerization, Gene Disruption and Disease	Brian Wigdahl
Sep 6	Russell Salter, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	Communication between immune cells mediated by membrane nanotubules	Rick Rest
Sep 13	John Wherry, Ph.D. The Wistar Institute of Philadelphia	Differentiation and Persistence of Antiviral CD8 T Cells During Chronic Infection	Peter Katsikis
Sep 20
Sep 27 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	James Arthos, Ph.D. NIAID	HIV-1 Envelope Recognition by CD4 and DC-SIGN; Mechanisms of Neutralization Escape and Antigen-Cpture	Irwin Chaiken and Simon Cocklin
Oct 4
Oct 11	Discovery Day
Oct 18	Ann Campbell Eastern Virginia Medical School	Structure-Function Analysis of Cytomegalovirus Proteins that Dictate Macrophage Tropism	Steve Jennings
Oct 25 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Charles R. Rinaldo, Jr., Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh	TBA	Pooja Jain
Nov 1	Guido Silvestri Penn		Peter Katsikis
Nov 8	Maurizio Del Poeta Medical University of SC	Glucocylceramide is an Essential Regulator for the Pathogenecity of Cryptococcus neoformans	Bill Bergman
Nov 15	Paul Masters	TBA	Sonia Navas-Martin
Nov 29 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Mario Stevenson, Ph.D. Molecular Medicine U of Mass Med School	Cellular and Viral Regulators of HIC-Host Cell Interplay	Sonia Navas-Martin
Dec 6	TBA		Elise Mosser
Dec 13	Todd Schell Penn State	Developing Immunotherapeutic Strategies for Advanced-Stage Tumors in SV40 T Antigen Transgenic Mice	Alina Boesteanu
Dec 20 Center for Molecular Virology & Neuroimmunology Geary Aud/NCB	Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly UMDNJ New Jersey Med School	TBA	Sonia Navas-Martin