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