Seminars

Winter Quarter 2013

All Pathobiology seminars are at 4 pm on Thursdays.  For room locations see individual seminar dates.
*Please note, in order to receive credit for Pathobiology 580 (Pathobiology Seminar) students are also required to attend Winter Quarter CFAR Seminars.

Thursday,  January 17 , 2013

Evgeni V Sokurenko, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Microbiology
University of Washington

Title: "Getting Personal with Human Pathogens: Clonal Diagnostics of E. coli Resistance and Virulence"

Thursday,  January 31 , 2013
Foege S060

Michael Minnick, PhD
Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
University of Montana

Title: "Making lemonade from lemons; How Coxiella burnetii, the Q fever agent, uses selfish genetic elements to its advantage"
 

Thursday February 7, 2013
Foege S060

Joseph A Duncan, MD, PhD FIDSA
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Title: "Inflammasome activation in S. aureus infection pathogenesis"

Thursday, February 14, 2013
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
307 Westlake Avenue North, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98109

Discovery Room

Whasun Oh Chung, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Director, Summer Research Fellowship
School of Dentistry
University of Washington

Title: "Factors influencing susceptibility to oral inflammatory diseases"

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Heatlh Sciences T 625

Suzie Pun, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington

Title: "Learning from pathogens: developing targeted polymers for drug delivery"

Thursday, March 7, 2013
Health Sciences T 625

Caroline Cameron, PhD
Associate Professor, Biocehmistry/Microbiology Department
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Pathogenesis
Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria

Title: "Insight into Treponema pallidum dissemination”