2008-2009 Lecturers and Topics

• Joan Barenfanger. M.D., A.B.M.M. (’09)
  
  • Improving Clinical Usefulness of Microbiology Data
  • Decreasing Clinically Irrelevant Testing from the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
  • Detection and Prevention of Errors
  • Reviving and Standardizing the Art of Interpretation of Gram Stains
  • Identification of Yeasts and Fungi from Direct Microscopic Observation
• Joanne Bartkus ('09)
  
  • Microbial CSI – Using DNA Fingerprinting to Identify the Source of Disease Outbreaks
  • Everybody Knows Viruses Don’t Cause Food Poisoning…Or Do They?
  • Emerging Diseases/Emerging Responses: The Changing Face of Public Health Microbiology
    
    
• Daniel R. Bond (’09)
  
  • Understanding Extracellular Electron Flow via Microbial Film Voltammetry
  • Why Do Microbial Fuel Cells Work?
    
    
• Arturo Casadevall (’10)
  
  • The Origin of Virulence in Pathogenic Microbes
  • The Weapon Potential of a Microbe
  • New Concepts on Antibody-mediated Immunity
    Cryptococcus neoformans – Ecology, Pathogenesis and Virulence  
• Philip R. Cunningham (’10)
  
• Smart Weapons in the Fight Against Bioterrorism and Antibiotic Resistance
• Genetic Analysis of Ribosome Function
  
  
  
• Alix G. Darden, Ph.D. (’09)
  
  • The Intersection of Research and Teaching: Creating Conditions that Lead to Change in a Learner’s Brain
  • Active Learning for Classes Large and Small: Research and Techniques
  • The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as Applied to Microbiology Education
    
    
• Mark Goulian (’10)
  
  • Perturbing, Imaging, Modeling, and Evolving Regulatory Circuits in E. coli
  • Signal Strength, Fidelity, and the Phosphorylation Cycle in Bacterial Two-component Signaling
    
    
• Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D. (’09)
  
  • Sex in Fungi: Evolution and Virulence
  • How Model and Pathogenic Fungi Sense the Environment and the Host
  • Pigeons, Cryptococcus, and a Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
  • Evolution of Gene Clusters: The Mating Type Locus Paradigm
  • Antifungal Drug Action and the Elucidation of Gene Targets in Fungi
    
    
• Marian Johnson-Thompson (’09)
  
  • Emerging Infectious Agents of Environmental Import
  • The Role of Microbiology Research and Training in Addressing Health Disparities
  • Contributions of U.S. Born Blacks to Microbiology and to ASM
    
    
• Jay K. Kolls (’09)
  
  • Th17 Cells and Mucosal Immunity
  • Interleukin-17 Family Members and Lung Inflammation
  • Host Defense and Vaccine Strategies Against Pneumocystis
    
    
• Laura D. Kramer (’09)
  
  • Dynamics of Virus-Vector-Vertebrate Interactions
  • West Nile Virus: A New Perspective on an Old Virus
  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Two Flaviviruses
  • The Mosquito and the Virus: An Unbalanced Relationship?
  • History of Women in Science with a Focus on Arbovirology
    
    
• Eugene L. Madsen (’09)
  
  • Aerobic Naphthalene Biodegradation: Physiology, Toxicity, and Insights from the Genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans
  • Molecular Microbial Ecology of a Shallow Contaminated Aquifer: Biogeochemistry and Stable Isotope Probing
  • Bioremediation Demystified: What Can Microbial Processes Accomplish and How Do We Know?
  • Emergent Biogeochemical Processes Revealed by Dynamic Microbial Biomarkers in a Contaminated Aquifer
    
    
    
• Lenore Pereira (’09)
  
  • Human Cytomegalovirus Infection at the Maternal-Fetal Interface: Role of the Placenta in Virus Transmission and Intrauterine Growth Restriction
  • Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Placental Pathology and Adaptation After Maternal Treatment with Hyperimmunegobulin
    
    
• Michael W. Russell (’10)
  
  • Immunity Where It Matters Most – The Mucosal Frontier
  • Mucosal Vaccine Challenges: Down in the Mouth or Down Below!
  • IgA, the Most Abundant Yet Most Overlooked Immunoglobulin
  • Toxins and Tolls: Exploiting Enterotoxins as Adjuvants for Mucosal Vaccines
    
    
• Michael J. Sadowsky (’10)
  
  • The Beach is Closed! –  Sources and Sinks of Pathogens and Other Fecal Bacteria in the Environment
  • New Surprises in Nitrogen-Fixing Plant-Microbe Symbioses – We Are Not Done Learning Yet!
  • The Rapid Evolution of Bacterial Genes and Pathways for Biodegradation of Synthetic Organic Compound
    
    
• Olaf Schneewind (’10)
  
  • Assembly of the Envelope of Gram-positive Bacteria   
  • Vaccines to Prevent Staphylococcal Infections
  • Development of Plague Vaccine
  • Substrate Selection by Type III Machine of Yersiniae
  • Pathogenesis of Anthrax Infections
    
    
    
• Lynn L. Silver, Ph.D. (’09)
  
  • Meeting the Challenges of Antibacterial Discovery
  • Rethinking Antibacterial Targets
  • Phenotypic Screening for Novel Antibacterials
  • Natural Product Screening for Antibacterial Agents
  • The Antibacterial Pipeline: Nonexistent or Merely Sparse?
    
    
• J. Walton Tomford, M.D. (’09)
  
  • History of Tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Diseases
  • Update on Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of M. tuberculosis Disease
  • Update on Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Granulomatous Diseases
  • Case Presentations in Mycobacterial, Nocardial and Fungal Diseases
    
    
• Hua Helen Wang (’10)
  
  • The Impact of Foodborne Commensal Bacteria on Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Transmission
  • Foodborne Microbes: Shaping the Host Ecosystems
    
    
    
• Joanne M. Willey (’10)
  
  • When is an Antibiotic Not an Antibiotic?
  • Intercellular Communication Amongst Soil Bacteria
  • Microbiology Education: So Much Cool Stuff to Teach in So Little Time!