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LSUHSC Campus, CSRB Room 563, 533 Bolivar Street
| January 27 | “Viruses at the Crossroads: EBV interacting with HPV in the Development ofCervical Cancer” Michael Hagensee, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology LSU HealthSciences Center | |
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| February10 | “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 HealthSciences 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 | “FitnessMultipliersofArbovirusTransmission” 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 Microbiologyand Immunology Tulane School of Medicine | |