Tuesday/Thursday, 11:15 a.m., unless noted otherwise
201 Morrill Science Center IVN
Coordinators: Steve Sandler & Wilmore Webley
The tangled bank of experimentally evolved biofilms reflects selection during chronic infections?
Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Kristen DeAngelis
Fishing in Rhode Island: the molecular basis of virulence in Vibrio anguillarum, a bacterial pathogen of fish.
David Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology & Director, RI Genomics and Sequencing Center, University of Rhode Island
Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Wilmore Webley
An Immunological Surprise: Human T Cells Recognize Mycobacterial Bacterial Lipid Antigens.
D. Branch Moody, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Yasu Morita
Ecophysiological Modelling of a Microaerophile in the Termite Hindgut.
Jorge Rodrigues, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Texas Arlington
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Klaus Nüsslein
Bacillus subtilis Cell Envelope Stress Responses and Antibiotic Resistance.
John Helmann, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Cornell University
Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Kevin Griffith
Do we have to consider microbes to understand and predict carbon cycling in terrestrial systems?
Mark Bradford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, Yale University
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Kristen DeAngelis
The Involvement of the Translation Factor BipA in Bacterial Stress Processes.
Victoria Robinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Wilmore Webley
POSTPONED: Capsids unhinged – the role of disulfide bonds, the stress response and UL32 in Herpes Simplex Virus assembly.
Sandra K. Weller, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Molecular, Microbial and Structural Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Wilmore Webley
POSTPONED: The Enterococcal Sex Pheromone System: Functions and Evolution of a Complex, Robust Biological Switch.
Gary Dunny, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Kevin Griffith
Manipulation of the host cell cytoskeleton by enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157.
Ken Campellone, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Steve Sandler
On a Mission to Civilize: Adaptive Evolution of Non-Native Vibrio fisheri to Squid Symbiosis.
Cheryl Whistler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 11:15am
Host: Wilmore Webley
Department of Microbiology