MMG Seminars - Fall 2017
All MMG seminars are at 11:00 A.M., TUESDAY, 101 Biochemistry, unless noted otherwise. Seminar Coordinators: Greg Bonito & Lixin Zhang
| MMG Seminar Date | MMG Seminar Topic | Seminar Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 5 |
Microbes, Metals & Nanowires | Gemma Reguera, Michigan State Univeresity | DiRita |
| September 12 | Utilizing imaging approaches to reveal details of the HIV lifecycle | Tom Hope, Northwestern University | Zheng |
| September 19 | DNA sensing in Bacillus subtilis | Christopher Rao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Dufour |
| September 26 | 7th Annual Thomas S. Whittam Memorial Lecture: Redefining ExPEC Virulence: Measuring Gene Expression during Human Infection | Harry Mobley, University of Michigan | DiRita/Manning |
| October 3 |
Coordinated responses and signaling patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarm communities |
Joshua Shrout, University of Notre Dame | Dufour |
| October 10 |
Microbial ecology of soil carbon cycling in biofuel ecosystems |
Kirsten Hofmockel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Shade |
| October 17 |
Chemical Biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis |
Robert Abramovitch, Michigan State University | DiRita |
| October 24 | Engineering the mycobacterial cell envelope | M. Sloan Siegrist, UMass Amherst | Hammer |
| October 31 | Dissecting Wolbacchia-host interactions underlying pathogen interference and symbiosis establishment in mosquito and developing field trials to combat Zika and dengue | Zhiyong Xi, Michigan State University | DiRita |
| November 7 | Anaerobic Digester Microbiome | Wen-Tso Liu, University of Illinois | Marsh |
| November 14 | Helicobacter pylori chemotaxis in the stomach: Signaling diversity and niche colonization | Karen Ottemann, UC Santa Cruz | Dufour |
| November 21 | Food from the Fire: Metabolic Host-Microbe Interactions in the Inflamed Gut | Sebastian Winter, UT Southwestern Medical Center | Hammer |
| November 28 | A proteolytic complex in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa cell envelope targets cell wall hydrolyses to impact virulence | Andrew Darwin, NYU School of Medicine | DiRita |
| December 5 | Parallel Quorum Sensing Systems in Vibrio cholera | Wai-Leung Ng, Tufts University | Waters |
| ** Friday, December 15 ** | Investigating Neglected Eukaryotic Pathogenic Microbes ** 1:30pm, 101 Biochemistry ** |
A. Leonel Mendoza, Michigan State University | DiRita |