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Calendar of Events

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008:
  UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY

Monday, January 7th, 2008:
2:00 pm Winship Cancer Institute, Director’s Seminar
Lawrence H. Boise, PhD, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami
"Understanding the Biology Behind Therapeutic Approaches in Multiple Myeloma"
WMRB 7115

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008:
12:00 nnon Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Ian Scott Ramsey, PhD, Research Fellow in Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston
"Proton Channels and More – Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Voltage Sensor Domain Proteins"
5052 Rollins Research Center
3:00 pm Winship Cancer Institute, Director’s Seminar
David H. Munn, MD, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Medical College of Georgia
"Tumor-induced tolerance, immunotherapy and IDO"
WMRB 7115

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008:
6:00 pm Vaccine Dinner Club
Special Entry Requirements –
MUST RSVP BY JAN 4 PER CDC
Anthony Fiore, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC
"Universal Vaccination Against Influenza?!!: You be the Judge"
6:00 pm – Reception;
6:30 pm – Presentation;
7:45 pm Dinner
CDC Global Communications Center, BLDG 19

Thursday, January 10th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar,
Keipp Talbot Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, Div of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University
"Grandma, its time for your flu shot!"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
10:00 am Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
Harvinder Singh Gill, PhD, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
"Development of novel vaccination alternatives to hypodermic needles"
3053 Rollins Research Center

Friday, January 11th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Friday Noon Seminar
Grace Rong, Derdeyn Lab and Prasad Mulupuri, Ahmed Lab speaking
"Understanding the Biology Behind Therapeutic Approaches in Multiple Myeloma"
Bourne Seminar Room
(light lunch served)

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008:
12:00 noon Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Philip Cole, MD, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology
"Chemical Approaches to Sorting Out Histone Modifications"
5052 Rollins Research Center
6:00 pm CFAR AIDS Soiree
Jack A DeHovitz, MD, MPH, Professor, Preventive Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
"Back in the USSR: The Rise of HIV After the Collapse of the Empire"
Nursing School Teaching Pavilion and Auditorium

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Keli Kolegraff, Dr Parkos and Nelson Moseley,
Dr Altman
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, January 17th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Angela Caliendo, MD, PhD; Eileen Burd, PhD; Wayne Wang, PhD; & Justin Cole, PhD, Dept of Pathology, Emory University
"Microbiology Update"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH

Friday, January 18th, 2008:
cancelled EVC Third Friday Lab Presentation
Compans Lab Presenting
Bourne Seminar Room

Monday, January 21st, 2008:
University Holiday

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008:
4:00 pm GMB Student Invited Speaker Seminar
Dr. David Altshuler, MD, PhD
"Human Genome Variation and the Inherited Base of Disease"
School of Medicine Room 130

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008:
No IMP RIP this week

Thursday, January 24th, 2008:
4:00 pm Div of ID Seminar
Thomas Talbot, MD, MPH, Asst Professor,
Div of ID, Vanderbilt University
"Improving Influenza Vaccination Coverage of Healthcare Workers"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Charity Treks Celebratory Lunch
Bourne Seminar Room
12:15pm Dept of Biochemistry Seminar Series
Richard Honkanen, PhD,
University of South Alabama
"Ser/thr phosphatases, are they even better targets for antitumor drug development than their kinase counterparts?"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, January 25th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Friday Noon Seminar
Ben Youngblood, Ahmed Lab speaking
Bourne Seminar Room (light lunch served)
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Yan Wei
"Interactions among Vibrio cholerae, phages, & zooplankton, and the implications for epidemiology of Cholera"
1050 Rollins Research Center

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008:
2:00 pm Dissertation Defense
Rick Dunham, Dr. Guido Silvestri Lab
Whitehead Auditorium
4:15pm GDBBS Career Development Committee
Thomas R Ziegler, MD, and Keith D Wilkinson, PhD.
"Dual Degree Opportunity: MSCR/PhD for Graduate Students in the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008:
10:00 am Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
Thuc Vy L Le, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"B Cell Selection: Generation of High Affinity Antibody Secreting Cells"
3052 Rollins Research Center
2:00 pm IMP RIP
Nikki Klatt, Dr Silvestri and Amena Frias,
Dr Gewirtz
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm Dept of Cell Biology
Kelsey Martin, UCLA
"Signaling between synapse and nucleus during neuronal plasticity"
Cell Biology Seminar Room, 400 Whitehead Bldg

Thursday, January 31st, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Yerkes Pathology Division Seminar
Dr. Kristina Abel, Asst. Adjunct Professor, Univ. of California at Davis
"The Infant Immune System Learns to Walk – The Need for (CD4) Help in Chronic Diseases"
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar Series
Yury O. Chernoff, PhD, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Mad yeast disease and protein-based inheritance"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, February 1st, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Craig Forrest, Speck Lab
Bourne Seminar Room (lunch will be served)
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
David Hall, Department of Genetics, Univ. of Georgia
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monday, February 4th, 2008:
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Louise McCormick, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, EUSOM
"Cytomegalovirus control of cell death"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Lindsay Edwards, Dr Evavold and
Rebecca Lynch, Dr Derdeyn
Whitehead Auditorium
6:00 pm Vaccine Dinner Club
Max Cooper, MD, GRA Eminent Scholar, Professor: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Investigator: Emory CFAR & Emory Vaccine Center
"Gone Fishin: Hagfish, Sea Lamprey, and the Search for Adaptive Immunity"
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm - Dinner
SOM Lecture Hall and Atrium

Thursday, February 7th, 2008:
8:00 am ID Research Seminar Series
Angela Caliendo, MD, PhD; Eileen Burd, PhD; Wayne Wang, PhD; Justin Cole, PhD
"Microbiology Update 2"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:15pm Dept of Biochemistry Seminar Series
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, February 8th, 2008:
11:00 am IMP Dissertation Defense
Joe Dauner, Dr. Joshy Jacob Lab
"In situ Analysis of Activated and Memory Lymphocyte Localization"
Bourne Seminar Room
Reception following at 12:30 pm on 2nd floor landing
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
PBEE Faculty/Student Forum Lunch
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monday, February 11th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Special Seminar
Steve Gerondakis, PhD, Nhmrc Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University Of Melbourne, Immunology Division, Victoria, Australia
"NF-kB Control of CD8 T Cell Memory Development"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Yuying Liang, Department of Pathology, EUSOM
"Flu and Lassa fever: virus, host, and diseases"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008:
12:00 noon EUH Hospital Annex
Taku Kamabyashi, MD, Transfusion Medicine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Candidate
"Beyond Allergic Disease: Potential Role of Mast Cells in Antigen Presentation"
EUH Hospital Annex Room N235B
(lunch will be provided at 11:45am)
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
Jyothi Rengarajan, PhD, Dept of Medicine, Div of Infectious Diseases
"Survival of the Persistent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Macrophages"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008:
3:00 pm Lowance Center Grand Rounds
V. Michael Holers, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Clinic Bldg B, Room B5701
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Clint Paden, Dr Speck and Joe Sabatino, Dr Evavold
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, February 14th, 2008:
8:00 am ID Research Seminar Series
Fred C. Tenover, Ph.D., ABMM, Associate Director for Laboratory Science, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:15pm Dept of Biochemistry Seminar Series
Dennis W. Choi, MD, PhD
"Our Neuroscience Initiative"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, February 15th, 2008:
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Joshua Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
1050 Rollins Research Center
1:30 pm Dept of Cell Biology
Andrew Forge, Centre for Auditory Research, UCL Ear Institute (London)
"Communication for Communication: Connexins and gap junctions in maintaining the inner ear"
Cell Biology Seminar Room 400 Whitehead Bldg
4:00 pm EVC Third Friday Lab Presentation
Stephens Lab Presenting
Bourne Seminar Room (refreshments served)

Monday, February 18th, 2008:
4:00 pm Yerkes Neuroscience Seminar Series
Shawn O’Neil, DVM, Director, Research Training Program in Veterinary Medicine, NEPRC, Harvard Medical School
"Effect of CD20 Depletion on the Pathogenesis of SIVsmmFGb Infection in Pigtailed Macaques"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Bryan Cullen, Dept of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center
"Viruses, microRNAs and RNA interference"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesaday, February 19th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine; Scientific Director, Emory Transplant Center; Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Transplantation Immunology
"Transplantation Tolerance: A framework for realistic application"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wedneday, February 20th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Pablo Penaloza, Dr Altman and Eugene Lin, Dr Lukacher
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, February 21st, 2008:
8:00 am ID Research Seminar Series
Greg Dasch, MD, Rickettsial Section Chief Director, CDC/WHO Collaborating Reference Center for Rickettsia & Bartonella-Associated Diseases, Viral & Rickettsial Zoonoses Brach
Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Special EVC/CFAR Seminar
B. Matija Peterlin, MD, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco
"P-TRFb in Germ Line, Development Cancer and AIDS"
Bourne Seminar Room

