MGI Seminars - Spring 2022

MMG Seminars will take place at 3:10 P.M. on Zoom for the month of January. All other MMG Seminars will take place in both BPS 1415 and on Zoom, unless noted otherwise in the table below.  

All MMG Seminar questions should be directed to MMG.Seminars@campusad.msu.edu

Seminar Coordinators: Aretha Fiebig, Dohun Pyeon, & Nina Wale
Graduate Student Representatives: Kayla Conner & Paige Kies

Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/93865650440
Please note:  The password will be emailed separately prior to the seminars

MMG Seminars for Spring 2022

MMG Seminar Date	MMG Seminar Topic	Seminar Speaker	Host
January 18	**Zoom-Only Seminar** Computational approaches to study molecular pathogenesis and intervention of infectious diseases	Dr. Janani Ravi, Michigan State University	Reguera
January 25	**Zoom-Only Seminar** Genomic dynamism among closely related gut microbial populations in unrelated individuals	Dr. Murat Eren, University of Oldenburg	Shade
February 8	Early Career Award Seminar  So, You Want to Teach a Large Enrollment Course? An MMG 301 Story	Dr. Phil Delekta, Michigan State University	Hammer
February 15	Helicobacter pylori exploits trans-kingdom conjugation to elicit STING signaling	Dr. Carrie Shaffer, University of Kentucky	DiRita
March 8	Spring Break - No Seminar
March 15	Beyond the Gender Binary: It's about Respect and Dignity	Kendra Pyle, Michigan State University	Vieille
March 22	Brubaker Lecture The Vacuole Guard Hypothesis and Evolutionarily-Conserved Restriction of Pathogen	Dr. Ralph Isberg, Tufts University	DiRita
March 29	Cellular determinants of papillomavirus persistence	Dr. Koenraad Van Doorslaer, University of Arizona	Pyeon
April 5	Virulence and Sex Susceptibility in Cryptococcus neoformans Infections	Dr. Erin McClelland, Marian University	MMG Graduate Students
April 12	Pathogen-microbiota cooperation during Clostridioides difficile infection	Dr. Joseph Zackular, University of Pennsylvania	Hammer
May 3	Finals Week