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Research Seminar Series Fall 2010
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesdays at 4:00 (unless otherwise indicated)
Auditorium B
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
August 18	Student Speakers
September 1	Student Speakers
September 8
September 15	Francois Villinger Emory		P. Katsikis
September 22	Christian Stehlik Northwester		C. Artlett
October 13	S. Sanjabi Univ of California		P. Gupta
October 20	Sridhar Mani Albert Einstein College of Medicine		S. Kortagere
November 3	Student Speakers
November 10	Student Speakers
December 1	Student Speakers
December 8	Adolfo Garcia-Sastre		P. Katsikis

Research Seminar Series 2009
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
New College Building
Geary Auditorium A (4:15pm)
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
January 28	Maureen Murphy Fox Chase Cancer Ctr .	The Arf tumor suppressor and autophagy	MCBG/Amanda Frank
February 25	Li Wu	Medical College of Wisconsin Dendritic-cell interactions with HIV: infection and viral dissemination	Pooja Jain
March 25	Ian Mohr NYU	Energy Metabolism as a Cellular Signal for Live Regeneration	MCBG/Tricia Gearhart
April 29	David Weiner Penn	DNA Vaccine Technology for Infectious Disease STEPing UP post STEP	M&I Grad Group
May 27	Harold L. Moses, M.D. Vanderbilt University	TGF-beta: The Molecular Jekyll andHhyde of Cancer	MCBG/Michael Amatangelo
June 24	D. Fallin	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Field of Genetic Epidemiology: Examples from Schizophrenia	M&I Grad Group/V. Pirrone
July 29	Jeffrey Weiser Penn	The Pneumococcus: Why a Commensal Misbhaves	M&I Grad Group
August 26	Kieren A. Marr, MD Johns Hopkins		Tom Edlind
September 30
October 28
November 18
December 16	Robyn Klein Washington University		Olimpia Meucci
Research Seminar Series Fall 2009
Drexel University College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesdays at 4:00 (unless otherwise indicated)
Auditorium A
Date	Speaker/Institution	Title	Host
August 19	Student speakers		Jim burns
September 2	Sean Ekins Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.	Collaborative Drug Discovery Database Development, Interpretable Rules and Computational Models for Inhibitors of Tuberculosis	Sandhya Kortagere
September 9	Student speakers
September 16
September 23	Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins		Akhil Vaidya
Tuesday October 6	Michael McIntosh		Jim Burns
October 14
November 4	Student speakers
November 11 Held at NCB at 4:15	Gudrun Debes PENN	B and T cell Migration Through Extralymphoid Tissues	Michele Kutzler
December 2	Student speakers
December 9

Research Seminar Series Fall 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
September 10	Thi Migone Human Genome Sciences, Inc.	Development of a Fully Human Antibody for the Treatment of Inhalational Anthrax	Rick Rest
September 17	Sandhya Kortagere DUCOM	The Hybrid Structure Based Method and Its Application to Design New Lead Compounds	Brian Wigdahl
September 24	William S. Mason, PhD Fox Chase Cancer Center	Hepatitis B Virus Infection, Immune Selection of Liver Cells, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma	MCBG
October 1	Laura Steel DUCOM	Interfering RNAs in Therapeutic and Endogenous Antiviral Defense	Sonia Navas-Martin
October 8	Sonia Navas-Martin DUCOM	Virus-Host Stand-Off: Lessons Learned from Coronavirus and hepatitis C Virus	Brian Wigdahl
October 22	Pooja Jain DUCOM	Recruitment and Transmigration of Dendritic cells to the CNS	Brian Wigdahl
October 29	Michael Lederman Case Western Reserve University	How HIV makes you sick	Jeff Jacobson
November 5	Graduate Student Conference Praveen Balabaskaran Christina Kollias Mariana Bernui	Unusual Features of the Mitochondrial ATP Synthase Complex in the Aiveolate Protist Tetrahymena thermophila Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to herpes Simples Virus The Effect of Antioxidants on Bacillus anthracis spore Germination	Fred Krebs
November 12	Joseph Mattapallil Uniformed Services University	Acute HIV Pathogenesis: New Insights from the Non-human Primate Model	Peter Katsikis
November 19	Arthur Friedlander, M.D. USAMRIID	The Yin-Yang of the Anthrax Capsule: Role in Pathogenesis and Target for Vaccines and Therapeutics	Rick Rest
December 3	Graduate Student Conference Sumit Kumar Karissa Lozenski Meghan Wynosky	Defining Transcription Factors Function in Plasmodium Using a Murine Cervicovaginal Toxicity Model to Determine the Mechanisms Underlying the Clinical Failure of the microbicide N-9 The Bacillus anthracis toxin Anthrolysin O Stimulates Macrophages Through Multiple Pathways	Fred Krebs
December 10	Mahmut Safak Temple University School of Medicine	Critical Roles of Agnoprotein and Small t Antigen in JC Virus Life Cycle	Rick Rest
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

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

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