"Development of a Live Attenuated Vaccine for the Dengue Viruses Using Reverse Genetics" Joseph E. Blaney, PhD, NIAID, NIH  

"Minor Antigens: Major Targets in Cancer Immunotherapy" Harry Dolstra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Central Hematology Laboratory, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands  

"Challenges in Biodefense: Aerosol Exposures and Development of Animal Models" Doug S. Reed, PhD, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease  

"Impact of influenza virus evolution on pandemic preparedness" Ruben Donis, PhD, Center for Disease Control  

"Trying to Understand How Polypeptides Are Made, by Us and Others" Gerhard Wagner, Ph.D., Elkan Rogers Blout Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School  

"Inhibition of T Cell Responses During Bacterial Infection" Michael Starnbach, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School  

"Structural Studies on Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex E1 Component" Palaniappa Arjunan, Ph.D., Research Instructor, Department of Pharmacology  

Dr. Michelle Tallquist UT Southwestern Medical Center  

"Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Overview" Steven E. Reis, MD, Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Health Sciences  

"Dendritic Cells in the Immunopathology and Therapy of AIDS" Simon Barratt-Boyes, BVSc, PhD, University of Pittsburgh  

"PcrA Helicase Regulates DNA Recombination by Displacing the RecA Protein from DNA" Syam Prasad Anand, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Khan Lab  

Maria Kurnikova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University  

"Bacterial Toxin Effects on Myeloid DC are Mediated through Purinergic Receptors" Jessica Chu, Graduate Student Researcher, Salter lab, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine "ICAM-1 Expression is Required for Regulatory T Cell Localization in the Lungs of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infected Mice" Hillarie Plessner, Graduate Student Researcher, Flynn lab, Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

"Wnt and Androgen Signaling Pathways in Prostate Tumori Genesis" Zijie Sun, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Departments of Urology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine  

"Solid-State NMR for Whole-Cell Systems: from Bacteria to Plants" Lynette Cegelski, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine  

""The Plasmodium Apicoplast: A Good Source of Malarial Drug Targets, or Not?"" James C. Sacchettini, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysic and Chemistry, Texas A & M University  

Lila M. Gierasch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts  

TBA  

"Signal Transduction in Yeast Involving a Multi-Step His-to-Asp Phosphorelay System" Dr. Ann H. West University of Oklahoma  

"The Envelope Glycoproteins of Hendra and Nipah Viruses: Multifunctional Molecules, Vaccine Immunogens and Therapeutic Targets" Christopher Broder, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences  

James Conway, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  

TBA  

"Unraveling the Sense of Smell" Linda Buck, Ph.D., Member and Associate Director, Division of Basic Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center  

"Signal Integration in T Cell Activation" Lawrence P. Kane, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Immunology, School of Medicine  

Dr. Michael Trakselis, University of Pittsburgh  

Carlos Camacho, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Computational Biology  

TBA  

"CTSI Center for Clinical & Translational Informatics Overview" Michael Becich, MD, PhD, Chairman, Department of Biomedical Informatics Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Pathology, Information Sciences & Telecommunications  

"Vaccines From Green Plants: Rapid and Robust Production of Y. Pestis F1 and V Antigens" Hugh Mason, PhD, Arizona State University  

TBA  

"Buying Time in Suspended Animation" Dr. Mark Roth, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center  

Stephanie Tristram-Nagle Associate Research Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University  

TBA  

"Genetic Insights into the Pathogenesis of Cardiomyopathies" Ferhaan Ahmad, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health  

"Defects in Okazaki fragment maturation trigger a lagging strand checkpoint" Dr. Anja Bielinsky, University of Minnesota Medical School  

"A Novel Antiviral Peptide Against Influenza Viruses" Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison  

Mina Bissell Nakada Lecturer from Berkeley National Laboratory  

"H5N1 influenza, emergence and control" Richard Webby, PhD, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital  

"Transport Vesicle Biogenesis: Mechanism and Disease Connections" Dr. Randy Schekman, University of California-Berkeley  

TBA  

"Three Views of RNA catalysis: ribosymes, ribosomes and riboswitches" Dr. Scott Strobel, Yale University  

"Pathogenicity and Transmissibility of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Virus in Mice and Ferrets" Terry Tumpey, PhD, Center for Disease Control  

"Can Immunology Contribute to Chemotherapy? Challenges of Tuberculosis" Carl F. Nathan, M.D., Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Immunology, R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor of Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University  

TBA  

"Modeling Kidney Organogenesis in Zebrafish" Neil Hukriede, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine  

Dr. Jean T. Greenberg, University of Chicago  

"Education & Training in Clinical Translational Research" Wishwa N. Kapoor, MD, MPH, Falk Professor of Medicine Professor of Health Policy & Management Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine Vice Chair, Department of Medicine Director, Institute for Clinical Research Education Director, Center for Research on Health Care Co-Director, RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute Co-Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute  

TBA  

Dr. James Bever, Indiana University  

"Cis-regulation: in the Light of Evolution" Takis Benos, BSc, PhD, University of Pittsburgh  

TBA  

Dr. John Woolford, Carnegie Mellon University  

TBA  

"Mutualism: the dark sided" Dr. Judith Bronstein, University of Arizona  

"Studying New Pathogens: the Agony and the Ecstasy" James Nataro, MD, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine  

TBA  

"CTSI Design, Biostatistics, & Clinical Research Ethics Overview" Doris M. Rubio, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Data Center, Center for Research on Health Care Co-Director, Clinical Research Scholars Program  

TBA  

"Brain Circuits for Visual Perception" Mark A. Sommer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, School of Arts and Sciences  

"Therapeutic Adenoviral-Based Vaccination During Antiretroviral Treated SIV Infection" Adam Soloff, University of Pittsburgh  

"Defining functional antibody responses to simian immunodeficiency virus" Seth Faith, PhD, University of Pittsburgh