As part of their ongoing training, students in the virology track participate in a seminar series sponsored by the CVR. This program supports a regular semi-monthly series, with seminars scheduled every other Friday during the academic year, in which leading national researchers are invited to present their work in different areas of virology, gene regulation, cell transformation, and a variety of topics in molecular biology and molecular genetics. These seminars provide a stiumlating forum for exchanges of scientific ideas, information and research approaches. In addition, graduate student trainees appointed to the NIH Virology Training grant present their work in an annual symposium that is part of this seminar series, allowing an opportunity for a critical analysis of their data by the CVR faculty.
Seminar Schedule: Spring 2012
- Apr 06 Eric Delwart, PhD Department of Laboratory Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Viral discovery: Sipping from the metagenomics fire hose
- Apr 20 Thomas E. Lane, PhD Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Director, Multiple Sclerosis Research Center
University of California, Irvine
Neural progenitor cells and repair in a viral model of demyelination
- May 04 Eva Harris, PhD Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
University of California, BerkeleyNatural and therapeutic antibodies and the B cell response against dengue virus
- May 18 K. Eric Wommack, PhD Plant & Soil Sciences; Biological Sciences
University of Delaware
The virosphere: Ecological, biological and genetic contrasts of viruses
across the biosphere
Seminar Schedule: Winter 2012
- Jan 13 Kurt Gustin, PhD University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
Department of Basic Medical Sciences
Impact of picornavirus infection on trafficking of cellular protein and mRNA
- Feb 10 Thomas Hope, PhD Northwestern University Medical School
Department of Cell & Molecular Biology
Using a better understanding of the mechanisms of HIV sexual transmission to
develop vaccines and microbicides
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Feb 24 Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD Ohio State University
Dept of Veterinary Biosciences
Thriving under stress: Selective translation of HIV-1 during virus-mediated
impairment of eIF4E translation activity
- Mar 16 Barbara Sherry, PhD North Carolina State University
Dept of Molecular Biomedical Sciences
Uncovering the cardiac response to viral infection: Directed and discovery
approaches
Seminar Schedule: Fall 2011
- Sept 23 Young Jik Kwon, PhD UC Irvine, Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Synthetically-reinforced viruses for effective, tunable & synergistic gene therapy
- Oct 14 Robin M. Bush, PhD UC Irvine, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Incorporating evolutionary analysis into influenza vaccine and drug design
- Oct 28 Kevin B. Walsh, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute
Control of respiratory virus infection: Role of cytokine storm, sphingosine-1- phosphate 1 receptor
Past Seminars
Seminar Schedule: Spring 2011
- Apr 08 Marilyn Roossinck, PhD The Samuel Roberts Noble Fnd, Plant Biol Div
Virus ecology: They aren’t the bad guys anymore
- May 06 Forest Rohwer, PhD San Diego State University, Cell & Mol Biology
Ecology of the human virome
- May 20 NIH Virology Training Grant Symposium
Megan Angelini – Understanding the role of SARS-Coronavirus nsp3, nsp4 and nsp6 in double membrane vesicle assembly
Agnes Hajduczki – Engineering soluble membrane proteins by phage display
Erinn Parnell – Defining the role of cholinergic signaling in Human Papilloma Virus cervical carcinogenesis
- Jun 03 Don Gilden, MD Univ of CO School of Medicine, Dept of Neurology
The neurobiology of Varicella Zoster Virus infection
Seminar Schedule: Winter 2011
- Jan 14 Charles Rice, PhD The Rockefeller University, Lab of Virology & ID
Antiviral activities of type I interferon-stimulated genes
- Feb 11 James Alwine, PhD University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Cancer Biology
Taking advantage of cellular stress response: how human CMV deals w/ stress
- Mar 03 Julie Pfeiffer, PhD University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Complex interactions in the gut: enteric viruses, bacteria, mucosa & immunity
Seminar Schedule: Fall 2010
- Oct 15 Hung Fan, PhD Director, Cancer Research Institute
An old friend: Glycosylated Gag of Murine Leukemia Virus
- Oct 29 Paul Gershon, PhD UC Irvine, Dept of Mol Biol & Biochemistry
Is one protein enough to score an NIH grant?
- Nov 12 Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD St Jude Children’s Research Hosp, Dept of ID
Understanding a novel viral enterotoxin: and a little bit of influenza
