World Health Interest Group
hosted by the Center for Global Health and Diseases
The Center for Global Health has moved to the Biomedical Research Building. The Spring 2012 Seminars will be held on the 4th Floor Conference Room 433. Please feel free to contact us by calling 216-368-4818 to confirm the location of the seminars.
Overview
This weekly seminar and discussion series will focus on a broad range of topics related to infectious disease research in international settings. The speakers will be comprised of a diverse group of local faculty, post-doctoral and graduate student trainees, as well as visiting colleagues from around the world.
Spring 2012 Seminars
Friday, January 13, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Roxana Rojas, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
"Direct regulation of T cell function by Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecules"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, January 20, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
NO Seminar
Friday, January 27, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Brian T. Grimberg, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Health & Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"Manipulations of Malaria with Magnets"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, February 3, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Helene Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Reproductive Biology
Case Western Reserve University
"Neonatal innate immune function: The challenge of protecting against perinatal infections while limiting inflammation associated morbidity and mortality"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, February 10, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Megan Ermler
Pre-doctoral Candidate
Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
“RNA helicase signaling is critical for type I IFN production and protection against Rift Valley fever virus”
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, February 17, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Charlie King, M.D.
Professor of International Health and Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"Helminth update: Hot Topics for the Tropics"
Sponsored by the King, CH Lab
Friday, February 24, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
M R Sandhya Rani, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Case Western Reserve University
"To IL28B or not to IL28B"
Sponsored by the Blanton Lab
Friday, March 2, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Akshaya Ramesh
Graduate Student
Case Western Reserve University
TBD
Sponsored by the Zimmerman Lab
Friday, March 9, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Elizabeth Samuelson
Post Doctoral Candidate
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Kazura Lab
Friday, March 23, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Student Seminars
Speakers TBD
Friday, March 30, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Carlos Subauste
Associate Professor, Infectious Disease UH
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, April 6, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
No Seminar - Spring Break
Friday, April 13, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Thomas Raymond Unnasch, Ph.D.
Professor and State of Florida World Class Scholar
Global Health, Infectious Diseases Research Program
University of South Florida
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Zimmerman Lab
Friday, April 20, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Tobili Sam-Yellowe, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor Biology, Geology, Environmental Science
Cleveland State University
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, April 27, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Gareth Hardy
"TBD"
Friday, May 4, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
T Kombi
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, May 11, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Suzanne Rivera, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Associate VP for Research
Case Western Reserve University
"TBD"
Sponsored by Nancy Erdey
Friday, May 18, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Samantha Stubblefield, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Gastroenterology
Case Western Reserve University
"TBD"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, May 25, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Speaker TBD
Friday, June 1, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Biomedical Research Building 433
Speaker TBD
Archives
Fall 2011 Seminars
Friday, September 2, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA
Indu Malhorta, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, CGHD/CWRU
"The Effects of Polyparasitism on Vaccine Response"
Sponsored by the Malhotra Lab
Friday, September 9, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
John Milligan
Research Assistant, Biology, CWRU
"Transcriptional Regulation: a MEF2 homolog in S. Mansoni"
Sponsored by the Emmit Jolly Lab
Friday, September 16, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Rafael Ponce, M.D.
Fellow, Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, CWRU
"Schistosomiasis and waterborne diseases understanding the dynamics
for fecal contamination of water"
Sponsored by the Blanton Lab
Friday, September 23, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Gloria Tavera
Graduate Student, Medical Scientist Training Program, CWRU
"Exploring Amodiaquine Resistance in Tanzania in P. falciparum"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, September 30, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Babu Tekwani, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist and Professor of Pharmacology
National Center for Natural Products Research
School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi
"Pathway to Discovery of Safer Antimalarials"
Sponsored by Mehlotra Lab
Friday, October 7, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Research Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
"The Role of Cytokines and Pathogen Recognition Molecules in Fungal Keratitis - insights from human disease and animal models"
Sponsored by the Hise Lab
Friday, October 14, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Edsel Salvana, M.D., DTM&H
Assistant Professor for Research, NIH, University of the Philippines Manila
Adjunct Professor for Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
"Another Shot at San Francisco: Saving Lives Through a Comprehensive Response to the Nascent HIV Epidemic in the Philippines"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, October 21, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Rebecca Gilson
Department of Physics, CWRU
"Plasmodium falciparum's Response to Oscillating Weak Magnetic Fields and the influence of disruptive measures"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, October 28, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Nancy Erdey, Ph.D., C.I.P.
Research Associate/Compliance Officer, CGHD
"Regulatory Update 2011"
CRECS will be sought for this presentation
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, November 4, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Ruth Djigbenou, M.D.