Friday, February 22nd, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Friday Noon Seminar
Koichi Araki, Ahmed Lab and ?? Lab speaking
Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
(light lunch served)
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Uriel Kitron, dept of Environmental Studies, Emory University
"Ecology of zoonotic diseases: West Nile virus in Chicago and Chagas disease in Argentina"
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monday, February 25th, 2008:
1:00 pm MMG Seminar
Timothy Block, PhD
"Glycoproteomics of Chronic Hepatitis and Herpes Intervention: Repair and Despair"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm MMG Seminar
James A.DeCaprio, Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
"Rb has a DREAM: How the Retinoblastoma Proteins Control the Cell Cycle"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
Steve L. Reiner, MD, Chair, Immunology Graduate Group; Associate Investigator, Abramson Family Institute, University of Pennsylvania
"Specifying the T cell fates required for immunity"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008:
2:00 pm Special EVC/IMP Seminar
Raymond Kaempfer, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
"RNA Sensors of Stress Signaling in the Immune System"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Pragati Nigam, Dr Amara and Chelsey Goins, Dr Jacobs
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, February 28th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Francois Villinger, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;
"CD4 T cell reeducation in vitro: Can we restore immune responses, control HIV/SIV replication in vivo and delay AIDS?"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
3:00 pm Dissertation Defense
Cathy Sanders
"The role of innate immune events in the modulation of adaptive immunity to bacterial flagellin"
SOM Lecture Hall 120

Friday, February 29th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Rich Haaland, Hunter Lab and Marcin Kwissa, Pulendran Lab
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Kelly Dyer, Dept of Genetics, University of Georgia
1050 Rollins Research Center
2:00 pm IMP Dissertation Defense
Jessica A. Belser
"Pathogenesis of H7 Influenza A Viruses Associated with Disease in Humans"
Whitehead Auditorium

Monday, March 3rd, 2008:
1:30 pm IMP Dissertation Defense
Nicolas Andrews
"Investigations of MHC-I Restricted T Cell Responses to Polyoma Virus Infection: Effects of Initial Viral Dose and CD8-Deficiency"
308 Dental Building
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Bernard Roizman, University of Chicago
GDBBS Division Lecture
"Herpes Simplex virus vs. the Host Cell: Tales of Bioterrorism, Mayhem and Self Sacrifice"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008:
9:00 am Dissertation Defense, GMB Program
Tiffany Oliver
"The Analysis of Mechanisms Underlying Nondisjunction of Human Chromosome 21"
Whitehead Auditorium
10:00 am Applied Biosystems
Real Time PCR Seminar with Eric Blair & Alexandra Vamvakidou, Ph.D
Real Time Profiling with TaqMan® Arrays & Limited Samples
StatMiner™ Advanced Software for Real-Time Analysis
Neuroscience Seminar Room
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
David S. Weiss, PhD, Dept of Medicine, Div of Infectious Diseases,
Faculty candidate for IMP program
"In vivo screen identifies novel Francisella virulence factors that modulate host defense"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Seema Patel, Dr Zimring
Whitehead Auditorium
6:00 pm Vaccine Dinner Club
Julie Jacobson, MD, DTMH, Senior Program Officer, Infectious Diseases Development, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"When You Wish Upon a Star: A Tale of India, China, Japanese Encephalitis, and the Birth of a Public Health Paradigm Shift"
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner
SOM 110 Lecture Hall and Atrium

Thursday, March 6th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Greg Dasch, Rickettsial Section Chief, Director, CDC/WHO Collaborating Reference Center for Rickettsia & Bartonella-Associated Diseases, Viral & Rickettsial Zoonoses Brach, Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:15pm Dept of Biochemistry Seminar Series
Alexey Khodjakov, PhD, Associate Professor, SUNY Albany; Adjunct appointment, Rockefeller University
"Mechanism of Centriole Duplication: Template or no Template?"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:30 pm Special MMG Seminar
Rozanne M. Sandri-Goldin, Ph.D., Professor and Chair – Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California
"ICP27, a multifunctional protein that hijacks host pathways to enhance herpes simplex virus gene expression"
SOM – Lecture Hall, Rm. 110 – 1st floor

