NERCE BEID

NERCE/BEID is a network of research collaborations that fosters development of vaccines and therapies against infections caused by weapons of bioterrorism, and against emerging infectious disease.

2007 - 2008 Seminar Series

DATE

NAME

TITLE

HOST

TIME/ VENUE

09/19/07

Robert Austin
Princeton University

Evolution, Adaptation, Cheating and Cooperation on a Chip

Mike Wessels

4-5 PM

WAB 341

09/25/2007

Mauricio Montal
UCSD

Botulinum Neutotoxin: A Modular Nanomachine

John Collier

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

10/17/2007

Benhur Lee
UCLA

Insights from the Deadliest Disease You’ve Never Heard of:  Nipah Virus pathogenesis and the paramyxoviral fusion cascade

Sean Whelan

4-5 PM

WAB 341

11/06/2007

Colleen Johnson
Southern Research Institute, AL

Rational and High Throughput Screening Approaches for the Discovery of Antivirals for Highly Lethal RNA Viruses

Priscilla Yang

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

11/15/2007
Robert A. Lamb
Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Northwestern University
The Structural Basis for Paramyxovirus Entry into Cells Virology

12:30 PM

Building C Cannon Room

11/27/2007

Victor Nizet
UCSD School of Medicine

Pathogen Subversion of Host Phagocyte Defenses

Microbiology Graduate Students

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

12/12/2007

Rick Lyons
University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Lessons Learned: Animal Models of Biothreats

Mike Wessels

4-5 PM

WAB 341

01/15/2008

Michael Gale
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Viral triggering and control of innate immune defenses

Lee Gherke

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

01/16/2008

Dennis Hruby
Oregon State University

Discovery and Development of a Smallpox Antiviral Drug, ST-246

Sean Whelan

4-5 PM

WAB 341

01/29/2008

Lora Hooper
UT Southwestern

Innate immune responses to commensal bacteria at the gut epithelial surface

Dennis Kasper

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

02/05/2008

Jeff Cox
UCSF

Regulation of ESX-1 irulence factor export in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Deborah Hung

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

02/13/2008

Grant McFadden
University of Florida

The Curious Road From Poxvirus Tropism to Oncolytic Virotherapy

David Knipe

4-5 PM

WAB 341

03/11/2008

Paul Hergenrother
University Of Illinois

TBD

Susan Walker

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

03/12/2008

Colin Manoil
University of Washington

TBD

Marcia Goldberg

4-5 PM

WAB 341

03/25/2008

Herbert W. Virgin
Washington University School of Med

TBD

Elliott Kieff

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

04/08/2008

Michael Rossman
Purdue University

TBD

John Mekalanos

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

04/15/2008

Andy Camilli
Tufts University

TBD

Darren Higgins

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

04/16/2008

Paula Sundstrom
Dartmouth Medical School

TBD

Marcia Goldberg

4-5 PM

WAB 341

05/06/2008

Craig Roy
Yale University School of Med

TBD

John Collier

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

05/13/2008

Eva Harris
UC Berkeley

TBD

Priscilla Yang

Co-Sponsored with Microbiology

12:30 PM

WAB 341

05/14/2008

TBN

4-5 PM

WAB 341

Seminars are held in the Microbiology Seminar Room, Warren Alpert Building Room 341, at Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, unless otherwise noted.

Refreshments are served before the seminar, outside of the seminar room.

If you would like to meet any of the speakers to discuss research of mutual interest or during lunch or dinner, please email Mandy Fitch.