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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Chan Shun Auditorium, Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050

9am

Matthew Welch, Conference Co-Chair, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

1st Session Chair: Matthew Welch, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

9:10-9:50am

Jorge Galan, Yale University

"Design features of type III secreted effector proteins."

 

9:50-10:30am

Philippe Sansonetti, Pasteur Institute

"Rupture, invasion and inflammatory destruction of the gut epithelium by Shigella: the yin and yang of innate immunity."

 

 

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

 

 

2nd Session Chair: Laurent Coscoy, Div. of Immunology and Pathogenesis

 

11:00-11:40am

Hidde Ploegh, Whitehead Institute and MIT

"How viruses exploit ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis: the herpes viruses as model."

 

11:40-12:20pm

Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University

"Super-resolution optical imaging of virus-cell interactions."

 

 

12:20-1:50pm Lunch Break

 

 

3rd Session Chair: TBA

 

1:50-2:30pm

Michael Way, Cancer Research UK

"Regulation of cortical actin by viral-mediated manipulation of Rho-mDia signaling plays an essential role during the release of vaccinia virus from infected cells."

 

2:30-3:10pm

Julie Theriot, Stanford University

"New directions in bacterial actin-based motility: how Listeria monocytogenes steers, turns and twirls."

 

 

3:10-3:30pm

Coffee break

 

 

4th Session Chair: Dan Portnoy, Divs. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/Immunology and Pathogenesis and School of Public Health

 

3:30-4:10pm

Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology

"A systems approach to dissecting immunity"

 

4:10-4:55pm

Joe DeRisi, UC San Francisco

"Genomics and infectious disease"

 

4:55-5:00pm

Dan Portnoy, Conference Co-Chair, Divs. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/Immunology and Pathogenesis and School of Public Health

Closing Remarks 

 

5:00-5:45pm

Reception in the VLSB courtyard - all are invited (if the weather is poor, the reception will be held in the area between the auditorium and the courtyard)