Friday, March 7th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Ritesh Tandon, Mocarski Lab and Sunil Kannangat, Amara Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Monday, March 10th, 2008:
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
David S. Weiss, PhD, Dept of Medicine, Div of ID, EUSOM
"Tug-of-war between Francisella and the host"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008:
4:00 pm No IMP Seminar
No IMP Seminar

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Kathryn Freel, Dr Williams and Justine Liepkalns, Dr Kersh
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, March 13th, 2008:
8:00 am DIV of ID Seminar
Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Div of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne, and Enteric Diseases, CDC
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Jeffrey Wilusz, PhD, Colorado State University
"A Tale of a Tail: Poly(A) tail dynamics in cellular and viral transcipts"
Whitehead Auditorium
3:00 pm Department of Microbiology & Immunology Special Seminar
Dr. Christine A. Biron Professor of Medical Sciences and Chairperson Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Brown University
"Shaping Type 1 lFN’s Biological Effects by Changing Access to STAT Signaling Pathways- AN Innate Immune System Mechanism for Doing More with Less"
School of Medicine Building - Seminar room 153-A
3:30 pm IMP Dissertation Defense
Matthew Bettini
"Dual Specificity Phosphatases In Thymocyte Development and T Cell Activation"
7115 Woodruff Memorial Building

Friday, March 14th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Rachel Aubert, Ahmed Lab and Deepah Machiah, Jacob Lab
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
No Seminar – Spring Break

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008:
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Emory University School of Medicine and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology Special Seminar
Jeremy M. Boss, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory School of Medicine Candidate for Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Open announcement.
"Transcriptional Regulation of Immune Response Genes"
Whitehead Research Building Auditorium

Monday, March 24th, 2008:
12:00 noon Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Human Immunology & Emory Vaccine Center Special Seminar
Ilhem Messaoudi, PhD, Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
"Age-related dysregulation of T cell homeostasis in rodents and nonhuman primates"
Neuroscience Seminar Room
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Aron Lukacher, MD, PhD, Dept of Pathology, EUSOM
"Uncovering an Unconvential Antiviral CD8 T Cell Response"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008:
12:00 noon Winship Cancer Institute
Rene Opavsky, PhD, The Human Cancer Genetics Program, Ohio State University
"E2Fs and CpG island methylation in Myc-induced lymphomagenesis: searching for checkmate"
Building C Conference Room C5012
12:00 noon Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Karl Obrietan, PhD, Dept of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
"The ERK/MAPK cascade and entrainment of the suprachiasmatic circadian clock"
5052 Rollins Research Center
4:00 pm IMP Seminar
No seminar this week
5:30 pm EUSOM Dean’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Raymond Schinazi, PhD, DSc, Professor of Pediatrics and Chemistry
"Towards Curative Antiviral Therapies for HIV, HBV and HCV"
Harland Cinema, Dobbs University Center
Reception SOM Building Lobby, 4:30-5:15

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Prasad Mulupuri, Dr Ahmed and Kasia Darlak, Dr. Waller
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm Dept of Cell Biology,
Elias Spiliotis, Stanford University
"Epithelial Cell Polarity: Regulation of Microtubule Functions by Septin GTPases"
Room 400 Whitehead Bldg

Thursday, March 27th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Venkatachalam Udhayakumar, PhD, Chief, Genetics and Immunology Laboratory, Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Michael Sherman, PhD, Dept of Biochemistry, Boston University Medical School
"Neurodegeneration in Yeast: Dissecting Cellular Mechanisms of Protein Aggregation"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, March 28th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Debi Boeras, Hunter Lab and Brant Herrin, Cooper Lab
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Todd Streelman, School of Biology, Georgia Tech
"Development, mosaic genomes and the evolution of biological diversity"
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monay, March 31st, 2008:
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Volker M. Vogt, PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell University
"Assembly of a retrovirus: Rous sarcoma virus as a model system"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
Eric Pamer, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Innate immune defense against bacterial infection"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm OTT Celebration of Technology and Innovation
Eric Pamer, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"Innate immune defense against bacterial infection"
Emory Conference Center
4:00 pm – Welcome
4:15 pm - Keynote
5:00 pm - Awards
5:30 pm - Reception

