Seminar Report 2010-2011
Seminars in Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology
July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
Coordinator: Dr. Xi Yang
Speaker / Title /Dr. Anne Gershon / Herpes Zoster: Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment
Dr. Julia Rempel / HCV Infection Outcomes: host genetics and viral genotypes
Dr. Xi Yang / Role of dendritic cells: one step further for hygiene hypothesis
Dr. Kevin Coombs / Global phenotypic mapping – modifying host expression to protect cells from Influenza
Dr. Ruey-Chyi Su / The Expression of Interferon Regulatory Factor-1 in HIV-Resistant Women
Dr. Allan Ronald / Kaposi Sarcoma in Uganda – Current Studies
Dr. Paul Faure / Vocal change in bats naturally infected with rabies virus
Dr. Matthew Gilmour / High-Throughput Genomics of Outbreak-Associated Bacterial Pathogens
Dr. Tom Louie / Emerging Treatments for C. difficile associated disease (CDAD)
Dr. Michael Mulvey / Molecular Epidemiology of C. difficile in Canada
Dr. Michelle Alfa / C.difficile spores in the Healthcare Environment: What to do to contain the poo?
Dr. John Embil / Infection Control and C.difficile
Dr. David Butler-Jones / H1N1 Flu Pandemic
Dr. Kent Hayglass / Understanding innate immunity in messy outbred humans – a novel strategy
Dr. Peter Bretscher / Reflections after a heart attack: Immunological outlines with a sharp pencil
Dr. Denis Krause / New research initiatives in Crohn's disease and the gut microbiome
Dr. Jingxin Cao / Dual Activities of Vaccinia Protein E3: Inhibiting Cytokine Expression and IFN Induced Antiviral Activities
Dr. Jared Bullard / Weirdness in Kids 2010
Dr. Blake Ball / Mucosal correlates of protection against infection by HIV-1
Dr. Carla Osiowy / The A, B, C's of Hepatitis B Virus Genotypes
Dr. Linda Larcombe / Is Tuberculosis history? What can we learn from ancient DNA: a local perspective?
Dr. Sergio Fanella / Update on Pertussis – 2010
Dr. Malcolm Xing / Nanostructures regulate stem cell fate in tissue engineering
Dr. Michael Carpenter / Proteomics-based studies of Hepatitis C virus infection
Dr. Fred Aoki / HPV Vaccine
Dr. Ashley Haase / Lessons learned from monkeys on preventing HIV-1 transmission to women
Dr. Frank Plummer / HIV resistant studies in Kenya: How it all began
Dr. Keith Fowke / The role of immune quiescence in resistance to HIV infection
Dr. Allan Ronald / Lessons learned from discordant couples
Dr. Ma Luo / Resistance to HIV-1 infection: Genetic Associations and vaccine development
Dr. Xiaojian Yao / Better understanding of how HIV escapes from various host defence systems: Molecular basis for new anti-HIV strategies
Dr. Ramu Subbramanian / Approaches to understanding T cell diversity in the HIV system
Dr. Adam Burgener / Clues for microbicide design: Studying the mucosa of HIV highly exposed seronegative individuals
Dr. Julie Lajoie / HESN express lower levels of IFN inductible chemokine in their CVL
Dr. Zhujun Ao / HIV-1 integrase hijacks cellular machineries for viral nuclear import and integration
Dr. James Sainsbury / Characterization of FREM1, a novel candidate gene for the HIV-exposed seronegative (HESN) phenotype in the Pumwani sex worker report
Dr. Ma Luo / Resistance to HIV-1 infection: genetic associations and vaccine Development
Dr. Gary Van Domselaar / Towards the assembly of viral quasispecies genome sequences generated from next-generation sequencing technologies
Dr. Morag Graham / Applications of Genomics in Public Health
Dr. Philippe Lagacé-Wiens / The ABC’s of NDMs, MBLs, ESBLs and AmpCs. Navigating the complex world of Gram-negative b-Lactamases
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