2017-18 MPT Graduate Program Seminar Schedule FALL SEMESTER 2017 (August 22 nd ) DATE SPEAKER/TITLE HOST TIME/LOCATION Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Dr. Daniel Hawiger, MD PhD Associate Professor, St. Louis University School of Medicine Dept of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Doisy Research Center St. Louis, MO Host: Dr. Habib Zaghouani Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Susheel Busi Advisers: Dr. James Amos- Landgraf/Dr. Craig Franklin Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Host: Dr. Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Mary Casey Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Dr. Fotini Guonari Associate Professor Biomedical Sciences Department of Medicine Cancer Center Research Committee on Cancer Biology Committee on Immunology University of Chicago Chicago, IL Host: Dr. Emma Teixeiro Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Carolyn Lacey Adviser: Dr. Jerod Skyberg Wednesday, October 11,2017 Giorgio Trinchieri, MD Program Director, Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research NIH, NCI Bethesda, MD HOST: Student Guest Speaker Susheel Busi (Dr. James Amos- Landgraf)
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Dr. Anna Tischler is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota. Host: Dr. Deb Anderson Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Jorge Durand Heredia Adviser: Dr. George Stewart 1:15 am Monsanto Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Anna Ludlow Adviser: Dr. Deb Anderson November 20-27, 2017 THANKSGIVING BREAK Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Tobechukwu Ukah Adviser: Dr. Habib Zaghouani Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Alexis Dadelahi Leah Cardwell Adviser: Dr. Jeff Adamovicz Adviser: Dr. Mark Daniels Thursday, December 14, 2017 Dr. Masahiro Yamashita Assistant Professor Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center New York Host. Dr. Marc Johnson 2:00 Monsanto Wednesday, December 20, 2017 HOLIDAY BREAK
SPRING SEMESTER 2018 DATE SPEAKER/TITLE HOST TIME/LOCATION Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Mahmoud Farghali Kinsey Hilliard Adviser: Dr. Charlie Brown Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Dr. Ross Kedl National Jewish University of Denver-Colorado Host: Emma Teixeiro Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Michael Nance Nicholas Olivarez Adviser: Dr. Dongshen Duan Adviser: Dr. Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Lindsey Ledbetter Vincent Yapo Adviser: Dr. Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Matthew Burch Alexis Cattin-Roy Adviser: Dr. Craig Franklin Adviser: Dr. Habib Zaghouani Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Nicholas Griswold Kyle Hoffman Adviser: Dr. Elizabeth Bryda Adviser: Dr. Bill Stich Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Clifton Ricana Caleb Studstill Adviser: Dr. Marc Johnson Adviser: Dr. Bumsuk Hahm Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Dr. Chyung-Ru Wan Professor, Dept. of Microbiology and immunology Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Host. Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Kevin Kaifer Annie Wolfe Adviser: Dr. Chris Lorson Adviser: Dr. Craig Franklin Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Dr. Kim Newton Genetech Host: Deb Anderson Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Dr Yousef Abu Kwaik Host: Guoquan Zhang
Professor, Bumgardner Chair in Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine University of Louisville Wednesday, March 21, 2018 March 26-31, 2018 SPRING BREAK WEEK April 9-14, 2018 LIFE SCIENCE WEEK Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Dr. Segal Un. Of Michigan. Dept of Neurology Host: Dr. Zaghouani 10:30-11:30 pm Acuff Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Melissa Menie Rebecca Newth Adviser: Dr. Jeff Adamovicz Adviser: Dr. Emma Teixeiro Pernas Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Jennifer Wolf Michael Quaney Adviser: Dr. Emma Teixeiro Pernas Wednesday, May 9, 2018 Host: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Host: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 Dr. Fabio Rossi University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Host: Dr. Dongsheng Duan Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Host: