Elizabeth Yeh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

"The Role of the AMPK-related Kinase Hunk in Breast Cancer and Cell Survival in the Mammary Gland"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Neal M. Alto, PhD
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
UT-Southwestern
Medical Center

"Probing the mechanisms of cell polarity and membrane trafficking using bacterial effector molecules"

Richard James, PhD
Senior Fellow
HHMI and Dept. of Pharmacology
University of Washington School of Medicine

"Integrative screening reveals novel regulators of Wnt signaling"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Greg Barton, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunology & Pathogenesis
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

"Regulation and function of Toll-like receptors"

Kwon-Sik Park, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow; Stanford University, Stanford, CA

"Role of Developmental Signaling Pathways in Lung Cancer"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Jill K. Slack-Davis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Research; University of Virginia Health System

"VCAM-1 and the ovarian cancer metastatic microenvironment"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Cheuk Leung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Monday
2/6/2012
10am, 1-14

Thomas Clarke, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

"The dynamic interaction between innate immunity and the mucosal barrier"

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

David F. Kashatus, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Duke University Medical Center

"RalA-mediated regulation of mitochondrial fission: implications for tumorigenesis"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Stavroula Mili, PhD
Research Associate
University of Virginia Health System

"Localized RNAs in Cell Signaling and Disease"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Tuesday
2/28/2012

10am, 1-17

Julie M. Blander, PhD
Associate Professor Medicine, Clinical Immunology
Mount Sinai Medical Center

"Mechanisms involved in discrimination between live and dead microbes"

Maria Labandeira-Rey, PhD
Instructor
Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Center

"Control of Virulence by a Stress Response Regulatory System: An Emerging Theme in Bacterial Pathogenesis"

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

Karla Satchell, PhD
Associate Professor
Northwestern University

"MARTX toxins of Vibrios"

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

Shaun Brinsmade, PhD
Post Doctoral Associate
Tufts University

“Regulation of a Major Metabolic Intersection in Bacillus subtilis”

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

Melissa M. Kendall, Ph.D.
Dept. of Microbiology/ Dept. of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

"Inter-kingdom signaling and metabolism in E. coli O157:H7 pathogenesis"

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

Stephen Miller, PhD
Professor of Microbiology-Immunology
Northwestern University

"Exploiting Apoptosis for the Induction of Tolerance for Treatment of Immune-Mediated Diseases"

Hui Zong, PhD
Assistant professor
Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Oregon

"Understanding tumor cell maneuvers in brain cancers with MADM, a genetic mosaic system"

Faculty Candidate for Cancer Biology Search

Kodi Ravichandran, PhD

David Schiff, MD

Zhao-Qing Luo, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University

"Making a living in a hostile environment: Strategies by Legionella pneumophila"

Faculty Candidate for Bacteriology Search

Wednesday
4/18/2012
4:00PM, 1-17

Catherine Luke, PhD
Staff Scientist (Core)

Laboratory of Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

"Development of Live Attenuated Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza"

Thursday
4/26/2012

1:00PM
Jordan Hall Conference Center

2012 Anderson Symposium

"Plasticity across systems: What's the the cutting edge?"

"The Rho GTPase Exchange Factor, Vav3, is a Versatile Modulator of Androgen Receptor Activity in Prostate Cancer"

Thursday
5/3/2012
4:00PM

Jordan Hall Conference Center

Prof. Dr. Ari Helenius
Institut for Biochemistry, Zuerich, Switzerland

"Cell biology of virus entry and uncoating"

Special Seminar: Distinguished Lecture co-sponsored by Cell, Micro, and Biophys

Wednesday
5/9/2012

4:00 PM

Jordan Hall Conference Center

Reception to follow

2012 Wagner Prize Seminar

George Liechti, Goldberg Lab
Recipient of the 2012 Robert R. Wagner Prize for Outstanding Research in Microbiology

"Targeting Purine Biosynthesis in the Carcinogenic Bacterium Helicobacter pylori"

CBTG Retreat: The Vanguard of Cancer's Defenses

Stuart Schreiber (Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard)
"A catalog of candidate cancer dependencies targeted by small molecules"

Sandra McAllister (Harvard)
“The Systemic Macroenvironment: Promoter of Malignancy and Target for Therapy”

Markus Müschen (UCSF)
"Oncogenes and negative feedback signaling in leukemia"

Marcia Haigis (Harvard)
"Sirtuins: Linking obesity and tumor metabolism"

Carla V. Rothlin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Immunobiology
Yale University

"TAMing Inflammation"