Infection Biology Symposium
Friday, April 29, 2011
College of Veterinary Medicine
LAC 100 Auditorium
This one-day symposium celebrates infection biology research and the campus training programs that support it. The program features student-invited speakers from the University of Chicago, as well as talks from the Urbana campus faculty and, most importantly, from students supported by the training programs. Program directors will provide insight into infection biology training opportunities and highlight the integrative efforts in infection biology research at Illinois. Registration is free, but advance registration is requested by Wednesday, April 20.
| 8:00 a.m. | Symposium Check-In Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Herb Whiteley Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine |
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| 8:45 a.m. | The Surprising Origins and Perplexing Functions of Legionella Effector Proteins Howard Shuman Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago |
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| 9:30 a.m. | Pseudomonas Pyocyanin Induces Airway Mucus Hypersecretion by Inactivation of the Transcription Factor FoxA2 Gee Lau Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 10:15 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Infection Biology Training and the NIH T32 Training Grant Jim Slauch Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 10:45 a.m. | Structural and Functional Features of Periplasmic Superoxide Dismutase, A Critical Virulence Factor in Salmonella Marcus Rushing Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jim Slauch, Mentor |
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| 11:00 a.m. | Coordinate Regulation of a Polycistronic mRNA by the Bacterial Small RNA SgrS Jennifer Rice Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cari Vanderpool, Mentor |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Center for One Health Illinois and the DVM/MPH Program John Herrmann Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building Atrium |
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| 1:30 p.m. | Retroviruses and Innate Immunity Tatyana Golovkina Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago |
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| 2:15 p.m. | Why It Is Important to Consider the Microbiome in the Response to, and Treatment of, infectious Disease Carl Yeoman Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Summer Research Training for Veterinary Students and the NIH T35 Training Grant Lois Hoyer College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| 3:15 p.m. | A Potential Role for Neutrophils in the Control of Yersinia pestis in Resistant Mice Jonathan Stack College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Tapping, Mentor |
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| 3:30 p.m. | Spatial Analysis of Human Behavior and Its Relation to Exposure to West Nile Virus in Suburban Chicago Alicia Hines College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marilyn Ruiz, Mentor |
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| 3:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks | |
| 4:00 p.m. | Informal Gathering LAC 100 Lobby |
Parking
Event parking for the symposium is available in Lot F30, which is on-street parking along the stretch of Lincoln Avenue adjacent to the Veterinary Medicine campus. Should all the spaces be occupied by other symposium attendees, metered parking is available further north on Lincoln Avenue and also in lot F27.