MMG Seminars 2010-2011

August

August 24 - MSB 2.135| Patrick Schlievert (University of Minnesota)
"Molecular pathogenesis of Gram positive bacterial endocarditis"
Special day and Time: Tuesday 2.00 p.m.

September

September 2 - MSB 2.135| Joanna Goldberg (University of Virginia)
"A novel vaccine approach for infectious diseases: Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a model pathogen"
Special Time: Thursday 10.00 a.m.

September 7 - MSB 2.135| Robert Maier (University of Georgia)
"Roles of molecular hydrogen use by pathogenic bacteria"
Special day and Time: Tuesday 10.00 a.m..

September 14 - MSB 2.135| Michele Swanson (University of Michigan)
"Autophagy as a component of innate immunity"
Special day and Time: Tuesday 10.00 a.m.

September 23 - MSB 2.103| Sruti Debroy (UTHSC-Houston)
"Multiple Posttranscriptional Mechanisms Control Ethanolamine Utilization in Enterococcus faecalis"

September 30 - MSB 2.103| Daniel Haeusser (UTHSC-Houston)
"Inhibition of B. subtilis cell division by gp56 of the SPO1 bacteriophage"

October

October 7 - MSB 2.135| Jessica Tyler (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"Epigenetic regulation of gene expression, DNA repair, cancer and aging"

November

November 4 - MSB 2.103| Jose Barral (UT Medical Branch)
"Genetic mechanisms that coordinate translation rates and protein folding"

November 11 - MSB 2.103| Gábor Balázsi (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"Single cells or cell populations: A matter of control"

November 18 - MSB B.605| Michael Donnenberg (University of Maryland)
"The type IV bundle-forming pilus of enteropathogenic E. coli"

December

December 2 - MSB 2.103| Kim Lewis (Northeastern University)
"Bacterial dormancy, a common cause for persistence and uncultivability"

January

January 6 - MSB 2.103| Lisa Morano (University of Houston-Downtown)
"Endophytes and Wine: Unraveling the ecology and epidemiology of Xylella fastidiosa"

January 13 - MSB 2.103| Michael Donnenberg (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
"The Type IV bundle-forming pilus of Enteropathogenic E.coli"

January 20 - MSB B.605| Jeff Coller (Case Western Reserve University)
"Role of decapping in the function of both coding and non-coding RNAs"

January 27 - MSB 2.103| James Konopka (SUNY-Stoney Brook)
"Plasma membrane MCC/eisosome domains are important for C. albicans morphogenesis, intraphagosomal growth and virulence"

February

February 24 - MSB 2.103| Carolina Barillas-Mury (NIH)
"Plasmodium-mosquito interactions that determine malaria transmission"

March

March 3 - MSB 2.103| Margaret Phillips (UT Soutwestern)
"Regulation of polyamine metabolism in the African trypanosome"

March 17 - MSB B.605| David Schneider(Stanford University)
"Correlating microbe load with disease during infections"

March 31 - MSB 2.103| Jeffrey Weiser (University of Pennsylvania)
"The pneumococcus: Why a commensal misbehaves"

April

April 7 - MSB 2.103| Fulvia Verde (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)
"Dynamic Control of Morphogenesis"

April 14 - MSB 2.103| Allan Jacobson (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
"Translation termination, NMD and the development of therapeutic nonsense suppression"

April 28 - MSB 2.103| James Bardwell (University of Michigan)
"Optimization of in vivo protein folding"

previous MMG Seminars series:

2009-2010

2008-2009

2007-2008

2006-2007 (pdf)

2005-2006 (pdf)

2004-2005 (pdf)

2003-2004 (pdf)