Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m to 5:05 p.m via CarmenZoom
Please contact Kendra Benson for additional information and changes to the schedule.
Autumn Semester 2020:
August 26: Welcome Orientation - Online
September 9: Prosper Boyaka, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
"Mucosal antibody responses: What do bacterial toxins have to do with it?"
Host: Chad Rappleye
September 23: Justin North, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
"The diversity of microbial sulfur salvage: making methionine from metabolic waste"
Host: Igor Jouline
October 7: Yann Dufour, Ph.D., Michigan State University
"Evolutionary trade-offs in flagellar motility in bacteria"
Host: Igor Jouline
October 21: Ana Traven, Ph.D., Monash University, Australia
"Metabolic warfare in fungal pathogen-host interactions"
Host: Chad Rappleye
November 4: Christina Cuomo, Ph.D., MIT/Harvard Broad Institute
"Genomic epidemiology and evolution of Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant emerging fungal pathogen"
Host: Matt Anderson
November 18: Ariane Briegel, Ph.D., Leiden University, Netherlands
"Structure and function of the bacterial chemotaxis system in pathogens and microbial communities"
Host: Igor Jouline
November 25: Thanksgiving Break- No Classes
December 2: Nina Wale, Ph.D., Michigan State University
"Worlds within worlds: how ecological interactions at multiple scales drive pathogen evolution"
Host: Igor Jouline
Spring Semester 2021:
January 13: Jared Schrader, Ph.D., Wayne State University
"Phase-separated membraneless organelles organize bacterial RNA metabolism"
Host: Kurt Fredrick
January 27: Anna Konovalova, Ph.D, The University of Texas Health Science Center
"Gram-negative cell envelope homeostasis during antibiotic stress"
Host: Natacha Ruiz
February 10: David Weiss, Ph.D. Emory University School of Medicine
"Exploitation of antibiotic heteroresistance to eradicate pan-resistant bacteria"
Host: Dan Wozniak
February 24: Abhishek Shrivastava, Ph.D, Arizona State University
"Design principles of a molecular conveyor belt"
Host: Igor Jouline
March 10: Spring Break, No classes
March 24: Sheri Floge, Ph.D., Wake Forest University
"Microbial roles in the ocean carbon pump"
Host: Matt Sullivan
March 31: Phil Hugenholtz, Ph.D., The University of Queensland, Australia
“Organizing Earth's microbiome and virosphere: how computationally-empowered taxonomy advances microbiome science"
Host: Co-hosted with the Center of Microbiome Science and Infectious Disease Institute, Microbial Communities
*Graduate students are not required to attend as this is an Instructional Break Day
April 7: Alexandra Deaconescu, Ph.D., Brown University
"Under stress: Interplay between transcription, DNA repair and molecular evolution"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
April 14: Maria Hadjifrangiskou, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
“A new role for an E. coli quinol oxidase in biofilm antibiotic tolerance”
Host: Igor Jouline
April 21: Suzanne Fleiszig, O.D., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa interactions with host cells; a model of diversity, inclusion and cooperation"
Host: Rajendar Deora