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 |
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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.”
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| 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.”
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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.”
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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