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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
Faculty
Host |
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September
8 |
Dr.
Eric R. Vimr
The Laboratory of Sialobiology,
Department of Pathobiology,
Urbana, IL |
Capsules,
carbon sources, and candidates for new drug discovery involving
sialic acid metabolism during the host-microbe interaction |
Eric
Vimr |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
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September
15 |
Dr.
Joan L. Slonczewski
Kenyon College,
Gambier, OH |
Acid
and base stress in Escherichia coli: News from
the genome and proteome |
Joan
Slonczewski |
Dr.
Ellen Neidle |
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September
22 |
Dr.
Victor J. DiRita
University of Michigan Medical School,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Virulence
gene regulation in Vibrio cholerae by membrane-localized
transcription activators |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
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September
29 |
Dr.
William Metcalf
Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL |
Genetic
analysis of methanogenesis in Methanosarcina |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
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October
6 |
Dr.
Gary M. King
Darling Marine Center University of Maine, Walpole, ME |
Facultative
lithotrophs and CO-oxidizing bacteria: pathogens, symbionts
and globally-important mediators of biogeochemistry |
Gary
King |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
| |
October
13 |
Dr.
Mary Ann Moran
Department of Marine Sciences,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
Genomics
and Biogeochemistry of Marine Roseobacters |
Mary
Ann Moran |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
October
19 (please note seminar is on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. in
room 404D) |
Dr.
Stephen Kowalczykowski
University of California, Davis, CA
|
Single-molecule
visualization of protein-DNA interactions |
Stephen
Kowalczykowski |
MGSA |
| |
October
26 (please note seminar is on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. in
room 404D) |
Dr.
Susan Miller
University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco,
CA
|
Mercuric
ion reductase: Insights into nature's design to lure and
defeat a toxic metal ion |
To
be announced |
Anne
Summers |
| |
November
3 |
Dr.
Iris Porat
Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens,
GA |
Playing
genetics with the methane producing archaeon Methanococcus
maripaludis: Aromatic amino acids biosynthesis |
Iris Porat |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
| |
November
10 |
Dr.
Katherine Borkovich
University of California, Riverside, CA |
G
proteins and histidine kinases differentially regulate sexual
fertility in fungi |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Anna Karls |
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November
17 |
Dr.
Frank E. Loeffler
Environmental Microbiology, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA |
Dehalococcoides
and Colleagues - "Unculturables" brought to life |
Frank
Loeffler |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |