Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Fall 2022

All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, in BPS Room 1425 and on Zoom, unless noted otherwise.
WiPS Coordinator: Rob Abramovitch

Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/98384695515
Please note:  The password will be emailed separately prior to the seminars

WiPS Evaluation Form

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Lab	Title	Faculty Evaluator
Sept. 5	Labor Day
Sept. 12	Esther Chen	Crosson	Cross regulation in a cell envelope stress signaling system	C. Arvidson
	Ife Eke	Abramovitch	Characterizing new nitro-containing compounds that kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Hausinger
Sept. 19	Ritam Sinha Postdoc	DiRita	Gut Inflammation Supports the Expansion of C. jejuni in Ferret Gut	Schwartz Hammer
Sep. 26	Hunter Dulay	Reguera/Kashefi	Characterization of Co Resistance Mechanisms in Geobacter sulfurreducens	Walker
	Rajab Curtis	Hammer	Exploring exogenous fatty acid inhibition of metabolically restricted Staphylococcus aureus	Fiebig
Oct. 3	Doug Guzior	Quinn	Reversing Dogma: Bile Salt Transferase	Mansfield TerAvest
Oct. 10	Sean Thomas	Olive	A New Ex Vivo Primary Cell Model Allows for Genetic Dissection of Alveolar Macrophage-specific Components Necessary for Uptake of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Manning
	Hunter North	Crosson	Elucidating the role of NtrC in Caulobacter	DiRita
Oct. 17	Sergio Hernandez-Ortiz	Crosson	Elucidating the Role of a Pair of Co-conserved Genes in Iron Acquisition in Caulobacter crescentus	Adami
	Minako Izutsu Postdoc	Lenski	Experimental Test of the Contributions of Initial Variation and New Mutations to Adaptive Evolution in a Novel Environment	Vieille
Oct. 24	Fall Break - No Classes
Oct. 31	Macy Pell	Manning	Investigating the impacts of antibiotic stress on Group B Streptococcus colonization	Tiedje Pestka
Nov. 7	Thomas Kim	Crosson	Identifying host-directed small molecules for discovery of key host pathways for Brucella infection	DiRita
	Paige Kies	Hammer	Staphylococcus aureus scavenges diverse glutathione metabolites to satisfy the nutrient sulfur requirement	Orlando
Nov. 14	Natasha George	Orlando	Interaction Between a Histidine Kinase and an ABC Transporter in the B. subtilis BceABRS Bacitracin Resistance Module	Crosson
	Alexandra Gates	Lebeis	Defining salicylic acid influence in root microbiome assembly via generation of bacterial enrichment communities	Quinn
Nov. 21	Morgen Clark	Reguera	Adaptive mechanisms for metal detoxification by Geobacter bacteria and applications	J. Scott  Lebeis
Nov. 28	Maeve McLaughlin Postdoc	Crosson	A paralogous set of transcription factors promote adhesin development in Caulobacter crescentus	Shames
	Emily Greeson Postdoc	Contag	Engineered Bacillus subtilis capable of epithelial cell invasion and cellular reprogramming	Olive
Dec. 5	Marcela Tabares-Ruiz	Reguera	Ecology and Physiology of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia by Geobacter	Bachmann
	Laurisa Ankley	Olive	Characterizing the metabolic role of GSK3B in IFNg-dependent macrophage activation	Parkin
Dec. 12	Final Exam Week

Fall 2022 MMG WiPS Scheduled PDF