MMG Seminars - Spring 2019
All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.
Seminar Coordinators: Andrew Olive & Claire Vieille
Graduate Student Representatives: Heather Blankenship & Ted Van Alst
Click here for a downloadable schedule of the Spring Seminar Series
| MMG Seminar Date | MMG Seminar Topic | Seminar Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
|
January 8 |
Vibrio cholerae's gut feelings | Dr. Jun Zhu, University of Pennsylvania | DiRita & MMG Graduate Students |
| January 15 | The War Within: Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Cytosol | Dr. JD Sauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Hammer |
| January 22 | ANME-1 switch rapidly between anaerobic methane oxidation and methanogenesis in coastal sediments | Dr. Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee | MMG Graduate Students |
| January 29 | Genomics, epigenomics and endosymbiosis: unique features separating early diverging fungi from Dikarya | Dr. Stephen Mondo, Joint Genomes Institute | Bonito |
| February 5 |
Leveraging New Models to Define the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Chorioamnionitis |
Dr. David Aronoff, Vanderbilt University | MMG Graduate Students, Dual MD/PhD & DO/PhD Programs |
| February 12 |
The Long and Short of It: Paths to Engineering TB Treatment |
Dr. Bree Aldridge, Tufts University | Abramovitch |
| February 19 |
lnnate and Adaptive Host Defense Post-Stem Cell Transplant |
Dr. Beth Moore, University of Michigan | Meek |
| February 26 | Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Effects on Staphylococcus aureus Metabolism and Stress Resistance | Dr. Kelly Rice, University of Florida | Hammer |
| March 5 | Chemical Biology of a Novel Fresh Water Photoheterotrophy | Dr. Katrina Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Martinez-Gomez |
| March 12 | The intersection of phase variation and c-di-GMP signaling in Clostridium difficile | Dr. Rita Tamayo, University of North Carolina | Waters |
| March 19 | Seminar Canceled | ||
| March 26 | Coping with Gaia's Breath: Does Biology Matter? | Dr. Marina Kalyuzhnaya, San Diego State University | Martinez-Gomez |
| April 2 | Disease through the lens of the microbiome | Dr. Patrick Schloss, University of Michigan | DiRita |
| April 9 | A Web of Interactions Shape the Rhizosphere Microbiome | Dr. Mary Firestone, University of California, Berkeley | Shade |
| April 16 | Early Career Award Lecture Formate: An intracellular signal that promotes Shigella pathogenesis |
Dr. Benjamin Koestler, University of Texas at Austin | Vieille & Olive |
| April 23 | MMG Graduate Poster Session & MMG Awards Reception ** Lincoln Room, Kellogg Center, 3:00-6:00pm ** |
Undergraduate & Graduate Students | Koslowsky & Mulrooney |