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Past Lab Meetings

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2005

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November 2005

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December 2005

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2006

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January 2006

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February 2006

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March 2006

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April 2006

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May 2006

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June 2006

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Rest of '06

  • 20 October -- Jainab
  • 27 October -- Chris
  • 3 November -- Suzy
  • 10 November -- Kevin
  • 17 November -- Dongmei
  • 24 November -- Thanksgiving Holiday
  • 1 December -- Stuart/Mark: PROCLAME
  • 8 December -- No Lab meeting (room in use for another event)
  • 15 December -- No lab meeting (room is in use for another event)
  • 12 January 2007 -- General planning for Spring 2007
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Some Past Seminars of Interest

Listed most recent first:

Don't Ignore "Junk" DNA! - Predicting Expression Status on the Inactivated X Chromosome and More Using Features of the Genome Sequence.

Terry Furey, PhD Assistant Professor of Computational Biology Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Duke University

Friday,November 10 

NOON - G202 MEDICAL BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH BUILDING

Genhong Cheng, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

"Innate Immune Gene Programs in Host Defense against Bacterial and Viral Infections"

Thursday, May 25, 2006, 3:30 p.m., G202 Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB)

HOST: Lishan Su (lsu@med.unc.edu)

Professor David McMurray of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Texas A and M University, will be visiting UNC on Tuesday, May 16th At 11 AM, Room 1301 McGavran-Greenberg

"Ex vivo and in situ studies of cytokine cross-talk in BCG-induced protection against pulmonary tuberculosis in the guinea pig." Host Dr. Anthony Hickey UNC School of Pharmacy ahickey@unc.edu

CSBN Seminar Series - May 2006

Andrea Stith, Ph.D.

Science Policy 101: A Policy Primer for Scientists

Please join us on Wednesday May 17th, at 5pm in room 1131, Bioinformatics building. Refreshments will be served at 4.45pm.

Andrea Stith is currently a program officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) where she manages the new Med into Grad initiative and the Gilliam Graduate Fellowship program. Prior to working at HHMI, she was a science policy analyst with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). There, she was primarily responsible for developing policy positions and promoting issues related to career and training opportunities for biomedical researchers. While at FASEB, she was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop the FASEB Individual Development Plan for Postdoctoral Fellows. Previous to this, she was an AAAS Science Policy Fellow at the NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs.

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert Yarchoan, M.D., + Professor David McMurray of the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Texas A and M University, will be visiting UNC on Tuesday, May 16th At 11 AM, Room 1301 McGavran-Greenberg - Head, Retroviral Disease Section, + - HIV and Aids Malignancy Branch, + - NCI/NIH + - + - KSHV - From Bedside to Bench to Bedside + - + - Thursday, May 11, 2006, 3:30 p.m., + - 00-002 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, + - Plaza Level Conference Room + - + Refreshments available at 3:15

HOST: Dirk Dittmer (ddittmer@med.unc.edu)

Dr. Robert Yarchoan is Chief of the HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch in the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute. He received his B.A. magma cum laude from Amherst College with a major in biophysics and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota and Immunology in the Metabolism Branch, NCI. He then joined the laboratory of Dr. Samuel Broder, where he played a major role in the discovery and development of effective therapies for HIV infection. Along with Drs. Broder, Dr. Hiroaki Mitsuya, and staff of Burroughs Wellcome Company, he co-developed zidovudine (AZT) as the first effective AIDS drug and played a lead role in the first clinical trial of this drug. Also with Drs. Broder and Mitsuya, he co-invented ddI (didanosine) and ddC (zalcitabine) as the next two effective AIDS drugs, and he led the first clinical trials of these agents. He also condiucted some of the initial clinical studies of combination anti-HIV therapy.

He was Section Chief in the Medicine Branch of the National Cancer Institute from 1991 to 1996 and was named chief of the newly formed HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch in 1996. Since that time, he has focused much of his research on AIDS-related malignancies. Some of his recent accomplishments include the development of paclitaxel as a therapy for Kaposi’s sarcoma, the development of other pathogenesis-based therapies for this disease, and the elucidation of the role of hypoxia in the pathogenesis of Kaposi’s sarcoma.

He had published more than 200 scientific articles and chapters and is co-inventor on 10 issued US patents. He is or has been an editorial board member of six scientific journals and is or has been a member of multiple committees of the National Institutes of Health and other organizations. He has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is listed as a Biographee in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He has been awarded the Assistant Secretary for Health Award and several medals as a Commissioned Officer of the United States Public Health Service including the Outstanding Service Medal in 2002.

Thursday MCRO Seminar Series 12 January 2006, 3:30 pm 00-002 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Plaza Level Conference Room

Scott E. Plevy, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Immunology University of Pittsburgh

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: Carbon monoxide, macrophages, and inflammatory bowel disease"

Refreshments available at 3:15

HOST: Jeff Frelinger (jfrelin@med.unc.edu)

CCGS Seminar Series

Fri. 13 January 2006, Noon, MBRB Ground Flr Auditorium, G202

John Yates, Ph.D., Prof. of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Inst., La Jolla, CA

Driving Biological Discovery Using Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

Host: Morgan Giddings

TRIANGLE COMPLEX SYSTEMS SEMINAR
18 January 2006 at 5:00 p.m.
 Phillips 332 on the UNC-CH campus

Hierarchical Structure in Networks: From Football to Congress

Peter Mucha, Department of Mathematics, UNC

Abstract

The study of networks has increased dramatically in recent years across a number of areas of application, including communications, sociology, and phylogenetic biology. Important questions about communities and groupings in these applications have led to a number of competing techniques for identifying structures and hierarchies. We discuss results about the networks of (1) NCAA Division I-A college football matchups and (2) committee assignments in the U.S. House of Representatives. In college football, the underlying structure of the network strongly influences the computer rankings that contribute to the Bowl Championship Series standings. In Congress, the changes of the hierarchical structure from one Congress to the next can be used to investigate major political events, such as the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 and the introduction of the Select Committee on Homeland Security following September 11th. While many structural elements in each case are seemingly robust, we include attention to variations across identification algorithms, along with some cautionary notes.

Guests are welcome. For further information, contact Greg Shaw, gshaw@email.unc.edu, Carole Crumley, crumley@email.unc.edu, or Sue Goodman, seg@email.unc.edu

GMB FRIDAY SEMINAR SERIES

"Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Plant Adaptation"

Michael Purugganan, PhD Professor, North Carolina State University

FRIDAY JAN 27 - NOON - 2204 MEDICAL BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH BUILDING

Host: Todd Vision

Monday February 6, 1:00 pm, 406 MEJB

Theoretical and Systems Biology Seminar Series

Gabriel Weinreb, Ph.D.

“Dynamic causal mapping (C-MAP) as a new systems biology tool: Application to cortical oscillations in spreading cells”

Pizza will be served at 12:45.

Sponsor: Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics

Thursday MCRO Seminar Series
Thursday, February 16, 2006, 3:30 p.m.

802 Mary Ellen Jones (note new location)

The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ignacio Sanz, M.D., School of Medicine, University of Rochester

"Mechanisms of human B cell tolerance"

Refreshments available at 3:15

HOST: Barb Vilen (barb_vilen@med.unc.edu)

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Miscellaneous

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2005


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