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, 2^nd 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