Download Basic Science Seminar Series 2016-2017

Department of Pathology and Microbiology
Basic Research Seminar Speakers
2016-2017
September 14, 2016
“McFadden Lecturship”
Joel Ernst, MD
Emory University, New York, NY
Interests: Innate and adaptive immunity to intracellular bacteria; immunity to tuberculosis; whole genome
sequencing
September 28, 2016
Lloyd Miller, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Interests: Enhancing nerve regeneration to improve functional outcome of composite tissue allotransplantation;
Investigating tolerance strategies for composite tissue allografting; skin infections; immune response;
susceptibility to infection
October 26, 2016
Lakshmi Rajagopal, PhD
Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, Seattle, WA
Associate Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Interests: Microbiology, Infection & Immunity
November 9, 2016
Xiaoyong Yang, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Interests: Biochemistry; Circadian Rhythm; Diabetes Mellitus; Genetics; Molecular Biology; Neoplasms;
Physiology; Signal Transduction; Genomics; Proteomics; Systems Biology
December 14, 2016
Anna Selmecki, PhD
Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Interests: Understanding the dynamics of how growth-promoting mutations arise and accumulate in a
population of cells is a fundamental problem underlying our understanding of tumorigenesis, drug resistance,
and the treatment of cancer
January 2017– April 2017 - TBA