2008 – 2009 | |
9/19/2008 | Celia Schiffer
Umass Medical School | Combating Drug Resistance: Lessons from HIV-1 Protease |
9/26/08 | Jay Zhu
UPenn | Quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae pathogenesis |
10/10/08 | Heran Darwin
NYU | Discovery of an Ubiquitin-like Protein Involved in the Proteasome Pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
10/17/2008 | Cammie Lesser
Mass General | New insights into mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis through functional genomic studies in yeast |
10/24/08 | Orlando Schärer
SUNY Stoneybrook | Mechanisms of damage recognition and dual incision in human nucleotide excision repair |
10/31/08 | Gary Van Zant
University of Kentucky | Hematopoietic stem cell regulation: The role of latexin in health and malignancy |
11/7/08 | Bert Van Den Berg
UMass Medical School | How do bacteria clean up our mess? Outer membrane transport of hydrophobic compounds |
11/14/08 | Ronald K. Taylor
Dartmouth University | Attachment of Vibrio cholerae to Multiple Surfaces: Multiple Modes of Colonization and Mechanisms of Regulation |
11/21/08 | Tom Alber
Berkely University | Ser/Thr phosphosignaling in TB |
12/5/08 | Neal Alto
University of Texas Southerwestern | Structural and Functional insights into Rho GTPase signaling mimicry by a family of Bacterial Type III effectors |
12/19/08 | Barry Wanner
Purdue | Development of the www.EcoliHub.org Information Resource and New Ways to Study the E. coli Model Cell |
1/16/2009 | Jessica Jones
Georgetown University | Exploration of the Ubiquitin Ligase Activity of the RAG1 V(D)J Recombinase |
1/23/09 | Nicole Baumgarth
University of CA – Davis | Innate B cell responses to influenza virus
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1/30/09 | Mark Lipsitch
Harvard School of Public Health | How do we become immune to Streptococcus pneumoniae? |
2/13/09 | Andrew Gewirtz
Emory University | TLR5-mediated immune responses to enteric microbes |
3/6/09 | Ken Bradley
UCLA | Genetic Approaches to Study Host-Pathogen Interactions in Anthrax |
3/13/09 | Trudy Morrison
UMass Medical School | The Construction and Testing of a Virus-Like Particle (VLP) Vaccine Candidate for Respiratory Syncytial Virus |
| 3/13/09 | Brian Akerley
UMass Medical School | Genome-scale analysis of bacterial pathogenesis goes digital: Is your computer ready? |
3/20/09 | Nina Papavasiliou
Rockefeller University | Hide and Seek: Surface Receptor Diversity in the host-pathogen interaction |
3/31/09 | Steevenson Nelson
NAID, NIH | The stoichiometry of antibody-mediated neutralization of West Nile virus infection: Factors that govern antibody potency. |
4/10/09 | Bobby Cherayil
MGH | Ironing out the wrinkles in host defense: interactions between iron homeostasis and innate immunity |
4/17/09 | Andreas Baumler
UC, Davis | Salmonella: Life in the inflamed intestine
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5/4/09 | James Konopka
SUNY, Stonybrook | Plasma membrane microdomains promote cell wall organization, morphogenesis and virulence of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans |
5/29/09 | Casey J. Fox, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory | Control of Lymphocyte Homeostasis and Lymphomagenesis by the Pim Kinases
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2009 - 2010 |
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| 09/25/09 | Richard K. Plemper, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine | Cyro-electron and Biochemical Analysis of Paramyxovirus fusion complexes |
| 10/09/09 | Lora V. Hooper, Ph.D.
University of Texas
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Innate defense of gut epithelial surfaces |
| 10/23/09 | Mary O'Riordan | Keeping microbes in their place: compartmentalized host interactions with the intracellular pathogen listeria monocytogenes” |
| 11/20/09 | Thomas Bernhardt
Harvard Medical School | Cytokinetic ring-activated cell wall hydrolysis governs daughter cell separation in E. coli. |
| 12/4/09 | Michael Laub
MIT | Specificity And Evolution Of Signaling Pathways In Bacteria |
| 12/11/09 | Mitch Kronenberg
LaJolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology | Innate-like recognition of microbes by natural killer T cells |
| 12/18/09 | Saul Tzipori
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University | Bacillus Subtilis as Heat-stable Vaccine Delivery System |
| 01/08/10 | Alejandro Heuck
University of Massachusetts, Amherst | *Protein translocation into eukaryotic cells: characterization of the /P. aeruginosa/ Type III secretion translocon |
| 01/15/10 | James Casanova
University of Virginia | Manipulation of host cell signaling and trafficking pathways by Salmonella typhimurium |
| 01/22/10 | Doyle Ward
The Broad Institute | The Long Tail Of The Human Microbiome And Other Short Stories |
| 01/29/10 | Hai Ning Shi, D.V.M., Ph.D.
MGH/Harvard Medical School | Immunomodulation of Bacterial Colitis By Helminth Infection |
| 02/12/10 | Michael J. Sanderson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology
UMass Medical School | Ca2+ regulation of smooth muscle cell contraction: Physiology revealed by microscopy of lung slices |
| 03/05/10 | Roberto Kolter
Harvard Medical School | Signaling in Biofilms |
| 03/19/10 | Linc Shonenshein
Tufts University School of Medicine | Global regulation of nutritional adaptation and virulence in Gram-positive bacteria |
| 03/26/10 | David Briles
University of Alabama, Birmingham | The use of mouse models of pneumococcal infection to study mechanisms of protection against colonization and diseases |
| 04/02/2010 | John V. Walsh
UMass Medical School | Calcium Syntillas and Neurosecretion: A tale of Two Microdomains. |
| 04/09/2010 | Mitsuo Ikebe, PhD
UMass Medical School | Myosin Motor: from muscle contraction to cargo transportation. |
| 04/16/2010 | Thereza Imanishi-Kari | Class switch recombination leading to loss of B cell tolerance |
| 04/30/2010 | José Lemos
UMass Medical School | Endogenous Purinergic regulation of peptide release from nerve terminals |
| 05/07/2010 | Tony Sinai
University of Ketucky | Toxoplasma gondii: The myriad machinations of a manipulative parasite |
| 05/20/2010 | Kevin Mills, Ph.D.
The Jackson Labratory | Collateral Damage: Programmed Breaks, Genomic Instability, and DNA Repair in B-Cells |
| 06/10/2010 | Matthew D. Weitzman, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | Genomes in conflict: Maintaining genome integrity during virus infection |