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| Wednesday, October 1st, 2008: |
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| 6:00 pm |
Vaccine Dinner Club
Carlos del Rio, MD, Eric Hunter, PhD, Jessica Sales, PhD, Patrick Sullivan, PhD
"What's Hot, What's Not: A Summary of the 2008 International AIDS Conference (Mexico City)"
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner
SOM 120 and Commons |
| Thursday, October 2nd, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID Seminar
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| All day |
GDBBS
6th Annual GDBBS Graduate Student Research Symposium
SOM Lecture Hall 110 and Commons |
| Friday, October 3rd, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Andrei Vzorov, Compans Lab and Cuiling Yu, Cooper Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Max Desmarets, Dr Zimring and Katy Gray, Dr. Speck
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Monday, October 6th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Woodruff Library
"Scientific Collaborations, Connections, and Communities."
Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher
Jones Room |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Program Seminar
Marty Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine
"Mechanisms of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-Induced Mucus:
Viral Strain Dependence"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am - 11:30 am |
Woodruff Library
"Scientific Collaborations, Connections, and Communities"
Isaac Kohane,
Harvard University
Roundtable: Informatics at Work: Connections that Complete the Cycle
Cox Hall Ballroom |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
Luc Van Kaer, PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
Vanderbilt University
"Modulation of Immune Responses with Glycolipid-Reactive Natural Killer T Cells"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Wednesday, October 8th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
PBE Program Doctorial Dissertation Defense
Elizabeth Lindsay
"Ecological determinants of host resistance to parasite infection in monarch butterflies"
2052 Rollins Research Center |
| Thursday, October 9th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID
James Nettles, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology Computer Assisted Discovery Research Environment
"Designing drugs for moving targets: Modeling selectivity and resistance for HIV, HCV, and Dengue therapies"
Rita Ann Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH |
| 11:00 am |
Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
Anning Lin, PhD,
Dept of Cancer Research, University of Chicago
"Wiring the JNK Signaling Circuitry in Inflammation and Stress by NF-kappaB and SMOR"
5052 Rollins Research Center |
| 12:00 pm |
Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Ellen Neidle, PhD, Professor, Dept of Microbiology,
University of Georgia
"The tricks of gene regulation: duplicity in the bacterium /Acinetobacter baylyi /ADP1"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Tanisha Jackson,
Dr Cooper and
Shana Coley, Dr Larsen
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Naomi Tsurutani,
Spearman Lab and Lilin Lai,
Amara Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| Monday, October 13th, 2008: |
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| 9:00 am |
GDBBS Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program Dissertation Defense
W. Brian Dalton
"DNA Damage During Mitotic Arrest: A Novel p53-Regulated Source of Structural Chromosome Instability in Human Cells"
Whitehead Research Building, Room 600 |
| 11:00 am |
Dept of Human Genetics Seminar
Bruce Korf, MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Alabama Birmingham
"Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Trials in Neurofibromatosis Type 1"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm |
EVC Special Seminar
Deepak Gauer, PhD, Research Fellow, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research (LMVR), Infectious Diseases (NIAID), NIH
"Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte Invasion: The functional role of the reticulocyte homology proteins, PfRH4 and PfRH5"
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
William Shafer, PhD, Professor, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University & VA Medical Center
"Coping with a Hostile Environment: Efflux of Antimicrobials by Gonococci"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, October 14th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
Dept of Pharmacology Seminar
David C Klein, PhD. Chief, Section of Neruoendrocrinology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
"Paradigm Shift in Pineal Cell Biology: The Impact of Transcriptome Profiling"
Whitehead Research Building, Room 600 |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
Louis B Justament, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology University of Alabama Birmingham
"Correct Spatial-temporal Expression of the Adaptor Protein HSH2 is Critical for Generation of the Humoral Immune Response"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 5:00 pm |
