| |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
Faculty
Host |
| |
August
30 |
Dr.
Tim Miyashiro
University of Pennsylvania |
Differential
gene expression in the autoregulated PhoQ-PhoP two-component
system |
|
Dr.
Eric Stabb |
| |
September
6 |
Dr.
John Maurer
Center for Food Safety, Department of Avian Medicine, University
of Georgia, Athens, GA
|
Salmonella
and the 3 E's: the evolution, epidemiology and ecology of
a pathogen |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
September
13 |
Dr.
Igor Zhulin
Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, The University
of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
TN |
Molecular
evolution of a complex signal transduction system in prokaryotes |
Igor
Zhulin |
Dr.
Larry Shimkets |
| |
September
20 |
Dr.
Michael Hyman
North Carolina State University, Department of Microbiology,
Raleigh, NC |
Aerobic
biodegradation of gasoline oxygenates |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
| |
September
27 |
Dr.
Kerry Smith
Clemson University, Department of Genetics & Biochemistry,
Clemson, SC |
Enzymology
and molecular evolution of microbial acetate activation |
Kerry
Smith |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
| |
October
4 |
Dr.
David Popham
Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Sciences, Blacksburg,
VA |
Synthesis
and hydrolysis of bacterial endospore peptidoglycan |
David Popham |
Dr.
Tim Hoover |
| |
October
11 |
Dr.
Bob Tabita
The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology,
Columbus, OH
|
RubisCO
structure, function, and evolution: from anoxygenic antecedents
to proteins that withstand high levels of oxygen |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Ellen Neidle |
| |
October
18 |
Dr.
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Yale University, Department of Molecular, Cellular &
Developmental Biology, New Haven, CT
|
Cell
polarity, cell morphogenesis and the cytoskeleton in bacteria |
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
|
Dr.
Larry Shimkets |
| |
October 25 |
Dr.
Frank Gherardini
Rocky Mountain Labs, NIH, Hamilton, MT
|
The
oxidative stress response of Borrelia burgdorferi |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Mark Schell |
| |
November
1 |
Dr.
George Chaconas
The University of Calgary, Department of Biochemistry,
& Molecular Biology, Calgary, Alberta Canada |
Molecular
biology of the lyme disease spirochete |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
November
8 |
Dr.
Rachel J. Whitaker
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department
of Microbiology, Urbana, IL
|
Local
adaptation and genome dynamics among island populations
of thermophilic Archaea |
To
be announced |
Dr.
Anne Summers |
| |
November
15 |
Dr.
Martin Blaser
New York University School of Medicine, Department of
Medicine, New York, NY |
How
Helicobacter pylori talks to human cells and its
consequences |
To
be announced |
MGSA |
| |
November
29 |
Dr.
Mark O'Brian
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department
of Biochemistry, Buffalo, NY |
Heme
as a regulator of bacterial iron homeostasis |
Mark
O'Brian |
Dr.
Rob Maier |