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Vicki Jeisy Scott, Dr. Katz and Krystalyn Hudson, Dr Pulendran
Whitehead Auditorium
6:00 pm Vaccine Dinner Club
"What's the next STEP?: A Summary of the 3/25/08 NIH/NIAID Summit on Vaccine Research and Development"
VDC Members Panel: Jerry Blackwell, PhD,
Bob Chen, MD, Eric Hunter, PhD,
Mark Mulligan, MD, Harriet Robinson, PhD
SOM Lecture Hall 110 and Commons Area
6:00 pm - Reception and Dinner
6:30 pm - Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008:
8:00 am No ID Seminar this week
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
10:00 am - 2:30 pm 9th Annual BioResearch Product Faire
Cox Hall, Ballroom
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Cynthia McMurray, PhD, Professor and Distinguished Mayo Investigator, Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic Rochester
"Genetics and Pathophysiology of Huntington’s Disease"
Whitehead Auditorium
3:00 pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Lecture
Martin Maiden, PhD, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford
"Population Genomics of the Neisseria"
SOM 110
Reception following on the Third Floor of Rollins Research Center

Friday, April 4th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Guaniri Mateu, Grakoui Lab and Tim Denning, Pulendran Lab
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Cynthia Derdeyn, Emory Vaccine Center
"Escape from neutralizing antibodies in subtype C HIV-1 infection"
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monday, April 7th, 2008:
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Laurie Krug, senior postdoc (Speck lab)
"NF-KappaB signaling: A key host determinant of gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Joe Mandeville, PhD, Dept of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
"fMRI of cocaine self-administration in non-human primates"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008:
9:00 am - 4:00 pm Center for AIDS Research at Emory University and the Georgia Research Alliance
CFAR Science Symposium 2008
Antiviral Therapy: Prolonging Survival, Decreasing Transmission, Aiming for Virus Eradication
Cox Hall Ballroom
4:00 pm No IMP Seminar Series

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Michael Lo, Dr. Rota and Will Weldon, Dr Compans
Whitehead Auditorium
All Day CDC
TB Vaccines for the World
Pre-registration Required

Thursday, April 10th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Michael Lorenz, PhD, Asst Professor of Microbiology and Genetics, UT Houston
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
All Day CDC
TB Vaccines for the World
Pre-registration Required

Friday, April 11th, 2008:
12:00 noon No EVC Noon Seminar
12:00 noon Frontiers in Neuroscience
R. Adron Harris, PhD, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin
"Alcohols and Anesthetics Meet Ion Channels: Weak Binding by Important Effects"
Neuroscience Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
PBEE Faculty/Student Forum
1050 Rollins Research Center
3:00 pm Dept of M&I
Annual Spitznagel Seminar on Antimicrobial Host Defense
Andre J. Ouellette, PhD, Professor, University of California – Irvine – College of Health Sciences
"Paneth Cell Alpha-defensins and Enteric Innate Immunity"
Rita Ann Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
Reception following -
Third Floor Lobby, Rollins Research Center

Monday, April 14th, 2008:
2:00 pm Georgia Research Alliance Roundtable
(Advance Registration is required – Special Entry Requirements)
GRA Collaboration Planning Grants
Contact Christine Casey at ccasey@cdc.gov or Kitty Vogt at kvogt@gra.org
CDC Bldg 19

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008:
4:00 pm Joint IMP/MMG Seminar Series
Michael J. Imperiale, PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan
"Various Outcomes of BKV Infection"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Erin West, Dr Ahmed and Josh Albrecht,
Dr Altman
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, April 17th, 2008:
8:00 am Charles Rupprecht, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
GDBBS, Population Biology of Infectious Diseases
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Wayne Henrickson, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University
"Structural Insights into How ATP Drives Hsp70 Chaperone Activity"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, April 18th, 2008:
10:00 am EVC Flow Cytometry Core
Alan Stall, Director, Advanced Cytometry Technologies Research & Development, BD Biosciences
"New Tools for Optimizing Cytometer Set-up for Multi-color Experiments"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Todd Preuss, Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University
"The two cultures of biology"
1050 Rollins Research Center
3:00 pm EVC Third Friday Presentation
Robert Mittler and Frank Novembre presenting
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Monday, April 21st, 2008:
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
David Steinhauer, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, EUSOM
"Role of Influenza Hemagglutinin in Membrane Fusion: Defining the Structural Rearrangements"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008:
12:00 noon Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Audrey Chaing, PhD, Dept of Pharmacology, University of Montreal
"ARF GTPases and the Regulation of Receptor Function"
5052 Rollins Research Center
4:00 pm Joint Dept of Pathology and IMP Seminar
Tanya N. Mayadas, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
"Mechanisms of Immune Complex Mediated Neutrophil Trafficking and Injury"
Whitehead Auditorium
7:00 pm Emory University Center for Ethics & Emory Global Health Institute
Solomon R Benatar, University of Capetown’s Bioethics Centre
"Prospects for Global Health"
Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center
Reception following – 8:30 pm

