| Date | Speaker & Host | Title/Topic | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 30 | Speaker: Dr. Tim J. Vickers Host: Beverley Lab |
Global analysis of Leishmania folate metabolism | TBA |
| Feb. 6 | Speaker: Dr. Christopher Armstrong Host: Goldberg Lab |
A combined trasnscriptome and proteome survey of malaria parasite liver stages | PNAS (2008) 105: 305-310 |
| Feb. 13 | Speaker: Luke Starnes |
Actin is required for endocytic trafficking in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum Heparan sulfate proteoglycans provide a signal to Plasmodium sporozoites to stop migrating and productively invade host cells |
Cell Microbiol. (2008) 10:452-464 |
| Feb. 20 | Speaker: Dr. Peter Fischer Host: Weil Lab |
Research to Support the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: Control and Diagnosis of Brugian Filariasis on Alor Island, Indonesia | Am J Trop Med Hyg. (2007) 76: 502-507 J Clin Microbiol. (2006) 44:3887-3893 |
| Feb. 27 | Speaker: Phillip Key Host: Beverley Lab |
Cytoplasmic remodeling of erythrocyte raft lipids during infection by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum | Blood (2007) 110: 2132-2139 |
| Mar. 5 | Speaker: Dr. Eva Istvan Host: Goldberg Lab |
Plasmodium Isoleucine tRNA Synthetase | PNAS (2006) 103: 8840-8845 |
| Mar. 12 | Speaker: Ildiko Rita Dunay, Ph.D.
Host: Sibley Lab |
Gr1+ Inflammatory Monocytes against Toxoplasma gondii in the gut | TBA |
| Mar. 19 | Speaker: Dr. Daojun Jiang |
Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors Widespread Lateral Gene Transfer from Intracellular Bacteria to Multicellular Eukaryotes |
Nature (2006) 443: 101-105 Science (2007) 317: 1753-1756 |
| Mar. 26 | Speaker: Dr. Hongjie Guo Host: Beverley Lab |
Arabinose or Fucose: which is essential to Leishmania | BBRC (2007) 356: 604-609 |
| Apr. 2 | Speaker: Shalon Babbitt
Host: Goldberg Lab |
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Apical Protein Involved in Erythrocyte Binding and Invasion | PLoS ONE (2008) 3: e1732 |
| Apr. 9 | Speaker: Dr. Junichi Watanabe Host: Sibley Lab |
Transcriptome Analysis of Parasites and Arthropods Using Full-length cDNA Library | NAR (2007) 35(Database issue): D431-D438 Additional Commentary: |
| Apr. 16 | Speaker: Hailyn V. Nielsen Host: Beverley Lab |
Regulatory T cells prevent control of experimental African trypanosomiasis Trypanosoma cruzi induces regulatory dendritic cells in vitro |
J Immunol. (2008)180:2514-2521 Infect Immun. (2008) Mar 17 [Epub ahead of print] |
| Apr. 23 | Speaker: Vasant Muralidharan Host: Goldberg Lab |
Poly-Asparagine Regions in the Proteome of Plasmodium falciparum | TBA |
| Apr. 30 | Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey S. Buguliskis |
Evolution of malaria parasite plastid targeting sequences Forward Genetic Analysis of the Apicomplexan Cell Division Cycle in Toxoplasma gondii |
PNAS U S A (2008) 105:4781-4785 PLoS Pathog. (2008) 4:e36 |
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