Past Seminar Speakers
Spring 2013
Keith Jarosinski, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Herpesvirus-induced oncogenesis and transmission
Shelley M. Payne, University of Texas at Austin
Shigella pathogenesis: Life in the intracellular environment
Michael Schmidt, Medical University of South Carolina
Bacteria, Burden and Bundles: How Copper Surfaces Enhance Patient Safety
John Butler, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
B cell and repertoire development in swine: a challenge of current paradigms
Daniel C. DiMaio, Yale University
Traptamers: artificial transmembrane proteins that inhibit HIV
John-Demian Sauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The role of inflammasome activation in the induction of cell mediated immunity
Morgan Huse, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Lipid-based patterning of the cytoskeleton at the immunological synapse
Arturo Casadevall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University
Thoughts on the origin of microbial virulence
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi, National Cancer Institute
Morphogenesis of large structures during development
Stokes Peebles, Vanderbilt University
IL-13 modulation of Th17 cytokine responses
Michael S. Diamond, Washington University in St. Louis
New insights into innate and adaptive immune responses against flaviviruses and alphaviruses
Fall 2012
Timothy L. Yahr, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The Pseuomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system: to be on or not to be on, that is the question
Mark R. Denison, Vanderbilt University
Coronavirus RNA proofreading: a novel determinant of evolution, replication, and pathogenesis
Craig D. Ellermeier, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Activation of ECF sigma factors in response to cell envelope stress in Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium difficile
Valley Stewart, University of California, Davis
Transmitter phosphatase control of two-component signal transduction
Jeffrey Rathmell, Duke University
Lymphocyte metabolism in immunity and leukemia
Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Pathogenesis of RNA viruses: Fat mice and a viral enterotoxin
William Shafer, Emory University
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance expressed by Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Implications for pathogenesis
Dennis E. Ohman, Virginia Commonwealth University
All Stressed Out: Adaptation of a Stress Response System in Pseudomonas for Pathogenesis in Cystic Fibrosis
Victor J. Torres, New York University Langone Medical Center
Staphylococcus aureus bi-component toxins: pore-forming toxins involved in the disarmament of the host surveillance system
Thomas G. Bernhardt, Harvard Medical School
The ABCs of bacterial cell division
Carolyn Hovde Bohach, University of Idaho
Cattle: The silent reservoir of E. coli O157:H7
Allan Zajac, University of Alabama Birmingham
Tuning CD8 T cell responses
Tammy L. Kielian, University of Nebraska Medical Center
S. aureus biofilms: identifying mechanisms of immune evasion and strategies for therapeutic intervention
Patrick M. Schlievert, PhD, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Glycerol Monolaurate-Coenzyme Q Based Formations as Topical Microbicides
Spring 2012
Stephen Waggoner, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Natural killer cells act as rheostats modulating anti-viral T cells
Balaji Manicassamy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Fighting flu: Immunological insights from novel fluorescent reporter viruses and pandemic strains
Andrea S. Bertke, University of California, San Francisco
Differential regulation of HIV-1 and HSV-2 infection in neurons
Hillel Haim, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Molecular basis of HIV-1 sensitivity to antibodies
David G. Meckes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The far-reaching effects of the Epstein-Barr virus oncoprotein LMP1
Maria Kalamvoki, University of Chicago
Immediate early events that co-opt with the HSV-1 genome activation: Cycling around the CLOCK
Thomas J. Silhavey, Princeton University
Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram negative bacteria
Gesila Storz, National Institutes of Health
The genes that were missed: an expanding university of small RNAs and small proteins
Marc Johnson, University of Missouri
Surprising twists and unexpected choices on the path to viral assembly sites
Michael T. Laub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Specificity and evolution of bacterial signaling pathways
Michael Dustin, New York University School of Medicine
The immunological synapse in autoimmunity and viral infection
Thomas C. Zahrt, Medical College of Wisconsin
Stress adaptations and Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence
Richard J. Roller, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
As if I didn't have enough to do: Multifunctional proteins in HSV egress and cell-cell spread
Fang Li, University of Minnesota
Receptor recognition mechanisms of coronaviruses
Michael Good, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
The long road to a malaria vaccine
Gene Olinger, Jr., US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Venezualen equine encephalitis virus replicon (VRP) vaccine development for Ebola & Marburg Viruses
Katherine R. Spindler, University of Michigan Medical School
Contributions of viral and host factors to mouse adenoviral encephalitis
