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
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.
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
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