MBMB 597 Seminar Schedule, Spring, 2008-Fridays, 11:00 AM, LS III Auditorium*

Jan 18

BMB

D. Cornelison, University of Missouriat Columbia

A Pleiotropic Requirement for Syndecan-4 in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

Jan 25

MICR

Luis Actis, Miami University-Ohio

Acinetobacter baumannii, A Sticky Blood-Smelling Bacterial Pathogen

Feb 1

MMICB

Daniel Tai, University of Kentucky

Thromboxane Receptors and Lung Tumorigenesis

Feb 8

MICR

Romy Chakraborty, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

From Land to the Field and Back

Feb 15

MICR

Alison Buchan, Universty of Tennessee

Ecology of hte Marine Roseobacter LIneage.

Feb 22

MMICB

Trevor Penning, University of Pennsylvania

Aldo-Keto Reductases and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Chemical Carcinogenesis.

Feb 29

MICR

Jessica Tyler, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Regulation of Genomic Processes by Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly

Mar 7

BMB

Douglas Berg, Washington University School of Medicine

Parallel vs Anastomosing Metabolic network Evolution: Lessons from studies of metronidazole resistance in Helicobacter pylori.

Mar 14

 

Spring Break No Seminar

 

Mar 21

MICR

Bala Chandran, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8) manipulates hst cell signaling and gene expression to create an environment for successful infection

Mar 28

BMB

 

 

Apr 4

MICR

Anne Dunn, University of Oklahoma

The role of Respiratory Pathways in Vibrio fischeri Ecology

Apr 11

MMICB

TBA (Dr. Mo hosts)

Apr 18

BMB

Eric Sontheimer, Northwestern University

Assembly and Function of RNA Silencing Complexes

Apr 25

BMB

Nancy Freitag, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

From Soil to Cytosol: how Listeria monocytogenes transitions from environmental bacterium to intracellular pathogen

May 2

MMICB

Stephen Soltoff, Harvar Medical School

Modulation of ERK Signaling by Cellular Energy Demands

 

*MMICB talks will be telecast from Springfield. Seminar Coordinators: kelly Bender (bender@micro.siu.edu) (MICR), Daotai Nie (dnie@siumed.edu, 217-545-9702) (MMI), and Judy Davie 9jdavie@siumed.edu) (BMB)