School of Medicine
Dean’s Annual State of the School Address
Reception following
Cox Hall Ballroom |
| Thursday, October 16th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID
Lisa Jackson, University of Washington
"Influenza vaccine in seniors: new evidence and new controversies"
Rita Ann Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH |
| 11:00 am |
Department of Pathology Research Seminar
Dr. Al Jesaitis, University of Montana
"Marching Orders for the Neutrophil Army: Regulation of the N-formyl chemotactic peptide receptor"
Host: Asma Nusrat
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 12:15 pm |
Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Laura Finzi, PhD, Dept of Physics, Emory University
"Elucidation of the mechanism of an epigenetic switch by single-molecule assays"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Luke Uebelhoer, Dr Grakoui and Pablo Romagnoli,
Dr Altman
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Monday, October 20th, 2008: |
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| 2:00 pm |
Dept of Microbiology & Immunology Special Seminar
Tim Sparer, PhD, University of Tennessee, Dept of Microbiology
"Chemokines Gone Wild! Pleiotropic effects of chemokines and >chemokine >receptors: from cytomegalovirus dissemination to tumorigenesis"
3052 Rollins Research Center |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Adrie Steyn, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Birmingham
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, October 21st, 2008: |
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| 10:00 am |
GDBBS Genetics and Molecular Biology Program Dissertation Defense
Robert Esterberg
"Molecular Events Surrounding Embryonic Patterning During Late Gastrulation in
Danio rerio"
Rollins Research Center 2052 |
| 4:00 pm |
Joint Dept of Pathology/IMP Seminar
Abul Abbas, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco
"Systemic T Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Thursday, October 23rd, 2008: |
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| canceled |
Div of ID
ICAAC/IDSA
Rita Ann Rollins Room,
8th floor RSPH |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Kisha Piggott, Dr Weyand and David Loria,
Dr Altman
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Friday, October 24th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Raghavan Chinnadurai, Grakoui Lab and Brant Herrin, Cooper Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| Monday, October 27th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Zehava Eichenbaum, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Biology, Georgia State University
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, October 28th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
William Tyor, PhD, IMP Faculty Candidate, Dept of Neurology Emory University
"The role of Interferon-alpha in HIV encephalitis"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Wednesday, October 29th, 2008: |
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| 8:15 am |
Dept of Gynecology and Obstetrics Grand Rounds
W. Evan Secor, PhD, Research Microbiologist, CDC
"Drug Resistance and Hypersensitivity Issues in Patients with Trichomonas vaginalis Infections"
Grady Memorial Hospital Campus, Faculty Office Bldg, Room 101 |
| 4:00 pm |
Dept of Cell Biology Seminar
Vic Rafuse, PhD, Professor, Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dalhousie University
"Efficient generation of functional motoneurons from mouse embryonic stem cells: a useful model system for studying motoneuron development"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Thursday, October 30th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID
Dr Pragna Patel
Rita Ann Rollins Room,
8th floor RSPH |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
David Lamar, Dr Goronzy and Sumita Ganguly,
Dr Amara
Whitehead Auditoriu |
| Friday, October 31st, 2008: |
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| No Seminar Scheduled |
EVC Noon Seminar
Bourne Seminar Room |
| Monday, November 3rd, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
CMV Seminar
Tiziana Lazzarotto, PhD, Assistant Professor,Clinical Unit of Microbiology and Virology, St. Orsola Malpighi General Hospital, University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
"Diagnosis of Congenital CMV Infection: Many Problems, Some Solutions"
445 Dental School Building |
| 2:00 pm |
Special EVC Seminar
Amit Singh, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept of Microbiology, University of Alabama Birmingham
"Mycobacterium tuberculosis redox sensing mechanisms: Linking environmental cues and virulence pathways"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
June Scott, PhD, Professor, Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
CFAR, Book Signing and Reception
Rev. Canon Ted Karpf, Director-General’s Representative for Partnerships and UN Reform World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
"Restoring Hope: Decent Care in the Midst of HIV/AIDS"
Please RSVP to Ivan Maddox at (404) 727-6225 or cmadd01@emory.edu
DUC room 355 |
