calendarCIDD Seminars
Contact Sandra Lass or Jamie Lloyd-Smith to suggest speakers.
Upcoming seminars
Full details of upcoming seminars can be found on the Huck Institutes website.
Previous seminars
Seminars that have already happened in Fall 2007 can be found on the Huck Institutes website.
Details of seminars held prior to August 2007 can be found below.
A four column table follows. It indicates the seminar date (column 1; note, dates are in reverse chronological order, most recent first), the speaker (column two), the title of the talk (column 3) and any associated comments (column 4), such as the room or dates of the speaker's visit to Penn State.
| Date | Who | Subject | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 30, 2007 | Dominik Refardt (University of Auckland) | Experimental evolution of prophage induction in the bacteriophage lambda | Starts at 1:15pm in 510 Mueller Lab. Contact: Sandra Lass |
| July 25, 2007 | Abinash Padhi (University of Tulsa) | Evolutionary dynamics of the Buggy creek virus: An alphavirus from the Western Great Plain USA | Starts at noon in 510 Mueller Lab. Contact: Mary Poss |
| July 19, 2007 | Scott Carver (University of Western Australia) | Dryland salinity, perception of risk and Ross River virus ecology | Starts at 1.15pm in 510 Mueller Lab. Contact: Jason Rohr |
| July 2, 2007 | Kim Pepin (New Mexico State University) | Mechanisms of dengue virus emergence | Starts at 1pm in 510 Mueller Lab |
| May 11, 2007 | Bodo Linz (Max Planck Institute, Germany) | The global population structure of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori | |
| May 4, 2007 | Sarah Perkins (CIDD) | Super-spreaders and super-shedders: are they the same individuals? | |
| April 27, 2007 | Edward Ionides (U Mich) | Rapid loss of immunity is necessary to explain historical cholera epidemics | |
| April 16, 2007 | Roberto Saenz (U Cambridge) | A within-host model of influenza virus | Talk starts at noon in 510 Mueller Lab. Note this is a Monday. |
| April 6, 2007 | Laura Pomeroy (CIDD) | Spatial spread of morbillivirus | |
| March 23, 2007 | Jamie Lloyd-Smith (CIDD) | Cyclic dynamics of leptospirosis in California sea lions | |
| March 9, 2007 | Dieter Ebert (U Basel) | Antagonistic coevolution and the maintenance of genetic variation in metapopulations | |
| February 23, 2007 | Liwang Cui (PSU) | Functional characterization of a Puf family RNA-binding protein in the malaria parasite | |
| February 22, 2007 | Andrew Read (U Edinburgh) | Evolutionary Biology, Insecticides, Vaccines and the Future of Malaria | 4pm in the Berg Auditorium |
| February 16, 2007 | Mary Poss (CIDD) | Moveon.orf: A virus guide to survival in the best and worst of times | |
| February 8, 2007 | Lien Luong (U Cincinnati) | Insect-parasite interactions: venereal worms and ectoparasitic mites | Talk begins at 1pm |
| January 26, 2007 | Matt Ferrari (CIDD) | Developing country measles | |
| January 12, 2007 | David Geiser (Fusarium Research Center, PSU) | Culture collections, molecular databases, and being prepared for fungal infection outbreaks | |
| January 11, 2007 | Erik Osnas (U Wisconsin) | Ecology and evolution of host-pathogen interactions: from snails and trematodes to deer and prions | Noon, 510 Mueller Lab |
| December 8, 2006 | Tony Schmitt (PSU) | Escaping from the cell: assembly and budding of paramyxoviruses | |
| November 10, 2006 | David Hunter (CIDD) | What does "random network" mean? | |
| October 27, 2006 | Nobel prize-winner Barry Marshall (University of Western Australia) | Helicobacter As An Underlying Cause of Stomach Ulcers and Cancer | 4pm in the Berg Auditorium. Contact Stephan Schuster |
| October 16, 2006 | Dr Hamish McCallum (University of Tasmania) | Tasmanian Devil facial tumor disease | Noon, 510 Mueller Lab |
| October 13, 2006 | Biao He (PSU) | Comparative studies of paramyxoviruses | |
| September 29, 2006 | Stephan Schuster (CIDD) | Probing the environment through metagenomics | |
| September 15, 2006 | Laura Shackelton (CIDD) | Nucleotide substitution rates in DNA viruses | |
| June 6, 2006 | Milind Watve (Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, India) | Epidemiology: models versus real life | |
| May 26, 2006 | Petra Klepac (MIT/WHOI) | Seasonal haul-out behavior and the dynamics of phocine distemper virus outbreaks | |
| April 28, 2006 | Dan Wolfe (CIDD) | Evasion of reciprocal immune responses by the bordetellae | |
| April 21, 2006 | Craig Cameron (CIDD) | Viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases: Forcing viruses to the edge of catastrophe and beyond | |
| April 7, 2006 | Tom Howat (U Cambridge) | Within-host dynamics of viral infections | Tom is visiting CIDD April 3-11 |
