Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD)

2016-2017 Infectious Diseases & Immunity Colloquium Archive

2016

SEPTEMBER

13th
BASIC SCIENCE DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SPEAKER
"My personal vaccine development ‘bucket list"
Myron M. Levine, M.D., D.T. P.H.
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Public Health, Microbiology & Immunology, and Pediatrics
Simon and Bessie Grollman Distinguished Professorship
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

20th  No speaker scheduled

27th CTD
"Food from the Fire: Bacterial Metabolism in the Inflamed Intestine"
Sebastian Winter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology
W.W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

OCTOBER

4th CBEID

"Effects of malnutrition and malaria on immunity to non-typhoidal Salmonella infection"
Renee M. Tsolis, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of California Davis, School of Medicine
Davis, CA

11th  No speaker scheduled

18th No speaker scheduled

25th CTD
"Norovirus - Sugars, Antibodies, and Immunity"
Robert L. Atmar, M.D.
Professor and Interim Chief, Medicine-Infectious Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

NOVEMBER

1st ALTERNATE

8th CTD
"Detours and destinations: Novel interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with its host"

Michael Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Microbiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

15th ASTMH ANNUAL MEETING (11/13-17/16)
Atlanta, Georgia

22nd NO SEMINAR

29th CBEID
"Warping disease space to improve recovery from infections"
David S. Schneider, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

DECEMBER

6th M&I
"Role of Hepatic Macrophages in Liver Disease"
Cynthia Ju, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology and Toxicology
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO

13th CTD
"Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells: from human cholera to B cell help"
Daniel T. Leung, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT

20th NO SEMINAR

27th HOLIDAY

2017

JANUARY

3rd HOLIDAY

10th CBEID
"Eosinophil Activities in Allergic Inflammation: A Changing Paradigm"
James J. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ

17th M&I
"Experimental Infections of Natural Hosts to Understand Infectious Disease"
Richard A. Bowen, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

24th CTD
"From retroviruses to herpesviruses: my studies of CNS infections in Peru"
Joseph Zunt, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Global Health and Neurology
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington
Seattle, WA
 

31st CBEID
"The Living Lung Platform: A Novel Approach to Studying Q Fever Pathogenesis"
Daniel E. Voth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Arkansasfor Medical Sciences (UAMS)

FEBRUARY

7th M&I
"A new paradigm in intestinal epithelial self-defense: changes in actin dynamics regulated by villin and gelsolin are determinants of host defense"
Seema Khurana, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

14th BASIC SCIENCE DISTINGUISHED SEMINAR SPEAKER
"Challenges in next-generation metagenomics: refining the microbiome/virome characterization for known species, and chasing the unknown"
Mattia Prosperi

21st CBEID
"Infidelity is Bad for Coronavirus Relationships: Targeting Proofreading"
Mark R. Denison, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Craig-Weaver Chair in Pediatrics
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

28th M&I
"Epithelial Stem Cell Repair of Colonic Ulceration"
Terrence A. Barrett, M.D.
Professor
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
University of Kentucky, School of Medicine
Lexington, KY

MARCH

7th CBEID
"T cell vaccinology: from cytokines to stroma"
Ross Kedl, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunology & Microbiology
University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO

14th ALTERNATE

21st M&I
"Vaccines, Autism and Blue Marble Health"
Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
 

28th M&I
"Rift Valley fever virus NSs: A new role in co-packaging of viral genome segments and vaccine development"
Kaori Terasaki, PhD
Research Scientist
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

APRIL

4th CBEID
"Emergence potential for arboviruses of the Florida Everglades"
Durland Fish, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Microbial Diseases
Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT

11th M&I
Marvin Whiteley, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Biosciences
Director, John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
The University of Texas at Austin

18th CTD
"Defective viral genomes as determinants of virus and host fate during viral infections"
Carolina B. Lopez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

25th ALTERNATE

MAY

2nd ALTERNATE

9th ALTERNATE

16th AAI Annual Meeting-Immunology (5/12-16/17)
Washington, DC