University of Washington Department of Global Health

PhD Pathobiology

Seminars 2008

All seminars are 4:00pm-5:00pm on Thursdays unless otherwise noted.

Winter Quarter 2008

February 14

Michal Fried, PhD
Assistant Member
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Affiliate Associate Professor of Pathobiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
“Pregnancy Malaria Biomarker Discovery”
Location: T 747 Health Sciences Center

February 21

William A. Petri, PhD
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
“Pathogenesis of Amebiasis: Infection, Inflammation and Malnutrition”
Location: T 747 Health Sciences Center

February 28

Patricia Totten, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Pathobiology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
“Disease causation and immune evasion in a minimal genome”
Location: Hogness Auditorium Health Sciences Center

March 13

Gyongyi Szabo, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of Hepatology and Liver Center
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA
“Innate immunity in hepatitis C infection -What goes wrong?”
Location: T 747 Health Sciences Center

Spring Quarter 2008

All seminars are 4:00pm-5:00pm on Thursdays unless otherwise noted.

April 10

Lakshmi Rajagopal, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Seattle, WA
“Toxin Regulation in Group B Streptococcus”
Location: T 733

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May 8 Cancelled

Olga Lomovskaya, PhD
Senior Director of Biology
Mpex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego CA
“Efflux pumps in Gram-Negative Bacteria: Structure, Mechanism and Practical Applications”

May 15
San Pin Wang Endowment Lecture

Priscilla B. Wyrick, PhD
Professor & Chair Department of Microbiology
J.H. Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
"Trafficking of Chlamydia trachomatis antigens to the endoplasmic reticulum of infected polarized human endometrial epithelial cells."
Location: T 733

May 22

Anil Kumar Ojha, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Graham Hatfull
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Title: TBA

May 29
Pathobiology Student-Invited Speaker

Leslie Schiff, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
“Breaking and Entering: Cell Entry by Oncolytic Reoviruses”
Location: T 733

Summer Quarter 2008

June 12

Patricia Champion, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Jeffrey Cox
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Title: TBA

June 19

Christoph Grundner, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Tom Alber
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco, CA
Title: TBA

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