Montana State University

Immunology & Infectious Diseases

P.O. Box 173610
Bozeman, MT 59717

Tel: (406) 994-4705
Fax: (406) 994-4303
iid@montana.edu

Seminars

Unless otherwise noted, all IID seminars are scheduled for Tuesday at 4:00 pm in the seminar room in the Molecular Biosciences Building, Advanced Technology Park, 960 Technology Blvd., Bozeman MT

To request disability accommodation or inform us of special needs, please contact wenyan.zhang@montana.edu .

 

Spring 2013

DATE SPEAKER Title

January 17

Thursday

Bibi Bielekova, Ph.D., Chief, Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

“Use of Clinical Trials to Decipher the Immunopathophysiology of Multiple Sclerosis.”

 

January 22 Dmitriy Atochin, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

“Role of Endothelial Nitric Oxide in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.”

 

January 24

Thursday

Robert Watkins, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT The Staphylococcus aureus Two-component, SaeR/S, Modulates Host Mediators of Inflammation to Enhance Pathogenesis.”

January 29

Scott Bailey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

The CRISPR/Cas system: an RNA-guided Immune System in Prokaryotes

February 5

Postponed until Fall
Seth Walk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

“Is There an immunomodulatory Role for the GI Tract Microbiota During Helminth Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease?” 

February 12 Trevor Douglas, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

"Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials – Redesigning Viral Capsids for Biomedical Applications."

February 19 Andrew Ramstead, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Immunomodulatory Properties of Oenothein B on Lymphocytes.”

 

February 26 Samuel Sternberg, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. "DNA Curtains: 1000 Single Molecule Experiments at a Time."

February 28

Thursday

IMID Graduate Student Rotation Seminars III  
March 5 Jeffrey N. Weiser, M.D., Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA “Co-infections Subvert Mucosal Immunity.”

March 12

SPRING BREAK

 

March 19 Scott I. Simon, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA “Pathogen Recognition by Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells via TLR2/MyD88 in Staphylococcus aureus-infected Wounds Stimulates Local Granulopoiesis.”

March 26

Agnieszka Rynda-Apple, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

How Recognition of a Viral Capsid Affects Predisposition to Secondary MRSA Pneumonia.”

April 2

Michael Gurish, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

“The Mast Cell: Pulmonary Recruitment & Function in Autologous Injury.”

April 9

Postponed until May

Dr. Michael T. Lotze, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

“You Eat What You Are: The Cytokine Induced Systemic Autophagic Syndrome.”

April 16 Frank M. Nelson Distinguished Lecture: Nick Lukacs, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Research Faculty and Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

"Innate and Acquired Immunity in Chronic Pulmonary Disease."

April 23 John Galgiani, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence, and Program Director for Infectious Diseases, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ “Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) In and Out of the Endemic Regions.”

April 30

1pm

Sara Blosser, Ph.D. Defense

TBA
May 2 Capstone Student Presentations  

Fall 2013

DATE SPEAKER Title
 

Information will be added later

 

 

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