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Fall 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007: "Role of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Pasteurella multocida Outer Membrane Permeability Properties in Triclosan Susceptibility"
Matthew Ellison, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
August 28, 2007: "Iron Regulation in E. coli"
Dr. Simon C. Andrews, Ph.D., Reader in Microbial Biochemistry, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Reading, United Kingdom
**Special Seminar- Dissertation Defense**
Wednesday, September 12, 2007: "ProductionOfBhuA By Brucella Abortus Is Required For Hemin Utilization And Virulence And Is Dependent On The Transcriptional Regulators RirA AndChrA"
James T. Paulley, Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, East Carolina University School of Medicine
September 18, 2007: "Novel Roles for Hox A9 and Notch-1 in Cancer: A Tale of Two Projects"
Fred "Ted" Bertrand, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, East Carolina University School of Medicine
October 23, 2007: "Novel Functions of KSHV Early Genes During Infection of Endolthelial Cells"
Gary Hayward, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
October 30, 2007: "Candidiasis in the Neonate: Host Defense and Investigations into the Role of Antibody"
Joseph M. Bliss M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School; Staff Neonatologist, Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (Providence)
November 6, 2007: "Bad to the Bone: Staphylococcus aureus as a Musculoskeletal Pathogen"
Mark S. Smeltzer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Department of Orthopaedics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
November 13, 2007: "Confocal Microscopy of Thick Tissues- Embryos, Kidneys and Ovaries"
Robert M. Zucker, Ph.D., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Reproductive Toxicology Division, Research Triangle Park, NC
December 4, 2007: "The HTLV-I Tax Oncoprotein Interferes with the DNA Damage Response: Possible Roles in Cellular Transformation"
Susan J. Marriott, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
December 11, 2007: "Motility, chemotaxis and virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete"
Md. Abdul Motaleb, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Cell Biology, Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (Dr. Motaleb is a Faculty Candidate in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
December 18, 2007: "The Host Response during Helicobacter pylori Infection: Friend or Foe?"
Ellen J. Beswick, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (Dr. Beswick is a Faculty Candidate in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
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Spring 2008
*January 24, 2008: "Regulation of Sialic acid catabolism and cell-cell signaling: Critical factors in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis"
Jason w. Johnston, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow University of Iowa
(Dr. Johnston is a Faculty Candidate in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology)
January 29, 2008: "Modeling Human TB Using Mycobacterium marinum and Japanese Medaka: Evidence for Chronic Mycobacteriosis Inscreasing Cancer Risk"
Don G. Ennis, Ph.D., Associate Professor University of Louisiana at Lafayette
February 13, 2008: "Heme oxygenase-1: a new target for anti-cancer therapy"
Jozef Dulak, Professor of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
February 19, 2008: "Regulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system"
Timothy L. Yahr, Ph.D., Associate Professor University of Iowa
February 26, 2008: Monkeypox and Smallpox: "Historic" considerations for the emergence of orthopoxvirus diseases
Inger K. Damon, MD, Ph.D., Chief, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
April 1, 2008: Enzymology of Alginate Biosynthesis and Quorum Sensing in P. aeruginosa
Peter A. Tipton,Ph.D., Professor University of Missouri-Columbia
April 8, 2008: "Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation"
Ece Karatan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Appalachian State University
April 15, 2008: ***CANCELED***
Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Directeur du Centre d'Immunologie, Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy
April 22, 2008: "Gene loops and regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription"
Michael Hampsey, Ph.D, Professor & Interim Chairman Dept.of Biochemistry UMDNJ -RWJMS
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Fall 2008
July 23, 2008:12:30 Brody Auditorium Burgundy- Final Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy for Heidi Dalrymple
Exploring Pathways of Lung Homeostasis: Role of Alveolar Macrophages and Lymphocytes.