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP RIP
Lisa McLay. Dr. Ly and Noah Alberts-Grill, Dr. Weyand
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm Yerkes Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Kerry Ressley, MD, PhD, Asst Professor, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
"Fear: Translational Approaches to Emotional Learning"
Bourne Seminar Room
4:00 pm Dept of Biochemistry
Elizabeth F. Neufeld, PhD, Professor, Biological Chemistry, UCLA
"From serendipity to therapy – Lessons from genetic diseases of lysosomal function"
Harland Cinema, DUC

Thursday, April 24th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Ken Castro, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Yerkes Research Center
Retirement Party In honor of Tom Gordon, Associate Director for Scientific Programs, for his 38 years of research and leadership
Bourne Seminar Room
4:00 pm Dept of Microbiology/Immunology Seminar
Christopher Davies, PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina
"Penicillin-Binding Proteins: Structure, Mechanism and Role in Antibiotic Resistance"
3052 Rollins Research Center

Friday, April 25th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Special Noon Seminar
Susan Zoller-Pazner, Director, Director of Research AIDS Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New York
"Designer Immunogens for Inducing Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to HIV"
Bourne Seminar Room
12:00 noon PBEE Seminar Series
Howie Weiss, Dept of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
"A reservoir mediated SIR model with threshold"
1050 Rollins Research Center

Monday, April 28th, 2008:
1:30 pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology
Susan L. Swain, PhD, President Emeritus, Trudeau Institute & Adjunct Professor, University of Vermont College of Medicine and Albany Medical College
"Understanding CD4 T cell memory and how it changes with age"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm MMG Seminar Series
Peter L. Nara, MSc, DVM, PhD, President & CEO, Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, MD
"Deceptive imprinting of the host immune system: what it means for vaccine development"
Whitehead Auditorium
4:00 pm Nursing School Auditorium
Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, Dept of Health Policy and Management, RSPH
"The Missing Link in Health Reform"
Panel discussion with Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, Emory University, Institute for Health and Productivity Issues and Janet L. Collins, PhD, CDC Coordicating Center for Health Promotion
Nursing School Auditorium
4:15 pm GDBBS Career Committee
Linda Harris, a post-doc recruiter for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis
Dental 230

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008:
4:00 pm IMP Seminar Series
Pramod Srivastava, PhD, Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center
"Essential roles of peptide chaperones in direct presentation and cross-priming, and their application to immunotherapy of human cancers"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008:
8:15 am Dept of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, Dept of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh
"Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Lessons from the PEACH and GIFT Studies"
Steiner Auditorium, Grady Hospital
6:00 pm Vaccine Dinner Club, SOM Lecture Hall and Atrium
Timothy Holtz, MD, CDC
"The Perfect Storm: Poverty, HIV, and the Emergence of XDR TB"
(Special Day instead of May 7 )
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, May 1st, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Ben Park, MD, Medical Epidemiologist, CDC
(Special Day instead of May 7 )
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Minghua Huang, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
"Regulation of deoxynucleotide biosynthesis by the cell cycle and DNA damage checkpoint"
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, May 2nd, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Jens Wrammert, Ahmed Lab and Jason Upton, Mocarski Lab
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008:
12:00 noon Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Michael Kladde, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"UnPHOlding Chromatin: Insights from Single-Molecule Probing of Chromatin Remodeling at PHO5 and Beyond"
Whitehead Auditorium
2:00 pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
Michael S. Gilmore, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Whitehead Auditorium

Thursday, May 8th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH

Friday, May 9th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Laurie Krug, Speck Lab and Colleen Kraft, Hunter Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

May 10-18th, 2008:
  Emory Vaccine Center “Week of Hope”
See full list of events under Current News.

