August 26

Hubert Olipares - Annual biosafety training

UH Environmental Health and Safety

September 2

Dr. Sandra Chang - "A Career in Applied Immunology: Development of a Malaria Vaccine"

John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH

September 9

Dr. Dulal Borthakur - "Regulation of exopolysaccharide synthesis in Rhizobium sp. strain TAL1145 involves an alternative sigma factor gene, rpoH2"

Molecular Bioscences and Bioengineering, UH

September 16

Dr. Anne Alvarez - "Virulence in plant pathogens: the significance of diversity in bacterial canker of tomato"

Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, UH

September 23

Dr. Stuart Donachie - "Anti-Infectives and Cytotoxins from Hawaiian Marine Fungi and Yeasts"

Department of Microbiology, UH

September 30

Dr. Mike Lieberman - "The Development of a Recombinant Subunit Vaccine for the Prevention of West Nile Virus Infection in Humans"

Hawaii Biotech

October 7

Dr. Steven Ward - "Learning about Sperm Function by Understanding Its Unique Chromatin Structure" * Cancelled *

John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH

October 14

Dr. Mathias Ackermann - "Herpesviruses and their potential value for applications in marine biology"

Institute of Virology, University of Zurich

October 21

Dr. Adelheid Kuehnle - "Anthurium: A commercial monocot host for disarmed Agrobacterium tumefaciens"

Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, UH

October 28

Valerie Kawabata - "Comparative analysis of extremophile signal transduction: The methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins"
Xuehua Wan - "Protoglobin and Globin-sensing Domains Trigger Aerotaxis Responses in Escherichia coli"

Department of Microbiology

November 4

Zengqui Li - "KIAA0792 is a protein that interacts with TRPV1"
Nam Sil An - "The specificity of the anti-MSP1 33 antibodies against two dimorphic MSP1 alleles in two parasite isolates, FUP and FVO, via immunofluorescence assays"

Department of Microbiology

November 11

Holiday

Veteran's Day

November 18

Mike Son - "Got sputum? The role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis lung infections"

Department of Microbiology

November 25

Thanksgiving break

December 2

David Nguyen - "Regulation of Fatty Acid Metabolism in P. aeruginosa"
Jenni Rygh - "Characterization of cancer-cell line 10ME"

Department of Microbiology