PARASITOLOGY SEMINAR SIGN-UP SHEET

Schedule for Fall 2011

This schedule was last updated on November 9, 2011.

Date Presentations
Aug 29
Organizational Meeting Top Seminar Home
Sep 5
Labor Day -- No Class Top Seminar Home
 
Sep 12
Helen Witt Top Seminar Home
GSS Eldin, I Fadl-Elmula, MS Ali, AB Ali, ALGA Salih, K Mallard, C Bottomley and R McNerney (2011) Tuberculosis in Sudan: a study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain genotype and susceptibility to anti-tuberculosis drugs. BMC Infectious Diseases 11:219.
Kristen Merino    

Morrot A, Terra-Granado E, Pe´rez AR, Silva-Barbosa SD, Milicevic NM, et al. (2011) Chagasic Thymic Atrophy Does Not Affect Negative Selection but Results in the Export of Activated CD4+CD8+ T Cells in Severe Forms of Human Disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(8): e1268.

Trevor Thompson    
Rider TH, Zook CE, Boettcher TL, Wick ST, Pancoast JS, et al. (2011) Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Therapeutics. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22572.
Sep 19
Dibya Datta Top Seminar Home
JA Potian, W Rafi, K Bhatt, A McBride, WC Gause and P Salgame (2011) Preexisting helminth infection induces inhibition of innate pulmonary anti-tuberculosis defense by engaging the IL-4 receptor pathway. J Exp Med 208:1863-1874.
Joyce Chou    
Natividad A, Freeman TC, Jeffries D, Burton MJ, Mabey DCW, Bailey RL, Holland MJ (2010) Human Conjunctival Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Prominence of Innate Defense in Chlamydia trachomatis Infection. Infect. Immun. 78: 4895-4911.
Muhammad Anjum    
Akhtar, S. and Rozi, S. and White, F. and Hasan, R. (2011) Cohort analysis of directly observed treatment outcomes for tuberculosis patients in urban Pakistan. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 15, 90-96.
Sep 26
Kyllie Bouget Top Seminar Home
Y Kebede, T Gebre-Michael, M Balkew (2010) Laboratory and field evaluation of neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss) and Chinaberry (Melia azedarach L.) oils as repellents against Phlebotomus orientalis and P. bergeroti (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Ethiopia. Acta Tropica 113, 145-150.
Megan Sauer    
Kim MS, Yu IK, Chang KH, Han MH, Kim MS, Lee BH, Lee YH (2010) Cerebral Sparganosis: The Differential Features between Live and Degenerated Worms on CT and MR Images. J Korean Soc Radiol. 63(1):1-7.
Mirinda Gormley    
BJ Davids, MA Gilbert, Q Liu, DS Reiner, AJ Smith, T Lauwaet, C Lee, AG McArthur, FD Gillin (2011) An atypical proprotein convertase in Giardia lamblia differentiation. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 175, 169-180.
Oct 3
Lauren Yanagimoto-Ogawa Top Seminar Home
D Hollman, SM Coupey, AS Fox, BC Herold (2010) Screening for Trichomonas vaginalis in High-risk Adolescent Females with a New Transcription-mediated Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT): Associations with Ethnicity, Symptoms, and Prior and Current STIs. Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology 23, 312-316.
Matt Ward    
AM Dondorp, F Nosten, P Yi, et al (2009) Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. N Engl J Med 361:455-467.
Laura Muller    
Å Karlström, SM Heston, KL Boyd, EI Tuomanen and JA McCullers (2011) Toll-Like Receptor 2 Mediates Fatal Immunopathology in Mice During Treatment of Secondary Pneumococcal Pneumonia Following Influenza. J Infect Dis, first published online September 7, 2011.
Oct 10
Alan Goggins Seminar Home
Mendes C, Dias F, Figueiredo J, Mora VG, Cano J, et al. (2011) Duffy Negative Antigen Is No Longer a Barrier to Plasmodium vivax – Molecular Evidences from the African West Coast (Angola and Equatorial Guinea). PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5(6): e1192.
Erin Fannin    
T Long, K Cailliau, S Beckmann, E Browaeys, J Trolet, CG Grevelding, C Dissous (2010) Schistosoma mansoni Polo-like kinase 1: A mitotic kinase with key functions in parasite reproduction. International Journal for Parasitology 40, 1075-1086.
Jamie Carpenter    
Fiellin D; Weiss L; Botsko M; Egan JE; Altice FL; Bazerman LB; Chaudhry A; Cunningham CO; Gourevitch MN; Lum PJ; Sullivan LE; Schottenfeld RS; O'Connor PG; BHIVES Collaborative (2011) Drug Treatment Outcomes Among HIV-Infected Opioid-Dependent Patients Receiving Buprenorphine/Naloxone. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 56 S33-S38.
Oct 17
No Class Top Seminar Home
 