Saturday, May 10th, 2008:
Hope Springs Eternal 5K
Begins at Main Pavilion in Decatur Square
Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center

Monday, May 12th, 2008:
8:00 am COMMENCEMENT
6:00 pm
NOTE: Location and Date Change
CFAR AIDS Soiree
John W. Mellors, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"The Future of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors: Is it Dusk or Dawn?"
6:00 pm Reception
6:30 pm Presentation
7:30 pm Buffet Dinner
Registration: CAS@emory.edu
RAR Room, 8th Floor RSPH
8:00 pm The Normal Heart play reading
Benefiting AIDS Vaccine Research at Emory Vaccine Center
Tickets can be purchased at: www.xorbia.com/tickets/heart
Reception at 6:30 pm
AIDS Memorial Quilt Building, 637 Hoke St NW, Atlanta

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008:
2:00pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
Eugene C. Butcher, MD, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Lymphocyte trafficking: stories of sunshine, vitamins, seizures and electricity"
Whitehead Auditorium

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008:
"Hope in our Soul" Symposium

Thursday, May 15th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
12:30 pm
Dept of Pathology, Sell Memorial Lecture
Ulrich von Andrian, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
"Vizualing the Immune Response"
7th Annual Department of Surgery Research Day, SOM 130 Lecture Hall
Grand Rounds at 7 am,
half-day symposium at 1:00 pm
Grand Rounds, SOM 120 Lecture Hall
7:00 am Howard P. Greisler, MD
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Surgical Sciences
"Application-SpecificEngineered Angiogenic Peptides and Delivery Strategies: Vascularization for Better or for Worse"
1:00 pm Basic Science Session
3:45 pm Clinical Session
8:30 am - 4:15 pm
Center for Ethics and EUSOM Clinical Trials Office
Ethics and Translational Research: From Discovery to Implementation
Cox Hall, Room #4
9:15 am
The Progesterone for Brain Injury Study: An Overview of Translational Research - Art Kellerman, MD, MPH; Don Stein, PhD; David Wright, MD
10:15 am
Conflicts of Interest: Overview, Case Studies, Policies, and the AAMC Position on Institutional Conflicts - Claudia Adkison, JD, PhD; Brenda Seiton, JD
11:00 am
Intellectual Property Within the Multiple Missions of the University - Todd Sherer, PhD; Orman Simpson, MSEE, MS
1:00 pm
Policymaking in the Era of Translational Research: What Gets Funded? Why? How? - Roberta Berry, JD, PhD
1:30 pm
Ethics and Regulation - John Banja, PhD; Carol Means, RN
2:30 pm
Ethical Issues in Anti-Cancer Drug Development: Translating Internal Science - R. Donald Harvey, PharmD, Rebecca Pentz, PhD
3:30 pm
Conducting Genomic Research in Vulnerable Populations - Gary Gibbons, MD
Film Premiere of “The AIDS Chronicles: Here to Represent”

Friday, May 16th, 2008:
3:00 pm
EVC Third Friday Presentation
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH

Saturday, May 17th, 2008:

Action Cycling 200 Bike Ride

Sunday, May 18th, 2008:

Action Cycling 200 Bike Ride

Monday, May 19th, 2008:
2:00pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
Samuel L. Miller, MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Microbiology & Genome Sciences University of Washington
"Salmonella sensing and manipulation of the phagosome"
Whitehead Auditorium

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008:
1:00pm Dept of Microbiology & Immunology SeminarPerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences Training Presentation
For more information, contact Brandi.McLaughlin@perkin.elmer.com
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Thursday, May 22th, 2008:
1:00pm EVC Special Seminar
Fabio Re, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
"Innate immune pathways activated by pathogens and adjuvants"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Monday, May 23rd, 2008:
No EVC Noon Seminar
Memorial Day Weekend

Monday, May 26th, 2008:
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008:
12:00 noon Dept of Radiation Oncology
Mitchell Machtay, MD, Dept of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University
"Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer"
Clinic Bldg A, Room A1303

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008:
8:00 am - 1:30 pm Fund Raiser to help victims of the Sichuan Province earthquake
Breakfast beginning at 8:00 am – American style
Lunch beginning at 11:00 am – Chinese style
Suggested donations for both meals to the Red Cross relief effort
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Thursday, May 29th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Nadine Rouphael, MD, Fellow, Div of ID, Dept of Medicine, Emory University
"The Role of Real-Time PCR in the Diagnosis of Streptococcal Bacteremia"
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
8:30 am Office of Research Compliance, Annual Ethics and Compliance Symposium
Alan Milstein, JD
"Doing the Right Thing"
Regulatory Compliance and Associate Dean for Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center
"The Future of IRBs"
Cox Hall Ballroom
12:00 pm Dept of Biochemistry and Dept of Microbiology/Immunology Joint Seminar
Christine Dunham, PhD, Dept of Biochemistry, Emory University
"Understanding ribosome function through structural studies"
Whitehead Auditorium
(Refreshments at 11:30 am, Rollins Research Center 4th floor Lobby)

