Geographic Medicine Grand Rounds
Fall
2005 - Spring 2006
| Time: All sessions occur on Tuesday at 9:00 A.M., unless noted otherwise | ||
| Location: Geographic Medicine Conference Room, Bevill Biomedical Research Bldg, Room 206 | ||
| For more information, or to meet with a speaker please contact Sharon Montgomery at (205) 934-6748; e-mail: sharonm@uab.edu |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| June 2006 | ||
Below are the previous speakers during the 2005-2006 session
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 2005 | ||
| 25 | Debasish
Chattopadhyay, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“Structure of Pox Virus dUTPase” |
| November 2005 | ||
| 1 | Michael
E. Kimerling, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“The Gorgas TB Initiative - Operations Research and Disease Control” |
| 15 | Lindsay
A. Parish PhD Graduate Student Trainee, Microbiology Geographic Medicine |
“The Exported Secretory Pathway of Plasmodium falciparum” |
| 30 Wed Noon |
David
O. Freedman, MD Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
Special
Seminar - DOM Medical Grand Rounds “Avian Influenza: The Agent, Current Situation, and Perspectives on Preparedness from a Recent Tour to Asia” |
| December 2005 | ||
| There were now no sessions scheduled for the month of December. | ||
| January 2006 | ||
| 10 | Jianming
(James) Tang, DVM PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“Genetics and STIs in Adolescents” |
| 17 | Thomas
R. Unnasch, PhD Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“Ecology of West Nile Virus Transmission in the Southeastern USA” |
| February 2006 | ||
| 7 | Sibylle
Kristensen, MPH, MSPH Research Instructor Geographic Medicine |
CANCELLED |
| 21 | Julian
C. Rayner, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“Interactions Between the Erythrocyte Cytoskeleton and the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum” |
| March 2006 | ||
| 7 | David
O. Freedman, MD Professor of Medicine Geographic Medicine |
“Update on GeoSentinel Data” |
| 14 | John
E. Trombley Graduate Student Trainee, Microbiology Department of Microbiology |
“The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Suf System is Regulated by SufR, a Redox Responsive Fe-S Cluster Transcription Factor” |
| 28 | Lin
Zhou, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Geographic Medicine |
CANCELLED
- will not be rescheduled “Methylation Analysis in HIV Patients” |
| April 2006 | ||
| 4 | Matthew
L. Jones PhD Graduate Student Trainee, Cell Biology Geographic Medicine |
“The Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocite Invasion Motor” |
| 18 | Kisani
M. Ogwaro MD/PhD Graduate Student Trainee Department of Medicine |
“Current Methods of SNP Selection in Candidate Genes and Chromosomal Regions: Online Databases Useful for Genetic Epidemiology” |
| 25 | Qianjun
Li, PhD Research Assistant Professor Geographic Medicine |
“The Different Host Responses to Virus Infection” |
| May 2006 | ||
| 2 | Melissa
K. Swiecki Graduate Student Trainee, Microbiology Department of Microbiology |
“Monoclonal Antibodies for Bacillus anthracis Spore Detection and Functional Analyses of Spore Germination and Outgrowth” |
| 9 | Mayra
S. Arias, MD Research Associate Geographic Medicine |
CANCELLED - will be rescheduled in Fall 2006 |
| 16 | Stephen
J. Jordan MD/PhD Graduate Student Trainee Geographic Medicine |
CANCELLED - will be rescheduled in Fall 2006 |
| 23 | Naya
S. McMillan, MS NRSA Trainee, Environmental Health Sciences School of Public Health |
“Agroterrorism, Agricultural Security, and Related Issues” |
| 30 | Tarig
Higazi, PhD Research Associate Geographic Medicine |
CANCELLED - will be rescheduled in Fall 2006 |
| June 2006 | ||
| 6 | Jeff
B. de Graffenried Graduate Student Trainee, Enviornmental Health Sparkman Center for Int'l Public Health Education |
“Evaluation and Validation of Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Technology for Analysis of Land Degradation: An Examination of the Tropical Equatorial Highlands of Western Kenya” |