July 19:
Dr. John Rohde, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University
"New tools for studying virulence in Shigella flexneri."
Host: Dr. Chris Nelson
***Time and pace: Thursday July 19,2012 1:30-2:30, ECS 124***

October 12:
Ryan Blackler, PhD student
"Structural flexibility in germline antibodies and strategies for antigen recognition"
Host: Dr. Stephen Evans

October 26:
Dr. Samantha King, Principal Investigator in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus Ohio.
"Pneumococcal carbohydrate utilization: food for thought"
Host: Dr. Alisdair Boraston

November 16:
Dr. George Jones, Professor, Department of Biology, Emory University
"Tales of degradation and decay; RNA decay and the regulation of gene expression in Streptomyces"
Host: Dr. Doug Briant

November 23:
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Dr. Marc Horwitz, Associate Professor, The Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia
"How a common everyday virus like Epstein-Barr Virus likely induces autoimmune disease such as Multiple Sclerosis"
Host: Dr. Robert Burke

November 30:
Jennifer Christie, MSC student
"Characterizing the role of Ars2-FLASH interaction in myoblasts"
Host: Dr. Perry Howard

December 7:
Jason Serpa, PhD student
"Structural proteomic study of prion protein aggregation"
Host: Dr. Christoph Borchers

December 14:
Dr. Marc Horwitz, Associate Professor, The Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia
"How a common everyday virus like Epstein-Barr Virus likely induces autoimmune disease such as Multiple Sclerosis"
Host: Dr. Robert Burke

January 11:
Dr. Vance Trudeau, Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
"Are fish on Prozac sexually depressed?"
Host: Dr. Caren Helbing

January 18:
Sara Kost, MSc student
"CD8+FoxP3+ T cells: A new player in the immune response to ovarian cancer"
Host: Dr. Brad Nelson

January 25:
Dr. Blerta Xhemalce, ICMB Research Fellow, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Austin, Texas
"From chromatin to RNA: a tale of modifications"
Host: Dr. Chris Nelson

February 1:
Dr. Ninan Abraham, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia
"Influenza, Lymphomas and Survival: the IL-7-related cytokines"
Dr. Caroline Cameron

February 8:
Dr. Michael Schultz, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
"Interdependent functions of a lysine acetylase and a histone chaperone"
Host: Dr. Chris Nelson

February 15:
Dr. George Mackie, Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
"The 5’-end dependent pathway of mRNA turnover: mechanisms and consequences"
Host: Dr. Doug Briant

March 8:

Kathryn Gomery, PhD student
"Targeting Septic Shock: The conserved inner core of enterobacterial LPS and electron microscopy of protein crystals"
Host: Dr. Stephen Evans

March 15:
Dr. R. Marty Roop, Professor, Brody School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, East Carolina University
"It's a Brucella sRNA world after all!"
Host: Dr. Christoph Borchers

March 22:
Oliver Krupke, PhD student
"Eph-Ephrin signaling through focal adhesion kinase regulates actomyosin-dependent apical constriction of ciliary band cells"
Host: Dr. Robert Burke

April 5:

Dr. Alan Aderem, President, Full Professor, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute; Affiliate Professor, Department of Immunology; Affiliate Faculty, University of Washington; Institute for Systems Biology
"A Systems Approach to Dissecting Immunity"
Host: Dr. Julian Lum