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 Seminars for Fall 2016
MMG Seminar Date	MMG Seminar Topic	Seminar Speaker	Host
September 6
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: IL-1beta: An immune sentinel for destructive microbial proteolysis	Christopher LaRock, Emory University	DiRita
October 11
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
November 8
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