| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
Faculty
Host |
| August
31 |
Dr.
Daniel R. Brown
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
Linked
virulence and fitness of Mycoplasma alligatoris |
Daniel
Brown |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| September
14 |
Dr.
Karl E. Klose
Department of Biology, UTSA, San Antonio, TX |
Intramacrophage
survival and virulence of Francisella tularensis |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| September
28 |
Dr.
David DeShazer
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases,
Fort Detrick, MD |
A
new secretion system in Burkholderia mallei is required for
virulence and secretion of an immunogenic protein |
David
DeShazer |
Dr.
Mark Schell |
| October
5 |
Dr.
Karen Visick
Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL |
Symbiotic
colonization of squid by Vibrio fischeri: bacterial regulators,
targets and phenotypes |
Karen
Visick |
Dr.
Eric Stabb |
| October
12 |
Dr.
Russ Carlson
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA |
Bacillus
anthracis cell wall carbohydrates: Can they be used for the development
of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics? |
Russ
Carlson |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| October
19 |
Dr.
Mark Gomelsky
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming,
Laramie, WY
|
A
novel bacterial second messenger cyclic dimeric GMP: from genomics to biology,
from observations to mechanisms, from obscurity to limelight |
Mark
Gomelsky |
Dr.
Ellen Neidle |
| November
2 |
Dr.
Tom Schmidt
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan
State University
|
To
be announced |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Tim Hoover |
| Friday, November 3 (12:15-1:15 p.m. in B118 Life Sciences
Building) |
Dr.
Cynthia Liebert
Computational Biology Branch, Bethesda, MD
|
Analysis
of the protein domain hierarchy of the superfamily by CDTree |
Cynthia
Liebert |
Dr.
Anne Summers |
| November
9 |
Dr.
Bruce Rittmann
Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute
at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
The
hydrogen based membrane biofilm reactor for reducing oxidized
contaminants |
Bruce
Rittmann |
MGSA |
| November
16 |
Dr.
John S. Parkinson
Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT
|
Bacterial
chemotaxis: Dissecting the three-protein brain of E. coli |
John
Parkinson |
Dr.
Larry Shimkets |
