WiPS Schedule - Fall 2017
Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Spring 2017
All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise. Seminar Coordinator: Donna Koslowsky
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Lab | Title | Faculty Evaluator |
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| September 4 | Labor Day | |||
| September 11 | Daniel Parrell | Kroos | Using luciferase to probe the cellular ATP levels during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis | C. Arvidson F. Dazzo |
| Jackson Sorensen | Shade | Genome reduction and gene enrichment in the soils above the Centralia, PA coal fire | C. Arvidson F. Dazzo |
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| September 18 | Huiqing Zheng | Abramovitch | Chemical inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosRST signaling and persistence | K. Yu Y. Dufour |
| Dylan Frabutt | Zheng | Characterizing the role Malectin (MLEC) plays during the maturation of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein | K. Yu Y. Dufour |
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| September 25 | Beth Norman (Postdoc) | Walker | Microbial interactions between the benthos and water column in tree holes: Implications for mosquito production | Abramovitch C. Vieille |
| October 2 | Jennifer Kirk | Kashefi/Walker | The Water-Filled Tree Holes as a Reducing Environment: Implications for Microbial Communities and Mosquito Growth | S. Manning J. Tiedje |
| Michael Maiden | Waters | Targeting Persister Cells to Enhance Antibiotic Activity Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms in Cystic Fibrosis | S. Manning J. Tiedje |
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| October 9 | Yuliya Pepelyayeva | Amalfitano | The role of ERAP1 polymorphisms in the pathogenesis of Ankylosing Spondylitis | J. Fyfe B. Schutte |
| Doug Wilkinson | Garavito | The DBI protein; a cytosolic inhibitor of TSPO | J. Fyfe B. Schutte |
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| October 16 | Rebecca Flaherty (Postdoc) | Manning | Profiling Strain-Specific Modulation of Host Responses in Decidual Stromal Cells during Group B Streptococcal Infection | T. Marsh A. Shade |
| October 23 | Ahrom Kim | Yu | Elucidating AID-mediated deamination during Class Switch Recombination | J. Scott S. Conrad |
| Sue Umthong | Cheng | Identifying the underlying mechanism of Marek's disease vaccine synergy | J. Scott S. Conrad |
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| October 30 | Brian Zhou | Kaminski | The Role of Lymphocyte Specific Tyrosine Kinase (LCK) in Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR)-mediated Impairment of Immunoglobulin Secretion by Human Primary B Cells. | R. Schwartz C. Martinez-Gomez |
| Krista Cosert | Reguera | Electronic characterization of Geobacter sulfurreducens pilins in self-assembled monolayers |
R. Schwartz |
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| November 6 | Joshua MacCready | Osteryoung/Ducat | Dynamic Protein Gradients on the Nucleoid Position the Carbon-fixing Organelles of Cyanobacteria Equidistantly | J. Merrill N. Hammer |
| Thomas LaBar | Adami | Evolutionary Dynamics of Small Populations |
J. Merrill |
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| November 13 | Nate Good (Postdoc) | Martinez-Gomez | Lanthanide methylotrophy - A tale of two alcohol dehydrogenases with complementary roles | P. Venta C. Vieille |
| November 20 | Laura Kirby | Koslowsky | Mutational biases of pan-edited dual coding genes. | B. Schutte N. Hammer |
| Brian Nohomovich | Manning | The virome and human health |
B. Schutte |
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| November 27 | Megan Shiroda | Manning | Alternative therapies to Reduce GBS Incidence | L. Kroos J. Fyfe |
| Elizabeth Baird | Lenski | Long term parallel evolution of a pathogen in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients | L. Kroos J. Fyfe |
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