Microbiology Seminars
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Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule
Microbiology 660: Topics in Eukaryotic Pathogens
Seminars will be held every Monday in Walter Life Sciences Building Room M307 at 3:30 PM.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 01/14/08 | Joseph Heitman | Sexual reproduction and geographic dispersal drive evolution of fungal virulenceand pathogen emergence |
| 01/21/08 | NO SEMINAR - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | |
| 01/28/08 | Jeffrey M. Becker | Yeast Ste2p: A Model for Understanding the Chemistry and Biology of G Protein-Coupled Receptors |
| 02/04/08 | NO SEMINAR | |
| 02/11/08 | Kurt Lamour | Decoding the plant destroyer: The genomics and proteomics of Phytophthora |
| 02/18/08 | Paul Fidel | Host resistance and susceptibility to oral and vaginal candidiasis: As different as north and south |
| 02/25/08 | Phil Boyd | TBA |
| 03/03/08 | Bruce Klein | Selective pathways to fungal recognition and immunity |
| 03/10/08 | Boris Striepen | Parasites with chloroplasts -- The function and biogenesis of the apicoplast |
| 03/17/08 | NO SEMINAR - Spring Break | |
| 03/24/08 | Kai Zhang | Identification of a novel virulence pathway in protozoan pathogen Leishmania |
| 03/31/08 | Stephen Hajduk | Mechanisms of human susceptibility and resistance to trypanosome infections |
| 04/07/08 | Jorge Santo Domingo | Fecal source tracking : it takes more than two to tango |
| 04/14/08 | Choukri Ben Mamoun | Transport and metabolism of essential host nutrients by malaria parasites: New directions for drug discovery and vaccine development. |
| 04/21/08 | June Kwon-Chung | Aspergillus fumigatus, the major cause of invasive aspergillosis |