2008 Annual IHII/McLaughlin Colloquium

Agenda

Levin Hall Lobby and South Auditorium |   April 2, 2008  
11:00 am – 1:00 Poster Set-up
1:00 – 3:00 pm Poster Presentations
Food and drinks will be provided.
3:00 – 3:05 pm Dean Anderson will introduce Dr. Urban
3:05– 4:05 pm Robert G. Urban, Ph.D., Executive Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, McLaughlin Fellow 1987-1990
True North — Navigating to the Patient
4:05– 4:10 pm McLaughlin Committee Updates
4:10– 5:15 pm Short presentations by UTMB Infection & Immunity Fellows
  • Tetsuro Ikegami, McLaughlin Postdoctoral Fellow
    NOVEL BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS NSS PROTEIN
  • Emily Crossley, TR32 Predoctoral Fellow
    REGULATION OF INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE RESPONSES BY γδ T CELLS IN CHRONIC EHRLICHIOSIS
  • Doug Widman, McLaughlin Predoctoral Fellow
    Construction and characterization of a second-generation pseudoinfectious West Nile virus vaccine propagated using a new cultivation system
  • Carolina Sierra, Vale-Asche Predoctoral Fellow identification and Biological Characterization of new type III secretion system effector proteins from an emerging human pathogen Aeromonas hydrophila
5:15 – 5:30 pm Awards: 2008 McLaughlin Travel Awards
5:20 - 6:00 pm Poster Removal

*To present a poster, trainees must submit abstracts by February 15, 2008.
Please click to download the Abstract form and instructions.