University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Molecular Sciences

 

2007-2008

Seminar Schedule

 

All seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm (except where noted) in the Link Auditorium (Wittenborg Anatomy Building, 2nd Floor) 855 Monroe Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163.  There is a map for the campus. http://www.utmem.edu/map/

 

Last updated Oct. 12, 2007

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Host

 

 

 

 

 

September

10

Richard Williams

St. Jude’s Chidren’s Research Hospital

Leukemia-initiating cells and targeted therapeutic resistance in Ph+ ALL

S. Senogles

September

17

Monica Jablonski

 

UT Health Sciences Center, Memphis

Proteomic analysis of the retina: identification of key players in Outer Segment Assembly

M. Radic

September

24

Mark Bix, Ph.D.

Assistant member, Dept. of Immunology, St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital

Cytokine gene regulation during TH1 and TH2 development

Tony Marion

October

1

Bob Belland. Ph.D.

Dept. of Molecular Sciences, UT Health Sciences Center, Memphis

Genomic Analysis of acute and persistent growth of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlqamydia pseumoniae

S. Senogles,

 G. Byrne

October

8

Ramesh Akkina

Dept of Microbiology, Immunology, Pathology, Director SCID-HuMouse Core, Center for AIDS Research Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Modeling HIV and Dengue pathogenesis and therapies in humanized mice

R. Guntaka

October

15

No speaker

 

 

 

October

22

Yan Cui, Ph.D.

Dept. of Molecular Sciences, UT Health Sciences Center, Memphis

 

S. Senogles,

 G. Byrne

October

 29

George Hilliard, Ph.D.

Dept. of Molecular Sciences, UT Health Sciences Center, Memphis

 

S. Senogles, G. Byrne

November

5

 

 

 

 

November

12

Faculty Candidate

 

 

 

L. Albritton

November

19

Faculty Candidate

 

 

L. Albritton

November 26

No Speaker

(preceding Thursday is Thanksgiving)

 

 

December 3

Faculty Candidate

 

 

 

L. Albritton

December

10

 Faculty Candidate

 

 

L. Albritton

December 17

Joseph Opferman

St. Jude’s Chidren’s Research Hospital

 

S. Senogles

December 24

No Speaker

Holiday break

 

 

 

January

7

Itzhak Ofek

Tel Aviv University

 

Gerry Byrne

January

14

Hong Bo Chi

St. Jude’s Chidren’s Research Hospital Department of Immunology

 

S. Senogles

January

21

No Speaker

Martin Luther King Holiday

 

 

January

28

Frank DeLeo

 

 

 

M. Radic

February

4

Phillip Kern

University of Arkansas

 

John Fain

February

11

Faculty candidate

 

 

 

 

 

February

 18

Jay Zhu

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

 

Jim Bina

February

25

Tonia Rex, Assistant professor

Dept. of Opthalmology UTHSC

 

Tony Marion

March

3

Hui Chen Hsu,

Assistant Professor

University of Alabama, Birmingham

 

Bob Belland, Rob Williams

March

10

Denise Monack

Stanford University Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology

Francisella tularensis pathogenesis: from genetic screens to innate immunity.

Fabio Re

March

17

Robert Lamb

 

Northwestern University

 

Chad Mire and the students

March

24

Stavros Manolagas, MD Ph.D.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

 

Ken Nishimoto

March

31

Dr. Junming Yue

Director Viral Vector Core, UTHSC

 

Lorraine Albritton

April

7

Sarah Ades, Ph.D. Assistant professor

 

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Pennsylvania State University

 

Martha Howe

April

14

Paul Hoffman

 

University of Virginia

 

Tom Hatch

April

21

Hans Haecker

 

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital

Biochemical and functional analysis of toll-like receptor signaling pathways

Indira Neeli (post-PhD/MD group)

April

28

Gary Lindquester, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Dept, of Biology Rhodes College

Functional analysis of Epstein-Barr virus viral interleukin 10 in a murine gamma herpes virus model

Rod Hori

May

5

reserved

 

 

 

 

 

May

12

reserved

 

 

 

May

19

Daniel W. Nebert, MD, Professor

Univeristy of Cincinnati

Dept. of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics

Also Dept. of Pediatrics and Molecular Developmental Biology, Division of Human Genetics

From human genetics and genomics to pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics: past lessons, future directions

David Nelson

May

26

No Speaker

 

Memorial Day