Seminar Series

2010-2011

07/08/10   David Favre, D.V.M, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, National Immune Monitoring Laboratory,
Genome Quebec/Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada “HIV and Th17 Depletion: Implication for
AIDS Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development”

10/14/10   William B. Messer, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division
of Infectious Diseases, UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC “Development and Characterization of a
Dengue Virus Serotype 3 Infectious Clone: Reverse Genetics, Antigenic Diversity and Beyond”

10/29/10   Amy Moran, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology
(MICaB) Ph.D. Graduate Program, University of Minnesota Center for Immunology, Minneapolis, MN
“The role of TCR signal strength in thymic development”

11/19/10   Scott G. Kitchen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA DVAR
Mouse/Human Chimera Core, Division of Hematology/Oncology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA “Genetic Vaccination: Engineering Antiviral T-Cell Immunity Through Stem
Cells”

01/21/11            Robert S. Fujinami, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah “Same Virus – Two Different Diseases”

02/08/11            Nevan Krogan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA.  “Functional Insights from Protein-Protein and Genetic Interaction Maps”

02/11/11            W. Ian Lipkin, M.D.,  Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, The Northeast Biodefense Center,  World Health Organization collaborating Centre on Diagnostics, Surveillance and Immunotherapeutics on Emerging Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases, Columbia University, New York, NY, “Microbe Hunting”