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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Abstract |
Faculty
Host |
| |
January
10 |
Dr.
Eric P. Skaar
Microbiology & Immunology Department
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
|
The
battle for metal between Staphylococcus aureus
and its host |
Eric
Skaar
|
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
January
17 |
Dr.
E. Fidelma Boyd
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
Evolution
of pathogenic Vibrio cholerae |
E.
Fidelma Boyd
|
Dr.
Anne Summers |
| |
January
24 |
Dr.
Chung-Dar Lu
Molecular Genetics/Microbiology
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
Regulation
of arginine metabolic network in Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Chung-Dar Lu |
Dr.
Tim Hoover |
| |
January
31 |
Dr.
Volker Mai
Department of Microbiology & Cell Science, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
Diet,
gut microbiota and colorectal carcinogenesis |
Volker
Mai |
Dr.
Juergen Wiegel |
| |
February
7 |
RECRUITING
WEEK |
|
|
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February
14 |
Dr.
Eric Lafontaine
University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine,
Department of Infectious Diseases, Athens, GA |
Adherence
mechanisms of Gram negative bacterial pathogens |
|
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
February
21 |
Dr.
Sidney Kushner
The University of Georgia, Department of Genetics, Athens,
GA |
New
insights into tRNA maturation in Escherichia coli |
|
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
February
28 |
Dr.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero
University of Maryland, Department of Cell Biology &
Molecular Genetics, College Park, MD
|
Molecular
response to environmental stress in an extremophile |
|
Dr.
Juergen Wiegel |
| |
March 6 |
Dr.
Piet de Boer
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, OH |
Assembly
and activities of the cell division apparatus in E.
coli |
|
Dr.
Larry Shimkets |
| |
March
13 |
SPRING
BREAK |
|
|
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March
20 |
Dr.
Richard Brennan
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,
TX
|
Structural
mechanism of organic hydroperoxide induction of the transcriptional
regulator OhrR |
|
Dr.
Ellen Neidle |
| |
March
27 |
Dr.
Scott J. Hultgren
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO |
E.
coli's secret hiding place in urinary tract infections |
|
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
| |
April
3 |
Dr.
Alan Lambowitz
Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology, University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
Group
II intron mobility by reverse splicing into DNA and its
applications in gene targeting |
Alan Lambowitz |
Dr.
Anna Karls |
| |
April
10 |
Dr.
Mike J. McInerney
Department of Microbiology, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK |
Scrubbing
bubbles: the use of microbial detergents for oil recovery |
Michael
McInerney |
Dr.
Barny Whitman |
| |
April
17 |
Dr.
Carl Bauer
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN |
Oxygen
and light control of microbial gene expression |
Carl
Bauer |
MGSA |
| |
April
24 |
Dr.
Rick Lovell
Department of Biological Sciences, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC |
Salt
marsh nitrogen fixation - new organisms and new roles |
Charles
Lovell |
Dr.
Juergen Wiegel |
| |
May
1 |
Dr.
Stephen Lory
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
Complex
regulatory networks and signal transduction pathways control
the reciprocal expression of virulence genes in Pseudomonas
aeruginosa |
Stephen Lory |
Dr.
Duncan Krause |