Friday, May 30th, 2008:
8:00 am - 4:00 pm Frontiers in Graduate Pharmacology Research Symposium
Oral and Poster Presentations
SOM 110
11:00 am Keynote Address
Robert J. Lefkowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University
12:015 pm Winship Cancer Institute, Elkin Lecture Series
Robert J. Lefkowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University
Marie Celeste Simon, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
"HIF’s, Hypoxia and Cancer Stem Cells"
WCI Auditorium, C5012

Sunday, June 1st, 2008:
IRPIC Symposium
Immunobiology and Pathogenesis of Influenza Infection
Emory Conference Center Hotel

Monday, June 2nd, 2008:
IRPIC Symposium
Immunobiology and Pathogenesis of Influenza Infection
Emory Conference Center Hotel

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008:
IRPIC Symposium
Immunobiology and Pathogenesis of Influenza Infection
Emory Conference Center Hotel

Thursday, June 5th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID Seminar
Seema Jain, MD, Fellow, Emory ID
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH

Friday, June 6th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Clint Paden, Speck Lab and Santhakumar Manicassamy, Pulendran Lab
Light Lunch Served
Bourne Seminar Room

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008:
8:00 am - 1:00 pm Employee Council and Rollins School of Public Health
Red Cross Blood Drive
8th Floor Rita Anne Rollins Room of the School of Public Health

Thusday, June 12th, 2008:
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Winship Cancer Institute
Affymetrix Integrated Genomes Seminar Series
"The Value of Integrated Approaches to Cancer Studies: Combine DNA Copy Number and Gene Expression for a Comprehensive View of the Cancer Genome"
"Discovery of the Mechanism of action of a novel class of anticancer compounds"
Room C5012
12:00 noon Vision Research Seminar
Affymetrix Integrated Genomes Seminar Series
Guey Chuen (Oscar) Perng, PhD, Dept of Pathology and EVC
"Pathogenesis of Herpes Stromal Keratitis (HSK)"
Calhoun Auditorium, Emory Clinic T Level

Friday, June 13th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Dan Choo, Ahmed Lab and Goetz Ehrhadt, Cooper Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Monday, June 16th, 2008:
12:00 noon Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Seminar
Dr. Ghislain Schyns, Biotechnology R&D DSM Nutritional Products, Ltd. Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
"(White) Biotech Applications in B. Subtilis"
3052 Rollins Research Center

Friday, June 20th, 2008:
4:00 pm EVC Third Friday Presentation
Paul Spearman and Joshy Jacob presenting
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes

Friday, July 4th, 2008:
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Fourth of July

Friday, July 11th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Yutong Song, Grakoui Lab and John Cao, Mocarski Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Friday, July 18th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Third Friday Presentation
Jyothi Rengarajan & Mark Mulligan presenting
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH

Friday, July 25th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Masa Hirano, Cooper Lab and Lakshmi Sathyabhama, Jacob Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Friday, August 1st, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Rick Dunham, Grakoui Lab and Katy Gray, Speck Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008:
4:00 pm Special EVC/CFAR Seminar
Vincent C. Bond, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology Biochemistry, and Immunology, RCMI Program Director, Morehouse School of Medicine
"The Role of Nef Secretion in HIV-1 Pathogenesis"
Bourne Seminar Room

Friday, August 15th, 2008:
12:15 pm Elkin Lecture Series
Nola M Hylton, PhD, UCSF
"Treatment Response Assessment by MRI for Women Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer"
WCI Auditorium, C5012
4:00 pm EVC Third Friday Presentation
John Altman and David Garber presenting
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH (refreshments served)

Friday, August 22th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Noon Seminar
Jianlin Jiang, Galinski Lab and Lilin Lai, Amara Lab
Bourne Seminar Room

Friday, August 29th, 2008:
12:00 noon No EVC Noon Seminar
Labor Day Weekend

Monday, September 1st, 2008:
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Labor Day

Thursday, September 4th, 2008:
8:00 am Div of ID
David Rimland, MD, Chief, Infectious Diseases
"Back to the Future: Three Decades of MRSA at the VA"
Rita Ann Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH
4:00 pm IMP RIP Series
Chris Gilson, Dr Zimring and Andrea Siegel, Dr Speck
Whitehead Auditorium

Friday, September 5th, 2008:
12:00 noon EVC Friday Noon Seminar
Erin West, Ahmed Lab and ?? Lab
Bourne Seminar Room
(lunch will be served at 11:45 am)

 
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