August 29: Department Welcome/Orientation
September 5: Roberto Docampo, PhD, University of Georgia
"Calcium and Polyphosphate in Trypanosomes"
Host: Abhay Satoskar
September 12: Mark Kaplan, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine
"Transcriptional Regulation in the development and function of Th9 cells"
Host: Abhay Satoskar
September 19: Julie Maupin-Furlow, PhD, University of Florida
"Ubiquitin-like Proteins in Protein Conjugation and Sulfur Transfer in Archaea"
Host: Birgit Alber
*This seminar to be held in Jennings 355
September 26: Andreas Kuhn, PhD, University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart
"Membrane protein insertion at the single molecule level"
Host: Ross Dalbey
October 3: David Schneider, PhD, University of Alabama
"A tale of two factors: Independent ways to influence ribosome synthesis"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
October 10: Juan Alfonzo, PhD, The Ohio State University
"tRNA editing in trypanosomes: Though this be madness, yet there is method"
Host: Tina Henkin
October 17: Kendrick Memorial Seminar
Julian Davies, PhD, University of British Columbia
"The Chemical Ecology of Microbes"
Host: Graduate Students
October 24: Peggy Saks, PhD, Northwestern University
"When anticodon meets codon – intramolecular coevolution in tRNA mediates the outcome"
Host: Mike Ibba
October 31: Oleg Tsodikov, PhD, University of Michigan
"Towards understanding and exploiting novel tuberculosis targets"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
November 7: Susan Schroeder, PhD, University of Oklahoma
"Advancing Viral RNA Structure Prediction"
Host: Kurt Fredrick
November 14: Alan Grossman, PhD, MIT
"Visualization and Control of Bacterial Sex"
Host: Mike Ibba
Host: Mike Ibba
November 21: Thanksgiving, No Seminar
November 28: No Seminar Scheduled
*Microbiology 7899 is the updated course number for semesters; the course was Microbiology 799 on the quarter system.