ID Fellow, University Hospitals of Cleveland
"Trophozoite stage resistance to quinine, implications for cerebral malaria treatment"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, November 11, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Krufinta Bun
Pre-Doctoral Candidate Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CWRU
"Impact of human movement on MDA compliance and effectiveness in Papua New Guinea"
Phalkun Cheng, MPH
Senior Research Associate, CWRU
"Prevalence and Risk for MTB Infection among First Degree Relative Contacts to TB Patients, Kampala, Uganda"
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
Friday, November 18, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Arlene Dent, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
And Center for Global Health
University Hospitals of Cleveland and CWRU
"Detecting Antigen-specific Memory B Cells by Flow Cytometry"
Sponsored by the Kazura Lab
Friday, December 2, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
M. Edward Medof, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Medicine, Ophthalmology and Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University
“Understanding How Naive T cells are Programmed to T-regulatory verses T-effector cells: Implications for Malaria”
Sponsored by the Grimberg Lab
December 2nd will be the last seminar for the Fall 2011 semester. Thanks to all for your interest and support in the Center for Global Health & Diseases World Health Interest Group Seminar Series
Our Center will be relocating to the fourth floor of the Biomedical Research Building as of December 19, 2011. The location of our weekly seminars will be in BRB 433 or BRB 105 and our first seminar for the Spring 2012 semester is scheduled for Friday, January 13, 2012.
Spring 2011 Seminars
Friday, January 7, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Lisa Reimer, Ph.D.
Head of Entomology Unit, Papua New Guinea Medical Research/CWRU
"Changes in Vector "Biology and Disease Transmission Following Implentation of the Malaria Control Program in Papua New Guinea"
Sponsored by the Zimmerman Lab
Friday, January 14, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Ravinder Sehgal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
"Avian Malaria in a Changing World"
Sponsored by the Zimmerman Lab
Friday, January 21, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Lisa K. Ryan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Public Health Research Institute
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
The Innate Immune Response to Influenza: A Focus on B-Defensins
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, January 28, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Fayyaz S. Sutterwala, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
“The NLRP3 inflammasome in infection and inflammation”
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, February 4, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Jessica Berg, J.D., MPH
Professor of Law, Bioethics and Public Health
Associate Director. Law-Medicine Center
Case Western Reserve University
"Who owns your genetic information? The Case of the Havasupai Tribe vs. ASU"
CRECs Pending
Sponsored by Nancy Erdey
Friday, February 11, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Charles King, M.D.
Professor
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"The SCORE Project for Schistomiasis control in Africa"
Friday, February 18, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Cara Henry-Halldin
Pre-Doctoral Candidate
Biology
Case Western Reserve University
Biology Ph.D. Defense Seminar: "Genetic Diversity of Malaria Vectors
and Implications for Vector Management in Papua New Guinea"
Sponsored by the Peter Zimmerman Lab
Friday, February 25, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Eric Pearlman, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Research
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
"Pathogenesis of fungal keratitis - human disease and animal models"
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, March 4, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Egil Lien
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Massachusetts
"Yersinia pestis - activation and evasion of innate immunity"
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, March 11 - Spring Break - No Seminar
Friday, March 18, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Denis Tebit, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Division of Infectious Disease, UH
Case Western Reserve University
"Tracking the global evolution and Fitness of HIV: the Diversity Factor"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
Friday, March 25, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Ron Blanton, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"S. mansoni population structure, distribution and response to treatment"
Friday, April 1, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Rosemary Rochford, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
"Clues to the etiology of endemic Burkitt's lymphoma: report from a field study on EBV and malaria infection in Kenyan infants"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
Friday, April 8, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Xiaoxia Wang
Postdoctoral Candidate
Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University
"Modeling schistosomiasis transmission and morbidity"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
Archives
Fall 2010 Seminars
Friday, August 27, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Valerie Wiesbrock, MA CIP
Manager
Office of Institutional Review
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
"Genetic Studies and Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS): A practical guide to regulatory issues and compliance"
CRECs will be available
Friday, September 3 - Labor Day Weekend - No Seminar
Friday, September 10, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Maria da Glória Teixeira, PhD
Associate Professor of the Public Health Institute
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
"Dengue in Brazil: Epidemiological situations and researches developed by Bahia University and the Center for Global Health and Diseases"
Sponsored by the Ronald Blanton Lab
Friday, September 17, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Peter Piermarini, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Cornell University
"Targeting 'kidney' function in mosquitoes for the development of novel vector control"
Sponsored by the Peter Zimmerman Lab
Friday, September 24. 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Carlos Subauste, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
"CD40, Autophagy and the Control of an Intracellular Pathogen"
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, October 1, 9:00 - 10:00 am
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Miako Sakaguchi, PhD
Department of Protozology
Institute of Tropical Medicine
Nagasaki, Japan
"Characterization of Invasive Proteins in Malaria Parasites Using an Ultrastructural Approach"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
Friday, October 8, 9:00 - 10:00 am
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Mark Drew, Ph.D.
