MMG Seminars for Fall 2016
All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise. Seminar Coordinators: George Garrity and Chris Waters
| MMG Seminar Date | MMG Seminar Topic | Seminar Speaker | Host |
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September 6 |
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| September 13 | Tackling thermodynamics: coaxing bacteria to release energy-rich compounds | Carrie Harwood, University of Washington | Reguera |
| September 20 | Step-Wise Malignant Transformation Of Human Skin Fibroblasts: Genomic And Metabolomic Analysis | Anastasia Kariagina, Michigan State University | Schwartz |
| September 27 | CEM.NKR: A secret pathway towards broad inhibition of enveloped viruses | Yonghui Zheng, Michigan State University | DiRita |
| October 4 |
Future Leaders Series: |
Christopher LaRock, Emory University | DiRita |
| October 11 |
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| October 18 |
New paradigms for Campylobacter jejuni survival in the gut |
Christine Szymanski, University of Georgia | DiRita |
| October 25 | Whittam Lecture Regulation of bacterial virulence: Can bacteria have mercy? |
James Nataro, UVA | Manning |
| November 1 | Nef, SERINCs, and HIV infectivity | Heinrich Gottlinger, University of Massachusetts | Zheng |
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| November 15 | Staphylococcus aureus: A complex developmental organism | Ken Bayles, University of Nebraska Medical Center | Hammer |
| November 22 | Future Leaders Series: Genome-wide investigation of fitness defects caused by aneuploidy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
Stacie Dodgson, Broad Institute | Dodgson |
| November 29 | Future Leaders Series: Dissecting the contributions of host resistance and tolerance in the outcome Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection |
Andrew Olive, University of Massachusetts Medical School | DiRita |
| December 6 | Challenges in Teaching Medical Microbiology at Two Medical Schools at Four Locations in Michigan | Cindy Arvidson, Michigan State University | DiRita |
| December 13 | Special Seminar: Multi-component regulation of surface attachment and general stress response in diverse Alphaproteobacteria |
Aretha Fiebig, University of Chicago | DiRita |