Upcoming Events
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Oct
19
MBB Journal Club: Kerry Silva McPherson12:00pm
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Oct
20
MBB Seminar: Jonathan E. Dworkin12:00pm
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Oct
20
MCB Seminar Series: Shawna Reed3:30pm
MCB Seminar Series: Shawna Reed
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Other Online
MCB Seminar Series
Shawna Reed, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Quinnipiac University
Host: Ken Campellone
"Coxiella and the arms race between host and pathogen…"
Summary:
The bacterium Coxiella burnetii enters eukaryotic host cells uses at least 130 secreted bacterial proteins to modify the late endosome into an autolysosomal, highly fusogenic compartment, allowing massive bacterial replication while promoting host cell survival and inhibiting innate immune responses to infection. Using an insect larval model for multicellular infection, bacterial effectors which inhibit immune response, promote multicellular infection and modulate Coxiella vacuole formation were identified.
As a scientist, Dr. Reed is passionate about uncovering the molecular interactions between host cells and intracellular bacteria. She has studied Rickettsia and Listeria actin-based intracellular motility at UC Berkeley and Coxiella genetics and host interactions at Yale.
In her laboratory, she looks forward to creating research projects for undergraduates curious about intracellular pathogens, bacterial genetics, interactions with host immune sensing pathways, and how individual bacterial effector proteins might contribute to virulence by hijacking host cell functions.
To learn more about Dr Reed's work, view https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/4/e01127-16.long
and visit her website:
https://directory.qu.edu/Profile/188042
Seminar Link:
https://uconnvtc.webex.com/webappng/sites/uconnvtc/meeting/download/73b0482edc2d4296b538911b3923d6f4?siteurl=uconnvtc&MTID=mf888e1957a812a5c6b3968a2580b5f42 -
Oct
22
EEB Seminar: Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. (Univ. São Paulo)3:30pm
EEB Seminar: Paulo R. Guimarães Jr. (Univ. São Paulo)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Other online
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization
(email carlos.garcia-robledo@uconn.edu for zoom link) -
Oct
22
MCB PSM Professional Development Seminar5:00pm
MCB PSM Professional Development Seminar
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Virtual
Andrew Hesse
Precision & Translational Genomics Professional
* Attendance is limited to MCB PSM, PM, and Ph.D. students
