Department of Microbiology

Upcoming Events:

Sixth Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology

Staffan Normark, M.D.
Professor of Microbiology
Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center
Karolinska Institutet

Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathological Sciences
University of Wisconsin

Tatyana Golovkina, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Chicago

Friday, December 5, 2008
1:00-5:00 PM

Biological Sciences Learning Center
Room 115
924 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Past Events:

2008 Hilleman Lecture on Virology
Edward S. Mocarski
"Control of Cell Fate in Cytomegalovirus Infection"
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Fifth Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology
Daniel Portnoy
"Innate immunity to intracellular pathogens"
William Mason
"Immune selection in the clearance of transient
Lucia Rothman-Denes
"Bacteriophage N4-host interactions: making the most of the host”
Thursday, December 6, 2007

2007 Hilleman Lecture on Virology
Robert Webster
"Pandemic Influenza: Will H5N1 Achieve Pandemic Status?"
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Fourth Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology
Francis V. Chisari
"Robust HcV Infection in Vitro: Coevolution of Virus and Host"
Pascale F. Cossart
"What is so special about Listeria?"
Dominique Missiakas
"Straphylococcus aureus strategies of evading host immune responses"
Thursday, December 14, 2006

2006 Hilleman Lecture on Virology
Charles Rice
"Hepatitis C: What's all the excitement about?"
Thursday, April 6, 2006

Third Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology
Richard Losick
"Bistable switches and cannibalism in bacteria"
Michael Rossmann
"Tailed Bacteriophages: how they assemble, how they package their dsDNA genome into their proheads, and how they infect their hosts"
Olaf Schneewind
"The assembly of surface proteins in the envelope of gram-positive bacteria"
Thursday, December 15, 2005

2005 Hilleman Lecture on Virology
Karla Kirkegaard
"Viruses as cell biologists: rearrangement and derangement of cellular membranes during poliovirus infection"
May 12, 2005

Second Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology
Scott Hultgren
"Intracellular Bacterial Communities in Pathogenesis: Tactic for subverting Innate Defenses"
Thomas Shenk
"Human cytomegalovirus: Latency"
Bernard Roizman
"The Strategy of Conquest: Herpes Simplex Viruses vs. the Host Cell"
December 2, 2004

Bernard Roizman: Honoring Four Decades of Research and Teaching at the University of Chicago
May 14-15, 2004

First Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium on Microbiology
R. John Collier
"Towards a therapeutic for anthrax"
Jorge E. Galan
"Interaction of Salmonella with host cells: encounters of the closest kind"
Gary Nabel
"Dendritic Cells, Genetic Restrictions on HIV Replication, and AIDS Vaccines"
December 5, 2003