MGI Seminars - Fall 2026
MGI Seminars will take place at 12:00 P.M. in 1425 BPS, unless noted otherwise in the table below.
All MGI Seminar questions should be directed to MGI.Seminars@msu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Amber Bedore, Stephanie Shames, Jonathan Hardy & Keith MacRenaris
Graduate Student Representatives: Rosemary Northcote & Maddy Quinlan
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 1 | You could learn a lot by studying Van der Woude syndrome | Dr. Brian Schutte | MGI Promotion Seminar |
| September 8 | 3D Chromatin Architectural Regulation of Immunoglobulin Gene Assembly |
Dr. Yu Zhang | MGI Promotion Seminar |
| September 15 |
Lost in Data: Navigating the Best Approaches to Metagenomics
|
Dr. Patrick Chain, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Julia Kelliher |
| September 22 |
Legionella effectors as a conduit to study host-pathogen interactions |
Dr. Stephanie Shames | MGI Promotion Seminar |
| September 29 | Landfill lifecycles from a microbial perspective | Dr. Laura Hug, Univ. of Waterloo | Dr. Annette Rowe |
| October 13 | A Neuropeptide Pulls Double Duty as a Neuronal Marker and an Immunodevelopmental Cue in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis | Dr. Elizabeth Heath-Heckman | MGI Promotion Seminar |
|
October 22 |
Dr. Paul Turner, Yale School of Medicine |
MGI Whittam Lecture |
|
| November 3 | Spatial and temporal context dependent bacterial community behaviors | Dr. Joshua Shrout, Notre Dame |
Jeannette Farnham |
| November 10 | Genomic approaches for understanding Candida auris | Dr. Teresa O'Meara, Univ. of Michigan |
Dr. Stephanie Shames |
| November 17 | Dr. Jeff Withey, Univ. of Michigan | Dr. Ritam Sinha | |
| December 1 | Dr. Michael Bachman, Univ. of Michigan | Dr. Victor DiRita | |
| December 8 | Dr. Denise Kirschner, Univ. of Michigan | Dr. Victor DiRita | |