Sept 2 Kathleen Karrer, Marquette University, Wisconsin

BMB Genome remodeling in Tetrahymena: Developmentally programmed DNA deletion and endocycling

Sept 9 Judy Davie, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

BMB Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of myogenesis

Sept 16 Lyne Maquat, University of Rochester

BMB Tales from the cellular underworld: Stories of mammalian-cell mRNA decay and IncRNAs

Sept 23 Jan Drake, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

BMB Mutation, the primordial engine of evolution

Sept 30 Roy Curtiss III, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University (Maurice Ogur Lecture)

MICR Progress in developing a recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccine against pneumococcal diseases

Oct 7 Blaine Bartholomew, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

MMICB Regulation of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling

Oct 14 Michael Federle, University of Illinois at Chicago

MICR Whispers from the throat: Are Streptococci conspiring to do harm?

Oct 21 Mary Ann McDowell, University of Notre Dame

MICR The unholy trinity: Vector, parasite, host

Oct 28 John Nawrocki, Illinois Department of Public Health

MMICB TB elimination: Made possible by molecular diagnostics

Nov 4 No Seminar

MMICB

Nov 11 VETERANS DAY - NO SEMINAR

Nov 18 Richard Tapping, University of Illinois, Urbana

MICR

Nov 25 THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO SEMINAR

Dec 2 Brent Bany, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

MMICB Aspects of molecular signaling in embryo implantation

Dec 9 Raymond Johnson, Indiana University School of Medicine

MICR Redundant T cell-mediated mechanisms clear Chlamydia infections

Dec 16 FINALS WEEK - NO SEMINAR

Fridays 11:00 a.m., LS III Auditorium (MMICB talks will be telecast from Springfield)

Seminar Coordinators: Vjollca Konjufca (vjollca@micro.siu.edu)(MICR); Ed Gershburg (egershburg@siumed.edu)(MMICB); Farid Kadyrov (fkadyrov@siumed.edu)(BMB)