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: Fall 2006
Sept. 22 Herpes simplex virus latency: Does LAT control the world?
Steven Wechsler, Ph.D.
(Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, Irvine)
Oct. 20 Botulinum neurotoxins: From genome to therapeutics
James D. Marks, M.D., Ph.D.
(Anesthesia & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco)
Nov. 3 Global viral diversity
Forest Rohwer, Ph.D.
(Dept. of Biology, San Diego State University)
Dec. 1 Druggable islands in the network: Lessons from protein interactome and chemical genomic analyses
Jing Huang, Ph.D.
(Dept. of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles)Seminar Schedule: Winter 2006
Jan. 13 Cellular factors involved in early steps of MLV infection
John Young, PhD
(Infectious Disease Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
Jan. 27 Mouse adenovirus: Capitalizing on mouse genetics to study virus-host interactions
Katherine Spindler, PhD
(Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan)
Special Seminar: Monday, Feb. 6 Poxvirus entry and assembly mechanisms
Bernard Moss, M.D., Ph.D.
(Chief, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health)
Feb. 24 How to Enter B Cells and Epithelial Cells: Lessons from Epstein-Barr Virus
Rich Longnecker, Ph.D.
(Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine)
March 17 An Update on the Intricate Choreography of the Vaccinia Virus Life Cycle
Paula Traktman, Ph.D.
(Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Medical College of Wisconsin)Seminar Schedule: Spring, 2006
April 14 Retrotransposons and heterochromatin: the role of integrase chromodomains in target specificity
Daniel Voytas, PhD
(Department of Genetics, Development & Cell Biology, Iowa State University)
April 28 Hepatitis C virus induces an ER stress response and oxidative stress
Aleem Siddiqui, Ph.D.
(Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego)
May 12 Points of attack in Epstein-Barr Virus Oncogenesis
Elliot Kieff, M.D., Ph.D.
(Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard University)
May 19 Tumor-associate herpesviruses: from systems biology to clinical applications
Ren Sun, Ph.D.
(Dept of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles)
June 9 The potential of AeDNV for biological control of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Erica Suchman, Ph.D.
(Department of Microbiology, Immunology, Pathology, Colorado State University)All seminars are held at 12 noon in Natural Sciences 1 Room 1114