Tropical and Molecular Parasitology
Seminar Series and Journal Club
Fall 2007

Wednesday - 12:00 Noon
Rm 8101
McDonnell Pediatric Research Building

Please contact the host if you wish to meet with the speaker
Seminar and Journal Club Schedule
Date Speaker & Host Title/Topic

Articles
Sept. 26 Speaker: Dr. Sonya Taylor
Host: Sibley Lab		 Genetic analysis of the virulence gene of Toxoplasma gondii and allelic diversity in natural isolates

Science (2006)314:1776-1780
PMID: 17170305

Science (2006)314:1780-1783
PMID: 17170306

Oct. 3
Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled
Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled
 
Oct. 10

Speaker: Dr. Patricia Johnson (CV)
Host: Goldberg Lab

Trichomonas cell biology: the hydrogenosome proteome

Science (2007) 315:207-212
PMID: 17218520

Mol Microbiol. (2007) 64:1154-1163
PMID: 17542912
Oct. 17

Speaker: Dr. Tim Vickers
Host: Beverley Lab

Protozoal mitochondria: novel roles and new pathways

EMBO (2005) 24:4029-4040
PMID: 16270030

Nature (2007) 446: 88-91
PMID: 17330044
Oct. 24 Speaker: Dr. Ben-Wen Li
Host: Weil Lab

Expression profiling and pathway analysis of effects of culture and radiation on Brugia malayi infective larvae

 Mol Biochem Parasitol. (2006) 149:201-207
PMID: 16824625
Oct. 31 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
PMID: 17526861
Nov. 7 Speaker: Dr. Asis Khan
Host: Sibley Lab 		Recent transcontinental sweep and virulence of T. gondii

Citation: Nucleic Acids Res. (2005) 33: 2980-2992 PMID: 15911631

Citation: Genome Res. (2006) 33: 1119-1125
PMID: 16902086

Citation: PNAS (2007) 104: 14872-14877
PMID: 17804804
Nov. 14 Speaker: Shalon Babbitt
Host: Goldberg Lab 		Dual targeting of antioxidant and metabolic enzymes to the mitochondrion and the apicoplast of Toxoplasma gondii

PLoS Pathogens (2007)3:1092-1108
PMID: 17784785
Nov. 21

Speaker: Dr. David Scott


 Speaker: Dr. Iris Wong


Host: Beverley Lab

New molecular tools for Leishmania: negative-selection vectors for conditional knockouts and reversible overexpression

Histone H1 can regulate metacyclogenesis and chromatin structure in Leishmania major

  
Nov. 28 Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Hedstrom (CV)
Host: Goldberg Lab 		IMP dehydrogenase and the dynamics of drug selectivity

Curr Opin Chem Biol. (2006)10:520-525
PMID: 16919497

J Biol Chem. (2005)279:40320-403277
PMID: 15269207

Dec. 5
Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled -- Cancelled
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