2012 – 2013

*All seminars are on Tuesdays at 5:00PM in Weiss 305 unless otherwise noted.

September 18, 2012
"New receptors for old viruses: from pathogens to cancer therapeutics"
Roberto Cattaneo, PhD.
Mayo Clinic

October 31, 2012
CANCELED
Sharookh Kapadia, PhD.
Genentech

November 6, 2012
"From genetics to translational genomics of HCV clearance – dealing with the new players in the game"
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, PhD.
NCI-NIH

November 20, 2012
"Host genetic variation and the HCV replication cycle"
Thomas von Hahn, MD
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

January 8, 2013
"Integrating induced pluripotent stem cells and technology to build hepatic model systems"
Robert Schwartz, MD, PhD
MIT

January 22, 2013
"HCV and IL28B genetic polymorphisms: Have we learned anything yet?"
Susanna Naggie, MD
Duke Clinical Research Institute

February 5, 2013
"Lipid blueprints for viral replication derive from endocytic rewiring of cellular cholesterol landscape"
Nihal Altan-Bonnet, PhD
Rutgers University – Newark

February 19, 2013
"Virus-specific antibodies inhibit inflammasome activation in chronic viral infection"
Andrea Cox, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Universityy

March 5, 2013
"Importance of resistance to antiviral treatment of chronic hepatitis C"
Christoph Sarrazin, MD
Goethe-University Hospital Frankfurt

March 19, 2013
"Rotavirus: host range, pathogenesis & innate immunity a ménage a trois"
Harry Greenberg, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine

April 2, 2013
"The causes, detection and impact of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C"
William Rosenberg, MA, MBBS, DPhil, FRCP
UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences

April 16, 2013
"Modeling HCV infection: from sequences to drug therapy"
Alan Perelson, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory – CETI

April 30, 2013
"Acute liver failure 2012: It's not all viruses"
William Lee, MD
Southwestern Medical Center

May 21, 2013
"Suppressing diversity in RNA viruses"
Karla Kirkegaard, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine