MGI Seminars - Fall 2024
MGI Seminars will take place at 12:00 P.M. in 1425 BPS, unless noted otherwise in the table below.
All MGI Seminar questions should be directed to MGI.Seminars@campusad.msu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Steph Shames, Sean Crosson, & Margaret Petroff
Graduate Student Representatives: Kendall Mara & Fatma Afify
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 10 | Brubaker Lecture | Kim Orth UT Southwestern |
DiRita |
| Sep. 24 | Harnessing insect microbiomes for vector-borne disease control: from principle to practice |
Kerri Coon |
Walker |
| Oct. 1 | Twenty Thousand Intrigues Under the Sea: The Inner Lives of Marine Microbes | Jennifer Glass Georgia Institute of Technology |
Reguera |
| Oct. 8 |
The intersection of bacterial metabolism, pathogenesis and innate immunity |
Daniel Portnoy UC Berkeley |
DiRita |
| Oct. 15 | Impact of Phages on Cholera and Their Use in Preventing Infection | Andrew Camilli Tufts University |
Waters |
| Nov. 12 | Minimizing mistakes: Regulation of error-prone DNA repair pathways | Joseph Loparo Harvard Medical School |
Meek |
| Nov. 19 | Using the honey bee as a model system to study the ecology and evolution of beneficial and pathogenic microbes | Kasie Raymann North Carolina State University |
Shames |
| Dec. 3 | Whittam Lecture | David Alland Rutgers University |
Manning |