Penn CFAR Seminar Series
1998-1999 Academic Year

Date/Time

Speaker

Location

Tuesday
Oct 6, 1998
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Marius G. Clore, MD., Ph.D.
Laboratory of Chemical Physics
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH

Structural Studies in Solution of AIDS Proteins Involved in Fusion Integration

Thursday
Nov 12, 1998
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Neal Nathanson, M.D.
Director, Office of AIDS Research
National Institutes of Health

Austrian
Auditorium,
CRB

Towards an AIDS Vaccine: Tribulations and Trials

Tuesday
Dec 1, 1998
10:45 to 11:45 a.m.

Ernesto Freire, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University

Austrian
Auditorium,
CRB

Structural and Energetic Considerations in the Design of HIV Protease Inhibitors: New Insights into the Molecular Origins of Resistance

Thursday
Jan 28, 1999
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Ian Frank, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Hydroxyurea as Antiretroviral Therapy - Targeting a Cellular Enzyme to Stop HIV-1 Replication

Thursday
Feb 11, 1999
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Martin Fishbein, Ph.D.
Professor of Communications
Annenberg Public Policy Center
Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania

Class of '62,
JMB

Behavioral Science Contributions to AIDS Prevention and Research

Thursday
April 15, 1999
12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
CANCELLED

Alex Wlodawer, Ph.D.
Chief, Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory
Associate Director, Program in Structural Biology
NCI-FCRDC, Frederick, MD

Retroviral Integrase as a Target for Drug Design

Thursday
May 13, 1999
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

David Weiner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Multicomponent DNA Vaccines and Their Application to HIV-1

Thursday
May 20, 1999
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
(CFAR/Chemistry)

Michael Boyd, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Drug Discovery and Research
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute

HIV Inhibitory Natural Products: Discovery of Novel Leads for Development of New Therapeutic and Preventative Strategies Against HIV Infection and AIDS

Monday
June 7, 1999
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Gregory T. Spear, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology/Microbiology
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

Strategies for Destruction and Neutralization of Human Immunodeficiency Virus by the Complement System