02/27/2015 SPRING SEMESTER 2015 Date Speaker/TITLE HOST Time/Location Wednesday, January 7, 2015 Kasun Kodippili / Kyle Hill - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Dongsheng Duan/ Donald Burke-Aguero 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Dr. K. Mark Ansel, PhD. Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of California-San Francisco San Francisco, CA mark.ansel@ucsf.edu Host: Dr. Ulus Atasoy 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, January 21, 2015 Greg Lambert/ Dandan Liu - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Michael Baldwin/ Stefan Sarafianos 1:15 pm Monsanto Advisers: 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Laura Schoenlaub/ Josh Willix - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Guoquan Zhang/ Deb Anderson 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Jacqueline Flores/ Mindy Miller - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Stefan Sarafianos/ Habib Zaghouani 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Susheel Busi/ Yul Eum Song - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: James Amos-Landgraf/ Marc Johnson 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Dr. Chyi Hsieh Associate Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology Washington University St. Louis, MO Host: Dr. Ulus Atasoy 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, March 4, 2015 Obi Ihenacho/ Maritza Puray Chavez - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Stefan Sarafianos 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, March 11, 2015 Mary Casey/ Daniel Cyburt - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Stefan Sarafianos/ Marc Johnson 1:15 pm Monsanto 02/27/2015 Thursday, March 12, 2015 Bruce Torbett, PhD Associate Professor (Tenured) Departments of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and Immunology and Microbial Sciences The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA HOST: Dr. Stefan Sarafianos 2:30 pm Acuff Wednesday, March 18, 2014 Dr. Daniel R. Kuritzkes, M.D. Host: Dandan Liu (Student), Dr. Stefan Sarafianos 1:15 pm Monsanto Professor of Medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital Infectious Disease Harvard Medical School Cambridge, MA dkuritzkes@partners.org Student’s invited Speaker Thursday, March 19, 2015 Dr. Robert Fairchild Staff, Dept of Immunology and Urological Institute Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH Host: Dr. David Lee (Helen Mullen Retirement Ceremony) 10:30 am Acuff Wednesday, March 25, 2015 (Spring Break Week) Dr. Raphael Valdivia Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University Durham, NC vali001@mc.duke.edu Host: Dr. Deb Anderson 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, March 23 – 27, 2015 SPRING BREAK Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Linheng Li, PhD Investigator, Stowers Institute Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Univ of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, MO/KS HOST: Dr. Shan-Lu Liu 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, April 8, 2015 Do-Hyung Kim, PhD Associate Professor of Biological Sciences University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN dhkim@umn.edu Host: Dr. Bumsuk Hahm 3:00 pm Acuff 1:15 pm Monsanto 02/27/2015 Wednesday, April 14-18, 2015 LIFE SCIENCE WEEK 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Jorge Duran-Heredia/ Carolyn Lacey - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: George Stewart/ Jerod Skyberg 1:15 pm Monsanto Thursday, April 23, 2015 Dr. Michael Farrar Professor Center for Immunology, The Cancer Center, & Dept of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Host. Dr. Mark Daniels 2:30 pm Acuff Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Anna Ludlow/ Tobechukwu Ukah - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Deb Anderson/ Habib Zaghouani 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, May 6, 2015 Dr. Brian Edelson, MD, PhD (Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine) Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology WashU St. Louis, MO bedelson@path.wustl.edu Host: Dr. Ulus Atasoy 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Dr. Paul Bates, PhD University of Pennsylvania Department of Microbiology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA pbates@mail.med.upenn.edu Host: Dr. Shan-Lu Liu 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, May 20, 2015 Rachel Scott/ Marie-Therese Khairallah STUDENT SEMINAR ADVISERS: Deb Anderson/ Chris Lorson 1:15 pm Monsanto Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Dr. Charlie Gersbach Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Durham, NC Host: Dr. Dongsheng Duan 9:30 am Acuff Thursday, June 18, 2015 Dr. Karin Peterson Chief, Neuroimmunology Unit Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH Hamilton, MT HOST: Dr. Helen Mullen 2:30 pm Acuff 02/27/2015 Thursday, July 30, 2015 Revised by Shelly on 02/27/2015 Dr. Kathryn Wagner Director, Center for Genetic Muscle Disorders Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD HOST: Dr. Dongsheng Duan 2:30 pm Acuff