Spring 2023
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 Igor Jouline for information regarding links to Zoom seminars.
Please contact Kendra Rowell for additional information and changes to the schedule.
January 11
Kathryn Ramsey, University of Rhode Island
"Investigating heterogeneous ribosomes and gene expression in the pathogen Francisella tularensis"
Host: Kurt Fredrick
January 18
Hualiang Pi, Vanderbilt University
"Clostridioides difficile Subverts Nutritional Immunity through Formation of Iron Storage Organelles"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
Faculty Candidate Interview
January 25
Srujana Samhita Yadavalli, Rutgers University
"Epitranscriptomic enzymes and small proteins: Emerging regulators of stress response"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 1
Krithika Rajaram, Johns Hopkins University
"Symbionts within the malaria parasite: insights into their biology and metabolism through genetic approaches"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 6
Holly Lutz, Scripps Research Institute
"Leveraging biological collections for the study of host-symbiont systems"
Host: Matthew Sullivan
Jennings 355 at 1:00pm; Graduate students are not required to attend
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 8
Daniel Kearns, Indiana University
"Swarming motility and the regulation of flagellar biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis"
Host: Igor Jouline
February 13
Kasie Raymann, University of North Carolina Greensboro
"TBA"
Host: Matthew Sullivan
Jennings 355 at 1:00pm; Graduate students are not required to attend
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 16
Panagiotis Adam, University of Duisburg-Essen
"TBA"
Host: Matthew Sullivan
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 20
Karna Gowda, University of Chicago
"TBA"
Host: Matthew Sullivan
Jennings 355 at 1:00pm; Graduate students are not required to attend
Faculty Candidate Interview
February 22
Yousong Ding, University of Florida
"Discovery and production of bioactive microbial secondary metabolites"
Host: Kou-San Ju
March 8
Kumaran Ramamurthi, National Institutes of Health
"Synthetic bacteria deliver the goods (to cancer cells)"
Host: Natacha Ruiz
March 22
Angela Mitchell, Texas A&M University
"Stress, the gram-negative envelope, and antimicrobial resistance"
Host: Natacha Ruiz
April 5
Joaquin Ortega, McGill University, Canada
‘Identifying critical steps in the assembly process of the bacterial ribosome using cryo-EM’
Host: Kurt Fredrick
April 19 - Kendrick Seminar
Kim Lewis, Northeastern University
"TBA"
Host: Graduate students
Autumn 2023
August 23
September 6
September 20
October 4
October 11
Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington
"TBA"
Host: Matt Anderson
October 18
November 1
November 15
November 29