| Tuesday, November 4th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
CMV Seminar,
Maria Grazia Revello, MD, Servizio di Virologia Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
Pavia, Italy
"HCMV Infection in Pregnancy"
445 Dental School Building |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
David Lewinsohn, MD, PhD, Oregon Health Science University, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the OHSU Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Assistant Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, and Assistant Scientist at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
"Recognition of Intracellular Infection with Mtb: The Human CD8 Response to Tuberculosis"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008: |
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| 11:00 am |
EVC Special Seminar
Rajiv Khanna, PhD, Associate Professor, Queensland institute of Medical Research
"Challenges in translating EBV immunology from bench to bedside: a dream realized"
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 6:00 pm |
Vaccine Dinner Club
Bali Pulendran, PhD, Charles Howard Candler Professor in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medicine; Investigator, Emory CFAR
"'Upstairs Downstairs' or 'All in the Family?':
Re-envisioning the working relationship between the
Innate and Adaptive immune systems"
SOM Commons and Lecture Hall 110
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner |
| Thursday, November 6th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID
Dr Rafael Harpaz
"Zoster: It’s Now a Taichi Preventable Disease"
Rita Ann Rollins Room,
8th floor RSPH |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Brian Norris, Dr Pulendran and Aaron Reeve,
Dr Novembre
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm |
Dept of Biochemistry
McCormick Lecture Series
Michael R Waterman, PhD, Dept of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Cox Hall Ballroom |
| Friday, November 7th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Rosa Maria Salazar, Pulendran Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 4:00 pm |
CMV Seminar
Prof. Paul D. Griffiths, MD, DSc, Center for Virology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
"Quantitative studies of CMV pathogenesis: implications for evaluation of vaccines"
445 Dental School Building |
| Monday, November 10th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Yaramah Zalucki, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, November 11th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
Mandy Ford, PhD, IMP Faculty Candidate, Dept of Surgery, Emory University
"Alloreactive Precursor Frequency and Transplantation Tolerance Induction"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Wednesday, November 12th, 2008: |
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| 11:00 am |
Dept of Pathology Seminar
Beat A. Imhof, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, CMU
"Junctional adhesion molecules in inflammatory leukocyte migration and tumor angiogenesis"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 3:00 pm |
Career Workshop Series
Grant Writing Workshop for the NIH K Series Grants and Other Development Awards for Career Transition to Faculty
"Strategic Planning for an Application Types and Structures"
Dr Janet Gross, Grants Tutorial Director, Office of Postdoctoral Education
Also two postdoctoral fellows who recently received K-Awards will share information about the application and process
SOM Lecture Hall 110 |
| 3:30 pm |
CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, CFAR & Emory Center for Health, Culture, and Society Seminar
Ms. Padma Chandrasekaran & Dr. Gina Dallabetta
Senior Program Officers, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
"Avahan: the India AIDS Initiative"
Rollins School of Public Health Room 721/729 |
| Thursday, November 13th, 2008: |
|
| 8:00 am |
Div of ID
Rita Ann Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH |
| 12:15 pm |
Joint Seminar/Dept of Biochemistry & Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Program Seminar
Joel G. Belasco, PhD, Dept of Microbiology, New York University
"The Means to an End: 5’-Terminal Control of Bacterial mRNA Degradation"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 2:00 pm |
PBEE Program Dissertation Defense
Elisa Margolis
"Within-host ecology and evolution of nasal colonizing bacteria: Haemophilus influenza, streptococcus pneumonia and Staphylococcus aureus"
1052 Rollins Research Center |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm |
Neuroscience Division Lecture Series
Rafael Franco, PhD
"A ‘new’ receptor-heteromer-based neurotransmission"
Neuroscience Seminar Room |
| 5:00 - 9:00 pm |
Special Symposium Honoring 60th Birthday of Rafi Ahmed
Welcome Reception
Evening session Chair, Dr. Hao Shen
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 6:30 - 6:50 pm |
Murali-Krishna Kaja, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Role of type-I interferons in shaping anti-viral T cell response |
| 6:50 - 7:10 pm |
John Wherry, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
"Training with Rafi: It’s exhausting!"
1052 Rollins Research Center |
| 7:10 - 7:40 pm |
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
"Th17 and memory B cells: where is the link?""
1052 Rollins Research Center |
| 7:40 - 9:00 pm |
Welcome Reception (Continued) |
| Friday, November 14th, 2008: |
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| All Day |
Special Symposium Honoring 60th Birthday of Rafi Ahmed
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am |
Coffee/Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:15 am |
Welcome Remarks
Morning session Chair, Sue Kaech |
| 9:15 - 9:45 am |
Christine Biron, Brown University, Providence, RI
"Shaping NK and CD8 T cell responses to type 1 IFNs - Regulating stats"
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| 9:45 - 10:05 am |
Mark Slifka, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR
"What poxviruses and Rafi Ahmed have taught me about immunological memory" |
| 10:05 - 10:25 am |
Jason Whitmire, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
"Inflammatory cytokines potently stimulate memory T cell differentiation"
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| 10:25 - 10:45 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 11:05 am |
Laurie Harrington, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
"CD4 T cells in autoimmunity – Absolutely nothing to do with LCMV!" |
| 11:05 - 11:25 am |
M. Suresh, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
"Cell cycle regulation in CD8 T cell memory" |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am |
Mehrdad Matloubian, University of California, San Francisco, CA
"How I learned to stop worrying, and love the virus" |
| 11:45 - 12:05 pm |
Joe Blattman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Targeting vaccine induced T cell responses to mucosal sites" |
| 12:05 - 12:20 pm |
Ahmed Lab Trainees Photo |
| 12:20 - 1:45 pm |
Lunch
Afternoon session Chair, John Wherry |
| 1:45 - 2:15 pm |
Mike Bevan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Behind the RafiGraph" |
| 2:15 - 2:35 pm |
Shane Crotty, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, CA
"Understanding the smallpox vaccine: protective antibodies" |
| 2:35 - 2:55 pm |
Allan Zajac, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
"A Vital Role For IL-21 in Immune-mediated Viral Control" |
| 2:55 - 3:15 pm |
Hao Shen, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Epigenetic remodeling in memory CD8 T cells" |
| 3:15 - 3:45 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45 - 4:05 pm |
Thandi Onami, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
"Role of the glycosyltransferase ST6Gal I in programming T and B cell immunity" |
| 4:05 - 4:25 pm |
Dave Masopust, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
"Dynamic T cell migration program provides resident memory within intestinal epithelium" |
| 4:25 - 4:45 pm |
Sue Kaech, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT
"Lessons learned from worms and Rafi" |
| 4:45 pm |
Rafi Ahmed |
| Monday, November 17th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Lauren Bakaletz, PhD, Director, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Ohio State University
"Role of the Type IV Pilus of Nontypeable H. influenza in the Pathogenesis of Otitis Media and Prospects for anti-PilA Mediated Treatment or Prevention"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, November 18th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Special Seminar
Vidadi Yusibov, PhD, Executive Director, Fraunhofer USA-Center for Molecular Biotechnology, Newark, Delaware
"Plant-based Production of Vaccine Antigens and Therapeutic Antibodies"
Bourne Seminar Room at Yerkes |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
Michael Starnbach, PhD, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School
"Inhibition of T cell responses by bacterial pathogens"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 5:00 pm |
William E. Mitch Lecture in Nephrology
Peter C. Agre, MD, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University Professor and Director, John Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Aquaporin Water Channels: from Atomic Structure to Malaria"
Reception at 4:30 p.m
SOM Lecture Hall 110 & 120 |
| Wednesday, November 19th, 2008: |
|
| 7:30 am |
Department of Medicine Medical Grand Rounds
Peter C. Agre, MD, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, University Professor and Director, John Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health
"My Life in Clinical Medicine and Basic Research"
EUH Main Auditorium, 2nd Floor |
| Thursday, November 20th, 2008: |
|
| 12:15 pm |
Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Marion B. Sewer, Associate Professor, School of Biology and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Regulation of Steroidogenic Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm |
EVC Special Seminar
Jeremy Luban, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Cyclophilin, TRIM5, and Innate Immunity to HIV-1"
Neuroscience Seminar Room at Yerkes |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Muse Davis, Dr. and
Kristen Rosenthal,
Dr. Evavold
Reception at 4:30 p.m
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Friday, November 21st, 2008: |
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| All Day |
Special Symposium in Honor of Eric Hunter’s 60th Birthday
Registration Required, RSVP to edbartl@emory.edu by Monday, November 17
