WiPS Schedule - Spring 2018
Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Spring 2018
All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise. Seminar Coordinator: Donna Koslowsky
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Lab | Title | Faculty Evaluator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 22 | Lavida Brooks | Mias | Analysis of Age-Dependent Gene Expression | Bachmann |
| Kyle Card | Lenski | Maintenance and evolvability of antibiotic resistance during a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli | Yu | |
| January 29 | John Chodkowski | Shade | Ecological consequences of exometabolites for microbial interactions | Manning |
| Nicolas Fernandez | Waters | The role of cyclic di-GMP in mitigating environmental stress in Vibrio cholerae | Reguera | |
| February 5 | John Guitar | Shade | Trait-based community assembly and succession in the infant gut | Vieille Bonito |
| February 12 | Nkrumah Grant | Lenski | Anerobic fitness increases in long term evolution experiment with E. coli. | Bonito |
| Taylor Dunivin | Shade | A meta-analysis of microbial arsenic resistance genes across soils |
Marsh |
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| February 19 | Y Ha My Hoang | Kroos | Mechanisms of Myxococcus xanthus response to nutrients and C-signal during starvation-induced multicellular development | Fyfe |
| Schutte | ||||
| February 26 | Sanjana Mukherjee | Manning | The burden of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella in Michigan | Hausinger |
| John Lee | Dufour | Conrol of phenotypic switching by c-di-GMP in Vibrio cholerae | Waters | |
| March 5 | Spring Break | |||
| March 12 | Rajni Kumar (Postdoc) | Abramovitch |
Vieille |
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| March 19 | Alshae Logan | Montgomery | Investigating the Role of Cyclic-di-AMP in Synechocystis 6803 | Kroos |
| Nhu Thi Quynh Nguyen | Dufour | Bacterial motility in mucus |
Martinez-Gomez |
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| March 26 | Natalie Vande Pol | Bonito | Plant-fungal-bacterial interactions: Elucidating mechanisms of plant growth promotion by fungi in the Mortierellaceae | Schwartz |
| Daniel Claiborne | Mansfield | Hammer | ||
| April 2 | Andrew Van Alst | DiRita | Molecular Mechanisms Facilitating Vibrio cholerae Mucin Degradation and Metabolism Promoting Intestinal Colonization |
Abramovitch |
| Heather Selheimer | Manning | Genetic Diversity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Michigan and Connecticut | Dufour | |
| April 9 | Phillip Delekta (Postdoc) | Hammer | Staphylococcus aureus utilizes host-derived lipoprotein particles as sources of exogenous fatty acids |
Garrity Hausinger |
| April 16 |
Heather Miller |
Schrenk | Relationships between Subaerial Microbial Activity and Outgassed Volatiles of Subduction Zone Arc Volcanoes | Bachmann |
| Jon Keven | Walker | Statistical evaluation of novel microsatellite markers for forensic identity testing and inferring genetic relatedness of domestic pigs | Martinez-Gomez | |
| April 23 | Natalia Martin (Postdoc) | DiRita | Genome-wide identification of Enterobacter spp. fitness genes in a mouse sepsis model |
Hammer Waters |