Annual IMV Symposium The 2009 IMV Symposium took place on Monday, May 4th, 2009. Keynote speakers were Don Ganem (HHMI & University of California San Francisco) and Stephen Hughes (HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI-Frederick). The 2008 IMV Symposium took place on Monday, May 12 at the Coffman Memorial Theater. Invited Keynote Speakers were Dr. Jonathan Stoye (NIMR, London) and Dr. Sandra Weller (University of Connecticut Health Center). Pictures and program, 2007 symposium Click here for information about the 2006 IMV Symposium, a program and pictures! Mayo Clinic-University of Minnesota Distinguished Lecture Series in Virology and Gene Therapy The 1st Annual Mayo Clinic-University of Minnesota Distinguished Lecturer was Dr. Charles Weissmann (Scripps-Florida). Dr. Weissmann presented lectures on June 17 and 18, 2009 at both the Mayo Clinic and at the U of M. Each lecture was videoconferenced to the other campus. This is a collaborative lecture series between the Virology and Gene Therapy (VGT) Track of the Mayo Graduate School and the Institute for Molecular Virology. The 2nd Annual Lecturer is Dr. Charles Rice (Rockefeller University). Please watch this space for further details.
|  | Virology Journal Club The Virology Journal Club meets on Wednesdays at 1:30 pm in the Department of Microbiology conference room (1450 Mayo Building). The setting is informal, so it's a great time to become more comfortable speaking in front of others and leading a discussion about a specific virus research article. Virology Journal Club Interdisciplinary Studies in Virus Research The Graduate School has approved the formation of the 'Interdisciplinary Studies in Virus Research' Graduate Group. The goal of this group is to seed new scholarly collaborations and provide a structure for the incubation of ideas that lead to new interdisciplinary graduate education initiatives. |  | IMV Lecture Series The 2009 IMV "Innovations in Virus Research" Lecture Series features David Bloom (Florida) on June 15, Tom Hope (Northwestern) on Sept 21 and Xiaowei Zhuang (Harvard) on Nov 16 as speakers. Watch for updates! Last year, the 2008 IMV "Innovations in Virus Research" Lecture Series featured Marie-Louise Hammarskjold (Virginia), Michael Gale (Washington, Seattle), and Grant Jensen (Caltech). 2007 "Innovations in Virus Research" series Past IMV Seminar Speakers Other U of M Virology Seminars of Interest Annual IMV Picnic The 2009 IMV Picnic was held on June 15th, 2009 at the Livestock Pavilion on the St. Paul campus in conjunction with the visit of David Bloom (who gave the first lecture in the 2009 'Innovations in Virus Research' Lecture Series The 2008 Fall Picnic was held on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at the Como Park Picnic Pavilion. Click the link below for pictures from the 2007 Fall Picnic (held on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007) at the Como Park Picnic Pavilion. Picnic pictures |