MGI Seminars - Fall 2023
MGI Seminars will take place at 3:10 P.M. in BPS 1415, unless noted otherwise in the table below.
All MGI Seminar questions should be directed to MMG.Seminars@campusad.msu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Yu Zhang, Steph Shames & Elizabeth Heath-Heckman
Graduate Student Representatives: Hunter North & Esther Chen
Fall Semester Seminar Series Poster
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 5 | Affinity maturation of edited B cells for antibody development and vaccine research | Michael Farzan, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School |
Pyeon |
| Sept. 19 | Dissecting the impact of malnutrition and dehydration on nosocomial infections | Victor Torres, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
MMG Graduate Students & Voices of Color |
| Sept. 26 | MMG Promotion Seminar The use of technology in teaching to foster student engagement, make myself accessible to students, and provide self-directed learning |
Dennis Arvidson, Michigan State University | DiRita |
| Oct. 3 | Innate immune defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens | Sunny Shin, Univ. of Pennsylvania |
Shames |
| Oct. 10 | MMG Promotion Seminar The Genetic Regulation of Macrophages in Lung Health and Disease |
Andrew Olive, Michigan State Univesity |
N. Walker |
| Oct. 17 | Virtual Only Charges matter: The spore capacitor as an example. |
Gurol Suel, UC San Diego |
Reguera |
| Oct. 24 | MMG Promotion Seminar Applying new insights into Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis to accelerate the development of innovative antibiotics. |
Robert Abramovitch, Michigan State University | N. Walker |
| Oct. 31 | Host vs Pathogen: discovering genetic interactions that underlie diverse tuberculosis outcomes | Clare Smith, Duke Medical School |
Olive |
| Nov. 7 | Fibrinolytic-deficiencies predispose hosts to septicemia from a catheter-associated UTI | Ana Flores-Mireles, University of Notre Dame | MMG Postdocs |
| Nov. 14 | The Molecular Arms Race Between Bacteria and Phages | Mike Laub, MIT & HHMI | MMG Graduate Students |
| Nov. 21 | Thanksgiving, no Seminar | ||
| Nov. 28 | A combined microscopy and single-cell sequencing approach reveals the ecology, morphology, and phylogeny of uncultured lineages of zoosporic fungi. | Tim James, University of Michigan |
Mendoza |
| Dec. 5 | Polar growth in mycobacteria: poleaxing the elongasome model | Cara Boutte, Univ. of Texas at Arlington |
Crosson |