2015-16 MPT Graduate Program Seminar Schedule FALL SEMESTER 2015 DATE SPEAKER/TITLE HOST TIME/LOCATION Wednesday, September 2, 2015 Matt Fuller - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: David Pintel Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Dr. Lee Ratner, MD, PhD Washington University St. Louis, MO Host: Dr. Shan-Lu Liu Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Kyle Hill - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Donald Burke Agüero Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Kasun Kodippili - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Dongsheng Duan Monday, October 5, 2015 Dr. Marshall Bloom, MD NIAID-Rocky Mountain National Labs Hamilton, MT Host. Dr. David Pintel 10:30 am Acuff Wednesday, October 7, 2015 Dr. Gaya Amarasinghe, PhD Washington University St. Louis, MO Host: Dr. Shan-Lu Liu Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Dr. Ralph Isberg, PhD Tufts University Boston, MA Host: Student Invited Speaker Miqdad Dhariwala/ Adviser Deborah Anderson Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Greg Lambert - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Michael Baldwin Thursday, October 22, 2015 Host: 2:30 Acuff Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Dandan Liu - STUDENT SEMINAR 5 Adviser: Stefan Sarafianos 1:15 am Monsanto Thursday, October 29, 2015 Dr. James McNamara, PhD University of Iowa Iowa City, IA Host: Dr. Donald Burke-Aguero 2:30 Acuff
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 Chunhui Miao - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Shan-Lu Liu Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Dr. Terry Partridge, PhD Children s National Medical Center Washington, DC Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Dr. Kenneth E. Olson Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO Host: Dr. Alexander Franz Wednesday, November 25, 2015 THANKSGIVING BREAK Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Laura Schoenlaub - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, December 9, 2014 Dr. Malcolm J. Fraser, Jr., PhD University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Host: Dr. Alexander Franz Wednesday, December 16, 2014 Josh Willix - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Deborah Anderson Wednesday, December 24, 2014 CHRISTMAS BREAK
SPRING SEMESTER 2016 Date Speaker/TITLE HOST Time/Location Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Marie-Therese Khairallah - STUDENT SEMINAR Adviser: Chris Lorson Thursday, January 7, 2016 Dr. Ethan M. Shevach, MD NIH, Chiel, Cellular Immunology Section Bethesda, MD Host: Dr. Ulus Atasoy 2:30 Acuff Wednesday, January 13, 2016 Jacqueline Flores Mindy Miller - STUDENT SEMINAR / Habib Zaghouani Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Obi Ihenacho Yul Eum Song - STUDENT SEMINAR / Marc Johnson Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Maritza Puray Chavez Anna Ludlow - STUDENT SEMINAR / Deborah Anderson Thursday, January 28, 2016 Dr. James M. Wilson, MD PhD UPenn Philadelphia, PA 2:30 pm Acuff Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Mary Casey Daniel Cyburt - STUDENT SEMINAR / Marc Johnson Wednesday, February 10, 2016 Jorge Durand Heredia Carolyn Lacey - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: George Stewart / Jerod Skyberg Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Susheel Busi Tobe Ukah - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: James Amos-Landgraf / Habib Zaghouani Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Dr. Scott Harper, PhD Ohio State University Columbus, OH Host: Dr. Don Burke Aguero Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Dr. Jodi Camberg, PhD University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI Host: Dr. Pam Brown Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Dr. Nora Yang, PhD NCATS, NIH Bethesda, MD 4:00 pm Acuff
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Alexis Dadelahi Leah Cardwell -STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Jeff Adamovicz / Mark Daniels Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Mahmoud Farghali Kinsey Hilliard - STUDENT SEMINAR / Charlie Brown Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Dr. Eric Huseby, PhD UMAss Medical School Worchester, MA Host: Dr. Emma Teixeiro Wednesday, March 30 2016 SPRING BREAK Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Dr. Craig Russell Roy, PhD Yale School of Medicine Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine New Haven, CT Hosts: Student Invited Speaker - Lindsey Ledbetter/ Adviser - Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Kevin Kaifer Lindsey Ledbetter - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Chris Lorson / Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, April 20, 2016 LIFE SCIENCE WEEK Wednesday, April 27, 2016 Michael Nance Nicholas Olivarez - STUDENT SEMINAR Advisers: Dongsheng Duan / Guoquan Zhang Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Dr. Gabriel Victora, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Host: Dr. David Lee Thursday, May 5, 2016 Dr. Louis M. Kunkel Boston Children s Hospital, Harvard Med School Boston, MA 2:30 pm Acuff Wednesday, May 11 2016 Annie Wolfe Vincent Yapo -STUDENT SEMINAR ADVISERS: Craig Franklin / Stefan Sarafianos Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Dr. Wenjun Ma, DVM PhD Kansas State University Manhattan, KS Host: Dr. Bumsuk Hahm Wednesday, May 25, 2016 No seminar! No room available.