MMG Seminars for Fall 2008

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinators for 08/09: Sungjin Kim, Tom Schmidt

MMG Seminar Date	MMG Seminar Topic	Seminar Speaker	Host
Sep 2	Mosquito Immune Responses to Dengue Virus Infection	Zhiyong Xi  Michigan State University	Walker
Sep 9	Cyanobacteria for biological hydrogen production	Teresa Thiel  University of Missouri-St. Louis	Hausinger
* Sep 10 Wed 11:00 1425 BPS	Defining a Core Human Microbiome	Rob Knight  University of Colorado at Boulder	Tiedje
Sep 16	Effect of gamma-actin deafness mutations on actin filament stability	Pete Rubenstein	Friderici
Sep 23	The ciliopathies: phenotypic variability and mutational load	Nico Katsanis  Johns Hopkins	Friderici
Sep 30	Legionella pneumophila, a pathogen in search of its next meal	Michele Swanson  University of Michigan	Cendrowski
Oct 7	Cytoplasmic tRNA import into mitochondria: many organisms but not so many mechanisms	Juan Alfonzo  Ohio State University	Koslowsky
Oct 14	Variation in virulence among Escherichia coli O157:H7 lineages	Shannon Manning  MSU	Esselman
Oct 21	Recoding UGA as selenocysteine, the 21st amino acid	Donna Driscoll  Cleveland Clinic	Koslowsky
Oct 28	DNA elements that control immunoglobulin class switch recombination	Wesley Dunnick  University of Michigan	Yu
Nov 4	CD8 T Cell Inhibition of RSV Vaccine-Enhanced Eosinophilia	Steven Varga  University of Iowa	York
Nov 11	Deriving biological information from multiple genomes and high-throughput cDNA sequencing in Caenorhabditis.	Erich Schwarz  Wormbase	Brown
Nov 18	The Pseudomonas aeruginosa cyclic AMP-dependent regulon: Reciprocal regulation of acute and chronic virulence	Matthew Wolfgang  University of North Carolina	Graduate Students
Nov 25	Microbial functional and community genomics	Jizhong Zhou University of Oaklahoma	Esselman
Dec 2	Cellular and Systemic Effects of Clostridium difficile toxin B	Jimmy Ballard  University of Oklahoma	Britton
Dec 9	Finals Week

 *Please note special location and time

 

 

MMG Spring Seminars 2009

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise
Seminar Coordinator: Tom Schmidt, Sungjin Kim

Seminar Date	MMG Seminar Topic	Seminar Speaker	Host
Jan 13
Jan 20		Chris Schadt  Oak Ridge National Lab	Graduate Students
Jan 27
Feb 3
Feb 10	Shaping cups into phagosomes and macropinosomes	Joel Swanson  University of Michigan	Cendrowski
Feb 17		Chang-Zheng Chen  Stanford	Kim
Feb 24
Mar 3		Miguel Valvano	Ciche
Mar 10	Spring Break
*Mar 16 Mon 4:00PM BCH 101		Michele Anderson  University of Toronto	Brown
Mar 17		Jon Rast  University of Toronto	Brown
Mar 24		Victoria Orphan Caltech	Graduate Students
Mar 31		Serita Frey  University of New Hampshire	Graduate Students
Apr 7		Dianne Newman	Graduate Students
Apr 14		Daniel Bond  University of Minnesota	Reguera
Apr 21	APOBEC3G expression- can it be controlled?	Ann Sheehy  College of the Holy Cross	Zheng
May 5	Finals Week	;

 *Please note special location and time for seminar 

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