August 19, 2008: “Cellular Events Altering KSHV Infection”
Shaw M. Akula, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology & Immunology, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
September 2, 2008: "Mobilization of a BacteroidesConjugative Transposon, CTn341"
Lindsay A. Peed, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dissertation Defense
September 9, 2008: “The PQS Story”
Everett C. Pesci, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Microbiology & Immunology, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
September 23, 2008: "Iron acquisition by Neisseria gonorrhoeae"
Cynthia N. Cornelissen, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Virginia commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
http://www.vcu.edu/micro/cornelissen.htm
October 14, 2008: MIF Presentation "Identification and Regulation of the Brucella abortus Cytoplasmic Membrane Heme Transporter"
Jenifer F. Ojeda,Microbiology & Immunology Doctoral Candidate
October 28, 2008: “Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer”
Emmanuel Zervos, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor and Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine
November 13, 2008(Thursday- Biotech Conference Room 110): "Vibrio cholerae stress response: roles of RpoS, H-NS and PhoB"
Syed Zafar Sultan, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Candidate for Post-Doctoral Scholar Department of Microbiology & Immunlogy
November 18, 2008: “Steap Proteins in Iron Transport and Homeostasis”
Martin Lawrence, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
http://www.chemistry.montana.edu/people/person.php?id=31
December 2, 2008: "The battle for metal between Staphylococcus aureus and its host"
Eric Skaar, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/microbio/SkaarLab/HTML/skaarlabindex.html
December 9, 2008: "The roles of the Type IV secretion system in colonization and persistence of Brucella supp in the host"
Renée M. Tsolis, Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology,University of California at Davis
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medmicro/staff/tsolis.html
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Spring 2009
February 17, 2009: "Switching bad bugs to useful ones; recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccines"
Ho Young Kang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea. Special Alumni Seminar Supported by the Paul V. Phibbs Jr. Graduate Student Training Fund.
http://microbio.pusan.ac.kr/
February 24, 2009: “Evolutionary advantage of spirochete morphology: proteins that contribute to cell shape”
Phil Stewart, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, RML, NIH, Hamilton, MT
March 17, 2009: “Molecular Requirements for the Formation of the [URE3] Prion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”
Michael M. Pierce, Ph.D., "Assistant Professor of Biology, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
http://www.coastal.edu/biology/new/facDetail.php?id=18&catlD=64
March 24, 2009: "The Roots are Showing: Bacterial Diversity in Eastern Hemlock"
Seán P. O'Connell, Ph.D., Dept of Biology, Associate Professor of Microbiology; H.F. "Cotton" and Katherine P. Robinson Professor of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
http://www.wcu.edu/7418.asp
March 31, 2009: “PKC and PP2A as Opposing Regulators of Cell Survival in Acute Leukemia”
Peter P. Ruvolo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN
http://www.hi.umn.edu/pruvolo.html
April 7, 2009: "The AlgR Regulon of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Michael J. Schurr, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
http://uchsc.digitalassetsinc.com/Faculty/Schurr.php
April 14, 2009: "Testing the Biophysical Model of omega-3 Fatty Acid Modification of MHC class 1 Membrane Organizaiton: How Fats Regulate Immunity"
Saame Raza Shaikh, Ph.D., Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/biochemistry/Faculty-Shaikh.cfm
April 28, 2009: "B. melitensis at the crossroads between virulence, differentiation and metabolic adaptation"
Jean-Jacques Letesson, DVM, Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Biology, University of Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
April 30, 2009: NOTE: Biotechnology Building Conference Room 110 "Using Next Generation Sequencing Technology for reference based and de-novo sequencing of microbial genomes, pathogen detection in the presence of host/background genomic material, and analysis of genomic diversity in complex clinical and environmental samples"
Yuriy Fofanov, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology & Biochemistry, Director of Bioinformatics Lab, University of Houston, Houston, TX
May 5, 2009: "Role of Human T cell Leukemia Virus Regulatory and Accessory Proteins in Cellular Transformation and Persistence"
Patrick L. Green, Ph.D., Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
http://www.vet.ohio-state.edu/858.htm
May 12, 2009: "Interactions between Brucella and Immunity"
Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Ph.D., Senior Researcher and Director, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseilles, France
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