Fall 2009 Seminars

Every semester we are proud to host outstanding seminar speakers. These seminars are held Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. in AUD 3 BSB (Watzke) (unless otherwise noted) on the University of Iowa campus. All are encouraged to attend free of charge. If you are interested in more seminars at the UI, please visit The Carver College of Medicine Calendar of Events.

Date

Speaker

Host

Research Area

August 25

Tony Romeo

Dept of Microbiology & Cell Science

Univ of Florida

Tim Yahr Post-transcriptional regulation by the Csr (Rsm) system
September 1 NO SEMINAR    
September 8

John Gunn

Dept of Microbiology

Ohio State Univ

Steve Clegg Gallbladder carriage of Salmonella in mouse and man is enhanced by biofilm formation on gallstone surfaces
September 15

David C. Bloom

Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Univ of Florida

Mark Stinski The role of the LAT in regulating HSV-1 latent gene expression and reactivation
September 22

Jennifer K. Nyborg

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Colorado State Univ

Al Klingelhutz Transcriptional Activation by the Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Tax Protein

September 24

  Thursday

  2:00 p.m.

  2117 MERF

Jim C. Spain

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Georgia Tech

Tim Yahr Biodegradation of Natural Organic Compounds Reveals New Metabolic Diversity
September 29

Christopher R. Aiken

Microbiology & Immunology

Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center

Marty Stoltzfus The HIV-1 Capsid: Function and Therapeutic Target

CANCELED

October 1

  Thursday

  2:00 p.m.

  2117 MERF

John D. Coates

Dept of Plant & Microbial Biology

Univ of California-Berkeley

Tim Yahr Bioenergy and the spark of life
October 6

Amy Vincent

Natl Animal Disease Ctr

USDA-ARS

John Butler Influenza A virus in swine: a North American perspective
October 13

Robert F. Siliciano

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine

Wendy Maury New approaches for understanding and evaluating the efficacy of antiretroviral drugs
October 20

Michael G. Thomas

Dept of Bacteriology

Univ Wisconsin-Madison

Alex Horswill From Agriculture to Medicine: New Insights into Polyketide Biosynthesis

October 23

  Friday

  12:00 Noon

  2189 MERF

Chioma Okeoma

Faculty Candidate

Dept of Microbiology

Univ of Pennsylvania

Richard Roller APOBEC3 in Host Defense: Implications for Viral Infection, Pathogenesis, and Transmission
October 27

David Popham

Dept of Biological Sciences

Virginia Tech

David Weiss Tearing Down the Wall: Breaking Bacillus anthracis Spore Dormancy

October 29

  Thursday

  2:00 PM

  2117 MERF

John D. Coates

Dept of Plant & Microbial Biology

Univ of California-Berkeley

Tim Yahr Bioenergy and the spark of life

October 30

  Friday

  12:00 Noon

  283 EMRB

Stephanie Karst

Dept of Microbiology & Immunology

Louisiana State Univ Health Sciences Center

Richard Roller Defining the critical determinants of norovirus pathogenesis that prevent long-term protective immunity
November 3

Philip LoVerde

Dept of Biochemistry

Univ Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio

Michael Apicella Role of TGFβ signaling in schistosome biology

November 6

  Friday

  12:00 Noon

  2189 MERF

Nathaniel Moorman Faculty Candidate

Dept of Molecular Biology

Princeton Univ

Rich Roller Viral Regulation of mTOR: A Combined Genetic and Proteomic Approach
November 10

John D. Helmann

Dept of Microbiology

Cornell University

David Weiss New Insights into Metal Ion Homeostasis: the B. subtilis Fur and Zur regulons

November 16

  Monday

  12:00 Noon

  Aud 1 BSB

  (Beisner)

Grant Trobridge

Faculty Candidate

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Dept of Medicine, Univ of Washington

Richard Roller Stem cell gene therapy for HIV using RNAi and a fusion inhibitor in a nonhuman primate model
November 17

David J. Topham

Dept of Microbiology & Immunology

Univ of Rochester Medical Center

Steve Varga Rapid Immunity to Influenza Virus Provided by Lung Resident Cells
November 24

Timothy Murphy

School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Univ at Buffalo-SUNY

Michael Apicella Pathogenesis of Haemophilus influenzae infection in COPD
December 1

Richard Longnecker

Dept of Microbiology-Immunology

Northwestern Univ

Richard Roller How to Enter and Promote Cancer in B Cells - Lessons from Epstein-Barr Virus
December 8

Sandra Weller

Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology

Univ of Connecticut

Mark Stinski How Herpes Simplex Virus Commandeers the Host Cell Chaperone and DNA Damage Machinery

To see a list of some of our past seminar speakers, click here.

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