Center for Virus Research (CVR)
University of California, Irvine
3221 McGaugh Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3906
Phone: 949.824.9314
Fax: 949.824.9437
Services:
Advanced Technology & Resources
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.
Seminar Schedule: Spring 2005
April 1 Advances in the immunology of HPV, Dendritic cells and Langerhans cells
Martin Kast, MD and PhD (Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Southern California)
April 8 Linking histone modifications and chromatin insulators to the regulation of HSV latent gene expression
David Bloom, PhD (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida)
April 22- CANCELLED Anthrax toxin-receptor interactions and soluble receptor-based antitoxins
John Young (Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
May 6 Viruses from Hell
Kenneth M. Stedman, PhD (Department of Biology, Portland State University)
May 20 Activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells and HIV disease progression
Mike McCune, MD, PhD (Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco)
June 3 Long term immunity to infectious diseases: antibodies and memory B cells
Shane Crotty, PhD (Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology)
Thursday, June 23, at 2:00 PM Physics of Phage
Alex Evilevitch, PhD (Department of Biochemistry, Lund University)
Thursday, July 14 at 12 PM Use of a Systems Biology Strategy to Understand Brain Dysfunction Resulting from Pathogens or Injury Gail Lewandowski, PhD
(Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico)
Where: Natural Sciences 1, Room 1114
July 15 at 12 PM Infection and Gene Transduction of Human Hematopoietic Progenitor (CD34+) Cells: Modeling HTLV and KSHV Pathogenesis
Gerold Feuer, PhD (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University)Sprague Hall 105 Seminar Schedule: Winter 2005
January 14 Poliovirus regulation of translation: A tale of two ends
Richard Lloyd, PhD (Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine)
January 28 An Innate Immune Response to Infection
Nancy Reich, PhD (Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, SUNY-Stony Brook)
February 11 Hunting Reverse Transcriptase Encoding Agentsin Genomes: an Automated Approach
Marcie McClure, PhD (Department of Microbiology, Montana State University)
February 18 Unusual Lifestyle of Giant Algal Viruses
Jim Van Etten, PhD (Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska)
February 25 The three faces of Env; multiple roles for one retroviral protein
Susan Ross, MD (Department of Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine)
March 11 Retrotransposons of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a model for HIV-1 replication
Henry Levin, PhD (Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Elements Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health)Seminar Schedule: Fall 2005
March 25 The Destiny of Retroviral RNA: Ribosome or Virion?
Dr. Kathleen Boris-Lawrie (Dept. of Veterinary Biosciences and Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University)
Sept. 30 Mobilization of Ty1 LTR-retrotransposons and RNA-pseudogenes in response to genome instability in S. cerevisiae
Joan Curcio, PhD
(Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept. of Health)
Oct. 28 Cellular Protein Interactions of the Epstein-Barr Virus EBNA1 Protein: Insights into EBV Persistence and Cell Immortalization
Lori Frappier, PhD
(Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto)
Dec. 2 Living within Yeast; a Retrotransposon's Tale
David J. Garfinkel, Ph.D.
(Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute)All seminars are held at 12 noon in Natural Sciences 1 Room 1114