Spring 2025
January 15:
Alexandre Bisson, Ph.D., Brandeis University
"Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Mechanobiology Model"
Host: Birgit Alber
January 22:
Hannah Ledvina, Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder
"Unlocking nature's defenses: mechanistic insights into the bacterial immune system"
Host: Natacha Ruiz
January 29:
Shoichi Tachiyama, Ph.D., Yale Schol of Medicine
“Microbial Nanomachines in Action at High Resolution: a Transdisciplinary View of Host-Pathogen Interactions”
Host: Natacha Ruiz
February 19:
Jordan Bisanz, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
“Design and Mechanistic Characterization of Synthetic Gut Microbiotas”
Host: Patrick Bradley
March 5:
Tatiana Mishanina, Ph.D., University of California San Diego
"RNA-based Gene Regulation of Bacterial Manganese Exporters"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
March 12: Spring Break; No Classes
March 19:
Robert Kirchdoerfer, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Cross-species Coronavirus Polymerase Structural Virology"
Host: Irina Artsimovitch
April 2:
Christine Szymanski, Ph.D., University of Georgia
"Impact of the Campylobacter glycome on intestinal persistence and disease. "
Host: Darryl Wesener
April 16:
Avi Flamholz, Ph.D., Rockefeller University
“The Proteome is a Terminal Electron Acceptor”
Host: Karna Gowda