Microbiology Seminar Schedule
Spring 2026
Seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m to 5:05 p.m. Unless marked as "Zoom meeting", seminars will be in person in Jennings 001. In-person seminars will not be available via Zoom. Please reach out to Karna Gowda for information regarding links to Zoom seminars.
Please contact the Graduate Coordinator (micro.grad@osu.edu) for additional information and changes to the schedule.
January 21:
Jerrin George, Ph.D., Montana State University
"Transposon Domestication and Molecular Exaptation in Bacterial Antiphage Defense"
Host: Stephen Bell
January 28:
Zhangfei Shen, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
"Novel bacterial Argonaute systems respond to invading nucleic acids"
Host: Stephen Bell
February 4:
Matthew Doran, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
"From Structure to Motility: A Systematic Analysis of Flagella in the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania"
Host: Stephen Bell
February 11:
Yaxi Wang, Ph.D., Yale University
"TBA"
Host: Stephen Bell
February 18:
Reserved for TBD Guest Speaker
Host: Department of Microbiology
February 25:
Reserved for TBD Guest Speaker
Host: Department of Microbiology
March 4:
Reserved for TBD Guest Speaker
Host: Department of Microbiology
March 11:
Xindan Wang, Ph.D., Indiana University
"TBD"
Host: Stephen Bell
March 25:
April 8:
April 22:
Sven van Teeffelen, Ph.D., University of Montreal
"TBD"
Host: Felix Barber
May 6: Kendrick Memorial Seminar
Andreas Bäumler, Ph.D., University of California Davis, School of Medicine
Host: Microbiology Graduate Students