Autumn 2024
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 355. 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.
August 21: Welcome Orientation for Department of Microbiology
Event is only for the Department of Microbiology faculty and graduate students.
August 28:
Igor Jouline, PhD, The Ohio State University
“PAS and Cache: Small Molecule Sensors Conserved from Bacteria to Humans”
Host: Karna Gowda
September 4:
Philip Ahern, DPhil, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
“Decoding Immune-Microbiome Interactions in the Intestine”
Host: Darryl Wesener
September 11:
Beatriz Sierra, M.D., Ph.D.; Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute
“African and Amerindian Ancestry: Protective Factor Against Severe Dengue Disease in the Cuban Population”
Host: Jesse Kwiek
September 18 :
Virginia Rich, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
"Microbes and Climate Change, Now and In the Past"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
September 25:
Lydia Freddolino, Ph.D., University of Michigan
"Regulation, Domestication, and Function of Newly Acquired Chromosomal Elements in Bacteria"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
October 9: Kendrick Memorial Seminar
Jessica Metcalf, Ph.D., Colorado State University
"CSI Microbe: Big Clues from Tiny Witnesses"
Host: Microbiology Graduate Students
October 23:
Alex Michaud, Ph.D., School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University
"TBA"
Host: Chad Rappleye
November 20:
November 27: No Seminar; Thanksgiving Break
December 4:
Arne Rietsch, Ph. D., Case Western Reserve University
"The Biofilm-Tropic Bacteriophage Clew-1 Uses the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exopolysaccharide Psl for Infection"
Host: Daniel Wozniak
Spring 2025
January 8:
TBD
Host: Natacha Ruiz
January 22:
TBD
Host: Natacha Ruiz
February 5:
TBD
Host: Natacha Ruiz
February 19:
TBD
Host: Natacha Ruiz
March 5:
March 12: Spring Break; No Classes
March 19:
April 2:
Christine Szymanski, Ph.D., University of Georgia
"Impact of the Campylobacter glycome on intestinal persistence and disease. "
Host: Darryl Wesener
April 16: