Microbiology 7899 Seminar Schedule Archive: Autumn 2013

August 28: Sebastian Leidel, PhD, Max Planck Institute-Munster

"Deciphering the in vivo role of tRNA wobble uridine modifications in translation"

Host: Juan Alfonzo

 

September 4: Kurt Fredrick,PhD, Ohio State University

"'Bridging' gaps in our understanding of translation elongation"

Host: Mike Ibba

 

September 11: Bob Kranz, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

"Engineering and purification of cytochrome c biosynthetic pathways: heme trafficking, redox, and modification"

Host: Patrice Hamel

 

September 17*: Kenn Gerdes, PhD, Newcastle University

"Epigenetic control of bacterial persistence by toxin - antitoxins and ppGpp"

Host: Mike Ibba and the RNA Center

 

September 25: Phil Scott, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

"Protective and pathologic CD8 T cells in cutaneous leishmaniasis"

Host: Abhay Satoskar

 

October 2: Stephanie Seveau, PhD, Ohio State University

"Virulence and host defense mechanisms during listeriosis"

Host: Irina Artsimovitch

 

October 9: Yves Brun, PhD, Indiana University

"Mechanisms and regulation of bacterial surface attachment and biofilm formation"

Host: Dan Wozniak

 

October 16: Bob Buchanan, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

"Early research on anaerobes led to redox regulation in chloroplasts… plants now return the favor."

Host: Patrice Hamel

 

October 23: Marvin Whiteley, PhD, University of Texas-Austin

"Microbial Facebook: Probing bacterial social networks during infection"
Host: Dan Wozniak

 

November 6: Amal Amer, PhD, Ohio State University

Host: Stephanie Seveau

 

November 20: Michael Polymenis, PhD, Texas A&M University

"Cell Cycling to Longer Lifespan"

Host: Mike Ibba