"Virus-Host Interactions –
A 30 Year Retrospective" |
| Monday, November 24th, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Brian Hammer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The role(s) that non-coding small RNAs play in the quorum sensing pathway of Vibrio cholera"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, November 25th, 2008: |
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| 11:00 am |
Dept of Pathology Seminar
Martin L. Moore, PhD, Dept of Pediatrics, Div of ID, Emory
"Mechanisms of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-Induced Mucus: Viral Strain Dependence"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 12:00 noon |
Dept of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
Frank Wong, PhD, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of International Health, NHS, Georgetown University
"HIV and STIs in China: Sex and Migration"
RAR Room 8th Floor RSPH |
| Thursday, November 27th, 2008: |
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UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
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| Friday, November 28th, 2008: |
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UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
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| Monday, December 1st, 2008: |
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| 11:00 am |
World AIDS Day - Quilt on the Quad
Kenneth Cole Keynote Address
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| 11:30 am - 4:00 pm |
Reading of names of individuals lost to HIV/AIDS represented in the display
Kenneth Cole Keynote Address
|
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Elizabeth Wright, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, Emory; MMG Program Faculty Candidate
"Cryo-electron tomography: Providing new insights into bacterial & viral ultrastructure"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008: |
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| 4:00 pm |
IMP Seminar Series
Gwendalyn J Randolph, PhD, Associate Professor, Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Migration of Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells to Lymph Nodes"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 5:30 pm |
CFAR
"AIDS at 27: Turning Hope into Action"
Speakers are from Emory, the Peace Corps, the International AIDS Trust, as well as contributors to the anthology, "AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India"
SOM Lecture Hall 120 |
| 6:30 pm |
Closer Than You Know 1st Anniversary Celebration
Gordon Biersch Brewery, 848 Peachtree St, NE |
| Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
CFAR
Brown Bag - " AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India"
Readings by Nikita Lalwani and Sonia Faleiro
RSPH, Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor |
| 6:00 pm |
Vaccine Dinner Club
Guido Silvestri, MD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
"Towards an AIDS Vaccine: Is It Time for a Devil's Advocate?"
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner
SOM Atrium and Lecture Hall |
| Thursday, December 4th, 2008: |
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| 11:00 am |
IMP Dissertation Defense
Nichole Klatt
"Determinants of viremia during pathogenic and non-pathogenic SIV infection"
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Sheila Akinyi, Dr. Galinski and Lisa Gargano,
Dr. Speck
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Friday, December 5th, 2008: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Danso Ako-Adjei, Spearman Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| Monday, December 8th, 2008: |
|
| 11:30 am |
Special EVC Seminar
Nimalan Arinaminpathy, DPhil, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
"Evolution and Emergence of Pandemic Influenza: A theoretical Perspective"
Bourne Seminar Room |
| 4:00 pm |
MMG Seminar Series
Graham Hatfull, PhD, Professor, Dept of Biology Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
"Exploration and exploration of mycobateriophages"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Tuesday, December 9th, 2008: |
|
| 4:15 pm |
GDBBS Career Seminar Series
Looking Beyond the University: Discussions on Careers Outside Academics Focus on Public Policy
Mike Allred, PhD, Deputy Associate Director, Office of Terrorism, Preparedness, and Emergency Response, CDC & Marlin Gottschalk, PhD, Policy Coordinator, Director's Office of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)
308 Dental Building |
| Thursday, December 11th, 2008: |
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| 12:15 pm |
Dept of Biochemistry Seminar
Shelley Copley, PhD, Professor, Dept of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
"The Evolutionary Potential of Promiscuity: Novel Metabolic Pathways Patched Together from Promiscuous Enzyme Activities"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 4:00 pm |
IMP RIP Series
Joe Sabatino, Dr. Evavold and Amena Frias,
Dr. Gewirtz
Whitehead Auditorium |
| Friday, December 12th, 2008: |
|
| 12:00 noon |
EVC Noon Seminar
Pablo Romagnoli,
Altman Lab
Bourne Seminar Room |
| Tuesday, December 16th, 2008: |
|
| 5:00 pm |
CFAR AIDS Soiree & Dept of Medicine Renal Div
Jon Kaplan, MD, Branch Chief, Global AIDS Program, CDC
"The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Are We Making Progress or Not?"