Avinash Bhandoola, University of Pennsylvania
Establishing T cell identity
Fall 2011
David Woodland, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY
Regulation of T cell immunity to respiratory virus infections
Hai-Hui Xue, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Lifetime companion of T cells: Wnt paves the path
Karl Münger, Harvard Medical School
Perturbation of host cellular regulatory networks by human papillomaviruses
Wendy Maury, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Discovery of Ebolavirus receptors
Yuntao Wu, George Mason University
Role of chemokine receptor signaling in HIV-1 infection and pathogenesis
Sanjay Ram, University of Massachusetts
Complement evasion strategies of Neisseriae: applications in animal models, vaccines and therapeutics
Anne Simon, University of Maryland
New paradigms for translation based on studying 3' translational enhancers in plus-strand RNA viruses
Eric Stewart, Northeastern University
A molecular basis of bacterial unculturability
Lindsey Shaw, University of South Florida
Exploring the pathogenic and drug resistance mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus
Michael Apicella, Department of Microbiology, and Patricia Winokur, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
Natural selection in 6 days. H. influenzae colonization of the human nasopharynx
Photini Sinnis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The malaria sporozoite's journey: From mosquito midgut to mammalian liver
James Slauch, University of Illinois
Knowing where you are: regulation of the Salmonella SPI1 type III secretion system
W. Nicholas Haining, Harvard Medical School
Molecular mechanisms of T cell exhaustion in humans
Bradley Jones, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Exploring the genetic basis of Francisella tularensis virulence
Spring 2011
Craig Ellermeier, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The role of ECF sigma factors in the cell envelope stress response of Bacillus subtilis and Clostridium difficile
Mary Wilson, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
The intracellular life of Leishmania protozoa
Susan Carpenter, Iowa State University
Equine infectious anemia virus envelope evolution
John Butler, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
The emergence of an immunological model
Brent Ryckman, University of Montana
The glycoprotein O of human cytomegalovirus: everybody knows this is nowhere
Fitnat Yildiz, University of California-Santa Cruz
Vibrio cholerae biofilms: structural components and regulatory networks
Paul Thomas, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Not set in stone: peripheral T cell receptor regulation and revision
John Rossi, City of Hope
Small RNAs and their therapeutic application for the treatment of HIV infections
E. John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania
Regulation of memory T cell differentiation during chronic infections
Paul Babitzke, Penn State University
CsrA-mediated global control of gene expression
Yuying Liang, Emory University
Lassa fever virus: disease, virulence factors, and immune suppression
Lee Riley, University of California, Berkeley
Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall lipid regulation as a mechanism for persistence
William Usinger, Trellis Bioscience, LLC
Discovery of rare human-derived therapeutic antibodies to treat influenza
Harald zur Hausen, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Perspectives of tumorvirus research
Bradford Gibson, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California
Clinical proteomics for biomarker discovery
Robert Davey, University of Texas Medical Branch
Macropinocytosis and induction of cellular signaling events that lead to infection by Ebola virus
Fall 2010
Jon Houtman, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa
Signal transduction in human T cells
Caroline Harwood, University of Washington
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and biofilms: forging new connections
Howard Berg, Harvard University
Marvels of bacterial behavior
Gregory Plano, University of Miami
Calcium- and cell contact-regulated secretion of virulence proteins by Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague
Ann Hill, Oregon Health & Science University
T cells and cytomegalovirus: a dangerous obsession?
Patrick Moore, University of Pittsburgh
Why do viruses cause cancer?
Jonathan Karn, Case Western Reserve University
The ins and outs of HIV latency
David Francis, South Dakota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Vaccinology
The role of enterotoxins in colonization of the intestines by enteric pathogens
Bridget Wilson, University of New Mexico
High resolution technologies capture FcεRI organization and receptor dynamics
Paul Lieberman, Wistar Institute
Mechanisms of genome maintenance: lessons from gammaherpesvirus latency
Robert Garofalo, University of Texas Medical Branch
Aspects of innate immunity to human paramyxovirus infections
David Blehert, USGS - National Wildlife Health Center
Wildlife disease investigation: bat white-nose syndrome
Elizabeth Grice, National Institutes of Health
The skin microbiome in health and disease
Jeffrey Frelinger, University of Arizona
Francisella and the immune system - bugs do the darndest things
Serge Muyldermans, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Nanobodies; next generation antibody products for research, diagnostics and therapy
Ralph Baric, University of North Carolina
Cruising with noroviruses