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An article, titled "Protein Kinase G Phosphorylates Mosquito-Borne Flavivirus NS5", published by Drs. Striker and Bhattacharya in the Journal of Virology was selected as one of four "Articles of Significant Interest" featured in the Sept 2009 Spotlight section.
The 2009 Paul F. Clark lectures will be by
Michael Brenner, MD, Ph.D. on Ocobert 2
and Alan Sher, Ph.D. on November 13.
Dr. Miroslav Malkovsky received a two-year NIH ARRA (Grand Opportunity) grant titled "Non-peptidic HIV vaccine". Dr. Malkovsky will collaborate with Dr Zheng Chen from the University of Illinois at Chicago to test a novel stragety for boosting the capacity of HIV vaccines to induce protective responses against HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Bruce Klein received a two-year NIH ARRA (Challenge) grant titled "Targeting hybrid histidine kinase for broad spectrum antifungal therapy". Dr Klein and his UW co-investigators Drs. Andes, Hoffman and Shen will work to identify, characterize and capitalize on a novel drug target in pathogenic fungi for the development of effective new anti-fungal drugs.
Events
Micro 731/MMI 901 Student Seminar Series
Jason Silverman will speak on
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:05 pm
in room 1520 Microbial Sciences.
MMI Seminar Series
Alan Sher, Ph.D. will speak on
Friday, November 13, 2009 at Noon
in room 1520 Microbial Sciences Building.
Topic: "Learning immunoregulation from parasites."
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