SEMINAR SERIES ~~ 2008/2009 SCHEDULE Date 9/12 Presenter Dr. Thaddeus Graczyk (JHU) 9/19 9/26 Dr. Roger Reeves (JHU) MCP trainees 1. Dr. Gillian Shaw 2. Dr. Brian Simons 10/3 Dr. Pierre Coulombe (JHU) 10/10 Dr. Renate Reimschuessel (FDA) 10/17 MCP faculty 1. Dr. Diana Scorpio 2. Dr. Julie Watson 10/24 Ms. Jennifer Dziedzic (JHU) 10/31 Dr. Linda Johnson (Yale) 11/7 11/14 11/21 11/28 12/5 12/12 12/19 12/26 MCP trainees 1. Dr. Teresa Southard 2. Dr. Kelly Pate 3. Mr. Ken Witwer ACVP/AALAS ACVP Thanksgiving Holiday Interview Weekend Interview Weekend Retrovirus Party Christmas Holiday Title Human Opportunistic Protozoan Parasites (Cryptosporidia, Giardia and Microsporidia) Mice to Men and Theory to Therapeutics for Down Syndrome 1. The Effect on Body Weight & Caloric Intake of Jejunal Infusion of a Complete and Balanced Diet in Sprague-Dawley Rats 2. A Functional Requirement for Wnt Signaling in prostate Epithelial Growth and Invasion Intermediate Filaments: Solid-state Support for Mechanical & Non-Mechanical Processes Veterinary Medicine at the Food and Drug Administration: Overview and the Melamine Story 1. The Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Anaplasma Phagocytophilum and Borrelia Burgdorferi Infections 2. What’s Happening in the Mouse House that Could Affect my Research? Lead Neurotoxicity: Behavioral Effects and Therapeutic Strategies Of Badgers and Bovids: The Knotty Problem of Bovine TB in the UK 1. Potassium Channels, Halothane and the Dorsal Pons 2. What’s Your Diagnosis? 3. miRNAs in Innate Immunity and Retroviral Infection Room 181 --------------- --------------- 181 181 181 181 181 181 181 181 1/2 1/9 1/16 1/23 1/30 2/6 2/13 2/20 New Year Holiday MCP trainees 1. Dr. Sarah Beck 2. Dr. Coreen Cooper 3. Dr. Nicole Azene --1. Case Report: Viral Infection in an Eastern Box Turtle 2. Comparison of Side Effects Between Buprenorphine & Meloxicam Used Postoperatively in Dutch Rabbits (Oryctolagus Cuniculus) 3. Principles of Antimicrobial Selection & Administration in Lab Animals Dr. Charlie Clifford (Charles River) Rodent Diseases: Detection, Impact & Management Dr. Donna Vogel (JHU) Effective Presentation Skills MCP faculty 1. Alu Sequences and Retroviral Infection 1. Mr. Lucio Gama Dr. Chand Khanna (NIH) A Comparative Approach Towards the Study of Cancer Biology and Therapy 2/27 Dr. Robert Siliciano (JHU) MCP trainees 1. Ms. Juliene Co 2. Dr. Maria Lorenzo 3. Dr. Denise Schultz Dr. J. Stephen Dumler (JHU) Understanding Antiretroviral Therapy 1. Role of Cytosolic RNA Sensors Rig-i/MDAS in SIV Infection 2.Sex Specific Responses to Influenza Vaccine 3. The Preventive Efficacy of Atorvastatin on Prostate Carcinogenesis in Mice Clinical Manifestations, Pathology, Diagnosis, and Immunopathogensis of Granulocytic Anaplasmosis 3/6 Ms. Wendy Sanders (UM) 3/13 MCP faculty 1. David Huso 2. Bak Karim Dr. Jeremy Nathans (JHU) Dr. Patrice Klein (USDA) Writing a Competitive Specific Aims and Project Description (Summary) and Relevance Statement 1. Modeling Aortic Disease: An Update 2. Wnt Signaling in Early Premalignant Intestinal Lesions 3/20 3/27 4/3 MCP trainees 1. Dr. Katie Brennan Frizzled Receptors in Development and Disease Implementing Avian Influenza Surveillance Programs: Applied Science and Policy 1. An SIV Model of HIV Cardiomyopathy 2. Environmental Enrichment and the Laboratory Mouse: Effects --181 181 181 181 West Lecture Hall 181 181 West Lecture Hall 181 181 181 181 181 4/10 4/17 4/24 5/1 5/8 2. Dr. Eric Hutchinson EASTER Dr. Donald Brown (Carnegie Inst.) OPEN MCP faculty Dr. Sarah Poynton MCP Trainees 1. Ms. Luna Alammar 2. Mr. Stephen Page 3. Dr. Maria Martino-Cardona 5/15 MCP faculty 1. Dr. Cory Brayton 2. Dr. Sarah Trembley 5/22 5/29 Pre-Memorial Day Snow day on Immune Response, Health, and Behavior --How Tadpoles Turn into Frogs --Parasite-Host Interactions, Functional Domains, and Transformations: Protozoans are Anything but Simple! 1. Regulation of Interferon Alpha During SIV Infection in the Brain 2. Affects of Nucleotide Variation in the CCL2 Promoter: A Look at the -2578 SNP in the Context of HIV Associated Dementia 3. Could a Medicated Feed Eradicate Helicobacter sp. in Immune Deficient Mice? 1. Phenotyping Core and Translational Research 2. Role of Natural Killer Cells in the Development of Hepatic Histopathology in the Murine Model of Experimental Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection. --- --181 181 181 West Lecture Hall 181 ---