Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m., in the Microbiology Seminar Room, Warren Alpert Building Room 341, at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA.

Coffee is served at 12:15 pm outside of the seminar room.

If you would like to meet any of the speakers to discuss research of mutual interest or during lunch or dinner, please contact Shannon Humphreys ( 617-432-1935 or shannon@hms.harvard.edu).

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2007-2008 LIST OF SEMINAR SPEAKERS

last updated: 04/18/2008

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
9/11	Kelly Hughes University of Utah	Reducing the irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum	Lory
9/18	Laurie Comstock Channing Lab, Harvard Medical School	Extensive and regulated glycan synthesis by the intestinal Bacteroidales	Starnbach
9/25	Mauricio Montal University of California at San Diego	Botulinum Neutotoxin: A Modular Nanomachine	Collier Co-Sponsored by NERCE
10/2	Todd Yeates UCLA	Piecing together the structure of the carboxysome, a primitive bacterial organelle	Beckwith
10/9	Yves Brun Indiana University	Spiderman vs Caulobacter: Developmental control of bacterial surface adhesion	Bernhardt
10/16	Ursula Jakob University of Michigan	Oxidative Stress and Redox Regulation in Bacteria	Beckwith
10/23	Dan Kearns Indiana University	Regulation of Motility in Bacillus Subtilis: A Bistable Switch and a Flagellar Brake	Rudner
10/30	Jaisri Lingappa University of Washington	Virus assembly and restriction: from cell biology to therapeutics	Evans
11/6	Colleen Jonsson Southern Research Institute	Rational and High Throughput Screening Approaches for the Discovery of Antivirals for Highly Lethal RNA Viruses	Yang Co-Sponsored by NERCE
11/13	Jaqueline Dudley University of Texas at Austin	Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus: A Model for Cancer and Infectious Disease	Johnson
11/20	Jimmy Ballard University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Characterizing the Cellular and Systemic Effects of Intracellular Bacterial Toxins	Higgins
11/27	Victor Nizet UCSD School of Medicine	Pathogen Subversion of Host Phagocyte Defenses	Graduate Students Co-Sponsored by NERCE
12/4	Bob Landick University of Wisconsin-Madison	Transcriptional regulation via allosteric control of RNA polymerase active site	Hochschild
12/11	Anura Rambukkana The Rockefeller University	Bacterial-induced Reprogramming of Adult Tissue Cells to Stem Cell-like Cells	Mekalanos
12/18	Daniel Douek NIAID/NIH	HIV Disease Pathogenesis: Immune Activation, Microbes and a Leaky Gut	Desrosiers
2008
1/8	Tim Cover Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Structure and function of Helicobacter pylori VacA, a bacterial pore-forming toxin	Starnbach
1/15	Michael Gale University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center CANCELED	VIRAL TRIGGERING AND CONTROL OF INNATE IMMUNE DEFENSES	Gehrke Co-Sponsored by NERCE
1/22	Tania Baker MIT	REMODELING PROTEINS AND THE PROTEOME BY AAA+ UNFOLDING MACHINES	Hochschild
1/29	Lora Hooper University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES TO COMMENSAL BACTERIA AT THE GUT EPITHELIAL SURFACE	Kasper Co-Sponsored by NERCE
2/5	Jeff Cox UCSF, Mission Bal Campus	Regulation of ESX-1 virulence factor export in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Hung Co-Sponsored by NERCE
2/12	Walter Mothes Yale University School of Medicine	Retroviruses manipulate cell-cell contact for efficient cell-to-cell transmission	Nibert
2/19	Jan Löwe Laboratory of Molecular Biology Medical Research Council	Structure and function of FtsK, a DNA motor	Rudner
2/26	Tony Pugsley Institut Pasteur	The secrets of bacterial secretion	Lory
3/4	Nahum Sonenberg McGill University	Translation control in cancer and innate immunity	Whelan
3/11	Paul Hergenrother University of Illinois	Controlling Bacterial and Cancer Cell Death with Small Molecules	Walker Co-Sponsored by NERCE
3/18	Caroline Harwood University of Washington	Development of a model bacterial system for bio-hydrogen production	Lory
3/25	Skip Virgin Washington University School of Medicine	Autophagy Genes and Interferons: Mechanisms Controlling Chronic Inflammation and Symbiotic Herpes Virus Infection	Kieff Co-Sponsored by NERCE
4/1	Peter Palese Mount Sinai School of Medicine	The pathogenicity of pandemic influenza viruses	Knipe Co-Sponsored by NERCE
4/8	Michael Rossman Purdue University CANCELED		Mekalanos Co-Sponsored by NERCE
4/15	Andy Camilli Tufts University	Genetic analysis of the transmissible state of Vibrio cholerae	Higgins Co-Sponsored by NERCE
4/22	Norman Pace University of Colorado, Boulder	Into the Natural Microbial World: From Hot Springs to Human Health	Collier
4/29	Brendan Bohannan University of Oregon	The Macroecology of Microorganisms	Kolter
5/6	Craig Roy Yale University School of Medicine	Manipulation of eukaryotic membrane transport pathways by intracellular pathogens	Collier Co-Sponsored by NERCE
5/13	Eva Harris University of California, Berkeley	Dengue Pathogenesis: From Mice to Humans	Yang Co-Sponsored by NERCE
5/20	Heidi Goodrich-Blair University of Wisconsin-Madison	Nematode life and insect death: How can one bacterium do it all?	Graduate Students
5/27	Jay Keasling University of California, Berkeley	Synthetic biology in pursuit of low-cost, effective, anti-malarial drugs	Rudner