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Infection, Immunity, and Vaccine Seminar Program – 2011

12:00 p.m.
LSUHSC Campus, CSRB Room 563, 533 Bolivar Street
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January 27 |
“Viruses at the Crossroads: EBV interacting with HPV in the Development of Cervical Cancer”
Michael Hagensee, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
LSU Health Sciences Center |
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February 10 |
“The fungal vacuole - potential as a therapeutic target”
Glen Palmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Oral and Craniofacial Biology and Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
LSU Health Sciences Center |
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February 24 |
"Deciphering and exploiting innate recognition of fungi"
Stuart M. Levitz, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA |
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March 10 |
"Transmission Blocking Vaccine - a step in the direction of gradual malaria elimination"
Nirbhay Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Department of Tropical Medicine
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine |
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April 14 |
"Targeting Dendritic Cells with Vaccines and TLR Adjuvants Leads to Protective Multi-Functional T Cell Immunity"
Robert Seder, M.D.
Chief, Cellular Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD |
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April 28 |
"Defining the Mechanisms of HIV Sexual Transmission" Thomas J. Hope, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University
Chicago, IL |
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May 12 |
"Fitness Multipliers of Arbovirus Transmission"
Christopher N. Mores SM, ScD
Associate Professor Department of Pathobiological Sciences
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
Baton Rouge, LA |
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May 26 |
"HSV Vaccine Development - the latest twist" Lawrence Stanberry, M.D., Ph.D.
Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chairman Department of Pediatrics College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University New York, NY |
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September 22 |
"Mechanisms of Type 2 Immunity and Mucosal Repair"
De'Broski R. Herbert, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Immunobiology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH |
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October 20 |
"Modulation of Host Immune Response by Mycobacterium tuberculosis" Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Tulane National Primate Research Center Covington, LA |
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November 10 |
"Nonhuman Primate Studies with the Pathogenic Alphaviruses" Chad J. Roy, Ph.D.
Director, Infectious Disease Aerobiology
Tulane National Primate Research Center
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Tulane School of Medicine |
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December 8 |
"Studies on the systems biology of tuberculosis" Gary K. Schoolnik, M.D. Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University Palo Alto, CA | |
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