Seminars

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The Department of Microbiology & Immunology supports seminars for faculty, invited speakers, and graduate students. The schedule for the 2008 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 Spring 2008
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 9	Marc Monestier Temple	Do metals cause autoimmunity? Lessons from a mouse model	Peter Katsikis
January 16	Matthias J. Schnell Jefferson	Recombinant Rhabdoviruses as HIV-1 Vaccines – Why Viral Vectors Can Work and What Was Learned from Failed Approaches	Peter Katsikis
January 23	Jeff Jacobson DUCOM	The Use of Autologous Viral Antigens for Therapeutic Immunization in HIV Infection	Peter Katsikis
January 30 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Alison McBride National Cancer Institute	Maintenance and Segregation of Viral Genomes in Persistent HPV Infection	MCBG
February 6	Patrick Loll DUCOM	Target Recognition by Large Natural Product Antibiotics	Bill Bergman
February 20	Mary Stevenson Research Institute of the MUHC		Jim Burns
February 27 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Robert Siliciano JHMI	New approaches to evaluating the efficacy of antiretroviral drugs	Brian Wigdahl
March 5	Photini Sinnis NYU	Getting in Under the Radar Screen: The Malaria Sporozoite's Journey from Mosquito to Mammalian Host	Akhil Vaidya
March 12	Ari Theofilopoulos Scripps Research Institute		Peter Katsikis
March 19	Doina Ganea Temple	Neuropeptides: Engodenous Anti-Inflammatory Agents with Therapeutic Potential	Peter Katsikis
March 26 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Eric Freed NIH	HIV assembly, release, and maturation: novel targets for antiviral therapy	MCBG
April 2	Michael Rycyzyn Centocor		Rick Rest
April 9	M. Katzman Penn State College of Medicine	Retroviral Integrase	Fred Krebs
April 16
April 23	Lilly Li Centocor	Evaluation of T Regulatory Cell Therapy	Rick Rest
April 30 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Frederic Bushman PENN	Viral DNA Modifying Enzymes: Mechanism and Inhibition	Fred Krebs
May 7	Michael Autieri Temple	The Role of Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1 (AIF-1) in Development of Vascular Proliferative Diseases	Carol Artlett
May 8 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Vincent Racaniello Columbia		MCBG
May 14	graduation ceremonies	----	-----
May 21	Vedrana Stojanovic-Susulic Centocor		Rick Rest
May 28 IMMID Geary Aud/NCB	Shilpa Buch, Ph.D. Kansas University Medical Center	NeuroAIDS: A Tango of HIV and the Host	MCBG
June 4	Davod Artis PENN	Balancing Immunity and Inflammation in the Gut	Jim Burns