MGI Seminars - Fall 2019

All MMG seminars are at 4:10 P.M., TUESDAY, 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences, unless noted otherwise.

Seminar Coordinators: Andrew Olive, Ashley Shade & Gemma Reguera
Graduate Student Representatives: Cole McCutcheon, Beth Ottosen & Ted Van Alst

Click here for a downloadable schedule of the Fall Seminar Series

MMG Seminars for Fall 2019

MMG Seminar Date	MMG Seminar Topic	Seminar Speaker	Host
September 3	Visualization of self-recognition and social consequences in Myxococcus xanthus	Dr. Dan Wall, University of Wyoming	Kroos
September 10	No seminar scheduled for the week of September 10th
September 17	Delineating the structure and function of Mtb MmpL transporters	Dr. Georgiana Purdy, Oregon Health & Science University	Abramovitch
September 24	Genomics of convergence and replacement in ecdysozoan symbioses	Dr. Amanda Brown, Texas Tech University	Walker
October 1	Innate immune defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens	Dr. Sunny Shin, University of Pennsylvania	Olive
October 8	Miniaturizing Schrödinger’s cat OR How to make methanogens jump through metabolic hoops	Dr. Nicole Buan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Martinez-Gomez
October 15	Seminar Cancelled
October 22	Exploring Nature’s Chemistry: Ethnobotany and antimicrobial drug discovery	Dr. Cassandra Quave, Emory University	Hammer
October 29	HPV VLP’s: Nature’s Nanoparticles for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer	Dr. John Schiller, National Cancer Institute	Pyeon
November 5	The Rid system: Endogenously generated metabolic stress and its control	Dr. Diana Downs, University of Georgia	MMG Graduate Students
November 12	Visualizing Bacterial Physiology at High Resolution using Single-Molecule Tracking and Lattice-Light Sheet Microscopy	Dr. Andreas Gahlmann, University of Virginia	Kroos
November 19	Heterogeneity in Chronic Lung Infections	Dr. Deb Hogan, Dartmouth	DiRita
November 26	Staying in shape: bacterial cytoskeleton-cell wall interactions in the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori	Dr. Nina Salama, University of Washington	Dufour
December 3	Microbes in the mist: precipitation as a driver of dispersal and function in terrestrial microbial communities	Dr. Sarah Evans, Michigan State University	Shade
December 10	Whittam Lecture Thomas S. Whittam: His Public Health Impact	Dr. Nancy Strockbine, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention	Manning