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Microbiology 7899: Spring 2024 Archive

Spring 2024

Seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 4:10 p.m to 5:05 p.m. Unless marked as "Zoom meeting", seminars were held in person in Pomerene Hall 260. In-person seminars will not be available via Zoom. Please reach out to Igor Jouline for information regarding links to Zoom seminars.

Please contact the Graduate Coordinator (micro.grad@osu.edu) for additional information and changes to the schedule.

 

January 10: Cancelled

 

January 17: 

Stephen Bell, Indiana University

“DNA replication, gene expression and chromosome Archae-tecture”

Host: Igor Jouline

 

January 24: 

Rita Tamayo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"Generating phenotypic diversity in Clostridioides difficile"

Host: Irina Artsimovitch

 

January 31: 

Petra LevinWashington University in Saint Louis

"The Environment Shapes the Cell"

Host: Igor Jouline


February 7: 

Matthew Parsek, University of Washington

"Deciphering secondary messenger signaling when Pseudomonas aeruginosa encounters a surface"

Host: Igor Jouline

 

February 14:

Katelyn Walzer, University of Pennsylvania

“Transcriptional control of sex determination in the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium parvum"

Host: Natacha Ruiz

 

February 21: 

Félix Ramos-León, National Cancer Institute

"Protein coopted from a phage restriction system dictates orthogonal cell division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus"

Host: Chad Rappleye

 

February 28:

Mingxu Fang, University of California, San Diego

"Crafting Biological Timepieces: The Clockmaker's Approach to Unwinding Circadian Rhythms"

Host: Chad Rappleye

 

March 6:

The previously-scheduled seminar for March 6th has been cancelled.

 

March 7:

María Santos Merino, Michigan State University

"Influence of metabolic sinks on cyanobacterial photosynthetic capacity and carbon partitioning"

Host: Chad Rappleye

Room: Jennings 155

Note: Graduate students are not required to attend this seminar, as it is not on the scheduled course date.

 

April 3:

Neal Hammer, Michigan State University

"Strength in numbers: A multifaceted strategy satisfies the Staphylococcus aureus nutrient sulfur requirement during infection"

Host: Daniel Wozniak

 

April 17:

The previously-scheduled seminar for April 17th has been cancelled.