110 SOM Lecture Hall |
| Thursday, December 18th, 2008: |
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| 8:00 am |
Div of ID Seminar
David Holland, MD, Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine
"Minimizing the Costs of TB Prevention"
(Dr Holland is an ID Faculty Candidate)
Rita Anne Rollins Room,
8th Floor RSPH |
| 4:00 pm |
Special EVC Seminar
Sergei Nedospasov, PhD, DSc, Professor and Laboratory Head, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow & A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University
"Tumor Necrosis Factor and the consequences of its ablation"
Whitehead Auditorium |
| 6:00 pm |
EVC Holiday Party
Home of Sam Speck and Martha Clabby,
1400 Ranier Falls Drive |
| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009: |
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| 6:00 pm |
Vaccine Dinner Club
Anne Schuchat, MD, RADM, US Public Health Service
"Immunization in the United States in 2009: On the Verge of Breakdown, Breakthrough or Both?"
6:00 pm – Reception
6:30 pm – Presentation
7:45 pm Dinner
SPECIAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS - For US citizen, bring US drivers license or passport with you to enter. If you are non-US citizen and submitted the CDC form to attend, bring your passport with you. The deadline to submit this form has passed.
CDC |
| Thursday, January 8th, 2009: |
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| 7:00 am |
Dept of Surgery Grand Rounds
Sayed Rizvi, MD
"Nobel Laureates of Surgery"
EUH Auditorium |
| 8:00 am |
Div of ID Seminar
Dr. James Heffelfinger
Rita Anne Rollins Room, 8th floor RSPH |
| Friday, January 9th, 2009: |
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| 12:00 noon |
EVC Friday Noon Seminar
Harinder Gill, Compans Lab and Weiping Cao, Pulendran Lab
"Nobel Laureates of Surgery"
Bourne Seminar Room (light lunch served) |
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Action Cycling 200
Join Team Emory for the 7th Annual Action Cycling 200 bike ride
May 16-17, 2009
www.actioncycling.org
Charity Treks
Join us for the 2009 AIDS Vaccine Bike Trek
Burlington, VT to Portland, ME
August 2009
www.charitytreks.org
(Registration for 2009 opens on September 30th)
Twelfth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases will host the 12th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, April 27 – 29, 2009 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The conference collaborators include: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration; Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland; Emory Vaccine Center; Fondation Mérieux; the International Association for Biologicals; International Society for Vaccines; International Vaccine Institute; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Netherlands Vaccine Institute; Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute; and the United States Department of Agriculture.
The conference is designed to bring together the diverse disciplines involved in the research and development of vaccines. Expert faculty will present the latest vaccine-related scientific data, results, and issues via symposia and panel discussions. Conference topic areas include: issues in adjuvants; global health and programs of the World Health Organization (WHO); synergies between veterinary and human vaccine discovery; an update on a vaccine for tuberculosis; and malaria and the status of malaria vaccine development.
Continuing education credits will be offered. For additional information please visit www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine09 or e-mail vaccine@nfid.org
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