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JUN	Dr. Manuela Raffatellu and Paolo Sassone-Corsi's labs have recently found that circadian rhythms control body's response to intestinal bacterial infections. This suggests that targeted treatments may be particularly effective for pathogens such as salmonella that prompt a strong immune system response governed by circadian genes. It also helps explain why disruptions in the regular day-night pattern — as experienced by, say, night-shift workers or frequent fliers — may raise susceptibility to infectious diseases. These results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of U. S. A.
JUN	Dr. Michael McClelland has been awarded a grant from the Center for Produce Safety for a project on “Avirulent Salmonella strains and their use to model behavior of the pathogen in water, composts, in and on vegetables”, in a collaboration with Max Teplitski at the University of Florida.
JUN	Dr. Prerak Desai in the Michael McClelland lab presented a poster at American Society of Microbiology meeting in Colorado in May, entitled “The taxonomic structure of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica”

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MAY 15	Dr. Michael McClelland, UC Irvine, "Salmonella: Comparative Genomics and High Throughput Genetics”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114
MAY 22	Dr. Kristin Bedard, Kineta, Inc., "Small molecule drugs induce innate immunity through IRF-3”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114, Co-Sponsored by the Center For Virus Research and NIH T32 Training Grant “Molecular Biology of Eukaryotic Viruses”
MAY 29	Dr. Shannon Bennett,California Academy of Sciences, "The evolutionary dynamics of dengue virus and other zoonotic diseases”, 4 p.m. Tamkin Building, F-114