Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30 am, 222 Morrill Science Center II
Coordinator: Wilmore Webley, 577-3139
Bacterial Pathogens Hijack Host Machinery to Promote Cell-to-Cell Spread
Rebecca Lamason, Ph.D.
Robert A. Swanson Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Sloan Siegrist
Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching in STEM
Kristen DeAngelis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, UMass Microbiology
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 11:30am
Tracking Influenza in Wild Animal Hosts and Preparing for the Next Pandemic Virus
Jonathan Runstadler, Ph.D.
Professor, Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Stephen Rich
The Surface Coat of Mycobacteria: Greasy and Sweet Outside and Dappled Inside
Yasu Morita, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UMass Microbiology
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 11:30am
Probing Mechanisms of RNA Chaperones with a Bacterial Three-Hybrid Assay
Katie Berry, Ph.D.
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Mount Holyoke College
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Mandy Muller
Dynamics, Feedback, and Transient Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells
Mary Dunlop, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Peter Chien
Of Mice, Microbes, Toxins and More...
Jean Mukherjee, DACVM, DVM, PhD
Extension Associate Professor, UMass Microbiology
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 11:30am
Vaccine Development Against Cryptococcus: The Baker Delivers the Antigens
Stuart Levitz, M.D.
Professor, UMass Medical School
Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Barry Goodell
Mechanical Biology of Microbes
Enrique Rojas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Sloan Siegrist
Characterization and Control of Bacteria Motion with Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal
Shuang Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UMass Physics
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Wilmore Webley
Diet-Manipulation of the Microbiome to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Ana Luisa Maldonado-Contreras, Ph.D.
Instructor, UMass Medical School
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Kristen DeAngelis
THIS SEMINAR IS POSTPONED TO SPRING 2019.
Life Can be Stressful: How Pathogenic and Commensal E. coli Adapt to Host Environmental Conditions
Christine White-Ziegler, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Wilmore Webley
Bacterial Interactions with Bio-inspired Immobilized Liquid Interfaces
Caitlin Howell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Barry Goodell
Models for Recombination, Replication, and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacteriophage T4
Scott Morrical, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Kristen DeAngelis
The Genetic Intractability Barrier of Bacteria—and How to Overcome it
Christopher Johnston, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Investigator, Forsyth Institute
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Steve Sandler
The Ecology of Microbial Communities
KC Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, Stanford University
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Sloan Siegrist & Peter Chien
Mechanisms and control of polar surface attachment in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Clay Fuqua, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington
Thursday, December 13, 2018 - 11:30am
Host: Peter Chien
Department of Microbiology