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Infection, Immunity & Transplantation (IIT) Seminars August 2010- July 2011
Director, Stanislaw Stepkowski, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.Sc.Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
SEMINAR SERIES 2010-2011
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DATE/TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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July 28, 2010 12:00 noon |
Mithun Khattar |
Title: “Impact of Common Gamma-Chain Cytokine Signal Deprivation on T-cell Functions” Mentor: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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August 18, 2010 |
Journal Club – Paul Schroder |
Mentor: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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September 1, 2010 |
Journal Club – Josh Waldman |
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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September 8, 2010 11:00 a.m. Room 227, HEB |
Rene Duquesnoy, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA |
Title: “HLA Matching at the Epitope Level: A Better Strategy To Identify Suitable Donors for Kidney Transplantation” Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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September 10, 2010 |
Journal Club – J-P Lavik |
Isabel Novella, PhD |
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September 15, 2010 12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
David Steinhauer, Ph.D. Atlanta, GA |
Title: “Influenza Virus Entry Into Host Cells”
Host: Isabel Novella, PhD |
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September 22, 2010 12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Michael Rees, M.D. Department of Urology Email: Michael.Rees@uToledo.edu |
Title: “Kidney Paired Donation”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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September 29, 2010 |
Journal Club – Mithun Khattar |
S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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October 6, 2010
12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Sonia Najjar, Ph.D. Professor, Dept of Physiology & Pharmacology Director, Center for Diabetes & Endocrine Research (CeDER) The University of Toledo |
Title: “Crosstalk between metabolic abnormalities and inflammatory response in obesity?”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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October 13, 2010 |
Journal Club |
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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October 20, 2010
12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Stanislaw Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc MS 1021, Toledo, OH 43614 |
Title: “Development of tolerogenic induction therapy for Type 1 diabetes and permanent acceptance of allografts” Host: Randall Worth, PhD |
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October 21, 2010 |
Journal Club – Andy Chung |
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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October 27, 2010
12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Edith Mensah-Osman, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Toledo, MS 1009, Toledo, OH 43614 |
Title: “Loss of menin in the liver exacerbates diet induced metabolic syndrome”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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November 1, 2010 |
Journal Club – Rebecca Thompson |
Host; |
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November 3, 2010
12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Peter L. Koch, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Dermatology & Cell & Developmental Biology; Dir Transgenic & Gene Targeting Core; Charles C. Gates Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Biology Program U of Colorado at Denver |
Title: “Desmosomal cadherins, autoimmune diseases and cancer”
Host: A. Takashima, MD, PhD |
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November 8, 2010 |
Journal Club – Nan Zhang |
Host: |
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November 10, 2010 12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Beata Lecka-Czernik, Ph.D. Professor, Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toledo, MS #1090 |
Title: “Diabetic Implications on Bone”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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November 11, 2010 |
Veterans Day |
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November 17, 2010 12:00 noon Room 227, HEB |
Randall G. Worth, Ph.D. Toledo 43614 Email: Randall.Worth@uToledo.edu |
Title: “IgG effector activities mediated by platelets” Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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November 24, 2010 |
Journal Club |
Host: I. Novella, PhD |
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November 25 & 26 |
HOLIDAY |
THANKSGIVING |
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November 29, 2010 |
Journal Club – Yi Yao |
Host: |
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December 1, 2010 12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Michael Imperiale, Ph.D. Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Ann Arbor, MI Email: Imperial@umich.edu |
Title: “BKV Meets the Nucleus”
Host: Isabel Novella, PhD |
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December 4, 2010 |
Journal Club |
Host: Akira Takashima, MD, PhD |
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December 8, 2010 12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Harry L.T. Mobley, Ph.D. Frederick G. Novy Professor & Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI Email: hmobley@med.umich.edu |
Title: “E. coli Virulence Gene Expression During Urinary Tract Infection”
Host: A. Takashima, MD, PhD |
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December 9, 2010 |
Journal Club – M. Khattar |
Host: Jason Huntley, PhD |
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December 14, 2010 12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Anthony Ferrante, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Dorothy & Daniel Silberberg Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Columbia University New York, NY Email: awf7@columbia.edu |
Title: “Macrophages: Big Eaters in Obesity”
Co-sponsored by: CeDER, Medicinal & Biological Chemistry, and Medical Microbiology & Immun. |
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December 15, 2010 12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Victor J. DiRita, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Department of Microbiology & Immunology Associate Dean, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI Email: vdirita@umich.edu |
Title: “A Complex complex of activators that control virulence in Vibrio cholera”
Host: Jason Huntley, PhD |
