Center for Virus Research (CVR)

University of California, Irvine
3221 McGaugh Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3906
Phone: 949.824.9314
Fax: 949.824.9437

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The Center for Virus Research
Directed by Luis P. Villarreal, PhD
Oversight committee chaired by Bert Semler, PhD.
Established in July, 2000 as an Organized Research Unit within the University of California, Irvine.

Organized Research Unit in Animal Virology

2001/2002 Virology Seminar Series

Oct 5
Luis Villarreal, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California, Irvine
"The role of viruses in host evolution: The origin of eukaryotic
replication proteins"

Nov 2
Mari Manchester, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
"Strategies for immunosuppression and immune evasion in measles virus infection"

Nov 16
Nancy Reich, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
SUNY at Stony Brook

January 18
David Bloom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida
"The Use of Recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus for Studies on Viral Pathogenesis"

February 1
Paul Masters, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research
"Genetics, Assembly and RNA Synthesis of the Largest RNA Virus"

February 7
Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Emory School of Medicine

March 1
Roger Beachy, Ph.D.
Professor and President
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
"Cellular and Structural analysis of Coat Protein Mediated resistance to TMV in transgenic plants and cell lines"

March 8
Ray Welsh, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
University of Massachusetts
"T cell networks and heterologous immunity."

March 15
Craig Cameron, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
"Quasispecies, Error Catastrophe and the Antiviral Activity of Ribavirin"

April 12

April 24
Jerome Zack, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
"Animal Models of HIV Infection"
NOTE: This seminar is co-sponsored with Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

May 10
Hung Fan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
UC Irvine
"Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus: Molecular Biology and Transformation"

May 24
Nancy Cox
(Invited by Walter Fitch)

May 31
Jack Johnson, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
"The Structure and dynamics of RNA and DNA virus capsids"

June 7
Bert Semler, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
UC Irvine