| March 31, 2006 | Jamie Lloyd Smith (UC Berkeley, soon CIDD) | Superspreading: what's known, what's not and what's next | |
| March 24, 2006 | Avery August (PSU / CMIID) | Modulation of airway immune response by the tyrosine kinase ITK | |
| March 17, 2006 | Andy Stephenson (PSU) | Introgression of a virus resistant transgene into wild gourd populations: Effects on the transmission of target and non-target diseases | |
| March 3, 2006 | Jim Marden (PSU) | Insect energy homeostasis in relation to their population biology and impacts by gregarine parasites | |
| Feb. 24, 2006 | Katia Koelle (CIDD) | Alternative explanations for limited influenza diversity | |
| Feb. 3, 2006 | Stephan Schuster (CIDD) | A microbial predator: Life and times of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus | |
| Jan. 26, 2006 | Sandra Lass (U Basel) | Epidemiology and evolution in a parasite with horizontal and vertical transmission | Sandra is visiting CIDD Jan. 25-27 |
| Jan. 24 | Maciek Boni (Stanford) | Epidemic dynamics and antigenic evolution in a single season of Influenza A | Maciek is visiting CIDD Jan. 23-24 |
| Dec. 2, 2005 | Eddie Holmes (CIDD) | RNA virus phylodynamics | |
| Nov. 21, 2005 | Ron Fouchier (Erasmus University, Netherlands) | Influenza A virus evolution and determinants of viral phenotype | 4pm, Berg Auditorium, Life Sciences Bldg. Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| Nov. 18, 2005 | John Drake (NCEAS) | Computational approaches to modeling disease-environment interactions: forecasting malaria dynamics in Africa with support vector machines | John is visiting CIDD from Nov. 11 to Dec. 9. Contact Ottar Bjørnstad |
| Nov. 3, 2005 | Derek Cummings (Johns Hopkins) | Spatiotemporal dynamics of Dengue | At 11AM in room 504 ASI. Contact Ottar Bjørnstad |
| Nov. 2, 2005 | Frits Mooi | The re-emergence of pertussis: waning immunity or adaptation? | At 10AM in room 324 ASI. Contact Eric Harvill |
| Oct 28, 2005 | Diana Cox Foster (PSU) | Buzzing about — The interaction between honey bees, parasitic mites, viruses, and microbes in the demise of the colony | Contact Sarah Perkins |
| Oct. 14, 2005 | Jason Rohr (CIDD) | The impacts of local and landscape variables on metazoan parasites in frogs | |
| Oct. 6, 2005 | Mary Poss (U Montana) | Molecular biology, ecology, and evolution of feline lentiviruses in old and new hosts | 4pm, 101 Althouse |
| Sept. 30, 2005 | Stephan Schuster (CIDD) | Genome evolution in host-adapted bacteria | |
| Sept. 18, 2005 | Andy Henderson (PSU) | Cellular signals regulate HIV replication | In 512A Mueller Lab |
| Sept. 14, 2005 | Eddie Holmes (CIDD) | Life on the edge: the evolutionary biology of RNA viruses | 4pm, 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building |
| July 15, 2005 | Andrew Conlan (U Cambridge) | Birth rate, vaccination, seasonality and the persistence of childhood infections | Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| June 15, 2005 | Ume Abbas (U Pittsburgh) | Impact of retrovirals on the spread of HIV | Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| May 24, 2005 | Jane Heffernan (U Western Ontario) | Natural variability in HIV-1 infection | Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| April 29, 2005 | Scott Isard (PSU) | The spread of soybean rust | |
| April, 2005 | Ottar Bjørnstad & Eric Harvill (CIDD) | Evolution and emergence of Bordetella in humans | Now published in Trends in Microbiology (» details) |
| April 5, 2005 | Kathy Hood (PSU) | Immune changes in mice selectively bred for social behaviors: the view from 49 generations | |
| March 17, 2005 | Katia Koelle (U Mich) | Serocycling in Cholera | Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| March, 2005 | Paul Mann (PSU) | Introduction to immunology | |
| Feb. 6, 2005 | Cecile Vibaud (NIH) | Factors contributing to influenza pandemics | Contact Bryan Grenfell |
| Dec. 3, 2005 | Matt Ferrari & Andrew Stephenson (PSU) | Cucurbita pepo: a model host for vector-borne diseases | Andy Stephenson's lab website |
| Nov. 23, 2004 | Derek Smith (U Cambridge) | The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza virus | Venue: 101 Althouse, 4pm |
| Nov. 19, 2004 | Isabella Cattadori (CIDD) | Mechanisms of synchrony | |
| Nov. 5, 2004 | Réka Albert (CIDD) | Modeling gene regulatory and signal transduction networks | |
| Oct. 22, 2004 | Sarah Perkins (CIDD) | Helminths as vectors of microparasites in vertebrates | |
| Oct 8., 2004 | Laura Warlow (CIDD) | Heterogeneities in tick spatial distribution | |
| Sept. 24, 2004 | Paul Mann (PSU) | Comparative innate immune responses to the Bordetellae |