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 2013
Apr 12 Blossom A. Damania, PhD Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
KSHV: Latency and reactivation
Apr 26 Susan R. Ross, PhD Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
Identification of cellular genes involved in New World arenavirus entry
Special Location: Nelson Auditorium, Irvine Hall
May 10 Paula M. Cannon, PhD Departments of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Pediatrics, University of Southern California
Using stem cells to engineer an HIV-resistant immune system
May 24 Andrew Pekosz, PhD Departments of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology; Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Influenza A virus infection and particle assembly in respiratory epithelial cells
Seminar Schedule: Winter 2013
Jan 11 Joseph L. DeRisi, PhD Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
Strange tails: Genomics and infectious disease
Jan 25 Charles L. Brooks III, PhD Department of Chemistry & Biophysics, University of Michigan
Multi-scale explorations of virus maturation dynamics and mechanics
Feb 22 Sujan Shresta, PhD Center for Infectious Disease, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
Protective vs. pathogenic effects of dengue vaccination
Mar 15 Karen L. Beemon, PhD Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Retroviral oncogenesis: Role of TERT and microRNAs
Seminar Schedule: Fall 2012
Oct 12 Charles L. Brooks III, PhD Department of Chemistry & Biophysics, University of Michigan CANCELLED – RESCHEDULED FOR WINTER QUARTER 2013
Multi-scale explorations of virus maturation dynamics and mechanics
Oct 26 Jerome A. Zack, PhD Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics; Director UCLA Center for AIDS Research, University of California, Los Angeles
A stem cell approach to engineering T cell immunity towards cancer and HIV
Nov 09 Anthony A. James, PhD Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics; Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine
Genetic engineering of mosquitoes to block dengue virus transmission
Nov 30 Takayuki Nitta, PhD Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine REVISED DATE
Murine leukemia virus glyco-gag facilitates retrovirus replication
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, Berkeley
Natural 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
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 DivVirus 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
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