Division of Infectious Diseases
The Ohio State University
"Flow Cytometric Methods of Detection for Novel Antimalarials"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
***CANCELLED***
October 15, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Amaya Bustinduy, MD
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University Hospitals of Cleveland
"Schistosomiasis and Polyparasitism Impairing Normal Physiological Functioning of Kenyan Children: Experience In Four Endemic Villages"
Sponsored by the Charles King Lab
Friday, October 22, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Narathrus Asingwire, PhD
Chairman
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda
"National Response to the AIDS Epidemic in Uganda: Highlights from the Country UNGASS Progress Report, March 2010"
Sponsored by the Brian Grimberg Lab
Friday, October 29, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Kim Brustoski, PhD
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"Mucosal immune responses to RVFV"
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, November 5 - No Seminar
Friday, November 12, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Student Presentations
Friday, November 19, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Heather Lander
Pre-Doctoral Candidate, Experimental Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston
"Junin Virus infection induced endothelial cell permeability and adherens junction disruption"
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, November 26 - Thanksgiving Holiday - No Seminar
Friday, December 3, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Amaya Bustinduy, MD
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University Hospitals of Cleveland
"Schistosomiasis and Polyparasitism Impairing Normal Physiological Functioning of Kenyan Children: Experience In Four Endemic Villages"
Sponsored by the Charles King Lab
Archives
Spring 2010 Seminars
Friday, January 22, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Jeff Tomalka
Doctoral Candidate in Pathology
Center for Global Health and Diseases
"The Inflammasome: A key mediator of host defense to Candida infection"
Recent publications related to this presentation are identified below as well as available in PDF through the link provided:
Hise, A, et al. "An Essential Role for the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Host Defense against the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans." Cell and Host & Microbe 5(5)May 2009, pp 487-497
PDF version
Sponsored by the Amy Hise Lab
Friday, January 29, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Joseph Gibbons, M.D.
Chair, University Hospitals Case Medical Center IRB
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Comprehensive Cancer Center at University Hospitals
of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University
"Human Subjects Research and Exempt Determinations"
3 CRECS will be available
Friday, February 5, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Rajeev Melhotra, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"CCR2-CCR5 ... And the Band Plays On"
Recent publications related to this presentation are identified below as well as available in PDF through the link provided:
McDermott, D et al "CCR5 promoter polymorphism and HIV-1 disease progression." The Lancet 352 (9): 866-870, 1998
PDF Version
Salkowitz, J et al "CCR5 promoter polymorphism determines macrophage CCR5 density and magnitude of HIV-1 propagation in vitro." Clinical Immunology 108: 234-240, 2003
PDF Version
Special WHIG Seminar!
Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Genetics
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
San Antonio, TX
"Genetics of Susceptibility to Parasitic Disease"
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Ronald Blanton
Professor of International Health
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"Where the Wild Things Are: S. mansoni Genotypes from the Field"
Special WHIG Seminar!
Co-Hosted by the Institute for the Science of Origins
Monday, March 8, 2010, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Biomedical Research Building (BRB) #105
2109 Adelbert Rd
Mark Stoneking, Ph.D.
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany
Director Molecular Anthropology Group
Honorary Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Leipzig
"Detecting Local Selection in Human Populations"
For additional information, feel free to visit http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/
Friday, March 19, 2010
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Mark Buller, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
St. Louis University School of Medicine
"Towards a Mechanistic Understanding Variolation"
Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Peter Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Professor of International Health and Genetics
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Case Western Reserve University
"Plasmodium vivax clinical malaria is commonly observed in Duffy-negative Malagasy people"
Recent publications related to this presentation are identified below as well as available in PDF through the hyperlink provided:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/03/11/0912496107.full.pdf+html?sid=7b22f632-759d-46e1-af0e-c2bf6bb63f07
Friday, April 9, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Cara Haldin
Doctoral Candidate in Biology
Case Western Reserve University
Kogulan Nadesakumaran
Undergraduate Biology Major
Case Western Reserve University
"Insecticide resistance and species diversity of malaria vectors in Papua New Guinea"
Recent Publications related to this presentation are identified below:
1. Beebe, et al, "DNA sequence analysis of the ribosomal DNA ITS2 region for the Anopheles punctulatus group of mosquitos." Insect Molecular Biology 8(3):381-390:1999
2. Reimer, et al, "Relationship Between kdr Mutation and Resistance to Pyrethroid and DDT Insecticides in Natural Populations for Anopheles gambiae." J Med Entomol 45(2):260-266:2008
Friday, April 16, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
David H. Canaday, M.D.
Assistant Professor Geriatric Research
Education and Clinical Center
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Division of Infectious Disease
Case Western Reserve University
"Vaccination Response in the Elderly"
Friday, April 23, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Gillian Barclay, DrPh., DDS
Pan American Health Organization:
Office of Caribbean Program Coordination/WHO, Barbados
"Workforce Development, Migration and Implications for Public Health in Caribbean"
Friday, April 30, 2010, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Wolstein Research Building 4-136
Brian Verrelli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
BioDesign Institute
Arizona State University
"Duffy Antigen Evolution"
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