Oct 24
Allison Yunghans Top Seminar Home
Awandare GA, Kempaiah P, Ochiel DO, Piazza P, Keller CC and Perkins DJ (2011) Mechanisms of erythropoiesis inhibition by malarial pigment and malaria-induced proinflammatory mediators in an in vitro model. American Journal of Hematology 86: 155–162.
Daniel Waren    
M Akogbeto, GG Padonou, HS Bankole, DKGazard, and GL Gbedjissi (2011) Dramatic Decrease in Malaria Transmission after Large-Scale Indoor Residual Spraying with Bendiocarb in Benin, an Area of High Resistance of Anopheles gambiae to Pyrethroids. Am J Trop Med Hyg.85:586-593.
Amira Alexander    
S Marzouki, MB Ahmed, T Boussoffara, M Abdeladhim, NB Aleya-Bouafif, A Namane, NB Hamida, AB Salah and H Louzir (2011) Characterization of the Antibody Response to the Saliva of Phlebotomus papatasi in People Living in Endemic Areas of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg 84:653-661.
Oct 31
Allyson Bradley Top Seminar Home
S Graewe, KE Rankin, C Lehmann, C Deschermeier, L Hecht, U Froehlke, RR Stanway and V Heussler (2011) Hostile Takeover by Plasmodium: Reorganization of Parasite and Host Cell Membranes during Liver Stage Egress. PLoS Pathog. 7(9): e1002224.
Derek Bunch    
M Jaramillo, M Gomez, O Larsson, MT Shio, I Topisirovic, I Contreras, R Luxenburg, A Rosenfeld, R Colina, RW McMaster, M Olivier, M Costa-Mattioli, N Sonenberg (2011) Leishmania Repression of Host Translation through mTOR Cleavage Is Required for Parasite Survival and Infection. Cell Host & Microbe 9, 331-341.
Kirubel Zeleke    
C Barat, Js Pepin, MJ Tremblay (2011) HIV-1 Replication in Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells is Stimulated by Melarsoprol, One of the Main Drugs Against Human African Trypanosomiasis. Journal of Molecular Biology 410, 1052-1064.
Nov 7
Jacey Pudney Seminar Home
Bian G, Xu Y, Lu P, Xie Y, Xi Z (2010) The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Induces Resistance to Dengue Virus in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Pathog 6(4): e1000833.
Alyssa Young    
C Kaiser, T Rubaale, E Tukesiga, W Kipp, G Kabagambe, JO Ojony and G Asaba (2011) Association Between Onchocerciasis and Epilepsy in the Itwara Hyperendemic Focus, West Uganda: Controlling for Time and Intensity of Exposure. Am J Trop Med Hyg 85:225-228.
Robin Pawlowski    
Pednekar P, Jain R, Mahajan G. (2011) Anti-infective potential of hot-spring bacteria. J Global Infect Dis 3:241-5.
Nov 14
Andrew Ruiz Seminar Home
WJ Moss, H Hamapumbu, T Kobayashi, T Shields, A Kamanga, J Clennon, S Mharakurwa, PE Thuma and G Glass (2011) Use of remote sensing to identify spatial risk factors for malaria in a region of declining transmission: a cross-sectional and longitudinal community survey. Malaria Journal 10:163.
Krystal Seger
   
S Duquesne, I Kroeger, M Kutyniok, and M Liess (2011) The Potential of Cladocerans as Controphic Competitors of the Mosquito Culex pipiens. Journal of Medical Entomology 48(3), 554-560.
 Andrew Ancharski    
Whitcomb JP, Deagostino M, Ballentine M, Fu J, Tenniswood M, Welsh J, Cantorna M, McDowell MA (2012) The Role of Vitamin D and Vitamin D Receptor in Immunity to Leishmania major Infection. J Parasitol Res, in press.
Nov 21
Landon vom Steeg Seminar Home
ER Godfrey and SE Randolph (2011) Economic downturn results in tick-borne disease upsurge. Parasites & Vectors 4:35.
Brigid O'Gorman    
Kuepfer I, Hhary EP, Allan M, Edielu A, Burri C, et al. (2011) Clinical Presentation of T.b. rhodesiense Sleeping Sickness in Second Stage Patients from Tanzania and Uganda. PLoSNegl Trop Dis 5(3): e968.
Toni Hudson    
K Garborg, B Waagsbø, A Stallemo, J Matre and A Sundøy (2010) Results of faecal donor instillation therapy for recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases 42: 857-861.
Nov 28
Elisha Lopez Seminar Home
Preuss MAR, Faber M-L, Tan GS, Bette M, Dietzschold B, et al. (2009) Intravenous Inoculation of a Bat-Associated Rabies Virus Causes Lethal Encephalopathy in Mice through Invasion of the Brain via Neurosecretory Hypothalamic Fibers. PLoS Pathog 5(6): e1000485.
Angela Dyer    
E.C. Uttah (2011) Prevalence of endemic Bancroftian filariasis in the high altitude region of south-eastern Nigeria. J Vector Borne Dis 48, 78–84.
     
Dec 5
  Seminar Home
 
     
     
 
Dec 12
Scheduled Final Exam Top Seminar Home
Will be used for presentations if necessary

This schedule was last updated on November 9, 2011.