2009 Spring Seminar Series
January 16, 2009
Applications of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Developmental Biology and Disease Modeling
Christopher Navara, PhD, UTSA
January 23, 2009
Neutrophil Accumulation in Bacterial Pneumonia
Samithamby Jeyaseelan, PhD, Louisiana State University
January 30, 2009
Emergence of Novel Retroviruses
Thomas M. Folks, PhD, Southwest National Primate Research Center
February 6, 2009
Determination of Morphology and Virulence in Candida albicans
David Kadosh, PhD, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
February 13, 2009
Misfolded Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and Motor Neuron Disease
P. John Hart, PhD, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
February 20, 2009
Rift Valley Fever (RVF): An Integrated Approach to Controlling RVF in Africa and the Middle East
Mustapha Debboun, Colonel, US Army Medical Department Center & School, Fort Sam Houston
February 27, 2009
Drug Resistance Evolution in Malaria Parasites
Timothy J.C. Anderson, PhD, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
March 6, 2009
Amorphous Computing and Synthetic Biology – Where Computation and Fabrication Meet
Zack Simpson, Mine Control and UT Austin
March 13, 2009
Spring Break
March 20, 2009
Host Resistance and Susceptibility to Mucosal Candidiasis: How Different Can Two Sites of Infection Be?
Paul Fidel Jr., PhD, Louisiana State University School of Dentistry
March 27, 2009
Ducks, Avian Influenza, and the Texas Coast: A Winter Wonderland
Blanca Lupiani, PhD, Texas A&M University
April 3, 2009
Bacteria Harden Their Armor: Remodeling of Gram-Negative Lipopolysaccharide
M. Stephen Trent, PhD, UT Austin
April 10, 2009
Mutational Analysis of Ip54-Encoded Genes of the Agent of Lyme Disease
Mahulena Maruskova, PhD Student, UTSA
April 17, 2009
New Insight into Obligate Parasitism by the Q Fever Bacterium Coxiella burnetti
Robert Heinzen, PhD, NIH National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
April 24, 2009
Immune Responses in Effective and Ineffective Vaccination Strategies Against Respiratory Tularemia in Mice
Wangxue Chen, PhD, Canada Research Council
May 1, 2009
Pathogenesis of Lyme Neuroborreliosis
Philipp, PhD, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
