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9:00 am - 9:10 am
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Welcome by Stanley Falkow
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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Session 1
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Microbes
and the Environment |
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9:10am - 9:35am
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Alfred
Spormann
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
"Dynamics and
control of microbial biofilms"
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9:35am - 10:00am |
Sasha Kramer
Graduate
Student, Bohannen and Mooney Labs
Department of Biological Sciences
"Microbial
community composition and gaseous nitrogen losses in agroecosystems"
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10:00am - 10:25am |
Karin Meibom
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Schoolnik Lab
Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
"The Vibrio cholerae
chitin utilization program"
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10:25am - 10:45am |
Coffee Break
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Session 2
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Microbe-Host
Interactions
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10:45am - 11:10am |
Patricia Yam
Graduate
Student, Theriot Lab
Department of Cancer Biology
"Assembly and
disassembly of F-actin on
phagosomal membranes"
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11:10am - 11:30am |
Marc
Dionne
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Schneider Lab
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
"Host
factors in mycobacterial pathogenesis"
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11:35am - 12:00pm |
Kathleen
Rubins
Graduate
student, Relman Lab
Department of
Cancer Biology
"Genome-wide analysis
of the host response to
Smallpox and Ebola infection"
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12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Lunch/Poster Session
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Session 3
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Microbial Cell Cycle
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1:00pm - 1:25pm |
Matthew Bogyo
Assistant
Professor
Department of Pathology
"Functional
proteomic
analysis of the cysteine proteases of Plasmodium falciparum"
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1:25pm - 1:50pm |
Joseph Chen
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Shapiro Lab
Department of Developmental Biology
"Regulated intramembrane proteolysis
in
Caulobacter crescentus"
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1:50pm - 2:10pm |
Coffee Break
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Session 4
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Manipulations:
Microbe vs. Host
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2:10 pm - 2:35 pm |
Edward Mocarski
Professor
Department of
Microbiology and Immunology
"Major Human
Cytomegalovirus structural protein pp65 (ppUL83) blocks
the IRF-3-dependent interferon response"
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2:35pm - 3:00pm |
Thomas Wehrman
Graduate
Student, Blau Lab
Department of
Molecular Pharmacology
"Rapid generation of
siRNA vectors and
libraries from cDNA"
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3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Reception/Halloween Party
(costumes encouraged!)
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