Spring 2022
Seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m to 5:05 p.m primarily via CarmenZoom. Seminars that are held in person will not be available via Zoom.
January 5
Kasie Raymann, UNC Greensboro
"Ecology and evolution of host-associated microbes"
Host: Virginia Rich
*Graduate students are not required to attend this seminar
January 12
Sumiti Vinayak Alam, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Molecular mechanisms controlling proliferation and development of the diarrheal pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum"
Host: Virginia Rich
January 18
Apollo Stacy, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
"Role of poly-microbial interactions in shaping health and disease"
Host: Daniel Wozniak
*Graduate students are not required to attend this seminar
January 26
Shelbi Russell, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Cellular mechanisms and evolutionary outcomes of microbial symbiont transmission"
Host: Matthew Anderson
February 2
Justin North, The Ohio State University
"Organic sulfur acquisition by bacteria: what to do with the accompanying carbon?"
Host: Patrick Bradley
February 9
Kendrick seminar: Eric Skaar, Vanderbilt University
"Clostridioides difficile eats your blood an uses it as a shield"
Host: Graduate Students
February 16
Michele LeRoux, MIT
"A role for toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial immunity to phage"
Host: Natacha Ruiz
February 23
Martin Polz, University of Vienna
"Eco-evolutionary dynamics of host phage interactions in the wild"
Host: Matthew Sullivan
March 9
Sampriti Mukherjee, University of Chicago
"Sensory regulation of bacterial collective behaviors"
Host: Igor Jouline
March 16
No Seminar - Spring Break
March 23
Murugesan Rajaram, The Ohio State University
"Pneumonia and pathogenesis of Cardiac Dysfunction"
Host: Chad Rappleye
April 6
Elizabeth Grice, University of Pennsylvania
"Skin Microbiome: Risks and rewards for barrier integrity and tissue repair”
Host: Daniel Wozniak
April 7
Darryl Wesener, Washington University in Saint Louis
"Mechanisms of carbohydrate interspecies interaction in the gut revealed with ingestible biochemical probes"
Host: Chuck Daniels
Pomerene 160 at 4:10pm; Graduate students are not required to attend
April 13
Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science
Special seminar “The immune system of bacteria: Beyond CRISPR”
Host: Matthew Sullivan
10:00am EST via Zoom *Graduate students are not required to attend
April 13
Margaret Alexander, University of California San Francisco
"Deconstructing Mechanisms of Diet-Microbiota-Immune Interactions"
Host: Chuck Daniels
Jennings Hall 355
April 20
Dennis Dean, Virginia Tech
“Nitrogenase Catalysis and Assembly”
Host: Birgit Alber
Co-Host: Justin North
April 21
Siddarth Venkatesh, Washington University in Saint Louis
"Chemosensation of microbial metabolites - endocannabinoid signaling in the gut"
Host: Chuck Daniels
Pomerene Hall 150 at 4:00pm
Graduate students are not required to attend this seminar