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December 24 & 27 |
HOLIDAYs |
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January 7, 2011 |
Journal Club – Jason Mosakowski |
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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January 10, 2011 12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Toru Miyazaki, M.D., Ph.D. Biomedicine for Pathogenesis, Center for Disease Biology & Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Email: tm@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Title: “AIMing at Metabolic Syndrome”
Host: A. Takashima, MD, PhD |
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January 12, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Jeffrey Platt, M.D. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2200 Email: plattjl@umich.edu |
Title: “Lessons from Transplantation”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSC |
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January 19, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Stephen L. McSorley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine Div of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Center for Infectious Diseases and Translational Microbiology Research, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Email: mcsor002@umn.edu |
Title: “Visualizing Adaptive Immune Responses to Bacterial Infection”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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January 26, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB
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Robert Blumenthal, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Program in Bioformatics & Proteomics/Genomics University of Toledo, Health Science Campus Toledo, OH |
Title: “Gene Regulation in Bacteria: Exploration and Prediction”
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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January 27, 3011 |
Journal Club – Minal Mulye |
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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February 2, 2011 |
Postponed seminar: M. Swanson, U of M |
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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February 9, 2011 |
Journal Club – Jane Wang |
Host: R. Blumenthal, PhD |
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February 11, 2011 11:00a.-12:00 pm Room 227, HEB
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University of Cincinnati, Drug Discovery Ctr Ruben Papoian, Ph.D. – UC DDC; William Seibel, Ph.G.-Compound Library; Sandra Nelson, Ph.D.-HTS University of Cincinnati, 2180 E. Galbraith Road Cincinnati, OH 45237 Email: Ruben.Papoian@uc.edu |
Title: University of Cincinnati Drug Discovery Center
Co-sponsored by: CeDER, Ctr for Drug Design & Development; Dept of Medical Microbiology & Immunol. |
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February 16, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Jeffrey N. Weiser, M.D. Professor of Microbiology & Pediatrics Univ. of Pennsylvania, 402A Johnson Pavilion Philadelphia, PA 19104-6076 Email: Weiser@mail.med.upenn.edu |
Title: “Manipulation of Innate Immunity by Commensal Bacteria”
Host: I. Novella, PhD |
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February 21, 2011 |
Journal Club – Mike Bechill |
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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February 23, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Marvin Whiteley, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Email: mwhiteley@austin.utexas.edu |
Title: Microbioal Facebook: Novel Technologies for Probing Bacterial Social Networks”
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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March 9, 2011 11:00am-12:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Michele Swanson, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Email: mswanson@umich.edu |
Title: Autophagy, a Component of the Innate Immune Response to Infection”
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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March 14, 2011 |
Journal Club – Mike Bechill |
Host: R. Worth, PhD |
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March 16, 2011 12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Roy L. Silverstein, M.D. Chairman, Dept of Cell Biology, Vice Chair (Translational Res), Lerner Research Inst..Professor of Molecular Medicine Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicie of Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH Email: silverr2@ccf.org |
Title: “CD36, a type 2 scavenger receptor involved in innate immunity, thrombosis and atherosclerosis”
Host: Randall Worth, PhD |
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March 23, 2011
12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Robert S. Munford, M.D. Senior Clinicial, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH Bethesda, MD Email: munfordrs@niaid.nih.gov |
Title: “Kill the bacteria…and also their Messengers”
Host: A. Takashima, MD, PhD |
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March 30, 2011 |
Journal Club – Ran Lu |
Host: J. Huntley, PhD |
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April 6, 2011
12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Lauren Bakaletz, Ph.D. Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Div of Molecular Medicine, Ohio State University COM, Columbus, OH Email: |
Title: “Targeting the nontypeable Haemophilus influenza biofilm for development of novel preventative and therapeutic vaccine candidates”
Host: A. Takashima, MD, PhD |
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April 20, 2011 |
M. Edward Medof, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Pathology, Medicine & Ophthalmology, Dept of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Email: |
Title: “Do artificial scientific separations impair our ability to understand T cell immunity and tolerance”
Host: Viviana Ferreira, DVM, PhD |
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May 4, 2011 |
Journal Club – J-P Lavik |
Host: Wenhao Chen, PhD |
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May 25, 2011
12:00-1:00 pm Room 227, HEB |
Peter A. Ward, M.D. University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pathology Ann Arbor, MI Email: pward@umich.edu |
Title: “The molecular basis of sepsis”
Host: Viviana Ferreira, DVM, PhD |
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June 1, 2011 |
Journal Club |
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June 8, 2011 |
Richard Quigg, M.D. – U. of Chicago |
Host: Viviana Ferreira, DVM, PhD |
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June 13, 2011 |
Student presentation – J-P Lavik |
Host: Mark Wooten, PhD |
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June 22, 2011 |
Student presentation – Mithun Khattar |
Host: S. Stepkowski, DVM, PhD, DSc |
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