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Summer Student Seminar Series

Welcome to the Frederick National Lab and Fort Detrick Summer Student Seminar Series. This program allows summer interns to meet one another and hear about the broad range of research being carried out on the Frederick campus.

All seminars will be held in Building 549 Main Auditorium from 12:00 - 1:00pm unless otherwise noted.

All Students must complete the Ethics and Scientific Research On-Line Training at http://ncifrederick.cancer.gov/Programs/Training/EthicsCourse.aspx

2012 Speakers

Date Speaker Title Details
June 19 Dr. Nadya Tarasova Why we haven’t cured cancer yet
June 26 Dr. Yurong Song Genetically engineered mouse models for cancer research
July 3 Dr. Arthur Anderson What your lymph nodes do besides swell up when you get mono
  • Gretz, E.J., A.O. Anderson, and S. Shaw, 1997 "Cords, Channels, Corridors, and Conduits: Critical architectural elements facilitating cell interactions in the lymph node cortex." Immunol. Rev. 156:11-24
  • Gretz, J.E., C.C. Norbury, A.O. Anderson, A.E.I. Proudfoot, and S. Shaw. 2000. Lymph-borne Chemokines and Other Low Molecular Weight Molecules Reach High Endothelial Venules via Specialized Conduits While a Functional Barrier Isolates the Lymphocyte Microenvironments in Lymph Node Cortex. J. Exp. Med. 192:1425-1440
  • http://artnscience.us/Lymphocyte_Homing/index.html
July 10 Dr. Matthew Young Cancer Prevention: Preventing cancer is better than having to cure cancer
July 17 Dr. Gary Peterson Wheat blast: An Emerging Threat to Global Wheat Production
July 24 Dr. Jared Heffron Bacterial Spore Control the Environmentally Friendly Way
  • Gould, GW. 2006. History of science - spores. J. Appl. Micro. 101:507-513.
  • Setlow, P. 2006. Spores of Bacillus subtilis: their resistance to and killing by radiation, heat and chemicals. J. Appl. Micro. 101:514-525.
  • Heffron, JD, N Sherry, and DL Popham. 2011. In Vitro Studies of Peptidoglycan Binding and Hydrolysis by the Bacillus anthracis Germination-Specific Lytic Enzyme SleB. J. Bact. 193:125-131
July 31 Dr. Robert Pope Environmental and Bioforensic Electron Microscopy: Advantages and Applications
August 7 Dr. Stuart LeGrice Chemical Biology and HIV Proteins: not "Star Trek", but Possibly The Next Generation
  • Rausch, J.W., Qu, J., Yi-Brunnozzi, H.-Y., Kool, E.T. and Le Grice, S.F.J. (2003). Hydrolysis of RNA/DNA hybrids containing non-polar pyrimidine isosteres defines regions essential for HIV-1 polypurine tract selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 11279-11284.
  • Wendeler, M., Lee, H.-F., Bermingham, A., Miller, J.T., Chertoz, O., Bona, M.K., Baichoo, N.S., Ehteshami, M., Beutler, J.A., O’Keefe, B.R., Goette, M., Kvareatskhelia, M. and Le Grice, S.F.J. (2008). Vinylogous ureas as a novel class of reverse transcriptase-associated ribonuclease H activity. ACS Chemical Biology, 3: 635-644.
  • Abbondanzieri, E.A., Bokinsky, G., Rausch, J.W., Zhang, J., Le Grice, S.F.J., and Zhuang, X. (2008. Dynamic binding orientations determine the enzymatic activity of HIV reverse transcriptase. Nature, 453: 184-189.
  • Liu, S., Abbondanzieri , E.A., Rausch, J.W., Le Grice, S.F.J. and Zhuang, X. (2008). Slide into action dynamic shuttling of HIV reverse transcriptase on nucleic acid substrates. Science, 322:1092-1097.

This seminar series is sponsored by the National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR). The NICBR includes the following agencies National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-F), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), US Department of Agriculture Foreign Disease Weed Science Research Unit (USDA FDWSRU), US Department of Homeland Security National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (DHS NBACC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility (NIAID IRF), and the Navy Medical Biodefense Research Lab (NMBDRL). The series is open to all NICBR students and employees. Students from outside the Frederick National Lab and Ft. Detrick communities are also welcome.

Pizza will be available for students only.