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
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: Winter 2007
January 5 Neurovirulence of Semliki Forest Virus and Measles Virus in Brain Slice Cultures
Markus U. Ehrengruber, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of California, Irvine
January 19 Tissue and Tumor Targeting Using Viral-Based Nanoparticles
Marianne Manchester, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology
Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences
The Scripps Research Institute
February 16 Identification of the Gammaretrovirus XMRV from Human Prostate Tumors with a Mutation in RNase L
Robert Silverman, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
February 15-Special Seminar A New and Efficient System to Dissect HPV Infections in Organotypic Cultures of Primary Human Keratinocytes
Louise T. Chow, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
March 2-RESCHEDULED TO JUNE 8, 2007 Dissecting the Perturbation of Human T Cell Subsets During HIV Infection
Derya Unutmaz, M.D.
Department of Microbiology
New York University School of Medicine
Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center
March 12-Special Seminar Modeling Viral Pathogenesis Using Humanized SCID Mice and Human Stem Cells
Gerold Feuer, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
State University of New York
Upstate Medical University
March 16 Invasion of Host Cells by the Human Polyomaviruses
Walter Atwood, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Brown UniversitySeminar Schedule: Spring 2007
April 13 Endogenous Retroviruses: Are They Essential for Reproduction?
Thomas E. Spencer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Reproductive Biology and Physiological Genomics
Department of Animal Science
Texas A&M University
May 11 It's Alive: Activation of Virtual Rice Transposable Elements in Arabidopsis and Yeast
Susan Wessler, Ph.D.
Regents Professor of Plant Biology
Department of Plant Biology
University of Georgia
May 25 Evasion of dsRNA-Triggered Antiviral Responses by CMV-a Case of Nuclear Disarmament?
Adam Geballe, M.D.
Member, Human Biology and Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
University of Washington
June 8 Dissecting the Perturbation of Human T Cell Subsets During HIV Infection
Derya Unutmaz, M.D.
Department of Microbiology
New York University School of Medicine
Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center
Seminar Schedule: Fall 2007
October 19 A Paradigm for Virus-Host Coevolution: Sequential Counter-Adaptations Between Endogenous and Exogenous Retroviruses
Massimo Palmarini, Ph.D.
Molecular Pathogenesis
Institute of Comparative Medicine
University of Glasgow Veterinary SchoolDecember 7 Translation Initiation Without Proteins: How a Viral IRES RNA Can Hijack a Ribosome
Jeffrey S. Kieft, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado, School of Medicine
Seminar Schedule: Winter 2008
January 11 HSV-1 ICP27, a Multifunctional Regulatory Protein
Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of California, Irvine, School of MedicineJanuary 25 Putting the Pieces Together: Molecular Mechanisms in HIV-1 Particle Assembly
Alan Rein, Ph.D.
HIV Drug Resistance Program
National Cancer Institute-FrederickMarch 7 West Nile Virus: Interactions with its hosts
Kristen Bernard, DVM, PhD
Deputy Laboratory Chief, Zoonotic Diseases
National Cancer Institute-Frederic
Wadsworth Cente
New York State Department of Health